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[-] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 hours ago

The toilet. Lost count of the number of times this has saved me from getting dysentery or something and it's so convenient when it just pushes the shit away from my house and I never have to see or smell it again. I almost feel bad that I repay it for all its done by repeatedly shitting in it.

[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 points 12 minutes ago

I was going to say the paper but you're absolutely right

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

ice machine. gets hot out on the shop floor even with fans going

[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Not me, that's for damned sure.

[-] x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

Either me or my computer.

[-] silverdraco@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago
[-] Nath@aussie.zone 1 points 5 hours ago

The answer is electricity. It's so useful, we take it for granted. Your phones, computers and laptops are not useful if you can't power them.

I'll give the people on the dunny their due: toilet paper is still useful in a room without electricity.

[-] x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago

If you want to go that route I'd say oxygen.

[-] juliebean@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago

gotta be either the tiny computer i'm typing this on, or the large, sturdy, wooden stick in the corner. if i had to pick to keep just one though, it'd be the phone. a sturdy stick has a million and one uses, but it's also fairly easily replaceable.

[-] Pooptimist@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago
[-] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago
[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 13 hours ago
[-] repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

A fridge and dishwasher! Food safety is such a huge contribution to our health

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 6 points 23 hours ago

Outside of my brain and body?

Probably my mobile phone

[-] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

For almost everyone it's gonna be the phone we're reading this on.

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

The doctor.

[-] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 28 points 1 day ago

Depends on the situation.

Currently? 40 pound box of cake mix I'm probably going to launch at my store manager.

[-] rustyricotta@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Is it the 40 pound box of cake mix that kills? Or is the person hucking the 40 pound box of cake mix?

[-] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 day ago
[-] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

My cat. Everything else in my room brings me either misery or a feeling of meh. Cat brings joy, which is difficult for me to obtain.

[-] Panda@lemmy.today 14 points 1 day ago

Toilet paper 🧻 Very, very useful.

See, if you're in the room I think you're in, I think I would vote for the toilet.

[-] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

TP actually makes an awesome and really inexpensive kleenex or napkin alternative

Toilets are effective at pushing shit, piss and vomit into the sewer while preventing sewer gases from entering your home, and they also double as chairs when not in excremental use. You can also use a toilet to repair the mental defects of a billionaire if you drop it from high enough, I don't think toilet paper functions in that way.

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[-] Brahvim@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 1 day ago
[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Me? Unless I’m excluded, then the laptop. Although the room itself is pretty useful, but I don’t think I consider it “in the room”.

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago
[-] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 4 points 1 day ago
[-] Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

My pc but that's too easy so I choose my bed as the very next thing. Good comfortable sleep is important.

[-] Oka@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago
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[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 1 points 23 hours ago

I used to have a bottle of water but I drank it, so... bed?

[-] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

The manager likely thinks it’s him, but it’s actually all the workers that do the work.

[-] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Towel warmer.

[-] 10_0@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago
[-] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

A 5gal jug full of water. (I don't have AC and it's 32C/90F inside)

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[-] BurningRiver@beehaw.org 4 points 1 day ago

I’m in the ER. Probably the doctor standing directly in front of me.

[-] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 7 points 1 day ago

Toilet paper

[-] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago
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[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Laptop probably. Linux, tmux, i3, vim, GCC, GDB, Pdb, gplaces, links2, curl, wget, netcat, awk, sed... what more could be needed for happiness?

Idunno, but it's preloaded with shittons of tools I don't even know the use of yet (thanks kali). Excluding that probably my lensatic compass. It's nice, quite cheap and not magnetically dampened but it does the job.

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My brain, second is my body, third is my laptop

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Probably my phone, and that probably applies to most rooms frankly if we're talking about potential things I could need to do

That's a tough one because I'm currently surrounded by computers and tools. I'm within reach of my smart phone, one of my laptops, I'm typing this on my desktop PC, I'm within reach of three multitools, a power drill, and my away mission tool bag. So I think I'll give a cop out answer and go with "The several thousand liters of air filling the room."

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Most useful? Without a doubt, my laptop. The amount of things that can be done with a modern computer is pretty stunning, and a portable one is arguably more useful.

Other than that, maybe my car keys because the amount of things you can do with a car is stunning, but you need the keys to start it, and the car isn't in this room.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

A human being.

[-] will_a113@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Air. Can’t go more than a minute or two without it, and there’s enough to share!

[-] OhFudgeBars@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Pumpkin spice old fashioned. With real pumpkin puree!

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Home server.

[-] terminal@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago
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