there are worse hills to die on

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• mozz@mbin.grits.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • Mohaim@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • mozz@mbin.grits.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 each and tell them it's gonna be okay.

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    • nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is glorious

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  • affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • spookex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That really was entertaining

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  • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This was hilarious. Thank you for the read.

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  • Hylactor@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This link was a morning ruining rabbit hole.

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  • strawberry@kbin.run ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    that's beautiful. thank you

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• amanaftermidnight@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, they already got Gallium.

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    • nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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• thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• suodrazah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think they did have fun writing this edit. 😄

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• voracitude@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• maculata@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

  This aside has me curious about motivations etc.

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  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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    • maculata@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thanks.

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  • affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Carlo@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That part didn’t make sense to me, either, but my brain kind of elided it until I saw these comments. You’re right, it’s gotta be a genie that was created by a wish with a monkey’s paw. That brings up another question: do monkeys even have paws? A quick search indicates that they have, as I suspected, hands and feet! I blame W.W. Jacobs for this. Did the guy ever even see a monkey? I’m finding this hard to establish.

      Further bulletins as events warrant.

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    • maculata@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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-userless element after France? It literally sounds like this isotope was only made to make a ‘can’t last 30 minutes’ joke about the French.

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• PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • Verxiq@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It is indeed in the alkali metal group

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• yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • acetanilide@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Study it in 45 minutes

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  • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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• nifty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maybe they knew someone named Francis?

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• xkforce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re not wrong.

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