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Mimi #2: Genie (lemmy.world)

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Pretty shitty wish selection if you ask me.

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[-] obinice@lemmy.world 98 points 1 week ago

Given that humans are mostly water, we would probably die...instantly? Within a few minutes?

Definitely very very quickly.

[-] edinbruh@feddit.it 22 points 1 week ago

Obviously that's not what "replace all water with milk" means. It means just replacing the water in water form. Like oceans, rivers, and aqueducts. If it meant also the water content of other stuff like the body it just wouldn't be possible, because milk is mostly water and you would have to replace that as well

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 days ago

Genies like to fuck with you, they would be fine killing everyone

Nah, there'd be nobody around for them to torture anymore, or to appreciate this particular bit of fuckery. The wish as it is is bad enough there's no need to twist it.

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 20 points 1 week ago

The problem is you're trying to apply logic to magic. Magic doesn't do things logically, it just does them.

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 9 points 6 days ago

Magic is that --force flag you put into your commands (sorry).

[-] Kepion 11 points 1 week ago

I wonder what happens if you rehydrate evaporated milk with milk?

[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Approximately the same as if you just use half as much water, thicker milk

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 8 points 1 week ago

Now you have to define "water form". What percentage of dissolved constituents prevent water from being "water form"? Or is it how it looks rather than what's in it?

It's possible to have a brine solution of 25% salt that looks like ordinary water, at least at first glance, for example. Would only the H2O molecules in that be replaced by milk or would the salt be replaced as well?

What if I add food dye to a glass of water beforehand? That doesn't look like water any more, so would that get turned into milk? Would the dye stay?

How about if I mixed an emulsifier, oil and chalk dust into a glass of water beforehand? That's not milk, but it looks like milk. What would happen with that? And then we're back to percentages again, I guess.

[-] edinbruh@feddit.it 3 points 1 week ago

My definition is that if it's something that common sense would call water, it's water. This is the simple trick that defeats all stupid questions.

In your example, brine isn't water because it's brine, you even said that in the example.

And if you add food dye to a glass of water, it's water but colored. Even with you yourself wrote the example implying that it should be water.

The oil with chalk emulsified in water has nothing to do with milk, what does it matter that it looks like milk. And as you yourself implied, it should not be considered water, but an emulsion of stuff.

And notice how I avoided talking percentages, I simply questioned your own common sense. You didn't even think about it, and yet your common sense made the solution clear in your examples.

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 4 points 6 days ago

Another name for brine is "salt water". Now is it water or not?

[-] edinbruh@feddit.it 2 points 6 days ago

You had to go out of your way for that. Not common sense. It's still not water.

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 4 points 6 days ago

Look, if I'm wrong, I'm wrong, but you're not making a good case here. Brine is also known as salt water. Just how much of a stretch is that? Sea water is salt water. Sea water is also known as brine. Depending on which term we use, either the sea turns into milk or it doesn't. This is a problem.

But then this is all a hypothetical and maybe the real bend is how far we're both getting out of shape over this :p

[-] markz@suppo.fi 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What is water form? If I were to drink a glass of water, would it be in "water form?"

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