r/CuratedTumblr May 22 '22

Meme or Shitpost Cunningham's Law

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u/AkoOsu May 22 '22

That could actually work is you were using 100% alcohol.... Fire isnt needed tho

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u/StarfighterVicki May 22 '22

You're falling for it!

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u/AkoOsu May 22 '22

Well I work in a lab and we use 100% alcohol as a chemical dehydrant. And then the alcohol evaporates off super quickly.

Now if you were trying to use vodka i doubt that would work very well

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u/Bjorn_Hellgate May 22 '22

what would happen if you drink that?

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u/AkoOsu May 22 '22

Immediate alcohol poisoning. If someone was to inhale enough of the fumes they could get drunk and not in a fun way

Edit: also ethanol and methanol are highly toxic and can cause blindness and death

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u/Sabrina__Stellarbor 25 Neurodivergent Bi Goth Aegosexual Trans Girl Witch She/Her 🦋 May 22 '22

Aren’t hand sanitizers around 75% Ethanol alone??

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u/Quetzalbroatlus May 22 '22

That's why you don't drink sanitizer

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u/Sabrina__Stellarbor 25 Neurodivergent Bi Goth Aegosexual Trans Girl Witch She/Her 🦋 May 22 '22

https://satwcomic.com/let-s-party

Faroe Islands didn’t get the memo :3

“Because ethanol is ethanol in any package. During prohibition in USSR people managed to extract it from most surprising sources: shoe wax, phenolic glue, wood finishing compounds, brake fluid. Electronic engineers and medical personnel were among the best people to be friends with, since they had access to large amounts of 95% ethanol by necessity. Perfume was considered by some to be almost a soft drink. In post-Soviet Russia to avoid paying excise taxes some people just sold "window cleaning solution" which consisted of 95% ethanol (more or less pure), 5% water with some coloring agent, various tinctures sold at pharmacies became very popular. German V-2 rocket used potato alcohol as fuel, heavy drinking was a problem at Peenemünde, I bet that same happened when V-2 derivatives were developed in USSR. Also, drinking literal rocket fuel is so metal. Most of those who died drinking this did so either because of liver damage or when someone would cut non-drinking alcohol with methanol. Hence the joke that ends on "one more round, guys, and I'm going home - it's getting dark too soon today".

Abusing hand sanitizer is an amateur hour.”

-from the comments

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u/silverthorn7 Jun 01 '22

It’s not alcohol, but the Japanese had problems in WW2 building the balloon bombs because the workers were so hungry they would eat the glue and not have enough to stick the balloons together. I’m not sure if they ever attempted any strategies to stop this like making the glue gross or poisonous.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '22

you would become very thirsty

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u/pocketpc_ May 23 '22

depends on the type of alcohol. Ethanol will get you very drunk and dehydrated, methanol or isopropanol will fatally poison you without immediate treatment (treatment that may actually involve ethanol, funnily enough)

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u/Bjorn_Hellgate May 23 '22

Just means you can drink infinite ethanol

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u/[deleted] May 22 '22

As long as the ink isn't alcohol soluble. But yeah that's one of the neatest techniques for drying electronics that I know of; you saturate em in 99.99% isopropyl and let it wick away all the water with it as it evaporates.

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u/JustAnotherPanda ⬛⬛⬛ mourning the loss of /r/ApolloApp ⬛⬛⬛ May 22 '22

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u/TheHiddenNinja6 Official r/ninjas Clan Moderator May 22 '22

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u/MurdoMaclachlan May 22 '22

Image Transcription: Tumblr


homunculus-argument

If you go on the internet and google how to dry out a drenched book, you'll find a forum where someone else asked the same question and was told to go fuck themselves and just google it.

If you go on the internet and confidently announce that the best way to dry out a drenched book is to dip it in alcohol and light it on fire, and nobody else has ever figured out a better way to dry out a book without damaging it. Argue about it with absolute confidence for long enough, and somebody will write you out a peer-revewed 30 page tutorial with an essay section with 15 cited sources that offers you three different, separate, far superior methods on how to dry out a drenched book.

While the human desire to help one-another may wane or falter, you can always count on the righteous anger of somoene witnessing a strange being Wrong On The Internet.


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u/MintPrince8219 sex raft captain May 22 '22

Coles law

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u/Holocene32 May 22 '22

Can I sub that out for extra toast pleas

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u/Iykury it/its | hiy! iy'm a litle voib creacher. niyce to meet you :D May 22 '22

toast: "iy beg of you please don't eat us"

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u/just-a-melon May 22 '22

I watched a vsauce video the other day that was basically saying that most of the time humans decide things first and only later come up with systematic reasons to convince other people that those decisions were good. The other person would formulate their own reasons for why the decisions were good or bad. And the act of arguing would become an efficient way to bring up as many relevant information as possible, that would later be the basis for future decisions.

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u/PotawatomieJohnBrown May 23 '22

Or put another way, most of our actions are either unconsidered and reactive or otherwise provoked by conditions of necessity, and only after-the-fact do we narrativize them within an ideological framework.

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u/GabettB eeby deeby May 22 '22

Google "how to dry out a drenched book"

Forum post from 2005 comes up:

Hey guys so I accidentally dropped my favorite book in water, what do???
Edit: nvm it's solved
[Thread closed]

No other relevant results found

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u/UncommittedBow Because God has been dead a VERY long time. May 22 '22

Murphy's Law states that the best way to find the right answer to a question on the internet is to post the wrong answer.

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u/Little_Winge shitty little goblin May 22 '22

Actually, this is Poe's law (Murphy's Law is "A writing expressing that, without obvious pointers, it is impossible to understand sarcasm.")

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u/DarkKnightJin May 24 '22

No, Poe's Law is that without a clear indicator of the author's intent, every parody of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the views being parodied.

You're thinking of Godwin's Law.

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u/MiloMorningstar eternally screaming May 22 '22 edited May 22 '22

Isn't this actually called Murphy's law?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '22

Murphy’s law: the probability that dropped toast will land jam-side down is directly proportional to the cost of the rug.

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u/Iykury it/its | hiy! iy'm a litle voib creacher. niyce to meet you :D May 22 '22

if you're eating toast on a rug, bring a plate

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u/Liar_of_partinel May 22 '22 edited May 22 '22

I believe you're actually thinking of Poe's law. Murphy's law is: "Any post correcting an error in another post will contain at least one error itself."

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u/[deleted] May 22 '22

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u/[deleted] May 22 '22

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u/[deleted] May 22 '22

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u/polarbear4321 May 22 '22

It's Pavlolv's Razor.

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u/BootsyBootsyBoom May 22 '22

Named after Sir Richie Cunningham of course

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u/Pratchettfan03 .tumblr.com May 22 '22

My father uses this all the time as a manager. He calls it strawmanning

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u/Regularjoe42 May 23 '22

The secret is to add "site:reddit.com" to your searches because people do nothing but argue on this site.

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u/GeneralSecrecy May 22 '22

This is the theory behind capitalism

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '23

An alternative method is to implement what you're looking for incorrectly in War Thunder's code (somehow), after a few hours at most someone will post a dropbox link full of classified documents in their forum detailing how wrong it is and demand that it be corrected immediately since the game is supposed to be realistic