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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 106 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Dark humor bundle lol

Link was from other comment https://mander.xyz/comment/23022785

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 51 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

What does the titan do? Bath bomb? Pressure sensor? Maybe a coin bank? You smash it when it's full.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Looks like it doesn’t do anything. just for sitting on desk or putting in aquarium

[–] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh man now I’m imagining having two tanks set up side by side, one labeled “before” with the little prop suspended on fishing line somewhere around the middle of the water column, and a second one labeled “after” with a crushed craft little chunks scattered all over the bottom..

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

You could print the main body in a water-soluble filament and have it break down in hours.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Now I want a Titan-wreckage aquarium decoration.

[–] simbico@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Vacuum or pressure washer would be fun

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I vote "novelty vacuum sealer."

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[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Confetti grenade

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[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Alpaca 3D my main man!
(not really, I don't know who he is)

[–] villainy@lemmy.world 84 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

34% relative humidity. Not great, not terrible.

[–] DivineDev@piefed.social 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not 34%. It's 150000.

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

absolute humidity level:

[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Ngl this seems like a great conversation starter.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 31 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (9 children)

Ehhhhhh.

Stuff like this is hilarious up until you meet someone who had family in the area or who has memories of everyone panicking around them when the NPP failed (said panic spread pretty far throughout Western Europe...)

Don't get me wrong. I am all for some dark edgelord jokes. But the kind where I can choose my audience. Because, best case scenario, stuff like this screams "I'm an edgelord" and, at worst, it leads to someone calling you on your bullshit when they come over.

Its similar to big titty anime girl figures. Yes, it will probably cause a conversation. Think through what kinds of conversations would result and... are those conversations you want to have?

[–] TTimo@lemmy.today 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Too soon still. In France they were bullshiting us that the radiation had stopped at the border, while all the radiologic alarms in the fire stations were going off.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah. Some very good friends of mine are a German couple and one of them has talked about how she remembers being scared shitless one day and all the precautions that were taken for the next year or three over radiation and the like. She'll join in for jokes about russia mismanaging things and actually really enjoys the STALKER games, but I also remember how she was very clearly having a mild panic attack all throughout the Fukushima incident and the like.

Its a mindset I see with a lot of American millennials. Our big "disaster" was 9-11. And, unless you lived in NYC (or I guess near the Pentagon), odds are it was just a weird day where you got to go home from school early and weren't allowed to watch TV. My uncle was in one of the towers and I remember the panic as my mother was frantically trying to figure out if he was fine (he ended up walking home without his shoes and we still don't know what happened during his trauma induced blackout). But, for me? It was just sitting around at home with no real impact. And while I suspect this is why the Cranston Godzilla REALLY hits for me, yeah.

But if you were a kid who has memories of your family going batshit insane trying to protect you? That leaves trauma marks.

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[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah put it across from the model of MH370, by the photo of JFK getting shot

[–] Gnugit@aussie.zone 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

When you want your skin to radiate its best.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

And now a word from our spokesperson, Dr. Bruce Banner..

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 16 points 3 weeks ago

3.6 Roentgen, Not Great, Not Terrible

[–] Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Break up pencil lead on the top of it and scream "THERE'S GRAPHITE ON THE ROOF"

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[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

That ~~inherits~~ radiates a certain kind of humor that could be considered funny. I want one 😁

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

inherits? Is that really the right verb?

How about "elicits"?

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I think it’s radiates a certain type of humor

[–] jumperalex@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago
[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Metastasizes fun all over your body

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

You will fission your sides with laughter!

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[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Do a 9/11 one! With aroma diffuser

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 5 points 3 weeks ago

Surely thats a commemorative Jenga set

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] TRock@feddit.dk 3 points 2 weeks ago

Humordifier

[–] MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 weeks ago

Seller is in Ukraine lol and it has a glowing core. they also sell a titan submarine.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's so wrong, yet it's so right.

I don't want to banalize a tragedy but it.. Might help us remember it..? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] fascicle@leminal.space 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Reminds me of this like inflatable titanic water slide i saw while driving through San Diego

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm sure it was done in a very respectful way ;)

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[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I'm reminded of that Loriot sketch in Germany, with grandpa buying a game for Christmas.

"And when there is an accident all the little trees and cows fall over."

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Wow. A 3d printer, an ultrasonic humidifier module, and a completely sociopathic grasp on world affairs could see the most offensive Etsy store ever.

There’s basically no limit to the depravity one could stoop to in pursuit of money.

I sense a business opportunity, but at what cost?
No, I mean, literally, what’s a steaming Krakatoa worth?

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Now I just need to find a 3D artist willing to make my vision for a Charlie Kirk fountain a reality...

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

That’s horrible. I love it.

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[–] Inucune@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I saw a store selling "drop and run" cobalt replicas. Some things are just distasteful.

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That’s kind of fucked up if there’s not an indication that it’s a replica. Akin to yelling fire in a theater if someone used one of them maliciously.

Perhaps it could be kind of neat as a curio if it’s a highly engineered/beautiful work of art (that is maybe too expensive to use for malicious ‘jokes’). But I’d still want it to have some sort of indication that folks aren’t getting dosed/they don’t have to trigger a response by your local atomic energy officials.

Editing to add that before I picked Krakatoa (fingers crossed on my inability to predict natural disasters), I actually searched for “disasters with no death toll” to use as an example for a potential model without much success. It is in poor taste and my comments are definitely parody.

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