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[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 minutes ago

Weasel fried itself on a transformer outside the facility, it didn't jump inside the collider ffs

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 39 minutes ago* (last edited 15 minutes ago)

Weasel: There was no other other way.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 13 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Actually, this is the better timeline. We were shifted into the really bad timeline after the cascade failure occurred right after the first test.

The weasel actually saved billions of lives.

[–] fedditter@feddit.org 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 18 minutes ago

The right weasel at the right time can make all the difference in the world

[–] bizza@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 hours ago

So the weasel is why we live in the Biff timeline

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 86 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

That weasel’s name?

Harambe.

[–] TheTurner@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 33 minutes ago)

I was going to say, Gef.

[–] Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

The way to return to the correct timeline is simple: Take the dicks out.

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 13 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

If we all do it at the same tim

[–] errer@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

…it’ll shift Earth’s orbit outward, counteracting global warming!

[–] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 1 points 7 hours ago

How long should I keep it for? It’s cold over here!

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

South Park is certainly helping, then

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 55 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Unfortunately I have more belief in humans fucking shit up than I do in accidental weasel hadron colliding.

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 31 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Also, this says it was in 2016. We were already super fucked by then. I'd be more inclined to believe that we live in a giant simulation that got fucked by the millennium bug.

Not that things were great in 2000, but the point is that 2016 is way too late. It's like looking at water that's just starting to boil, and then being surprised when it becomes a rolling boil.

[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah but in 2000, I still felt like shit roughly made sense. We entered clown world long about the time the LHC fired its first high energy collisions.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was first "fired high energy" when it achieved its first high-energy particle collisions on March 30, 2010. On that date, proton beams collided at a combined energy of 7 TeV, setting a new world record and officially beginning the LHC's research program.

I remember hearing that that was going to happen and, you know, being mildly concerned. Then it came and went and I forgot about it. But I distinctly remember 2012. A series of truly bizarre things happened in my personal life. I sold a condo I owned at the time and moved away to try and put some distance between myself and what was happening. It was pants-on-head stupid, like I just couldn't believe what was going on, but it was personal, not earth-shattering, just truly, deeply bizarre.

Shortly thereafter, Trump happened, then covid - and the whole world began being truly, deeply bizarre. Now things have progressed so far that where I used to think I knew a bit about how the world works and where it's going, I am now utterly adrift. I don't even try to make sense of it anymore, just to accept it and roll as best I can.

I'm not saying correlation is causation but when I first heard the LHC theory it made me stop and think.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 26 minutes ago

Bud, i just gotta point out that all that shit is US centric af.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world -1 points 10 hours ago

Turning it on was the mistake. It was activated in 2015.

[–] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I read, “weasel hardon collision”.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 points 11 minutes ago

I may have constructed my sentence thusly that that mental image might arise, ngl

[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

I would rent that movie for at least once.

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

In this universe yes but in the weasels timeline weasel based time manipulation is quite common.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 12 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Also, in the parallel universe in which David Bowie and Prince didn’t die, they play at Hillary Clinton’s inauguration

[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago

Fuck Hillary and the DNC.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 17 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

you couldn't have dreamed a little harder and said "Bernie Sanders"?She's the US equivalent of Keir Starmer

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Based off the name I'm going to assume it's an STD.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

i thought it was a reference to Severance

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Though, for each of those possible timlines to have ever existed, they would have to be played out with humans that have a consciousness. Maybe, we're that consciousness.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 17 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/29/476154494/weasel-shuts-down-world-s-most-powerful-particle-collider

This just got me thinking how cool it would be to have a game where you come across one of these in disrepair and have to reverse engineer your way to making it work. You’d have a massive complex and lots of nooks and crannies to hide puzzles in. Make it look old and abandoned with overgrowth and I’m even more sold.

Edit: There’s a hidden gem almost exactly like this called Infra. You’re a structural analyst sent in to survey large portions of abandoned infrastructure run by a corrupt governor. Your only job is to take pictures of damage and solve puzzles. Wildly my vibe.

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Just added an edit for a game I found tonight.

[–] terry_jerry@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Have u played Abiotic Factor? Cause that's kinda the vibe

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

This kills me because the concept looks great, but I’m never really into survival. Hate kill screens in immersive games.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Find a crew to play it with. The game is hella fun when you're standing in the back chucking briefcases at your pals.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It was the weasel that went into the collider. We've always been in the same timeline. It's the weasel that's now confused and very angry.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 points 8 hours ago

alternatively the weasel is now in a good timeline

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 hours ago

Its all kinds of weaselly, innit?

[–] Valorie12@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

So really we only have Gordy to blame for not catching the weasel

[–] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

I'm now a firm believer in this theory.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Better reason then what Terminator 3 did in that hallway.