• TWeaK
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      139 months ago

      thatsthejoke.jpg

      I mean, surely the meme itself wasn’t the joke. That would be terrible.

        • @[email protected]
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          29 months ago

          A good spot would be behind the word " sentient", so that you can read join lemmy faintly above it. This would discourage lazy people from removing or altering it

      • @[email protected]
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        29 months ago

        Nah, the worst part is it’s not even original. This has been getting passed around for about a year.

  • Steamboat Hedgie
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    529 months ago

    It should be like the dinosaur appliances in The Flintstones that say “it’s a living”

    • TimeSquirrel
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      No. Memes are for the people. No brands, no watermarks. Putting logos and trademarks on everything to indicate who they belong to is what corporations do.

      Besides, I’m not even ON lemmy, yet I can post here too.

  • Izzy
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    159 months ago

    Whatever increases the net happiness in the world. 🙂

    • @[email protected]
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      59 months ago

      A utilitarian, eh? So, a group of men with runaway diarrhea are going to shit in five toilets who do not want to be shit in. You have no way of stopping them, but if you pull a lever they will instead be diverted to a single toilet-that-does-not-want-to-be-shit-in. What is the correct action to take in this scenario?

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        29 months ago

        Damn. We have a different problem here, the group of army men don’t want to shit together in the same toilet.

        I never thought of the trolley problem with a sentient trolley

      • Izzy
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        To shit on something that isn’t sentient that doesn’t want to be shit on. Possibly the ground where it can be used as fertilizer for plants.

  • @[email protected]
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    139 months ago

    *sapient. If it were merely sentient it could sense the bodily waste, but would be incapable of feeling any way about it.

    • @5C5C5C
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      This is a rare case where sentient is being used correctly. Sentient beings do have feelings, e.g. dogs and cats are sentient and can have cravings and even feel hate.

      Sapient means having enough intellect to understand and reason about the situation. The post doesn’t actually require that.

  • Cyborganism
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    139 months ago

    It would react like the robot in the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy.

    • @[email protected]
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      199 months ago

      The doors in HHGTTG are extremely satisfied to perform their job. They are very happy to open and close for you and let out a very small happy sigh when completing their tasks.

      Imagine if you took a nasty dump and the toilet let out a satisfied “Ahhhhhhh…”

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    I would like it to be dejectedly resigned to its shitty job just like I am, thank you.

  • @[email protected]
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    109 months ago

    Isn’t this a thing from Hitchhiker’s Guide? IIRC there’s a company that creates sentient, emotional AIs and installs them into things like doors and elevators to make them enjoy their jobs and make the appliances even more useful… but everyone just ends up hating them?

    • @[email protected]
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      89 months ago

      Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they tell me to take you up to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? Cause I don’t.

  • @[email protected]
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    89 months ago

    What if the toilet played ads at you based on the food you shit out, where you can’t flush the toilet until it’s finished?

    • @[email protected]
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      I think that’s a different question and I hate it. I’d rather shit in a hole in the floor before using a toilet with mandatory ads.

      Literally would shit on the stall door if I saw that in public. Fuck forced ads.

    • @[email protected]
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      Oh god. Imagine taking the biggest shit of your life, almost passing out just from the smell.

      And then the ad service goes down…