Clicking on the button permanently switches it to a state where it’s pushed-down, below which is a prompt to enter launch codes. When moused over, the pushed-down button has the tooltip “You have pressed the button. You cannot un-press it.” Screenshot.
(On an unrelated note, on r/thebutton I have a purple flair that says “60s”.)
Upon entering a string of longer than 8 characters, a button saying “launch” appears below the big red button. Screenshot.
II.
I’m nowhere near the PST timezone, so I wouldn’t be able to reliably pull a shenanigan whereby if I had the launch codes I would enter or not enter them depending on the amount of counterfactual money pledged to the Ploughshares Fund in the name of either launch-code-entry-state, but this sentence is not apophasis.
III.
Conspiracy theory: There are no launch codes. People who claim to have launch codes are lying. The real test is whether people will press the button at all. I have failed that test. I came up with this conspiracy theory ~250 milliseconds after pressing the button.
IV. (Update)
I can no longer see the button when I am logged in. Could this mean that I have won?
Conspiracy theory: There are no launch codes. People who claim to have launch codes are lying. The real test is whether people will press the button at all. I have failed that test. I came up with this conspiracy theory ~250 milliseconds after pressing the button.
Oh no! Someone is wrong on the internet, and I have the ability to prove them wrong...
To make sure I have this right and my LW isn’t glitching: TurnTrout’s comment is a Drake meme, and the two other replies in this chain are actually blank?
The more famous version of the Pandora myth comes from another of Hesiod’s poems, Works and Days. In this version of the myth, Hesiod expands upon her origin, and moreover widens the scope of the misery she inflicts on humanity. As before, she is created by Hephaestus, but now more gods contribute to her completion: Athena taught her needlework and weaving; Aphrodite “shed grace upon her head and cruel longing and cares that weary the limbs”; Hermes gave her “a shameful mind and deceitful nature”; Hermes also gave her the power of speech, putting in her “lies and crafty words”; Athena then clothed her; next Persuasion and the Charites adorned her with necklaces and other finery; the Horae adorned her with a garland crown. Finally, Hermes gives this woman a name: Pandora – “All-gifted” – “because all the Olympians gave her a gift”. (In Greek, Pandora has an active rather than a passive meaning; hence, Pandora properly means “All-giving.” The implications of this mistranslation are explored in “All-giving Pandora: mythic inversion?” below.) In this retelling of her story, Pandora’s deceitful feminine nature becomes the least of humanity’s worries. For she brings with her a jar (which, due to textual corruption in the sixteenth century, came to be called a box) containing “burdensome toil and sickness that brings death to men”, diseases and “a myriad other pains”. Prometheus had (fearing further reprisals) warned his brother Epimetheus not to accept any gifts from Zeus. But Epimetheus did not listen; he accepted Pandora, who promptly scattered the contents of her jar. As a result, Hesiod tells us, “the earth and sea are full of evils”″
What’s in the box? What’s in the box? Don’t open it! Oh, shit...
(Grace, longing and care, and being gifted causes the box to be opened. It’s like history just keeps repeating itself or something...)
I.
Clicking on the button permanently switches it to a state where it’s pushed-down, below which is a prompt to enter launch codes. When moused over, the pushed-down button has the tooltip “You have pressed the button. You cannot un-press it.” Screenshot.
(On an unrelated note, on r/thebutton I have a purple flair that says “60s”.)
Upon entering a string of longer than 8 characters, a button saying “launch” appears below the big red button. Screenshot.
II.
I’m nowhere near the PST timezone, so I wouldn’t be able to reliably pull a shenanigan whereby if I had the launch codes I would enter or not enter them depending on the amount of counterfactual money pledged to the Ploughshares Fund in the name of either launch-code-entry-state, but this sentence is not apophasis.
III.
Conspiracy theory: There are no launch codes. People who claim to have launch codes are lying. The real test is whether people will press the button at all. I have failed that test. I came up with this conspiracy theory ~250 milliseconds after pressing the button.
IV. (Update)
I can no longer see the button when I am logged in. Could this mean that I have won?
Oh no! Someone is wrong on the internet, and I have the ability to prove them wrong...
To make sure I have this right and my LW isn’t glitching: TurnTrout’s comment is a Drake meme, and the two other replies in this chain are actually blank?
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(This thread is our collective reenactment of the conversations about nuclear safety that happened during the cold war.)
Well, at least we have a response to the doubters’ “why would anyone even press the button in this situation?”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora#Works_and_Days
What’s in the box? What’s in the box? Don’t open it! Oh, shit...
(Grace, longing and care, and being gifted causes the box to be opened. It’s like history just keeps repeating itself or something...)