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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 97 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)
[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 47 points 21 hours ago (3 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 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 11 points 19 hours 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 6 points 18 hours ago

Now I want a Titan-wreckage aquarium decoration.

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 6 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] simbico@lemmy.zip 5 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Vacuum or pressure washer would be fun

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

I vote "novelty vacuum sealer."

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 hours ago

Titan Pressure cooker

[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago

Confetti grenade

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] villainy@lemmy.world 79 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

34% relative humidity. Not great, not terrible.

[–] DivineDev@piefed.social 24 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 27 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Ngl this seems like a great conversation starter.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 29 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (7 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 18 points 20 hours 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 20 hours 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 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 6 points 17 hours 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 19 hours ago

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

[–] Gnugit@aussie.zone 17 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

When you want your skin to radiate its best.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 12 points 20 hours ago

3.6 Roentgen, Not Great, Not Terrible

[–] Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works 8 points 21 hours ago (1 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 22 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

inherits? Is that really the right verb?

How about "elicits"?

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 14 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

I think it’s radiates a certain type of humor

[–] jumperalex@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago
[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 20 hours ago

Metastasizes fun all over your body

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 points 21 hours ago

You will fission your sides with laughter!

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[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Do a 9/11 one! With aroma diffuser

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 5 points 12 hours ago

Surely thats a commemorative Jenga set

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 4 points 22 hours 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 17 hours 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 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours 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 18 hours ago

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 18 hours 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 10 points 18 hours ago (1 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 16 hours ago

That’s horrible. I love it.

[–] Inucune@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours 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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