[-] Murse@slrpnk.net 89 points 2 days ago

Can't find it for the life of me... Describing a web comic vs actually posting it always feels like a flop, but...

Aliens abduct a physicist, who doesn't seem to give much of a damn about the abduction but is instead enthused to learn about the alien tech on board, so they give him a tour of the ship. They get to the power reactor and start dropping a bunch of sci-fi jumbo about "We harness dark matter to... (sci-fi Ruth Goldberg machine) ...and finally, we use the heat it generates to boil water and crank a turbine!!"

*Physicist drops to his knees in despair and let's out a dramatic 'noooooo!'

 

Paraphrasing heavily due to having shit memory. I thought it was a SMBC comic, but... /shrug.

[-] Murse@slrpnk.net 18 points 3 days ago

I don't think I've ever stopped using a pen because of a fault or end-of-life condition of the pen itself. I stop using them because "Where the actual fuck did I put my pen...?"

[-] Murse@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 days ago

and the world made a better place.

Cue the Anakin-in-a-field-with-Padme meme.

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Newbie here. My keyboard just completely crapped out (it's been a long time coming). I have a wishlist of features that I was hoping to run by one of the techy communities to see if anyone could recommend a model, but none of the communities I'm seeing are geared toward those kinds of questions.

I can search communities, but if I don't guess the correct title then I'm SOL... Is there a directory that doesn't just list the communities, but actually categorizes them so I can more effectively find a hit?

Also is it worth posting in a 'dead' community? Unsure if a new post will have any visibility in places like /all if the post itself is in a community that no one frequents.

Learning the ropes here.

Thanks all!

[-] Murse@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You're pretty much describing the epicurian paradox. God, or at least the Christian (and similar) god, is presented as being three things in an absolute sense:

1 - All powerful. His will is our reality, period.

2 - All good. He doesn't have even the tiniest shred of evil.

3 - All knowing. He is completely aware of everything that happens in this reality.

But we can plainly observe evil every time we so much as turn the news on, so how can that exist in the reality made by a god who demonstrates the three traits above?

Every single attempt at answering that paradox just shuffles two of the three pillars. (feel free to take a crack at it if you think you've got a solution, but this is very much a 'gotcha!' kind of situation that you might get really frustrated with, so, fair warning).

I was raised Christian, but this is a big part of what killed it for me. It boils down to accepting that if there is a god, the Christian presentation of it is mistaken at best, or dishonest at worst, and if we can't be accurate or honest about even our own diety, then we have no basis for the rest of our religion.

[-] Murse@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

Or a Lemmy thing. ~~Humans~~ Most living things are pretty hard wired to be obsessed with sex.

[-] Murse@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Either it's the nostalgia goggles, or another example of enshittification... but I remember when gesture typing was exclusive (actually was it exclusive? I'm doubting myself now) to FlexT9 and it was like magic - your gestures could be sloppy as fuck and it was still shockingly accurate. Someone must have bought them out or something, cuz FlexT9 kinda just disappeared and gesture typing started to become a standard feature. But no longer a reliable feature... as evident by the number of times I had to manually correct the autocorrects in this post...

[-] Murse@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago

The ships sank for your swims; but behold, they are risen!

Now, place your donations here, or you'll spend eternity stuck in port beneath a flock of seagulls that just gorged themselves on the infinite dumpster behind Taco Bell.

[-] Murse@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 week ago

Okay but what kind of doctor?

ENT clinic? Probably what the message is shooting for.

Surgeon? You'll have a front facing gown, but your ass will most likely be on display.

ER? Why does that patient still have clothes on?? Grab some bandage scissors and chop that shit off!

Murse

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