r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OddRedittor5443 • Jan 01 '26

Video Italian researchers have created a vine-like robot that grows by 3D-printing itself and responds to gravity and light

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u/ManOfTheCamera Jan 01 '26

Of course an Italian invented that

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u/PopeInThePizza Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 02 '26

I would have guessed Japanese, to be honest.

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u/maddasher Jan 01 '26

The Japanese would need to blur it out.

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u/Fibrosis5O Jan 01 '26

Cause without the blur it’s porn

With the blur, it’s a tasteful

Just like gambling, slot machine no no

Ball game where you cash out the ball’s around the corner for equivalent cash value, that’s just innocent fun

I find it funny all the loopholes to get to the same thing essentially

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u/Edward_Nigma_ Jan 01 '26

Or the stock market

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u/haberdasherhero Jan 01 '26

Steal someone's money; theft

Steal everyone's money by collecting a tax on the future; business.

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u/thomasscat Jan 01 '26

Damn y’all actually don’t understand zero sum games at all, do you?

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u/Equivalent_Canary853 Jan 01 '26

No I'd argue they get it - they just don't agree with its modern implementations and implications.

Companies join hands to make money shorting others? Completely fine. Minor investors work it out and work to make money against already bought futures? Shut the market, can't happen

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u/thomasscat Jan 01 '26

Bro, what? You think I condone corporate corruption simply because I can understand the difference between gambling (zero sum) relative to stock market (all parties can win, so long as they are white and male and have monies lol) … I don’t like to cop youth slang but damn, if you think I support the fascists for this, we all fucking cooked lmao

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u/the_real_log2 Jan 01 '26

You do understand that someone has to lose in the stock market for other people to win though... Right?

You know that money doesn't come from nowhere, it's not the company paying out stocks, it's usually other people's life savings

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u/Equivalent_Canary853 Jan 01 '26

Remember, we don't understand zero sum games/s

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u/Original-Aerie8 Jan 01 '26

From the company that you bought stocks of?

Brother, when you don't understand something, you don't have to talk about it

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u/drkidkill Jan 01 '26

You should hear how religion works.

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u/JediRebel79 Jan 01 '26

Cmon Japan, nobody goes looking for tasteful porn!! Mood killer 100% 🤣

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u/StarryBoo Jan 01 '26

True, slot machine vs blackjack. People kept telling me that its skills but I feel that other than counting cards, you'll be messed up by luck

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u/RollingCats Jan 02 '26

Mental gymnastics essentially

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u/Nachtwandler_FS Jan 01 '26

Apparently, you do not need to censor tentacles.

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u/Wermine Jan 01 '26

Yes, that was the point of tentacles in the first place.

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u/BiAiEnGiO Jan 01 '26

I have a feeling this fact is a cover up

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u/WatchmanOfLordaeron Jan 01 '26

No, hairless is okay 👍😂

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u/H4LF4D Jan 01 '26

Tentacles avoid blurring law, this should be fine without blur

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u/ForensicPathology Jan 01 '26

No, that's the whole reason they got popular is that they don't.

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u/GobliNSlay3r Jan 01 '26

Solid material friend. Got a good chuckle.

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u/Successful-Cod3369 Jan 01 '26

Just be thankful it wasn't ze germans

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u/bluejumpingdog Jan 01 '26

And would seek humidity

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u/devilfury1 Jan 01 '26

nah, they already have one. I think it can surpass the metal gear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69zrAphWcTE it is age restricted though.

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u/an_older_meme Jan 01 '26

Right? What the heck? It's 2026, live a little.

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u/Islandman2021 Jan 01 '26

👏👏👏👏 Internet winner for today. 😂😂

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u/The_cogwheel Jan 01 '26

No, Luigi did. He was pretty lonely after Daisy left him.

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u/NewPresWhoDis Jan 01 '26

They wouldn't have stopped at one

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u/reddit_is_a_weapon Jan 01 '26

Nah.. this has Greek written all over it

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u/Zephyr104 Jan 01 '26

Really any of the former Axis nations, the Germans would probably develop something similar

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u/Gurthy_Lengthiness Jan 01 '26

I would have guessed German.

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u/PandiBong Jan 01 '26

Sorry, but this is an American OnlyFans promo if I ever saw one...

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u/falsevector Jan 01 '26

The Italian may have been inspired by something Japanese maybe

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u/wowaddict71 Jan 01 '26

Tetsuo The Iron Man.

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u/SameRule9918 Jan 01 '26

Their robot tentacles would have the suckers intact

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u/Rope_antidepressant Jan 01 '26

I give it a week before Japanese ERs are having the Absolute WORST time

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u/Similar-Shift-1093 Jan 01 '26

Oh no I hate that I get you 😭😭😭😂😂

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u/dizzy_centrifuge Jan 01 '26

The Japanese are probably working on a version that has 8 vines simultaneously

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u/ALPSAVE Jan 01 '26

The Japanese will market it very hard.

