• TheRealKuni@midwest.social
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    2 days ago

    I remember fucking around with magnets to pull or push a desktop image and being scolded by a supervisor. “You’re going to break it!”

    Break what? The photons? All I’m doing is the same thing the monitor itself is doing.

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      2 days ago

      holy shit I accidentally pointed at the monitor (touched it) with a 6 inch, thick, stick magnet in the 4th grade. got in trouble for “possibly damaging the computer” or whatever. I think the spot I touched the screen had some residual color change “damage” for some unremembered amount of time. I always felt stupid cuz how could I be so careless to point a magnet at a computer (I knew enough then to know that was a no-no). it’s good to know I didn’t actually fuck anything up (aside: changing memories of the past is time travel)