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

submitted 7 months ago by immortal_crab@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 147 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Mohaim@beehaw.org 58 points 7 months ago

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

[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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.

[-] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 11 points 7 months ago

This is glorious

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

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

[-] spookex@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

That really was entertaining

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 11 points 7 months ago

This was hilarious. Thank you for the read.

[-] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 9 points 7 months ago

This link was a morning ruining rabbit hole.

[-] strawberry@kbin.run 3 points 7 months ago

that's beautiful. thank you

[-] amanaftermidnight@lemmy.world 134 points 7 months ago

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

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 39 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Well, they already got Gallium. (Gaul)

[-] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 81 points 7 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

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 46 points 7 months ago

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

[-] suodrazah@lemmy.world 36 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 39 points 7 months ago

I think they did have fun writing this edit. 😄

[-] voracitude@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

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

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago

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

[-] maculata@aussie.zone 11 points 7 months ago

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

This aside has me curious about motivations etc.

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 28 points 7 months ago

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

[-] maculata@aussie.zone 4 points 7 months ago

Thanks.

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 14 points 7 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.

[-] maculata@aussie.zone 4 points 7 months ago

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

[-] overcast5348@lemmy.world 5 points 7 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.

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Nah they're right though. The fact that it was named after France is an abomination in the first place, but naming such a dogwater-useless element after France? It literally sounds like this isotope was only made to make a 'can't last 30 minutes' joke about the French.

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Verxiq@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 7 months ago

It is indeed in the alkali metal group

[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

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

[-] acetanilide@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago

Study it in 45 minutes

[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 11 points 7 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