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"i use linux as my operating system," i state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. he swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision.
"actually," he says with a grin, "linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+linux."
i don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "i use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's linux, but it's not GNU+linux."

the smile quickly drops from the man's face. his body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. as he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!"
coolly, i reply "if windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" i interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. even if you were correct, you won't be for long."

with a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. he lies on the floor, cold and limp. i've womansplained him to death.

#starwars #cosplay #1977

I love this !

One idea I've been meaning to pitch Eugen for mastodon is the idea of "gamer credits."

The basic principle of "gamer credits" is to create a digital scoring system based on each user's ability to demonstrate that they are indeed a "true gamer." This score would be based on things such as knowledge of gaming history, as well as gaming prowess.

The main idea is this: whenever any mastodon user gains even a single unit of gamer credit, they would be fucking banned forever. #mastodev

dad astra

good prank to do: put 1000 USD in a secured envelope and then write my address on the front of it with appropriate postage and then drop it in a mail box. it'll be hilarious!

to reduce motion blur, your optic nerve shuts off when your eye moves rapidly. to eliminate the game in perception, your brain then fills in the missing parts of the image, making you unaware anything had happened. this phenomenon, called saccadic masking, renders you totally blind for up to 40 minutes a day.

who knows what creatures exist in that space you aren't permitted to observe

What could this be...

#mastodev

A few days ago, a man died in ICE custody in the county jail where I used to live, and the local paper's writeup of it is so polite and credulous that it doesn't even wonder how dying of a brain hemorrhage is a reasonable outcome for a 37-year-old man receiving the finest medical care ICE can provide, even if he "reported daily alcohol consumption" https://www.nwherald.com/2019/09/12/ice-detainee-held-at-mchenry-county-jail-dies/annddru/

The cover for this weeks economist. It's 2008 all over again folks

Being a CIA asset monitoring leftists on the fediverse is hard work, but sometimes yall make some funny posts that make it all worthwhile

"I can't make heads or tails of this", I say as someone hands me a block of clay and tells me to sculpt either Mount Rushmore or Sonic's sidekick

do you think these guys have a con or do they just appear organically in the wild, the product of a strange process that nobody understands

this is the year I finally capture Santa Clause. the Dutch pervert will face the consequences of his actions

I don't give a shit about the rules of narnia if a MILF offers me some "turkish delight" I'm all in

Piglet, a term combining the words "paypig" (someone who gets off being monetarily exploited) and Manlet (a term describing a man with a short stature and overdeveloped muscles)

JOI Biden

when US pundits talk about "electability", what they're really concerned about is which candidate can win over voters who get angry when the ATM offers a language preference other than English

Superman is lame. Having sex with human women? Seems boring. Do like Aquaman and cum hands free from the overwhelming eroticism of the ocean tide slapping the cheeks of the shore.