this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2024
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[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 months ago

People today believe magic crystals can cure cancer or curse someone. There's always been dipshits. 🀷

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Quantum entanglement... but with skin

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

Quantum skintanglement

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (3 children)

If only I knew how to crosspost. The world building and TTRPG communities would love this.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago

In the web browser there should be this button:

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

On voyager:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Let me know if you can't figure it out, and I'll be happy to crosspost.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm thinking immune response rejection was probably an issue

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If both of you start to experience rejection of the tissue, that just means pain projection is working as intended!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

The listed sources are from the 19th century... I wonder if anybody ever did this, or it's just apocryphal.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

People are so dumb. Why not binary for way less skin?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Binary takes up way more space when written out. Because binary translates to numbers, and those numbers will need to be translated into characters, the two people would need to settle on a common character set to ensure that messages can be properly decoded and not end up with the black diamond question mark symbol. Personally, I like UTF-8, but it might not be the best choice because some characters may take up much more space than others, resulting in a potential buffer overflow.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Yeah way more space written out but way less skin.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I think we’re missing the obvious. No one can timely speak binary or other like that and the convenience is a selling point.

A few different skin locations may make more sense then a meat keyboard. A stab above the left knee= danger

I could also reason that a scam should use a preys language but I can’t imagine what a scammer would get out of selling this operation.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I can’t imagine what a scammer would get out of selling this operation.

That's because you don't have skin in the game

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We're overthinking this. The real reason they didn't use binary is because it wasn't invented yet back in the 17th century.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In reflection maybe this entice comment chain except the first 4 words are overthinking. we could have left it at.

β€œPeople are so dumb”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

If it popped up now days I bet if it started as binary in would be simplified to morse code, it would even look like a dot and dash

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If this shit worked, we wouldn't have smartphones; we'd just have our friends, family and coworker's skin grafted and tattooed on our bodies.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'd still prefer the smartphone, personally.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

...I'll take the alternative.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me."

Goodbye horses...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I remember I was still young enough when Myspace came out, being in someone's top 8 or whatever was a big deal... having your skin graft removed from someone's arm would have been devastating.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I always felt bad for my friends that still had Tom in their top 10.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Well... did it work? 😹

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Love this submission. Never heard of it, and I've read it twice already and still can't get what they were trying to achieve, lol.