LanceHunter posted:

Maybe one goon posting their own personal experience with/emotions around covid isn't actually a case of them arguing that no lockdowns should have happened and the virus is fake and there's 5g in the vaccines or whatever y'all are trying to dogpile onto now.

Quotey posted:

How are the tungsten cube guys doing. Does anyone remember this

E: of course

https://twitter.com/FTX_Official/status/1449024949801275397

LanceHunter posted:

Maybe one goon posting their own personal experience with/emotions around covid isn't actually a case of them arguing that no lockdowns should have happened and the virus is fake and there's 5g in the vaccines or whatever y'all are trying to dogpile onto now.

evilweasel posted:

...who is paying for the verified checkmark for this?

Rad-daddio posted:

why did they need a tungsten cube?

Rad-daddio posted:

why did they need a tungsten cube?

quote:

All the people here who bought this wireless tungsten cube to admire its surreal heft have precisely the wrong mindset. I, in my exalted wisdom and unbridled ambition, bought this cube to become fully accustomed to the intensity of its density, to make its weight bearable and in fact normal to me, so that all the world around me may fade into a fluffy arena of gravitational inconsequence. And it has worked, to profound success. I have carried the tungsten with me, have grown attached to the downward pull of its small form, its desire to be one with the floor. This force has become so normal to me that lifting any other object now feels like lifting cotton candy, or a fluffy pillow. Big burly manly men who pump iron now seem to me as little children who raise mere aluminum.

I can hardly remember the days before I became a man of tungsten. How distant those days seem now, how burdened by the apparent heaviness of everyday objects. I laugh at the philistines who still operate in a world devoid of tungsten, their shoulders thin and unempowered by the experience of bearing tungsten. Ha, what fools, blissful in their ignorance, anesthetized by their lack of meaningful struggle, devoid of passion.

Nietzsche once said that a man who has a why can bear almost any how. But a man who has a tungsten cube can bear any object less dense, and all this talk of why and how becomes unnecessary.

Schopenhauer once said that every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. Tungsten expands the limits of a man’s field of vision by showing him an example of increased density, in comparison to which the everyday objects to which he was formerly accustomed gain a light and airy quality. Who can lament the tragedy of life, when surrounded by such lightweight objects? Who can cry in a world of styrofoam and cushions?

Have you yet understood? This is no ordinary metal. In this metal is the alchemical potential to transform your world, by transforming your expectations. Those who have not yet held the cube in their hands and mouths will not understand, for they still live in a world of normal density, like Plato’s cave dwellers. Those who have opened their mind to the density of tungsten will shift their expectations of weight and density accordingly.

To give this cube a rating of anything less than five stars would be to condemn life itself. Who am I, as a mere mortal, to judge the most compact of all affordable materials? No. I say gratefully to whichever grand being may have created this universe: good job on the tungsten. It sure is dense.

I sit here with my tungsten cube, transcendent above death itself. For insofar as this tungsten cube will last forever, I am in the presence of immortality.

Rad-daddio posted:

When I finally ended up getting covid, it wasn't any worse than a strong cold. I just remembered staring at the positive covid test and thinking, "We shut the whole planet down for two years because of this?"

Rad-daddio posted:

I'm not saying they shouldn't have happened or anything, I'm just saying that all of it really sucked and watching people say how kinda neato it was to get to play video games and learn how to bake bread all day really isn't cool.

titty_baby_ posted:

If something personally didn't affect me then I don't understand what the big deal is. My perceived reality is the only thing that matters

Deformed Church posted:

Tbf, if I had billions of dollars of other people's money and no accountability, I might impulse buy a tungsten cube too.

Rad-daddio posted:

When I finally ended up getting covid, it wasn't any worse than a strong cold. I just remembered staring at the positive covid test and thinking, "We shut the whole planet down for two years because of this?"

Rad-daddio posted:

why did they need a tungsten cube?

cruft posted:

Lockdown was generally a really nice time for my family. We came closer together and gelled in a way we hadn't done before.

A lot of people had very real and substantive problems, and I don't want to diminish that, but I feel like I need to chime in for folks who have nice memories to say you're also not broken. It was just different for everyone.

Bip Roberts posted:

I found a decent sized chunk of a 90% tungsten alloy at work and honestly it's a pretty cool object to just have a really heavy block

cruft posted:

Yeah, I keep a chunk of plutonium on my desk for the same reason. It's amusing to see the reaction on people's faces when they pick it up.

Juul-Whip posted:

I only talked to my boss on zoom once a week so I used to take off from work in the middle of the day, every day, to work out. now i have incredible cardio

CommieGIR posted:

You joke but I have a small sample of Thorium and Uranium at my desk, and it does indeed freak people out.

tango alpha delta posted:

y'all are a bunch of posers. I have a piece of unobtainium at my desk.

CommieGIR posted:

That just creates a black hole in your desk, right?

cruft posted:

Yeah, I keep a chunk of plutonium on my desk for the same reason. It's amusing to see the reaction on people's faces when they pick it up.

evilweasel posted:

...who is paying for the verified checkmark for this?

Renreeja posted:

Ariong posted:

Elon Musk. Game respects game.

Boxturret posted:

Remember the time they had a phone call and both of them came out of it thinking the other one was crazy on drugs

Pham Nuwen posted:

I guess even a pair of stopped clocks can be right... uh... four times a day? gently caress, the saying doesn't really scale nicely

Tunicate posted:

I'm seeing double!

A Long Way Down posted:

Four grifters!

Pham Nuwen posted:

New Mexico posters shouldn't joke about that sort of thing

Lammasu posted:

I just bought two saucer chairs from Bedbathandbeyond.com. What is this going to do to the stock?

Lammasu posted:

I just bought two saucer chairs from Bedbathandbeyond.com. What is this going to do to the stock?

Lammasu posted:

I just bought two saucer chairs from Bedbathandbeyond.com. What is this going to do to the stock?