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  • I'm In T(Rule)ble

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  • That face when you're a millisecond away from puking in front of your high school crush.

  • If it were possible to travel back in time and manipulate events, we could take a book back in time and publish it before the author historically does... as a prank...

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  • I'd be all up in them Dead Sea Scrolls adding a preface page with a boilerplate "this is a work of fiction, any similarities to persons living or dead or undead are purely coincidental" disclaimer.

  • Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"

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  • Dr. Frankenstein ass reply.

  • Woman drinking from a community water pump, Chicago, USA, ~1899

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  • I feel icky using the pens in banks that are chained to the counter, imagine using a communal cup chained to an open-air water pump 🤢

    Also, my dude on the left is going through some shit 😆

  • Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords

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  • Nope.

  • If God was real (just go with it), then how he's portrayed in the Bible might not even be how he actually is.

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  • Yeah it's hard to imagine a more petty and pathetic incel of a god than the one described in the Bible. Genocides entire populations because they don't love him enough. Nevermind the quintillions of planets and star systems and galaxies other than the rock we live on, it's the most recent bipedal primate on Earth that he needs affection from, on pain of eternal torment in a place he had to have created himself for that purpose. Even sent his own kid to get tacked to a board so we could be forgiven for not being deferential enough to him, even though he could have just said "meh you're forgiven". Or, you know, grew the fuck up and got over himself. Who was he saving us from with his infanticidal sacrifice? HIM! The daft bitch was in debt to himself and had to off his kid in a brutal and humiliating fashion to wipe the slate clean.

    And on top of that, he won't just appear and confirm his existence, which would make everyone fall in line instantly. Instead, we have to infer his existence and base our entire lives on that inference, and the only manual we have to do so was written by dick-mutilating Bronze Age numbnuts who didn't know shit about fuck.

  • It's OK to just like lemon water.

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  • Is there a consensus view on whether or not Gwyneth is a genuine numbnut or is just cynically exploiting people who are?

  • So I'm out here like "Kamala Harris y'all" and then she goes ahead and posts some shit like this

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  • She's still playing that "let's meet in the middle" charade that didn't do shit for her during her campaign?

  • But not always

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  • Random erections at the worst conceivable time, and Squishy Wilbert Syndrome when stiffness is actually required, makes me think my penis is haunted by a mischievous 11th century sprite called Lomtomp the Rascal.

  • Jimmy Wales (wikipedia founder) joins Gaza genocide talk page, says Genocide is contested and pleades for "neutrality"

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  • He keeps saying "this is debated" and "the article fails", but doesn't specific where or how. I think he's just visibly inserting himself into the discussion in order to signal to outsiders that he, personally, disagrees with the genocide claim, no doubt expecting some news coverage of his self-insertion. "Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales clashes with editors on Israel genocide claim!" kinda shit. Doing this futile hand-wringing in public using his public account, and responding to half-a-dozen or so comments to make it look like he's engaging, is all that's required for him to be able to look funders and publishers in the eye without being held personally 'accountable' to the genocide deniers he deals with.

    Fuck off Jimmy 😴 And shout out to the dedicated editors who are schooling the daft cunt on the rules of his own creation.

  • Jesus was a historical person. This doesn’t mean Christianity is correct, but there is sufficient historical evidence and most mainstream scholars of the era agree on this.

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  • There's a conspiracy theory that Jesus is a composite character plagiarised from half a dozen or more pre-Christian faiths, and in particular the key points of his life are actually personified versions of the Winter solstice and the movement of the sun and the stars (including the Zodiac in some versions of the theory).

    It's widely believed amongst atheists, but it's simply not true on any level. He was a real dude and was really crucified, and the supposed earlier versions of Christ-like characteristics are either extremely tenuous coincidences or simply outright lies (with some honest mistranslations/misinterpretations). Bart Ehrman, an atheist himself but a world-renowned scholar on the history of Christianity, has several books which deal with this question to varying degrees, the main one being "Did Jesus Exist?". It's worth reading (or listening to) if you're curious about it. He addresses the specific claims of proponents of the conspiracy theory directly, like those of Richard Carrier.

    I'm atheist, but I respect history and historical scholarship. It's one of the handful of disciplines that humanity can't really afford to overlook or devalue in 2025 if we want to survive into the next millennia. Agreeing on reality is one of the hardest things to do in the current climate. Overeager atheism that plays fast and loose with historical fact is not helping us secularise the world. It's making us seem like we're debunkable, because in this specific case, we are. It's like in a video game when you get to a boss fight and see that the boss has a glowing section on its body that you're supposed to shoot. Pretending Jesus wasn't a real person is like us placing a giant glowing chest plate on our efforts and watching helplessly as Christians fire directly at it. There's no need for it.

  • rule

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  • You could tell me anything about Australia and I'd have little choice but to reflexively believe it. Oh they have a brand of children's sandals called Flippy Floppy Cunts? Sure, whatever. There's a shark with gorilla arms holding knives fashioned from goat bones and using them to mug surfers? Of course that's a thing, no further investigation needed.

    Australia is the world's marsupial pouch filled with equal parts mischief and nightmarish animal terrors.

  • Neurospicy

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  • We're getting to the stage where normal everyday traits are being attributed to neurological dingleberries. It's like when people say "only those with Asian mothers know about keeping lots of plastic bags in a larger plastic bag in the cupboard under the sink" even though this is something everyone does.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod?

