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  • What normal household item becomes a mythical magic item when given to someone in a fantasy novel?

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  • Which drew their power from...?

  • What normal household item becomes a mythical magic item when given to someone in a fantasy novel?

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  • Useless without a power source.

    Just a strange, misshapen polearm of some kind, or possibly an artwork.

  • What normal household item becomes a mythical magic item when given to someone in a fantasy novel?

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  • A solar powered calculator, that one I like.

    That is simple enough that it could actually keep working through the isekai teleport, and it also probably would comport with the arithmetic knowledge of the smartest person in the village, and might not get you immediately killed as a witch or warlock.

  • What normal household item becomes a mythical magic item when given to someone in a fantasy novel?

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  • A microwave without an accompanying, compatible power source would just be a weird box.

    EDIT: Oh, you said the magnet from one, I can't read lol.

    Well, uh microwaves have electromagnets.

    They don't produce much of a magnetic field without a power source.

    So... same problem, actually.

  • What normal household item becomes a mythical magic item when given to someone in a fantasy novel?

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  • Stick of deoderant.

    People tend to very much not consider how fucking awful everyone smells when almost everyone is a manual laborer, washing machines don't exist, indoor plumbing largely does not exist, people tend to have a wardrobe that can fit in large satchel, not an entire walk in closet.

    This is part of why people really really viewed annointing oils and incense as luxury items.

    Just mask the smell lol.

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    Any kind of memory foam anything, pillows, mattress.

    Totally impossible to produce without modern industrial society, heavily reliant on modern chemistry, oil processing, etc.

    The level of comfort would likely be seen as literally supernatural.

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    Zippers.

    Yep, you heard me right, zippers.

    Sure, you could have a finely skilled artisan who crafts mail or scaled armor.

    ... Zippers?

    Real ones, made of metal?

    Yeah, the not shitty ones are made of metal alloys that roughly medieval people could not create, not to mention they are made of very small pieces that must be pretty precisely shaped, and then also all finely and sturdily woven together.

    If a handheld clock is basically magic in your scenario, a zipper is almost as hard to craft, but has a much, much broader range of practical applications.

    And if its made of plastic?

    Again, plastic requires oil refinery. Plastic = Magic.

    Yeah, theres a reason why most pre industrial fashions use folds and drawstrings and buttons... and not zippers.

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    Maybe not common household items unless you are a bit of a prepper, but uh:

    Mylar (space) blankets / ponchos.

    Emergency water filtration 'straws'.

    Sanitary wipes / individually packed steri-wipes with alcohol for cleaning wounds.

  • Meta chief technology officer(CTO) explains why the smart glasses demo failed at Meta Connect — and it wasn’t the Wi-Fi

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  • Do you walk around with your phone constantly in your hands, recording everything, everywhere, all of the time?

    It is illegal in a good number of places to film, record, surveil people without their consent or a warrant or some kind of exceptional circumstances.

  • The Wikipedia page for the fediverse describes a den of iniquity

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  • Youn could follow that link and become pretty familiar with them.

  • RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine panel realizes it has no idea what it’s doing, skips vote

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  • Yep.

    They are mean, stupid children, 5th grade bullies.

    That really is pretty much it.

  • The Wikipedia page for the fediverse describes a den of iniquity

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  • TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill

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  • Yes, I was oversimplifying a bit.

    It is also cortisol... it is so many other things.

    A little bit of everything, all of the time, perfectly optimized to exaggerate whatever tendencies or interests you have into a targetted, pigeonholed exaggeration.

    It destroys the capacity for critical thought, reduces everything to inter and intra group, micro or macro politics...

    And all of it... ostensibly, to sell fucking ads.

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  • Ah, a true chaos wizard, I see.

  • TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill

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  • I literally only ever had a twitter account... when Elon announced he was buying it, and I created that account soley in order to scream at him untill I was banned, probably by him personally.

    All these short form, highly algorithmically manipulated communication platforms have given everyone brainrot, ruined their attention spans, made everyone angry stupid and tribal, and spread astounding amounts of mis and disinformation.

    It was all downhill after Facebook introduced Farmville, and fully realized that every aspect of the human psyche can be gamified and manipulated.

    If you do not realize that persistent exposure to a dopamine delivery device has fucked up nearly everyone on a fundamental level, and has created addiction/withdrawal behaviors in a large subset of those people, particularly if they've been exposed since a young age, you are either an addict in denial yourself, or you have not read enough of the studies on this.

  • TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill

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  • My guess is only ~15% of people using TikTok will quit, because of this.

    Drugs are bad kids, m'kay?

  • There's much worse about to come than just silencing Jimmy Kimmel

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  • They aren't scared at all.

    The only thing they have to worry about is pissing off enough people with guns, if enough of their own base infights too much.

    ... They have most of the guns. In that base, in the military, in ICE.

    The rest of this will just follow the literal Nazi playbook.

    The law is whatever they say it is, dissent and be jailed, extradited, shot, whatever.

    They will soon totally control almost all the media, and reality will become what they say it is, and most people will mostly believe it.

    ... Unless an organized and disciplined resistance appears... and we all know how great the Dems are at that... then this has a very predictable, very bad ending... just look at history.

  • There's much worse about to come than just silencing Jimmy Kimmel

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  • "next elections".

    Hah!

    Good one.

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  • alternative title:

    pov you are leonardo di caprio

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  • what a piss take

  • Average thermodynamics enjoyer

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  • Somehow, I am yet to read Discworld, or the series... I now have another reason to, lol.

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  • Remember, always, immediately, push new updates to prod, specifically right before you go home at the end of the day.