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[-] Godort@lemm.ee 95 points 11 months ago

So the mug is the best choice by far, due to its universe-breaking abilities surrounding temperature. Setup a Stirling engine on that for infinite power.

[-] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 83 points 11 months ago

I do have to admit it's a bit disheartening to post that pic, and then people react to it by looking how to use the objects to 'hack' the nature of reality.

[-] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 102 points 11 months ago

OP: "Hey, guys! Here are some objects that hack the nature of reality."

Posters: *Uses them to further hack the nature of reality, just in other ways*

OP:

[-] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 11 months ago

Kind of, lol. But you can see the difference in the type of hacking. The objects are only meant to hack your own, private reality. That's what the picture is meant to address, that aspect of our lives that can't be translated into external and/or mechanical utility.

Besides, the issue of energy scarcity that the replies are working off could be fixed or at least minimised through realistic technological and political/economic solutions, with no need for magical objects that defy the laws of physics. But no law or real invention can be guaranteed e.g. to give you good dreams.

[-] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 8 points 11 months ago

The objects are only meant to hack your own, private reality.

So they induce a kind of psychosis? Ah, sweet. Man-made horrors beyond my comprehension. 😜

[-] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

we have things that do that already, they're called drugs.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 22 points 11 months ago

I mean, that magic candle single handedly gives hope for reversing universal entropy. Everything else might be personally fulfilling but that thing could be the key to preventing the heat death of the universe.

Which would be pretty personally fulfilling too imo.

[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 6 points 11 months ago

Universe schmuniverse, I just want to smell my theatre days! 😛

[-] Lena@lemmy.zip 13 points 11 months ago

I agree. And thank you for the heartwarming content ❤️

[-] HatchetHaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 11 months ago

mein freund, some of us prefer to focus on extracting the most material value out of these hypothetical objects, simply because we want to. it's fun to imagine the possibilities with the infinite energy from the candle and the mug.

[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 6 points 11 months ago

material value

I think that's the point that they're making: it's supposed to be about which object of immense EMOTIONAL value would make people the happiest, and then a lot of people make it about their material value in stead.

As much as I understand their disappointment, though, Lemmy of all places is so full of nerds and geeks (said with love as a geek myself) who know a lot about technical stuff that it was pretty much bound to happen..

[-] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago

Yes, thank you :D (I mean, of course I'm exaggerating a bit by claiming I'm disappointed, it's more of a... "conceptual" disappointment)

[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I was in a band called Conceptual Disappointment. We had excellent stage design, but the music was mediocre at best.

[-] UpperBroccoli@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

So... Conceptual Disappointment was actually Practical Disappointment?

[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 3 points 11 months ago

You know concept albums? It was a concept band where the concept was disappointing everyone involved.

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

I think infinite energy would create muuuch more happiness for so many more people. But i direct happiness cheats are easier to understand i guess.

[-] variants@possumpat.io 4 points 11 months ago

That was my realization when I invited people to my minecraft server and saw people dig a whole and breed cows just to kill them for xp, while I was over there giving them grass and water and a nice fence

[-] Linuto@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I dont know how much energy you'd get per hour from a hot mug though. I'm much more intrigued by a blanket that would keep you safe in the arctic as well as the Sahara.

[-] Godort@lemm.ee 31 points 11 months ago

It depends on how you define the words "drink" and "warm". If "drink" includes something like molten tungsten, and "warm" includes 6200F then you can get a bunch of energy out of it

[-] Linuto@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I did not consider a 6200F heavy metal to be a hot drink.

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago

Jeez I dunno if we could get it any hotter for you, sorry

[-] SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca 16 points 11 months ago
[-] Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 11 months ago

Everything is drinkable. Once.

[-] alx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 11 months ago

All liquids are drinkable at least once

[-] SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago

Not all liquid moving near the throat is drinking. Drowning, for example, isn’t drinking. It has to be ingested using swallowing muscles, etc. Molten lava would disintegrate the perimeter of your mouth and throat. That’s “drinking” like a shotgun to the face is “eating”.

[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 4 points 11 months ago

That’s “drinking” like a shotgun to the face is “eating”.

Would that make Kurt Cobain the 1994 Seattle speed eating champion?

[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 6 points 11 months ago

If "drink" includes something like molten tungsten, and "warm" includes 6200F

Only on Lemmy would you encounter such lunacy and I love it! 😂❤️

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Who would pick being safe in the arctic when an antidote for existential dread is right there?

[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 2 points 11 months ago

Arctic researchers? 🤷

[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

The blanket too, it keeps whatever it covers at 36.5~37.5 °C.

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