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there are worse hills to die on (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 147 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Wikipedia's hall of fame of stupid edit wars has some pretty entertaining sections.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Don't forget about the heated argument on a bodybuilding forum about how many days are in a week

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is my favorite thing that's happened to me all day and I had a nice pork chop this morning 😃

I laughed out loud many times on the first page and then I got to the bottom with the pagination showing God only knows how many more pages of it continuing, and completely busted out laughing. I want to give them all a warm cup of tea and a cookie and tell them to relax it's gonna be okay.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

This is glorious

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

most wikipedia thing ever to start the joke page with a link to the article defining “humor”.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

That really was entertaining

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

This was hilarious. Thank you for the read.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

This link was a morning ruining rabbit hole.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

that's beautiful. thank you

[–] [email protected] 133 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Scientist: Finds the most useless element.
Also scientist: Names it after France 💀💀

[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Well, they already got Gallium. (Gaul)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Gallium explodes people who call it a stupid element. (it used in the plutonium pits of atomic bombs)

[–] [email protected] 81 points 10 months ago

The end reads like a bad Amazon review or something and it cracks me up.

Absolute dogshit isotope and its synthetic siblings are just the same but worse

1/5 stars

[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago

I'll probably remember francium forever now, so there's that.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Francium has been one of my favourite elements since before I was a teenager, I'm 35 and this hasn't changed...this person needs to learn to have fun.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago

I think they did have fun writing this edit. 😄

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well I'm convinced of the position, should I go get the pitchforks?

[–] SpaceCowboy 6 points 10 months ago

Unfortunately the pitchforks were made out of Francium and they vaporized and cooked everyone.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Could someone please explain the “he (the genie) would just give it to you” part?

This aside has me curious about motivations etc.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think the joke is that he doesn't have to monkey's paw the wish at all to screw you over for wishing for it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (3 children)

my interpretation of it is: when you ask a genie for something they’ll give it to you, but with a nasty twist. e.g., if you ask for a lot of money they’ll say okay, then give you the money, and then tell you it’s all marked notes from a recent bank robbery or something.

but since this element is so stupid, there’s no twist necessary. the element itself is the nasty surprise.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

when you ask a genie for something they’ll give it to you, but with a nasty twist

And if I remember correctly, it's about asking a wish with precise, thoughtful phrasing, or it's going to backfire.

"Your wish is my command."
"I don't want to see my mother-in-law ever again."
Boom! Makes him blind.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh I see. I never associated monkey’s paw type twists with the genie tale. Perhaps I need to re-read the source myths.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Monkeys paw = you get what you asked for but it takes a nasty path to get there. Example from the OG story, the parents ask for money, then their son dies, and they get the insurance money.

Genie = chooses to ignore the spirit of the wish and gives you something that technically meets the criteria. Ex: you ask for a "hot chick", and get a boiling hot baby chicken.

You can try to work around the genie's trickery with more and more precise wording till there isn't any ambiguity. The monkey will fuck you over anyway, because fuck you, that's why.

99.99% of the comments on r/monkeyspaw are just granting wishes like they're genies and not like they're a monkey's paw, and it rubs me the wrong way.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Isn't it also one of those salt elements that just explodes instantly if it contacts water?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

It is indeed in the alkali metal group

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How did we even study it if it decays in less than an hour?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

Study it in 45 minutes

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

a half life of 30min, doesn't mean there won't be anything left after 60min. After 60min there will be a half of the half left over, and after 90min - half of the half of the half, and so on

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Maybe they knew someone named Francis?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

They're not wrong.