woodenskewer

@woodenskewer@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big, beige ’80s PC case started out as a joke, but it’s becoming real in Japan⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just recently adopted an old gateway PC with this intent in mind. I’m excited about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blessica Blimpson⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cerberus was next in line to the house of Hades, but Charon was not his master. Hades was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blessica Blimpson⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I enjoy the mythos around Charon. If you lived your life to the point where you didn’t have a single person to care for you enough to make a small payment in your name (think 2 pennies), you suffer the fate of merely waiting. He’s like a minimalist renown filter of sorts. It’s like a judge of character, so to speak, based on what others would do for you when you can’t act.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blessica Blimpson⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You swear correctly. He is the boatman of the river Styx. He ferries souls to Hades in the afterlife if the individual was buried with the ferry toll. If they didn’t have the ferry toll they’d be fated to wandering the banks of the river Styx for 100 years before they could cross.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 1900s⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I put this on an unlabeled squirt bottle once at work. It was wrong to do because technically it’s an OSHA violation for being improperly labeled because it was just in sharpie and not a standard label. But it was night shift I was bored and the bottle was already unlabeled so it was already out of compliance. Why not write on it?

  A week or so later I heard people talking about this squirt bottle that said dihydrogen monoxide. Two safety guys were there so I didn’t take credit for my shenanigans based on the reception not being great.

  I said I think it’s just water, but the chemical name. Ya know? Nope, they didn’t get it. The kind of doubled down and started talking about things in that link because they “researched the name” and it was actually harmful.

  It was a strange experience.