“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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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldtoFunny@sh.itjust.worksThe Olsen twins
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    Did I make you uncomfortable with consuming the lives of the Olsen twins like a cheap and disposable drug?

    Dude holy shit, seek help. I have never once in my life given an iota of a shit about the Olsen twins or anything they’ve been involved with. I might’ve seen one episode of Full House by coincidence, and I played an nth-hand copy of Mary-Kate and Ashley: Sweet 16 – Licensed to Drive for the PS2 two decades after its release (when the twins were nearly 40 and the publisher and developer had been defunct for years) for about 30 minutes as a gag. This is the first time I can remember seeing a picture of the Olsen twins in years, and I only responded to your comment because it’s so insane (I genuinely knew so little that I assumed I’d completely missed out on a scandal and tried in good faith to find out what happened).

    Your willingness to assume anything without evidence as long as it feels correct to you is staggering.


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    Then who specifically did you mean, you insufferably stupid fuck? Name names or shut the fuck up. I at least tried to find someone with literally any accusation against them at all, even if it was transparently bullshit, just to humor your claim, and Saget’s was the only name I could find.


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    my SPECULATIVE STATEMENT.

    Pfffffffffffffft. What a chode. “I hedged with ‘most likely’ bro so you can’t poke holes in the ridiculous bullshit I’m asserting with zero evidence.” You’d be really good at JAQing off. “Were the Olsen twins sold into sex slavery on Epstein’s Island? We can’t say for sure, but it’s impossible to rule out.”


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    Yeah, no, I totally agree that sexualization by the public when they were underage (even as adults) probably took a psychological toll, as it probably does on a lot of teen stars (and IIRC it was quite bad with Mary-Kate & Ashley).

    That is a completely different statement from “they were most likely molested by some of Epstein’s Hollywood buddies”.


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    That’s a seriously bold claim that you don’t bother to support at all and just take as common knowledge. After doing a few minutes of searching: what the absolute fuck are you even talking about?

    Genuinely the most I can find are a small handful of trashy outlets like The Sun (at the least trashy) talking about a baseless Twitter accusation against Bob Saget after his death and then – even as trashy as they are – unanimously arriving at the conclusion that Saget unequivocally did nothing to them. (To that end, I can’t even find anything about Saget having ever interacted with Epstein, so there’s a baseless, nonsense Twitter accusation – only discussed by the trashiest outlets who have every incentive to imply that it’s true for clicks but instead deny it completely – about a man with no connection to Epstein.)

    No names, no sources (probably because there’s jack shit), no anything, so what exactly the fuck are you basing “most likely” on?



  • I’m happy that the US is adopting metric.

    I don’t know if you’re just not from the US, but this dual labeling of groceries has been ongoing for decades. The US formally began transitioning to metric during the 1970s and has had plenty of dual uses ever since; it got cut short due to a mix of public apathy and active public disapproval, and when it was on its last legs, Reagan axed the metrification board early in his first term (not a defense, but it was seriously barely doing anything by that time because of public unwillingness to change). Rulers have inches and centimeters; there are imperial and metric tools; kids do learn metric in schools (usually in the context of a science class); etc. You aren’t expected to know metric as an average functioning adult, but it’s everywhere and useful to know in US society – usually just kind of in the background like here.

    TL;DR: “Is adopting” said in 2026 in response to soda labels is a steep misunderstanding of metrification in the US.








  • You can download Artix Linux 2026.04 right now

    Why would anybody? It’s actively advertising that it’s using a replacement for X11 created by a MAGA, anti-vaxx dipshit whose claim to ultra-niche fame was making a fucking mess of Xorg by recklessly churning out PRs, accordingly getting barred from contributing, and throwing a bitch fit and spinning his removal into some incoherent Red Hat conspiracy theory.

    Here’s the raw level of competence you can expect when you trust XLibre’s developer to reimplement a decades-old mountain of low-level spaghetti. (For anybody who’s never written C/C++, this is something you would – generously – learn in the first half-hour of learning the language. Making a typo is semi-understandable. Being confused when confronted by it and having it directly explained to you is fucking insane given the nature of the project.)


  • Because it’s a meme and its creator wanted it to for shits and giggles.

    You’re literally in a political propaganda community created, solely modded, and near-exclusively posted to by the OP. Memes like this are digital propaganda leaflets designed to be easily digested and distributed, and this one’s entire point rests on the legitimacy of the quote. So no, I don’t give it a pass for “lol meme ecksdee”.

    It shouldn’t be controversial to hold people making propaganda to any kind of standard in a world where “just memes lol” carried Donald Trump to power twice.


  • or any other outlet that is presenting itself as a legitimate source of information, none of those obligations exist.

    If this meme isn’t presenting that the quote is real, then why the fuck does it exist? I mean “to be easily created and disseminated propaganda”, obviously, but why should it exist? Sourcing your shit isn’t “catering to the inept”; it’s catering to the people who care about the truth. If sourcing is “catering to the inept”, then why is it done in those contexts you mentioned? When does it stop “catering to the inept”? The answer, obviously, is it doesn’t, because it never was.

    If you want to think that an expectation of basic sourcing should be limited to e.g. academic contexts, journalism, etc., to the point that the notion of expecting that from anything else offends you, then whatever I say isn’t going to convince you out of your own laziness and stupidity. You’re part of the problem.


  • If you take memes seriously as a source of information then you have issues.

    I don’t – which should be obvious based on the fact I decided to source the quote. A frightening amount of people do, and that’s not limited to one political side. It’s 2026; we’ve been watching widespread media illiteracy and intellectual laziness destroy society for at least the last decade. You can’t just pretend you’re totally separate from that when you put media out into the world to be consumed by others.

    And if you think basic sourcing is limited to “dissertations” or “school reports”, then writing school reports ironically taught you jack shit about why sourcing is important.



  • “So now” I’m going to? No; I already have been since the first comment.

    I’m not going to sit down and explain why doing the bare minimum to source a quote you slap into a shitty, zero-effort meme is important when you’re releasing it out into an ocean of disinformation. That should be obvious, and if you take offense at that basic notion, then I’m just going to wallow in the clownery you started instead of wasting my time.