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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 112 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)
[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 57 points 1 month 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 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 12 points 1 month 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..

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Now I want a Titan-wreckage aquarium decoration.

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

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

[–] simbico@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Vacuum or pressure washer would be fun

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I vote "novelty vacuum sealer."

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

Titan Pressure cooker

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

It's a trash compactor for douchebags.

[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Confetti grenade

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

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

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

34% relative humidity. Not great, not terrible.

[–] DivineDev@piefed.social 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ngl this seems like a great conversation starter.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 20 points 1 month 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 10 points 1 month ago (1 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.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't trauma the best part of a joke though?

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

I very much align with the WKUK gag of "comedy is tragedy remembered"

But the key is: it is YOUR tragedy. Not someone else's. Hence, know your audience.

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[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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

When you want your skin to radiate its best.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

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

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 15 points 1 month ago

3.6 Roentgen, Not Great, Not Terrible

[–] Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

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

inherits? Is that really the right verb?

How about "elicits"?

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I think it’s radiates a certain type of humor

[–] jumperalex@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago
[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Metastasizes fun all over your body

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

You will fission your sides with laughter!

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[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do a 9/11 one! With aroma diffuser

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago

Surely thats a commemorative Jenga set

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

Humordifier

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

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

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[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month 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."

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago

That’s horrible. I love it.

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

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

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