• TWeaKEnglish
      229·
      9 months ago

      thatsthejoke.jpg

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

        • Mothra@mander.xyz
          2·
          9 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

    • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
      82·
      9 months ago

      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.

      • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        9 months ago

        They are for the people, but what’s the problem with showing where a meme originated from?

        • imgonnatrythis
          4·
          9 months ago

          They all originate from either a goth teenager or some 40yr old in his parents basement. Why give credit to a random posting platform?

    • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
      5·
      9 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?

      • Mothra@mander.xyz
        2·
        9 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@lemmy.ml
        2·
        9 months ago

        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.

      • original_ish_name
        1·
        9 months ago

        If I pull the lever then I will be directly harming the toilet. Not pulling the lever is the only correct choice

        • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          Ah, so you’re making the choice to not pull the lever, which is as much a concious decision and making the choice to pull the lever?

  • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
    218·
    9 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@programming.dev
      46·
      9 months ago

      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.

    • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
      19·
      9 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…”

  • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
    10·
    9 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?

    • Mischala@lemmy.nz
      8·
      9 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.

  • blackn1ght@feddit.uk
    8·
    9 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?

    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
      6·
      9 months ago

      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.

    • lichtmetzger@feddit.de
      2·
      9 months ago

      Oh god. Imagine taking the biggest shit of your life, almost passing out just from the smell.

      And then the ad service goes down…

    • helixdaunting
      3·
      9 months ago

      First thing I thought of, as well. That scene gave me nightmares as a child.

  • friendlysort
    7·
    9 months ago

    “No. Do not throw away. I give you happy poopy time.”

    -overly expensive Japanese toilet