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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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?

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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?

  • 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.

  • GOG’s 17th Anniversary: More classics join the GOG Preservation Program!

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  • Did the Chinese state preapprove these titles?

    No Devotion = No Sale

  • Almost 90 years old, Skyrim Grandma Shirley Curry says she's retiring from the adventuring life: 'I'm tired, I'm not having fun anymore'

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  • She's said this every year for the last 3 years at least 😆

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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)?

  • What is the origin of the whole "X destroys and humilates Y" genre of debate videos?

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  • Not sure who came up with it first or why humans are wired this way, but the magic combination of anger, outrage, and the vicarious bullying satisfaction of seeing someone dunked on and made to look stupid/humiliated, is all grist for the mill that is the attention economy. The longer you watch, the better it is for the YouTubes and Twitters of the world. And nothing glues people to their screens quite like their own masochism. It's like when you have a sore tooth and can't help but prod it with your tongue. Makes no sense, but it's what we do. The fact that this stuff is so effective is why the algorithms force it down our throats and why cunts like Ben Shapiro have made careers off of it. Society is being torn apart at the seams by this shit. That pent-up hateful energy gets co-opted by state actors and bot farms, and then we get Brexit and two terms of Donald fucking Trump.

    I've been making a conscious effort to avoid any videos that have titles like that (and by extension, the creators of those videos), and my life and mental health has improved immeasurably as a result. I have literally no idea how to convince anyone else to do the same. It would probably be easier to get people to exercise and eat healthily (something I don't fucking do either). People get as much of this content as they can consume for free and at any time and any place, thanks to the inherent portability of cellphones. If you're into this shit, there is no time of day or room in your house where you won't have it calling to you like a pocket version of the wee devil that sits on a cartoon character's shoulder whispering evil commands into its ear. And in this scenario, there is no angel on the other shoulder, because that would cause people to maybe spend a bit less time on these platforms, which is no bueno to Silicon Valley sociopaths.

    Debates are almost entirely pointless. Very few people in the audience are actually open to being swayed. It's just verbal UFC, and the winner isn't the one with the best ideas, but the one with the best tongue jiu-jitsu.

    As for Plato et al., I think having something to fill one's attention in those days was probably a good way to stop people from fucking their livestock. So debates were necessary to prevent sheepman monstrosities from polluting the gene pool with their woolly nutsacks.

  • How is Qanon explaining Trump protecting the Epstein files?

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  • "He was actually an FBI informant against Epstein" seems to be the trajectory, per the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Michael "My Son Monitors My Porn Consumption Via a Special App" Johnson. The fact that it came from him and not some mushroom-infested 4channer makes it sound believable (if you're already poised to believe such horseshit, that is).

  • Today's date is 3²/4²/5²

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  • math hurts

  • What's a personal weakness you possess that is entirely not relevant to your daily life?

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  • Can't whistle loudly. I can barely do it quietly. I certainly can't do that badass thing where you put fingers from both hands into your mouth and blow.

  • What is your most "Fuck you, this is actually awesome?" take?

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  • I was an early adopter of No Man's Sky (long before the shift in public perception), and I fucking loved it back then, and love it now as well. But admitting that in public a few years back was tantamount to saying that stapling your child to a rabid badger was a great alternative to hiring a babysitter.

  • What was your last “impulse buy” and was it worth it?

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  • What is your favourite metal song?

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    How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips?

  • It's weird that we "take a shit". I don't know what other people are doing, but i definitely leave a shit, not take it

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  • I gift a riverboat to the otter people in exchange for splashy kisses on my cheeks.

  • What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?

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  • The locations of past atrocities (N. Ireland).

    Not even joking. It's a huge part of our tourism industry. It's like those Jack the Ripper tours in Whitechapel. Living here, you barely even think about them, but visitors act like they're meeting Taylor Swift when they spot a bullet hole, bless 'em.

  • whats the cheapest legal way to dispose of my dead body so i can stick it to the funeral industry?

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  • I agree with this sentiment. It's insane to me that people need to cough up thousands of dollars to see their loved one off. It's so wrong, although I do accept that funeral providers can't simply give away their services for free. I would support a taxation that had a provision for funerary needs for all citizens. Universal death care. I mean, we're all gonna die. It's not like you can say "oh boo hoo I'm paying all this tax just for some other cunt to die on my dime??" because your day will come soon enough and you don't want your family having to blow their savings on putting you in a hole.

    I wanna be harvested for organs like a Chinese dissident, and whatever is left can be mulched and used to grow trees or something.

    But if we're talking "cheapest", in the UK and Ireland there's a pauper's grave thing where the state will put you in a very basic grave and with a very basic marker. Not sure if you need to be poor to qualify, or if they'll just do it when asked.

  • Do you feel sad for people born today?

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  • Honestly, I don't. I came up in the '80s, wasn't diagnosed with autism until 2022. My life would have been so different if I had known about it when I was a child, and if autism was as well-understood as it is today so that I had the support I needed. Kids today who have issue like that are identified much earlier and helped more. The steady march of knowledge and science is almost always a good thing. So, the present and the future are always the place to be for most people most of the time. Of course a Gazan isn't feeling the giddy excitement of scientific discovery at this moment, but for the human species as a whole, things have never been better. There is always someone suffering immense, unimaginable hardship. The human project is overwhelmingly not that.

    Every generation has existential concerns, too. Climate change and the rise of fascism is on the cards right now. When I was a kid and adolescent in the '80s and '90s, I was in the middle of the N. Irish 'Troubles'. Before that, people had the Cold War to worry about. Before that, WWII and WWI. But things are always better than they were 'yesterday' if you take stock of everyone as a whole and not just those suffering the worst in any given moment.

    If you took the average kid born today in an average society, and transplanted them into the 1970s with the same socioeconomic starting point, it would be tantamount to gross child abuse given the vast ocean of stuff they could have had, but now will never have (in their childhood, at least). And I'm not even talking about technology and the internet; just the treatment of children by the state and schools alone would be night-and-day different. Kids are individuals today, in the '70s you were your parents' property and didn't develop a sense-of-self worth respecting until you were old enough to get drunk.

    I still wouldn't bring a kid into existence, but for those that are here already, 2025 is the best time to be born. Like if I were my parents, I would not have had me while the country was tearing itself apart with bombings and shootings every day. But I'm glad I was born when I was and not when my parents were kids.

  • 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?

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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?

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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?

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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

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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?

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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%

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    Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want?

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    Why is having a lawyer present during police interviews "opt in" rather than "opt out"?

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    Why is it ok to replace -ed at the end of a word with -t in some cases? For example, why are "vexed" and "vext" both acceptable, but "thrilled" and "thrilt" aren't?

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    Those in relationships with someone with whom they share a notable 'mismatch' in attractiveness, what are some of the craziest/most offensive things people have said about it?

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    Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box?

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    Why did/do sites such as the pyramids in Egypt or the Roman colosseum end up in an abandoned state, only to be "rediscovered" later?

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Pets hate the vet clinic and groomer because they smell the combined terror/anger of a thousand other animals who've been poked and prodded in that room

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    Is there some special process by which musicians/producers arrive at an agreed-upon tempo for a song recording?