Conscientiousness is so boring
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There was once a very conscientious civilization on a planet called Scutwerk. Scutwerkians enjoyed 10,000 years of thoughtful civilized life.
One day an immense shock wave of boredom radiation from a nearby cosmic anomaly hit, and Scutwerk was destroyed in a boredom apocalypse
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This sad episode would be lost to history if the people of the neighboring planet of Halfass, which was mysteriously unaffected by the shock wave, had not recorded it. Few details are available though because the Halfassians didn’t keep good records and lost half of them
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Halfassian immigrants on Scutwerk survived and repopulated the planet. They appropriated the heritage of Scutwerk and claimed it as their own. In a few generations this detail was forgotten and they started believing they really were descended from the Scutwerkians of legend
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Eventually, they renamed the planet Earth
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