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[–] [email protected] 48 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (16 children)

Santa isn't omniscient. He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. We can infer from this phrasing that he can't see you when you're awake. He also knows if you've been bad or good but that information isn't as specific.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (13 children)

What if I upload my consciousness to the internet, then ran that through a VPN and Tor and iP2P and all that, think I could shake him?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

You can't even shake Facebook or Google that way. How do you expect it to work against a demi-god?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think we're discussing the limitations of a fictional being. In the context of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town", I'm not sure his powers apply to the internet, being that "He sees you when you're sleeping...", but he only "... knows when you're awake." So if my incorporeal consciousness was uploaded to the internet, do you think I could spoof my online status to green, so that I'd be untraceable to Santa?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Possibly. I have seen many drawings depicting Santa being threatened by technology.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

If we're building a thing, I don't think Krampus would be as limited, but his punishment wouldn't be as dire.

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