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[Cloudy with A Chance of Meatballs] Flint Lockwood basically found the solution to world hunger, why is his device only being used as a tourist attraction for some town?
gpt
People absolutely did not take Flint seriously. His entire life was a joke. So naturally, when he got something to work right, noone took it seriously at first. FLDSMDFR was operating for what, a couple of weeks before it went berserk? That was enough time for the media to just start to realize what he managed, before it all turned upside down. In that time, he didn't publish in any major peer-reviewed journal or make any effort to get it to the world at large. He seemed content to bask in the glory on his little island.