@OnionSoup@sammydog01 Orrrr you could have a local artisan make you a custom ceramic potato for maybe $30-50 bucks, to hold what seems very likely to be stud earrings.
Or, even better? If there’s a small pottery place that offers amateur nights? Make your own potato replica.
(this was where my mind landed once I took a good look at the diamondtater, and I’m a bit sad I don’t get to present my potter friends with this absurdity which we would of course replicate in clay form.)
@brainmist It IS pretty sickening, although I guess it has gotten people to think and talk about the absurdity of what we value (kind of ties in with the brouhaha that comes up over the contents of the Irks, every time!)
I did the math, and decided, yeah, why not? But then I got into work stuff, and was 20 minutes in joining the queue… which was of course too late.
Anyway.
They claim it’s about $1k retail of manufactured diamonds. I did a very super quicky look/ count before getting in line, and it looked like maybe 20-25-maaaybe 30 stud earrings plugged into a potato. So minimum 10 pairs of manufactured but genuine diamond earrings for about $7/ pair, which is pretty darn cheap. You’d have to get backs, but those are easy and cheap.
@sammydog01 It looks like a Fabergé egg! Sort of. It IS an especially beautiful potato.
It doesn’t say that you can’t sprout new baby potatoes from it …
@dave@Trillian 14 pair, 28 diamonds. They’re tiny but it says the studs are stainless steel which is pretty nice. I think my potato won’t miss two, I’ll probably buy some earring backs and wear them.
NOT that’s how…
I wanted one, but couldn’t justify the funds- despite my hopes of getting $$ in the class action suit CAH and I have against President Musk and Space-X.
@PhysAssist@tinamarie1974 It was $70.00. It would have been fun to gift my 10 nieces with a pair each, plus an 8x10 glossy photo of the potato, but alas, I was too slow to get one.
Well dammit.
@sammydog01 From the link, “Diamond Potato is sold out.”
Looks like you might have been the lucky winner of Diamond Potato.
Congrats? I think.
@sammydog01 I love it that you got one!
@Kyeh @sammydog01 We are definitely going to need diamond tater updates!
I knew someone here would get one! I waited in the queue for 30 minutes before it sold out. Please post a pic of what you get!
@Trillian I didn’t even hit a queue. The potato gods must have deemed me worthy.
@sammydog01 you have indeed been blessed by Axomamma.
@Trillian
Yeah I wanna see pics of these earrings when it comes in.
Not stupid to want one… They’re pretty awesome… And you could sell the diamonds for more than the cost once the potato starts to get funky.
POKER! JOKER! NOT MEDIOCRE! AWESOME!
@OnionSoup Or I could buy a fresh potato.
@sammydog01 you could, although probably wouldn’t cost too much to upgrade to a rutabaga. That should last a little longer.
@OnionSoup @sammydog01 Orrrr you could have a local artisan make you a custom ceramic potato for maybe $30-50 bucks, to hold what seems very likely to be stud earrings.
Or, even better? If there’s a small pottery place that offers amateur nights? Make your own potato replica.
(this was where my mind landed once I took a good look at the diamondtater, and I’m a bit sad I don’t get to present my potter friends with this absurdity which we would of course replicate in clay form.)
@sammydog01
Or a sweet potato.
@sammydog01 @yakkoTDI You should add some duct tape and boost the value.
@sammydog01 @yakkoTDI
Sweet tater Hitler put me off those.
It’s a lot better than a duct-taped banana! Or Cheeto Puff!
@Kyeh I’m inclined to think no one in this chain of production-to-art cried when they heard about the end result.
That whole story just makes me feel sick inside.
@brainmist It IS pretty sickening, although I guess it has gotten people to think and talk about the absurdity of what we value (kind of ties in with the brouhaha that comes up over the contents of the Irks, every time!)
@brainmist @Kyeh The whole thing was even more of a nothingburger (banana?) than it looks at first glance.
The banana was regularly changed out every few days. So nobody, hungry student or owner, ate THE banana.
@blaineg @brainmist @Kyeh
You mean it wasn’t miraculously preserved against corruption - like Lenin in his tomb?
@blaineg @brainmist @PhysAssist It was the “concept” of the banana, I guess. About as worthwhile as an NFT.
OK, all I know is that this is a cards against humanity thing
So
What the fuck is a diamond potato?
Do you have sample pictures or something?
How much did it cost and when might you supposedly get it?
(I’m totally envious that you got one even though I don’t know what it is)
@f00l She put a link right at the top of the thread
@Kyeh
D’oh
@f00l
I did the math, and decided, yeah, why not? But then I got into work stuff, and was 20 minutes in joining the queue… which was of course too late.
Anyway.
They claim it’s about $1k retail of manufactured diamonds. I did a very super quicky look/ count before getting in line, and it looked like maybe 20-25-maaaybe 30 stud earrings plugged into a potato. So minimum 10 pairs of manufactured but genuine diamond earrings for about $7/ pair, which is pretty darn cheap. You’d have to get backs, but those are easy and cheap.
And meanwhile?
YOU HAVE THE MOST AWESOME POTATO!
So excellent instincts, @sammydog01
HIKING! VIKINGS! STRIKE KING [BRAND FISHING LURES]! AWESOME!
@brainmist (There is a 95% chance I would still eat that potato)
@brainmist Probably best to remove the diamonds first.
POTATO HAS ARRIVED
SECRET POTATO INSTRUCTIONS, DO NOT SHARE.
It’s overcast today, I can’t wait to see it in the sunlight.
@sammydog01 Let’s see how the real one compares with an AI one:
/showme a diamond studded potato
@narfcake Bigger diamonds would be nice.
@sammydog01 It looks like a Fabergé egg! Sort of. It IS an especially beautiful potato.
It doesn’t say that you can’t sprout new baby potatoes from it …
@sammydog01 So how many pairs of earrings did you get?
@sammydog01 @Trillian looking at that photo, my guess is 12 pairs of earrings (so 24 diamonds)
@dave @Trillian 14 pair, 28 diamonds. They’re tiny but it says the studs are stainless steel which is pretty nice. I think my potato won’t miss two, I’ll probably buy some earring backs and wear them.
NOT that’s how…
I wanted one, but couldn’t justify the funds- despite my hopes of getting $$ in the class action suit CAH and I have against President Musk and Space-X.
@PhysAssist how much was it?
@PhysAssist @tinamarie1974 It was $70.00. It would have been fun to gift my 10 nieces with a pair each, plus an 8x10 glossy photo of the potato, but alas, I was too slow to get one.