They come up to me – great people, smart people – and they come up and they tell me: "Mr. Technician, sir, we’re so impressed with your terminology. Everybody’s talking about it. China’s talking – " they don’t have very good doctors over there, folks, so they come to me for advice.
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“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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Freedom, I do not seek.
Mean nothing, these lives do.
The ketamine stash I left in Jesus’ tomb, I desire.
That’s 100% fair; I wasn’t meaning to imply public domain means “you should never credit it”. I should’ve been more clear that I was just adding a neat tidbit rather than criticizing the good practice of citing sources (albeit done here superfluously for comedic effect).
Re: the footer text, on Wikimedia Commons, we designate the logo as public domain on the following grounds:
This logo image consists only of simple geometric shapes or text. It does not meet the threshold of originality needed for copyright protection, and is therefore in the public domain. Although it is free of copyright restrictions, this image may still be subject to other restrictions. See WP:PD § Fonts and typefaces or Template talk:PD-textlogo for more information.
And I agree. There’s nothing copyrightable to steal.
Of course. I am, after all, Jesus; I know the best medical terms – tremendous terms.
Knowing how to plant the seed is crucial too.
I heard you just put your thingie in her woo-hoo bag and then you plip plap until you both yeehaw.
I’d say I can kind of see someone getting Kentucky and Virginia mixed up, so I guess here are some general tips, throwing spaghetti at the wall so maybe it helps someone:
- Virginia’s hump is a lot taller (absolutely and proportionately) than Kentucky’s.
- Virginia is a Sonic the Hedgehog OC with
peninsulasspikes coming off the back of its hump. - If you get it in the outline, Virginia has a small peninsula off its main east coast, called the “Eastern Shore of Virginia”, which forms the tongue of the Delmarva Peninsula.
- The elongate part of Virginia is sharp like a knife, while that of Kentucky is pretty blunt and bumpy like a fist. So Kentucky do the grabbo, Virginia do the stabbo.
As if anyone outside those states could distinguish between unlabelled outlines of Virginia, Kentucky, and North Carolina.
Self-reporting, because this is shit we learn in like 3rd grade in the US and that adults should (albeit aren’t expected to) be able to do. NH and Vermont I could tell you but mainly because I reassemble their little 69 in my head as a memory aid. (A sane memory aid without needing to remember “big end bottom” or “big end top” is that NH’s small vertical end is super narrow compared to its large one.)
Whereas Wyoming and Colorado – presented separately in a void with no scale – I could only tell because Wyoming is nearly a perfect rectangle while Colorado is an isosceles trapezoid (just very slightly). That’s one you basically have to just memorize via a top/bottom relationship.
They grow stronger with each new anti-brain-cell.
I didn’t watch the second video, but assume it’s just: “Hey, let’s see if it’s any better now, since this is what I used last time, and it’s sold preinstalled on commercial hardware.” I don’t like Pop!, but I also think the people arguing he should be using something else – regarding a semi-popular, commercially-backed distro commonly advertised as noob-friendly – are hitting the copium too hard.
“But he wants to do gaming!” And I never had to install a special version of Windows because I wanted to do digital art. That’s not intentionally making Linux look bad; it’s just not going out of his way to doll it up like a burger in a fast food ad. Plenty of people will want to game but don’t treat it as their entire identity and therefore won’t be looking into “best linux gaming distro 2026 reddit”.
I liked JayzTwoCents’ video because he has an expert walk him through it and chooses Bazzite since he’s doing it specifically to evaluate gaming, not how good he is at using it. For a video where somebody is trying to assess the state of Linux for a normal user new to Linux, I don’t want an expert hovering over them the entire time, and within reason, I want them to pick what appeals to them.
I’m over here having a great time on Endeavour, but I got turned off of Linux for years after trying Ubuntu as a daily driver for several months and running into issues constantly. My actual Linux experience was eerily similar to Linus’ first video (it nuked my entire config twice), and I probably would’ve gone back to Ubuntu as a test if I were doing it for an audience and not for myself.
What happened on Pop! this time, by the way? COSMIC issues?
The Matrix as seen through the Doom engine.
14·21 hours agoSink in the piss.
Yeah, I remember when I tried to run an app on Linux, and it popped up and said: “Oops, the developer of this app you downloaded from the web hasn’t paid $100/year
in protection moneyfor verification. Guess you’ll have to navigate into your settings and allow running unverified apps for no reason which normal users with poor tech literacy will find burdensome or scary (and have to look up if and how they can do this, because the only options presented on the popup are ‘Move to Trash’ or ‘Cancel’).”You don’t have to defend Apple’s obvious protection racket grift.
Damn, maybe some people don’t know that none of this is hyperbole – or just really love denying reality and slurping down the dick of their favorite multitrillion-dollar corporation’s OS. You cannot claim it’s “just like Linux” when Apple steps in as a middleman to extort developers out of money. Below is what happens to your app when you don’t pay Apple a ransom of $99/year (that’s $100 for all intents and purposes, and I’m going to call it as much instead of playing along with the old-as-dirt ‘99’ psychological trick).
