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toynbee@lemmy.worldto
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Valid Theory: Scientists Are Actually Wizards
1·2 hours agoI’ve always loved the Unix wizard poster.

Where I grew up, driving school was mandatory before being eligible for a license.
I ended up going to two. The first one, the instructor advocated disregarding caution and just trusting in the universe to take care of you (not exactly how she phrased it). At one point some state representative came in; the instructor, apparently forewarned, told the class that she would be teaching differently the day the representative was there and that we shouldn’t comment on it.
When my mom found out, she took me out and put me in a better known school, then demanded a refund from the first one. The instructor sent her a copy of her contract, highlighting a phrase that was something like “no refund under any conditions.”
A few months later, that school was no longer open.
Perhaps fittingly, I thought they were clarifying that the population of their area was predominantly cisgendered.
Nice, thank you for the answer.
Yeah, or I could put something in the prompt, I’ve considered writing an alias or function so instead of
yumoraptI could just runinstalland let the system run what it must.It’s not really a big concern, though. I don’t run that many systems and I reimage them with different distros often enough that it hasn’t been worth addressing for me.
Thank you for the suggestion though!
toynbee@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Biz_dave on Threads is training crows to attack red hats
1·2 days agoHonestly, that whole saga happened very shortly after I started using Reddit. I don’t have much of an opinion, I just know a bit of the lore.
It does indeed sound like he knew quite a bit about birds.
I would have set a turkey on their ottoman, personally.
Strong words from someone who’s not really here.
Hey, thanks for extending this thread with me. It was fun.
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Big Ring Energy
Also, have you seen the movie Home? One could very easily argue about whether it’s a good movie, but there’s a scene in it where a hostile alien ship flies into Saturn’s ring and has a very visually impressive impact.
Again, not making any comment on the quality of the movie in general … That scene struck me as so cool that a screenshot of it has been my wallpaper on my work computer for nine years.
edit: I don’t run a public webserver anymore, but at the time I did and was unaware of things like nextcloud and copy party, so I had to save the screenshot to my webserver to get it to my work computer to use as the background.
I would use Debian more if I didn’t have to remember whether to use
aptoryumevery time I ssh’d into a random server on my network.
toynbee@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Biz_dave on Threads is training crows to attack red hats
4·2 days agoThey need only leave if they use alts for vote manipulation.
toynbee@lemmy.worldto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-LevelsEnglish
2·2 days agoIt can take a bit of motivation to get started, but reading books can be so fun and worthwhile (with the right books for you). I read a lot of books until I had a kid, then I didn’t have the time or energy to keep it up. Just recently I suffered a back injury that keeps me in bed a lot of the time, which forced downtime on me, and so I started reading again.
I wouldn’t recommend the back injury, but I’ve so much enjoyed embracing books once more. Like you, I’m 38 and felt like my literacy was declining. Now I feel like a lot of it’s coming back! If you can, you should try to resume reading.
toynbee@lemmy.worldto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-LevelsEnglish
2·2 days agoI hope they didn’t burn their diploma.
This was also the content of a Dilbert strip.











Family Guy is on your side, too.