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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
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"{{w|Life hack}}ing" is the practice of using common everyday items in novel ways to increase the convenience or enjoyment of daily activities. This comic pokes fun at the many blogs and video channels that purport to cover life hacking tips, but merely point out obvious or intended uses for products or well known techniques as low effort clickbait.
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[[Megan]] tells someone off panel that, by using sheets of paper, she can reflect and diffuse the light coming from a lightbulb. She refers to her discovery as a life hack, while the person off-panel sarcastically points out that all she has done is reinvent the lampshade, to which Megan again refers to as a life hack.
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"{{w|Life hack}}ing" is the practice of using common everyday items in novel ways to increase the convenience or enjoyment of daily activities.  This comic pokes fun at the many blogs and video channels that purport to cover life hacking tips, but merely point out obvious or intended uses for products or well known techniques as low effort clickbait.
  
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A {{w|Dyson sphere}} is a hypothetical energy-collecting megastructure encompassing a star, and collecting a large percent of its energy in the process. It is named after the physicist and mathematician {{w|Freeman Dyson}}.  
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{{w|Dyson sphere}} is a hypothetical energy-collecting megastructure encompassing a star and named after the physicist and mathematician {{w|Freeman Dyson}}. Dyson spheres are generally not intended for lightbulbs. Freeman Dyson argued that Dyson spheres, if they existed, could be found by infrared surveys, as large objects that would emit infrared radiation.
  
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The joke here is that Dyson spheres are generally not intended for lightbulbs,{{Citation needed}} yet using them in this way is suggested by Megan as a life hack, poking fun at the fact that life hacks make things more complicated instead of convenient. Freeman Dyson argued that Dyson spheres, if they existed, could be found by infrared surveys, as large objects that would emit infrared radiation. [https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/ikea-ps-2014-pendant-lamp-white-silver-color-00311498/ IKEA pendant lampshades] are spherical shells that surround the bulb. Megan claims studies have tried to use infrared surveys to find Dyson spheres at Ikea locations, without success. When the other person tells her the easier way, searching for it online, she eagerly refers to his method as another life hack, much to the other person's annoyance.
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[https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00311498/ IKEA pendant lampshades] are spherical shells that surround the bulb. Megan claims studies have tried to use infrared surveys to find Dyson spheres at Ikea's, without success.
  
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The title text creates a different sort of confusion of the term lifehack, with another sort of popular clickbait videos. Described activity, if done, would be considered a prank - depriving the distractible civilization of their sunlight and energy source, while redirecting the energy to Earth.
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The title text creates a different sort of confusion of the term lifehack, with another sort of popular clickbait videos. Described activity, if done, would be considered a prank - depriving the distractible civilization of their sunlight and energy source, rather than bringing any benefit to the builders of the smaller sphere.
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
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:[Megan walks to the right, holding a sheet of paper and a light bulb]
 
:[Megan walks to the right, holding a sheet of paper and a light bulb]
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:Megan: I discovered a cool life hack - you can put a white sheet behind a lightbulb to reflect more light.
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:Megan: I discovered a cool life hack -- you can put a white sheet behind a lightbulb to reflect more light.
 
:Off-panel voice: I'm ... not sure that's a life hack.
 
:Off-panel voice: I'm ... not sure that's a life hack.
  

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