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me.
nobody else in here. and there aren't any other tools around.
(self-burn. the rarest of burns)
Gonna go with the floor. It really ties the whole room together.
My wife.
The room.
These little USB light bulb things.. They were like a nickel each and I use them with my power banks and when I just need a light
Alcohol
Toilet paper
I would argue the plumbing system beneath and behind you is more useful.
Arguably. Though I could just use a hole in the ground. I'd say the sink is a close second. If I was in the wilderness and I needed to choose one though, I'd choose the toilet paper.
My job occasionally takes me out into middle of nowhere unmanned industrial facilities. I keep a roll of toilet paper in a plastic coffee can, because these facilities usually don't have facilities.
Myself. none of the other things would do anything without me.
Why do you keep posting the same question in different communities?
I'm in the kitchen with my teenage daughter, so maybe the fridge?..
My iPad. I can not only doom scroll Lemmy, but keep up on news, read, play music or video, consume all the worlds knowledge. Also I can order food or anything really
Depends what you want to do.
Want to sit? The chairs. Want to see? The lights. Want to not fall under the building? The floor. Want to get out? The door. Want to swim? The pool. Want to get out of the pool? The ladder. Want to get changed? The changing room. Want to warm the room? The heater.
Depends on purpose. We’re complex creatures. Sometimes we need food. Sometimes we need to stay warm. sometimes we need to battle the dark thoughts in our head.
Uhhhh. Probably the fridge. Maybe the microwave/oven combi, but the microwave no longer works so it's a bit less useful. If you purely look at the basics of survival then those would probably do it. Maybe the heaters, because surviving in a cold room is also pretty shit.
You could also argue that the smartphone I'm typing this on or the laptop are the most useful. It really comes down to semantics of "useful".
I'm out in a gazebo with nothing around me, so probably the sleeveless argyle sweater which is doing a better job keeping me warm than my blouse/skirt.
Me. I’m competent as fuck.
My 3d printer.
The chances of the most useful thing in the room being my phone is pretty high no matter what room I am in, since my phone is usually in my pocket and also modern phones are one of the most useful tools in existence.
Me!
The clock on my PVR (01:59) and the light switch. It's time for bed...
Probably the walls. Without them, the ceiling would collapse and everything in the room would be useless.
Would "my phone" or "my computer" be too cheap as answers?
Myself. Which I see as a sign that I need better stuff. I am a low bar.
My glasses, my eyes are completely fucked so I really can't do anything without them.
Nah there are studies that show that if you go blind suddenly you will start to learn decent echolocation within a few hours, meaning in a room they've never been in they can use a clicker and not walk into things. You can already do it you just haven't ever done it consciously. It's your phone.
Honey, daredevil comics aren't studies.
No for real. You can do a 2-second Google search and find a bunch of studies showing that humans can learn to do it very well within a 10-week course of 2 hours a day. But I know there is a video floating around of some students who managed to prove that even within just a few hours of training test subjects did remarkably better navigating a room using clicks whilst blindfolded then they did before the training and with no clicks. The research speaks for itself. You already have the skill in your brain and you're using it all the time when you move around in the world, you just don't consciously realize it. It's why you have two years instead of like one big ear right in the middle. Your brain can discern the difference in sound from one ear to the other and use it to triangulate the source of the sound and sources of reverberation and echoes. I'll see if I can dig up the video.
I can't seem to find the video. It was some research college and the experiment was to see how quickly humans could adapt to echolocation after being blinded. So you took regular people and put them in a room about the size of gymnasium with a bunch of lines and marks on the floor, They had a bunch of generic shaped furniture like from Ikea that they would move around the room using the different marks for the different tests, and one of the tests was to just take a group of people and leave them in this dark room for like three hours, walking around bumping into everything, then they move all the furniture and bring the subjects back in, and the collisions with furniture drops way off. The camera angles from the study are shot from above and shows I believe groups of two trying to navigate. It may well have been the study that showed it took 10 weeks and my memory is just not correct, but I have a very specific takeaway that was just a few hours the results are not only measurable by stark.
One time I was on mushrooms and used echolocation to clear my garage of axe murderers
Was going to say my phone but honestly? Probably my bed.
My phone. A Pixel 6a with GrapheneOS.
I actually use my tablet with a logitech keyboard and trackball more but the phone can do things the tablet can't.
I have the same phone stock os. How's graphene?
Fantastic.
There are things that some people need which don't work. Google Pay and some banking apps don't work but I never used those anyway.
I'm in my car so, probably my car.
A car is the least useful thing in any setting.
If you’re in the car, does the car really count as inside itself?
🤷 I guess everything that's inside the outside is inside.
Deep
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