1·24 hours agohalfwit
Boy, if you had a loaf of bread for every time you’ve called somebody a “halfwit”, you might have enough for Kim Jong Un to take and eat for himself while the working class starves.
2·24 hours agoI seriously doubt the community values artist integrity less than “hundreds of existing discussions”
No, it does not, which is why I applied it only as justification not to enforce the per-day rule as it should’ve been before; violations of those rules are no longer harming anyone in the way the rule was designed to prevent.
If I dig up an old comic with the word “fuck” in it that was never removed, would you remove it now that curse words are allowed?
As I said, I don’t enforce rules ex post facto. There was no such rule before, but let’s say it existed. I would not, and you have to know that’s meaningfully different. Punishing someone ex post facto is very different from granting leniency ex post facto. “I’ve decided this is bad, so I’m going to actively punish it retroactively” is extremely different from “I’ve decided this is fine, so I’m no longer going to prosecute it.” You definitely understand that “I’m criminalizing weed, so you who smoked it a year ago are off to jail” and “I’m decriminalizing weed, so I’m going to drop existing charges” are completely different regardless of your stance on weed (although I know roughly what both of ours are).
And, of course, that’s not even the case here; no actual rule (unlike the “fuck” one) was broken at the time it was posted, so I’m not setting a precedent that we can change the rules at any time and apply them retroactively.
The point of having rules around content isn’t to punish users who break the rules. It’s to shape this place into the community we want it to be.
Actually, the rules are around to protect the users and what they contribute here – so they can safely post and comment knowing what’s in-bounds and have grounds to object if they think they were unfairly punished. If I wanted to “shape this place into the community we want it to be”, I could just go around removing whatever because I think it beautifies the community. I don’t apply ex post facto punishments, and I’m likely to grant leniency ex post facto; these two are entirely consistent with each other.
I can probably link at least one thread where I went off on Beep if you think any of this is meant to stick up for them specifically. I requested to moderate expressly because Beep was ruining the community, and I was even surprised to see them granted amnesty and tried to see a silver lining.
You’re welcome to think I’m a misguided idealist, but my hobbies are creating copyleft software, copyleft prose, copyleft media, and copyleft data requiring attribution, so if you think any of this is because I’d wish to wipe every one of Beep’s de-attributed posts any less than you, you’re understandably but sorely mistaken. I feel Beep spat in my face personally along with the rest of my community’s. I just don’t have a proper justification within the rules – and that includes the per-day limit applied as a backdoor in a way that’s not in the spirit of that rule.
That said, I will show no leniency to intentionally de-attributed posts in the future, and I’ll be making sure all have proper credit.
I believe that, in which case “that’s not from Trump” is something they’re in no position to say matter-of-factly; they’re just guessing (and I think poorly, at that). It’s just palm-reading the post and then giving a definitive, with no caveats, “Nope, Trump didn’t write this.”
I linked to the article because trying to definitively say Trump didn’t write something definitionally has to be reserved for fake posts, not real ones that come from his account with no disclaimer and no later admission.
The only rule Beep was breaking at the time was the per-day post limit. While cleaning that up would be tedious, it’d still be doable; the main reason we haven’t (that I know of) is that those posts are long-since submitted and have hundreds of existing discussions which other users contributed to. The per-day post limit is mainly relevant for new posts, so enforcing that rule as it should’ve been when they were posted wouldn’t really accomplish anything except make a lot of user comments inaccessible. It’d be functionally random, too – starting at the first posts, leaving post n and post n + 1, then removing everything until the next 24 hours after post n, loop until we get to the last post they made before it was upped to 5 and Beep was forced to stop breaking it. (That wasn’t your question; just addressing it since it has the more complicated answer.)
As for the altered comics, there was no rule in place at the time that comics need to be unaltered and have attribution. We (at least I) don’t do ex post facto rule enforcement. Of the existing reports for posts/comments made before dohpaz42’s rule changes, none (that I saw) were for violations of the rules that existed at the time, so the only reports I ended up acting on were the ones that violated Lemmy.World’s terms of service.
Sure, and if you want to argue “a staffer did it”, then “staying on point”/“generally cohesive” is a stretch to make the argument work. This has extremely jumpy flow, and trying to move the standard further back and say “bUt NoT fOr TrUmP” just turns this whole thing into an unfalsifiable hypothesis facilitated by an infinitely movable goalpost. I can point out why it’s so jumpy (any literate person should be able to), but I’m confident it’ll be met with, again, “tRuMp StAnDaRdS tHo!!”.
Edit: More importantly, though, saying confidently that “it’s not from Trump” is hilariously unfounded. I’m not arguing it is or is not from Trump, but rather that saying anything definitively like that is absurd.
Rosechu has no connections to 4-cent_garbage.com, so quit asking.
OP once again removes the credit – this time to Sunny Street – because they’re a petulant dipshit who thinks author credit is “advertising”. Fuck off, Beep, and the next time I catch you doing this shit at Comic Strips, I’m making sure you stay gone.