“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: […] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.” —Jonathan Swift

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Cake day: July 25th, 2024

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    • Probably cheap as dirt.
    • Entertains very small kids who are statistically going to be the loudest, most impatient ones.
    • Engaging for those small kids neurodevelopmentally.
    • Hard to damage.
    • Not ingestible; hard to otherwise hurt yourself or others with it.
    • Can put it basically wherever and even screw it down onto a table.
    • Too big for someone (especially a kid) to steal.
    • Very quiet even if you’re playing very aggressively with it.
    • Cross-cultural (e.g. no language involved).
    • Not consumable like crayons.

    It’s got too many things going for it.


  • This got reported as “not LAMF” on the grounds that this person voted for lower grocery prices and got higher ones. This is an understandable argument, because just getting tricked on its own (even if you’re unbelievably stupid to think that things like illegal tariffs and deregulation wouldn’t do this) is not LAMF.

    So let me explain why I kept the post up and still think it fits: she expressly voted for somebody who promised to cut programs like SNAP which make Thanksgivings affordable for millions of people. She expressly wanted these people hurt – to have their Thanksgivings ruined – because to her, they didn’t deserve it.

    “I never thought the leopards would make groceries unaffordable for me!”

    Edit: That said, @bytesonbike@discuss.online, please add alt text to your image or a transcription in the post body for accessibility in accordance with Rule 4.














  • Wow, this is so true. I’m going to stop maintaining my relationships because anyone I know could get hit by a bus tomorrow. I’m also done with that stupid coursework, because what if I suffer a catastrophic brain injury that makes me forget everything I learned? I’m going to go rob a bank because the police could come and frame me for murder any day now. And I think I’m going to go jump off a cliff because death comes for us all anyway.

    Sage advice, raoul.



  • No average user would be able to look up what commands to run? Because newsflash: unlike Windows, searching for a common problem on Linux normally turns up a solution written by a human who knows what they’re talking about.

    “Windows doesn’t even have basic package management like every Unix-like OS does so you don’t have to individually update applications and go find them on the Internet, but this one edge case on Linux requires like two terminal commands (the sudo -i is totally superfluous if you just put sudo in front of commands) instead of installing an entire separate tool you’ll ever use one time like on Windows and which an average user wouldn’t even know exists. Therefore Linux is more complicated.”

    Incidentally, here’s what Microsoft officially recommends for the “average user” regarding PowerToys:

    It’s insane how nose-blind Windows users are to how user-unfriendly their OS is.