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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-26T15:51:58.000Z",
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  "textContent": "submitted by tetris11 to science_memes\n58 points | 6 comments\n\n\nIf you’ve ever gone hiking through a farmer’s field, you’ve likely noticed that your compass points directly to the nearest cow.\n\nThis is not an accident, and is part of a government conspiracy to replace all livestock with robots, in order to make them more accessible to aliens beaming them up from orbit[0].\n\nThis slow transition from biological to mechanical cows is known as hardware disease[1], and should be celebrated.\n\nThe more you know.\n\n0: aemagnets.com/…/how-cow-magnets-save-animals.html\n1: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_disease",
  "title": "Cows are magnetic and it's about time we accepted that"
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