• JaggedRobotPubes
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    171 month ago

    A good genie would instantly invent a metric of “number of degrees in excess of room temperature”

    • ArtieShaw
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      281 month ago

      I think it’s fairly well known that there are no good genies. But otherwise, true.

        • ArtieShaw
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          71 month ago

          I was kind of thinking along the same lines. But to be truly ironclad, would you need a genie lawyer? Like not a lawyer who specialized in Genie Law, but an actual genie?

          • skulblaka
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            31 month ago

            This is why I hire my attorneys from Avernus. Don’t nobody got lawyers like Hell has lawyers. If you’re trying to pull one over on a genie, you’re going to need either devils or fae. And the devils are more likely to respect their contract, including any loopholes you manage to find in it.

            • @CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world
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              31 month ago

              Considering making a wish on a shooting star? Been granted a wish scroll by an obnoxious DM? Give a lamp a handjob only for it ejaculate a genie? Then you need the services of Nine Hells Legal! Our prestigious law firm can draft up an ironclad wish for all your mortal needs! No loopholes guaranteed or your soul back.

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        • @BallsandBayonets
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          11 month ago

          First wish, a lawyer who specializes in genie law. Unfortunately, the lawyer draws up a contract that screws you out of most of your wishes, not because of the genie’s influence, but because they’re a lawyer.

        • @not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world
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          51 month ago

          It’s a room made from platinum-iridium, and kept in a triple-locked vault at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in France.

          • cartoon meme dog
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            31 month ago

            unfortunately, opening the door changes the temperature, so in practice instruments are calibrated from copies of the room built at other metrology institutions around the world.