GraniteM

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I did, I admit it. I haven't the faintest idea how much a tungsten alloy gravestone would actually cost to craft and install. I'm sorry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

It would not! In fact, if we use a tungsten alloy, it'll be both cheaper and less likely to chip. Here's a quick estimate:


Estimate: Tungsten Heavy Alloy Gravestone (83,415 cm³)

Gravestone Dimensions:

  • Height: 3 feet (91 cm)
  • Width: 2 feet (61 cm)
  • Depth: 0.5 feet (15 cm)
  • Volume: ~83,415 cm³
  • Estimated Weight: ~1,500 kg (using 18.0 g/cm³ tungsten heavy alloy)

Item Estimated Cost (USD)
Raw Materials (Tungsten Heavy Alloy) $48,000
Machining & Shaping $11,000
Engraving (laser or CNC) $750
Freight Transport (special handling) $2,000
Installation (crane + labor) $3,000
Total Estimated Cost $64,750

This cost reflects a bullet-resistant, nearly indestructible gravestone crafted from dense tungsten alloy—designed to last centuries with virtually no erosion or damage under normal conditions.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 hours ago (7 children)

Tungsten gravestone!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I feel like this is the back story for some fucked up post-eco-apocalypse survival game.

  • 2025: Geologists Uncover the World’s “Largest Lithium Deposit” Under American Supervolcano, Worth 413 Billion Euros

  • 2037: Deep-bore mining of the supervolcano begins.

  • 2049: The supervolcano mine now accounts for 60% of all lithium mined, worldwide, despite increasingly urgent warnings by geologists of instability.

  • 2051: The Event.

  • 2057: Survivors of The Event begin to make contact across the ash desert once known as the United States.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hey now. Some of them look like Purge masks.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

"I order you to end the fluoride recommendations!"

"Sure thing, boss!"

[Weeks pass]

"Did you end the fluoride?"

"Working on it! Gotta a lot of emails to send!"

[Weeks later]

"What's the progress on the fluoride?"

"Still trying to tie up a few loose ends!"

Rinse and repeat until Kennedy's worm-eaten brain falls out his ear

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Behind the scenes production photo of the Invincible live-action adaptation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think he would have made a really good Reed Richards.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

you are perfect exactly the way God made you

but also sometimes

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago (6 children)

This was my response to the Trump-Biden debate:

Imagine one guy who's been doing the same job, working hard, for decades, and you can tell he should retire, but his work ethic is just beyond anything and he absolutely will not, even though clearly a couple of teeth on his gears have gone stripped. And then there's this only slightly younger asshole who's never worked a day in his life, who knows fuck all from fuck nothing, who's a racist and a rapist, who's declared bankruptcy and been convicted of felonies, but he's got enough energy to lean back and yell "That other guy is an asshole! His job isn't that hard! I could do that!" and even though you and everyone with three functioning brain cells knows that the second guy is full of shit, he's got just a tiny bit left in the tank that he could use to make life a living hell for all of us.

 

No bourbon or anything, just spicy ginger ale and sour cherry.

Brands blacked out so as to not be promoting products.

 
 
 
 

A quick search suggests that the average American uses about 1.3 pounds of honey per year. If I'm 40 years old, and guess that I might live to be 80, that's only 52 pounds of honey, which I could easily buy in bulk. Honey doesn't expire, and even assuming the price doesn't skyrocket from bee die-offs, inflation alone will make the price go up over time.

Does it make sense to buy all the rest of the honey I'll ever need for the rest of my life, right now?

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Try Wudbeiser, the best-selling beer on the moon!

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Capture the golden age of advertising and the atomic age. The technology of the fifties and sixties, extrapolated into the future, and used to sell you something you may or may not need.

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Choose, Neo (lemmy.world)
 

Morpheus from The Matrix holds two options, in the Red Pill / Blue Pill scene. On the left is a sign which reads "Fragile Unstable Top." On the right is a sign which reads "Support Bottom."

 

Picked one of these up on sale after Christmas. First impressions are VERY good!

 

Mine installed a pegboard in the pantry. It's incredibly useful for hanging up pots and pans.

 
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