Behold! The Pinnacle of Human Achievement: A 3,000 Foot Shoelace and a Chatbot Right, let’s talk about priorities, shall we? Because apparently, someone somewhere decided that the most pressing issue facing humanity was… a really long shoelace

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Published: 11/5/2025 1:38:47 AM

## Behold! The Pinnacle of Human Achievement: A 3,000 Foot Shoelace and a Chatbot

Right, let’s talk about priorities, shall we? Because apparently, someone somewhere decided that the most pressing issue facing humanity was… a really long shoelace. And not just any shoelace, mind you. This behemoth stretches *three thousand feet*. Three thousand! That’s longer than my commute on a bad Tuesday and probably several small rivers. The Missouri museum unveiled it with all the fanfare usually reserved for, I don’t know, curing cancer? Solving world hunger? Maybe just inventing edible socks? No. A shoelace.

Honestly, while they were busy painstakingly lacing this monumental ribbon, someone else decided to birth yet another large language model into existence. Another algorithm capable of regurgitating information and pretending it’s having a meaningful conversation. Fantastic. Just what we needed. One more digital echo chamber whispering vaguely intelligent nothings into the void.

I mean, seriously! We’ve got shoelaces long enough to lasso a small country, and now we’re expected to be impressed by text generators that can write slightly less awkward poetry than a toaster? It’s peak absurdity, folks. A delightful distillation of modern achievement.

Don’t misunderstand: I appreciate the dedication it takes to tie something so ridiculously huge. Someone clearly spent *hours*. Hours! That could have been used for, oh, I don’t know, *literally anything else.* But no, we celebrate a shoelace. And then we congratulate ourselves on creating another bot that will probably answer my next query with a vaguely relevant but ultimately useless factoid. Wonderful. Truly wonderful. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go contemplate the meaninglessness of it all while staring at a very long string.

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