cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/20166575
magic box rule
Submitted 1 year ago by notthebees@reddthat.com to science_memes@mander.xyz
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ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
credo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I too like toaster ovens.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I recall taking a date to the lab I was working in as a grad student and realizing after we got there that none of it is terribly impressive if you don’t know what any of it does. She was unimpressed despite my excitement about all of it.
I later married a different woman who actually was excited about our lab things despite but being a scientist.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Excitedly getting monologued to about niche things that are like magic to me is the best. Learning just enough about someone’s interest to use all the words wrong though is what really gets me going
Allero@lemmy.today 1 year ago
You married the right one.
Being excited about random things you admire is a sign of genuine and great love :)
Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
jupyter_rain@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
And you shall never offend this boxes or else they WILL hold grudges against you.
keepcarrot@hexbear.net 1 year ago
My printer started it
notthebees@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Anything that’s an unholy combination of mechanics and electronics will end up in disaster
meep_launcher@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Oh I recognize these! We’ve got:
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The 1978 super Nintendo 5 (alternate universe)
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Lockheed Martin Bread maker
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Jeff
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HP 2400 inkjet Uranium 235 enrichment centrifuge
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fckreddit@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Also, these beige boxes used to be white.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
They all look like some 90ies computer device.
Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 11 months ago
The designs probably haven’t fundamentally changed all that much from their older versions.
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
This is a repost from a month or two ago… and it’s still funny the 2nd time. :)
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Which is a itself a repost from a year or two ago lol.
Isoprenoid@programming.dev 1 year ago
And each of them costs about the same as a deposit on a house.
cam_i_am@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And last just as long.
The engineering department at my uni has a tensile strength testing machine which says “Made in the GDR” on it, a country that hasn’t existed for 40+ years.