So the mug is the best choice by far, due to its universe-breaking abilities surrounding temperature. Setup a Stirling engine on that for infinite power.
I do have to admit it's a bit disheartening to post that pic, and then people react to it by looking how to use the objects to 'hack' the nature of reality.
OP: "Hey, guys! Here are some objects that hack the nature of reality."
Posters: *Uses them to further hack the nature of reality, just in other ways*
OP:
Kind of, lol. But you can see the difference in the type of hacking. The objects are only meant to hack your own, private reality. That's what the picture is meant to address, that aspect of our lives that can't be translated into external and/or mechanical utility.
Besides, the issue of energy scarcity that the replies are working off could be fixed or at least minimised through realistic technological and political/economic solutions, with no need for magical objects that defy the laws of physics. But no law or real invention can be guaranteed e.g. to give you good dreams.
The objects are only meant to hack your own, private reality.
So they induce a kind of psychosis? Ah, sweet. Man-made horrors beyond my comprehension. 😜
I mean, that magic candle single handedly gives hope for reversing universal entropy. Everything else might be personally fulfilling but that thing could be the key to preventing the heat death of the universe.
Which would be pretty personally fulfilling too imo.
mein freund, some of us prefer to focus on extracting the most material value out of these hypothetical objects, simply because we want to. it's fun to imagine the possibilities with the infinite energy from the candle and the mug.
material value
I think that's the point that they're making: it's supposed to be about which object of immense EMOTIONAL value would make people the happiest, and then a lot of people make it about their material value in stead.
As much as I understand their disappointment, though, Lemmy of all places is so full of nerds and geeks (said with love as a geek myself) who know a lot about technical stuff that it was pretty much bound to happen..
Yes, thank you :D (I mean, of course I'm exaggerating a bit by claiming I'm disappointed, it's more of a... "conceptual" disappointment)
I was in a band called Conceptual Disappointment. We had excellent stage design, but the music was mediocre at best.
You know concept albums? It was a concept band where the concept was disappointing everyone involved.
I think infinite energy would create muuuch more happiness for so many more people. But i direct happiness cheats are easier to understand i guess.
That was my realization when I invited people to my minecraft server and saw people dig a whole and breed cows just to kill them for xp, while I was over there giving them grass and water and a nice fence
I dont know how much energy you'd get per hour from a hot mug though. I'm much more intrigued by a blanket that would keep you safe in the arctic as well as the Sahara.
It depends on how you define the words "drink" and "warm". If "drink" includes something like molten tungsten, and "warm" includes 6200F then you can get a bunch of energy out of it
Not all liquid moving near the throat is drinking. Drowning, for example, isn’t drinking. It has to be ingested using swallowing muscles, etc. Molten lava would disintegrate the perimeter of your mouth and throat. That’s “drinking” like a shotgun to the face is “eating”.
That’s “drinking” like a shotgun to the face is “eating”.
Would that make Kurt Cobain the 1994 Seattle speed eating champion?
If "drink" includes something like molten tungsten, and "warm" includes 6200F
Only on Lemmy would you encounter such lunacy and I love it! 😂❤️
Who would pick being safe in the arctic when an antidote for existential dread is right there?
I recently got put on new meds that give me really vivid dreams that I remember. They’re not bad dreams, but they’re not really good dreams either. It’s the worst.
I’d love a pillow like that right now.
favorite mug is the best for breaking the laws of physics and generating infinite energy - though the blanket and the candle also have infinite heat, the mug would be the most versatile, as you could fill it with a super-hot liquid, then treat it like an RTG, generating electricity from the temperature difference between the mug and its environment. use the mug as your spaceship's power supply, and you'll never even need big honkin photovoltaic panels !
I love how this post was meant to be cozy, and the first thing you think of is breaking reality.
I would pick the candle!
Yeah infinite energy source was my first thought as well (mug/candle). Might be able to come up with some amazing uses for the blanket as well.
With the blanket you can walk on the sun though. (Assuming that you won't get crushed by gravity)
How does one recuperate the energy from a candle to transform it to something useful? Also, would it's output be enough to power anything meaningful in a reasonable time anyway?
According to this a burning candle releases about 80 watts.
It could operate a Sterling engine .
Assuming most of the candle's energy is released as heat, with light and magic making up a small percentage, and assuming a perfectly efficient engine, and a spherical cow for good measure...
You could charge your phone, or a power bank. You could power a light bulb. You could heat up water (for a flow of 2 milliliters per second, you could raise the temperature by about 10 degrees Celsius).
Hate to burst your bubble, but the favorite mug is actually just a perfect insulator. Energy go in, energy no come out.
I'm gonna need some more information on this memery.
What kind of memes do they produce there?
Put Magma in the mug
Place the mug under a large water tank
Use it to spin a turbine
Attach alligator clips to my balls
Good old infinite energy
treasure stone pleaseee i got the bad axniety >< i would mind the bear eithrr mrrp
Fuck the rest that pillow is the only way to go. Dreaming means I hit REM every night which means I am better at most of the other times almost automatically
I will literally settle for just one quality of one of these.
Give me the "perfect temperature blanket," I don't even care if it's soft or the right size. If it somehow stabilized my temperature so it didn't feel like it fluctuated 20⁰ every hour, I would sleep like a baby
it's a plushie dreadful! i love them!
https://plushiedreadfuls.com/collections/plushiedreadfuls
i have the gender dysphoria and the anxiety one and i want the bpd and migrane ones next!
they also have sexuality ones and the lesbian one is so cute!
If I was a fae creature, I'd get the endless candle so I could lure people to my hut in the forest and they would not get a sense of danger at all (assuming everyone around the candle can also feel the effects by smelling it)
If not for the "almost", I'd have chosen the candle for sure, but as long as it's not COMPLETELY impossible, my ADHD/anxiety combo is GOING to find something to stress about.
So yeah, I'm going to go with the treasure stone and hope people don't get the wrong idea about me fiddling in my pocket at high pressure moments 😁
bear and pillow seem to have the most utility -- having 100% good dreams must be incredibly blissful. but i do feel empty often as well
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Damn, usually these challenges are pretty bad and there's only one or two good options so it makes choosing easier but this one is horrible becuase everything is amazing. I want it all!
Good dream pillow, basically doubling my percieved livespan, potentially more depending on how dream time relates to real life time.
The fact that the pillow won't help my awful insomnia (or help you fall asleep in general) makes it so close to being the best choice to me, but it falls short in the most frustrating way.
Technically it says every night not every sleep it gives you good dreams, so either you'll be forced asleep so you can dream or you'll have pleasant day dreams while you lie awake at least.
The others have cool abilities, but I'd take the Treasure Stone - I'm anxious when it comes to confrontation and speaking, so something I could hold onto to make me more confident in myself would be a godsend.