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[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 46 points 5 months ago

Why are these the passengers

oo yeah

[-] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

I think that is how I would be if on a ship.without a computer, going insane.

[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

... Millennial squats.

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 41 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Dosen't matters what you choose, given that for sisyphus to reach his destination first he have to reach half, then half of it, then half again and again making movement impossible.

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

Ah, so the answer must be no.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Stands up and walks away

[-] repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

"Hołd my limes!" - said Sisyphus

[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 39 points 5 months ago

Yes, because he's finally rolling the boulder down a hill.

[-] nicknonya 8 points 5 months ago

it says "towards" so not necessarily downhill

[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago

Not necessarily downhill, but the possibility of downhill is implied. Both of these locations would need to be infinitely high in order for the direction to be uphill.

[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 months ago

AFAIK "infinitely up" is more plausible than "infinitely down", as in most systems you would eventually hit a center-of-mass when going down.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago
[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

you can always add an empty room without changing the total number of rooms, so there should be plenty of room for sisyphus and his boulder at the hotel

[-] StoicLime@lemm.ee 16 points 5 months ago

We won't know until we open the box...

[-] beefbot 13 points 5 months ago

Sisyphus is both happy and not happy, as long as we don’t ask. But the instant we ask, it’s one or the other

(surely someone already made this joke)

[-] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 12 points 5 months ago

I feel really sorry for the cleaning crew at the hotel

[-] PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

If he goes to the hotel, though, he will get to hear a great story from the owner of the hotel about a once beautiful but now decaying resort that includes a sweeping adventure involving a not-exactly-straight con man, an art theft that was not a theft, Willem Dafoe, and Tilda Swinton.

[-] Nom@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

When the math teacher does philosophy questions.

[-] No_Change_Just_Money@feddit.de 7 points 5 months ago
[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Sisyphus is rolling his boulder along a track toward the ship of theseus. It has had all its constituent parts removed and replaced and reconstructed along an alternate track. You may pull a lever and divert Sisyphus toward the reconstructed ship. How big of a dick would that make you toward the shipmaker?

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 5 points 5 months ago

He can't go to the hotel because infinite cannot divided by zero, which is his boulder

[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 5 months ago

The real question is.... will it take him more than a day to reach either one?

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 months ago
[-] wieson@feddit.de 2 points 5 months ago

Someone's read Sartre's Huis Clos (⁠ ⁠´⁠◡⁠‿⁠ゝ⁠◡⁠`⁠)

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Decent game. 4/5

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

theseus can eat shit so fuck that nerd.

[-] merari42@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Na, I am pretty sure that sysiphus sees tracks that are only the result of a shwadow play in a cave and you have to exit the cave to truly experience reality

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