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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

For a present, I think it would be fun to have a contract lawyer draft up an ironclad 3 wishes contract

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which room though?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

what, you never heard of the room temperature room?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The indoor temperature is always at room temperature and vice versa. It's not constant though.