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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 99 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 20 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

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

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] Kepion 11 points 2 weeks ago

It's just more milk per milk

[-] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 8 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

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

[-] edinbruh@feddit.it 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 4 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[-] Lembot_0004@discuss.online 63 points 2 weeks ago

A few days later it would be an interesting situation with all those rancid milk oceans with dead fish.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Milktrout. It will put hair on your bones

[-] Apeman42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Free chowder!

[-] donuts@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, having the shits is gonna be the least of our problems. All marine life will cease to exist, so diarrhea is only a problem for a little while.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

Not all marine life, just the big stuff. We just added a ton of sugar, fat and protein to the ocean, so I think we're going to see an explosion of microbial life.

Now, with milk being opaque, I think we are going to kill most of the phytoplankton and replace it with bacteria that produce CO2 as a byproduct of their metabolism, so I do think we're going to drastically change the Earth's atmosphere and more or less run out of oxygen eventually, so we are definitely all dead. It's just a question of how long it takes.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 26 points 2 weeks ago

Make everyone lactose intolerance: everyone is a malfunctioning system now.

[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Sorry, she should have written:

Make everyone a lactose.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 16 points 2 weeks ago
[-] RustyNova@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah. I saw it too. But it's not bothering me enough to edit the original author's mistake

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 11 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Netorare what?

[-] markz@suppo.fi 3 points 2 weeks ago
[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago

But I'm grammar error intolerant 🙁

[-] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Milk is 87 percent water. If the water in milk is replaced, there would be water in that milk. Potentially creating an explosion of milk everywhere or a tremendous thickening of the milk.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

All life on Earth dies because every life form has 13% of their water content replaced with pure milk. Including the one who made the wish. Supernatural entities like jinns might be okay, though.

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago
[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 weeks ago

Normal milk is still mostly water so basically everything turns in some kind of dense rancid cheese?

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes. Be afraid.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago

Cursed involuntary jet propulsion.

[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

Lactose, shrimp. The next strip will be related to peanut butter.

[-] RustyNova@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

You're in for a curveball

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yup, that sells her as evil way more than shitty recycling.

[-] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

How well do toilets fare if water is replaced with milk?

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Given that they were all destroyed right after all the water became milk, I would say not well

[-] moshankey@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

But it’s still funny!

this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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