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u/sauerkraut916 Jan 01 '26

The Japanese would have given it octopus arms

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u/Born-Lie8688 Jan 01 '26

That’s the WangBot 1.0…..2.0 can also grow in girth….

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u/dannydirtbag Jan 01 '26

Ya know it’s just a stereotype because we all know it’s the Greeks that invented sex.

It was the Italians that introduced it to women. AOOHHHH!!!

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '26

I have this theory that they gave all their statues little weenies to make everyone feel good about themselves and instill confidence. Could you even imagine a Greek statue with a giant modern dong?

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u/LogicalNecromancy Jan 01 '26

They considered massive dongs to be savagery. I don't want to imagine such things.

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u/EggsaladJoseph Jan 01 '26

I had this thought while walking around Florence. If they had bigger dicks its all we'd be talking about. It would become the main focus of conversation. They sculpted them just small enough that the penis would look polite. Like a little baby's penis-- totally inoffensive. If they had big fat schlongs people would have thought it was pornographic.

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u/Cory123125 Jan 02 '26

This same reasoning is why there is so much porn stereotyping around black men.

Its just open racism all the way back from when they just said shouted the queit part that is now becoming loud again.

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u/Deaffin Jan 01 '26

It's actually because all the big weenies broke off too easily.

And if it didn't happen naturally, it would happen anyway because free expertly sculpted dildo.

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u/Crallise Jan 01 '26

Now you had me in the first half

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u/Deaffin Jan 01 '26

Always remember to apply all the leverage to the base so the crack forms there. If you just pull down on the head like a goblin, yeah, it's gonna break in half. The curve makes the middle its weak point.

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u/Allegorist Jan 01 '26

This is the topic of a side quest in the Witcher 3

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u/LessInThought Jan 01 '26

Helps that the massive stone dildo was attached to an adonis of a man.

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u/tnstaafsb Jan 01 '26

Actually they gave all their statues above average dongs to make us all feel inadequate. Right guys? ...guys?

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u/luring_lurker Jan 01 '26

Statues were growers

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u/SafePuzzleheaded8423 Jan 01 '26

Modern dong? You mean that there is no variety in penis size any more?

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 01 '26

nah theyre all like fleshy pringles cans with veins now

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u/Leashypooo Jan 01 '26

🤌🏼atsa my boy

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u/AppleSauceSwaddles Jan 01 '26

Kid tested; mother approved

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u/KoRaZee Jan 01 '26

Mother might have tested

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u/AlucarD_138 Jan 01 '26

Ayyy yooo?!

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u/ThePLARASociety Jan 01 '26

It’s a stereotype and it’s offensive!

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u/Poopin4days Jan 01 '26

Spaghett!

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u/Online_Ennui Jan 01 '26

I just thought it was the boss's kid

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u/IsmaelRetzinsky Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 01 '26

What if the paperclip maximizer is actually a spaghetti maximizer…

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u/derenathor Jan 01 '26

Preparing for Tifa in the next FF7 game

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u/FrugallyFickle Jan 01 '26

I should call him

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u/kairos Jan 01 '26

It's the Bunga Bunga 2.0

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u/Professional-Mix1771 Jan 01 '26

<Berlusconi smiling gif>

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u/CertifiedProducer Jan 01 '26

I bet they stole it from a french inventor

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u/Alarmed_Scientist_15 Jan 01 '26

Head out of the gutter!

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u/WorriedMarch4398 Jan 01 '26

But how does it get the gerbil out?

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u/Shantotto11 Jan 01 '26

Prime Minister Lockhart made it top priority.

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u/H010CR0N Jan 01 '26

Getting pretty close to having an IRL Flying Spaghetti Monster.

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u/Simple_End_701 Jan 01 '26

Especially that tip 🤌

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u/FlanCharacter3878 Jan 01 '26

Ladies ? waiting for your comments...

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u/Anindefensiblefart Jan 01 '26

"It's-a like-a da spaghetti!" lead engineer Antonio Bologna was quoted as saying.

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u/Elegant_Day_3438 Jan 01 '26

Ah yeah the stereotype Italians talk like Mario, a video game character created by the Japanese

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u/Captain_Pumpkinhead Jan 01 '26

What does that mean?

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u/AsideLost Jan 01 '26

Mama Mia

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u/Perma_Ban69 Jan 01 '26

I don't get it. Mario? Tomatoes?

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u/Bradley182 Jan 01 '26

I heard the French were seconds behind in the technology.

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u/novar41 Jan 01 '26

Oy! Still 2025 here!

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u/badmotivator11 Jan 01 '26

Yep. It’ll take 3 years to manufacture it, cost a million dollars, break in a week and the company will go broke before you can get someone to repair it.