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    The titles of celebrity subreddit photo posts be like:

  • Ah, the Irish Potato Famine

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  • Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again?

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  • Nightdive release definitive PC update for I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

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  • I'll replay the game once someone goes in and removes the myriad dead ends that can happen. You aren't even informed that you've reached a dead end, so you spend hours fruitlessly hammering away at it until you give in and check a walkthrough, only to discover that the game is just... over.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Why do video game leaks (such as the huge GTA VI videos leak) cause "low morale" for the staff working on it?

  • 1988–1994 British broadcasting voice restrictions

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  • 😂 amazing show(s)! His earlier radio show "On the Hour" was just as good.

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    1988–1994 British broadcasting voice restrictions

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1988%E2%80%931994_British_broadcasting_voice_restrictions

  • What is your internet White-Whale?

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  • There's a "famous" gore video showing a Russian soldier being brutally murdered by Chechen rebels. Ya'll probably already know what I'm talking about, so I don't need to explain (and if you haven't seen it or don't know what it is, don't bother looking for it, it's not nice and does you no good to have it on your psychic hard drive). Since seeing that clip in ~2000, I've desperately wanted to know the man's identity and the circumstances in which he was killed. I've had people swear to me that they also saw the clip, but the version they saw was quite a bit longer than the ~20-second clip everyone is aware of, and they describe some details that could well be useful in identifying him, but alas this alleged longer version seems to have vanished entirely, if it ever existed. The version we have is obviously heavily-edited, lots of quick cuts and time-jumps, so there is at least a version without all of that, somewhere.

    Trust me when I say that I've looked into this issue on and off for the last 25 years, and I have heard many bullshit claims about who he is: they're all wrong and provably so. I've watched hundreds (literally) of clips from that conflict that show barbarity of one degree or another, and in doing so I have identified the clips that specific reports and testimonies are alluding to when they claim to have identified the victim. None of them is our guy, it's always some other video clip where some other Russian is knifed by a Chechen (there're a lot of such clips).

    There was a user on a gore forum who uploaded the Tukhchar massacre (safe click) video in full, and he claimed to have the full version of our mystery clip, but refused to post it and grew increasingly hostile the more people asked him for it, eventually taking his ball and going home by stating his intention to never post it because people were mean to him. He was obviously a bullshitter who had a few good uploads and decided to use that momentum to generate hype around this other 'holy grail' clip which he almost certainly did not have. Other than that one prick, nobody online has access to the full video or the identity of the man. At least, not on the English-speaking internet.

    I've seen a lot of awful videos on the net, but there's something about that one in particular that really energised me to find out who he is. I guess it being the first video of that kind I ever saw would probably have something to do with it, but it's also just so fucking cold. You could sense the all-consuming hatred in the killers in the way they staged the scene and the matter-of-fact way they slaughtered him. Just pure inhumanity. There are "worse" videos, there are drug cartel videos that would make a Spanish Inquisitor lose his lunch, but man, that Russian dude is always lingering in my mind.

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    Are you tired of movie remakes and reboots?

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  • I recently made an Unpopular Opinion post about this (TL;DR I'm supportive of remakes/reboots if done with genuine passion for the material, just as I am with cover versions of songs or transplantations of stage plays to modern settings/Disney cartoons, etc.):

    https://lemmy.world/post/35309322

    The originals aren't going anywhere (unless you're George Lucas 😒), and there are new films coming out every week from all over the world, the reboots/remakes are like less than 1% of what gets released in any given year. Marketing and social media can make things seem bigger and more pervasive than they actually are. Having said that, I'd honestly be happier if the number was more like 5% (with the aforementioned caveats about passion, talent and quality).

    But yeah, there are lots of remakes/reboots that are borne of pure cynicism and boardroom sociopathy. Fuck those. But they aren't the only ones on offer. Baby/bathwater.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Has a stranger's reply to you on social media ever changed your strongly-held belief(s)?

  • Unpopular Opinion @lemmy.world
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    I think remakes and reboots are awesome, if done without overt cynicism

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips?

  • Unpopular Opinion @lemmy.world
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    Jeffrey Epstein killed himself

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    If I invented a shirt that caused cameras to be damaged when filmed/photographed, would I be committing a crime by wearing the shirt at events with cameras?

  • Starfield @lemmy.zip
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    C'mon lads, we've all done it, right?

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL that underfloor heating was invented by Neolithic peoples

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Underfloor_heating
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Getting 'laid off' probably sounds pretty sexy to someone who doesn't know what it actually means

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    First responders of lemmy, do you ever find yourself hating the people you're saving when you're constantly dealing with easily-avoidable catastrophes?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What's the largest object one can buy for the least amount of money?

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL about the palaentological concept of an 'Elvis taxon' , where a 'lookalike' species temporarily throws off our understanding of the fossil record

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elvis_taxon
  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    In languages which use complex written characters (such as Chinese's logographs), is there an equivalent to English's "text speak" shorthand?

  • Ask Science @lemmy.world
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    Whatever your field of expertise, are there any popular science books you'd recommend that do a good job of presenting it to the public?

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Nothing has helped me learn to trust my instincts more than trying to plug in hundreds of USB devices over the years

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    If one were so inclined, could you take your plot of land, parcel it up into 1-meter-squared (or smaller) sections, and sell each of those sections to different people/companies?

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Rich people know their cosmetic surgery is obvious and uncanny, but that's the point; it's a way of signalling that you belong in a certain income bracket and that you're part of the 1%