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That's some Theseus bullship right there

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As once was claimed about king Charles X Gustav of Sweden. I'm approaching the perfect circumference of the sphere.

Are any of you fat men

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Bethesda fans. They're the least likely to notice that something is wildly outdated.

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Dude's standing for Uncanny Valley, not Brixton Hill

Only just seen this now but looks like Reform’s candidate for Clapham and Brixton Hill is either AI generated or photoshopped to an absurd extent.

Texture of the hair is a giveaway. Also a weird Elon Musk lookalike.

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Had a group of neo-nazis trying to represent at a medieval market I was at this weekend. They were there for about 15 minutes or so before they left in a hurry. An entire tent village of people with medieval arms and armor who all hate their guts and a group of gives-no-fucks vikings who looked at them like they wanted to spill said guts. There are few more dedicated anti-fascists than our local Viking reenactors and Asatrú fellows.

POV you tried to join a forum for Norse mythology enthusiasts

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okay fight

fight

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Sweden, I watch it every New year

Are you German and do you know "Dinner for One"?

German; watched it

German; heard of it

German; never heard of it

Not German; watched it

Not German; heard of it

Not German; never heard of it

(Context: "Dinner for One" is a british skit that is traditionally watched by Germans on New Years Eve and I'm curious how well known it actually is)

Note in ask :)

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Did you see that the Welsh version of Chuck's pledge uses the word "curse" instead of "swear"? I don't speak Welsh, but I saw this on the internets and it sounds on brand.

OKAY I HAD TO LOOK THIS UP

Here's what it should be!

I swear by almighty God/Tyngaf i Dduw holl alluog

Here's what it is!

Byddaf i yn rhegi i Dduw omnipotent.

WHICH MEANS, BASICALLY,

I WILL SWEAR AT "OMNIPOTENT" GOD

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Okay I mean FIRST OF ALL that means the Welsh pledge breaks one of the ten commandments so that's a Choice and SECOND OF ALL I just checked and Google Translate actually translates this correctly so now I have a thousand questions and they really boil down to WHO EXACTLY TRANSLATED THIS GIVE ME A NAME

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Did you see that the Welsh version of Chuck's pledge uses the word "curse" instead of "swear"? I don't speak Welsh, but I saw this on the internets and it sounds on brand.

OKAY I HAD TO LOOK THIS UP

Here's what it should be!

I swear by almighty God/Tyngaf i Dduw holl alluog

Here's what it is!

Byddaf i yn rhegi i Dduw omnipotent.

WHICH MEANS, BASICALLY,

I WILL SWEAR AT "OMNIPOTENT" GOD

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Okay I mean FIRST OF ALL that means the Welsh pledge breaks one of the ten commandments so that's a Choice and SECOND OF ALL I just checked and Google Translate actually translates this correctly so now I have a thousand questions and they really boil down to WHO EXACTLY TRANSLATED THIS GIVE ME A NAME

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Net fact for y’all. Loki is said to have been the inventor of the net in norse mythology, he was later caught by one when he tried to escape punishment for killing Baldur.

this is it. this is the funniest scooby doo clip

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56=7x8 5678. Just saying.

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Hero!

The Outbursts of Everett True was a comic strip that ran in papers from 1905 to 1927, wherein the aforementioned Everett True regularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude. Men have not only been taking up too much room on public transport for about as long as public transport has existed, but the people around them have been irritated about it for at least a hundred years. The next time someone tries to claim that manspreading is a false phenomenon, please direct them to this strip so that Everett True can correct their misconceptions with an umbrella upside the head.

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I’m sensing a return of 4ed, it’s not a good sensation.

I think there's been some talk about how one of the design goals of One D&D seems to be a focus on making the digital tools more important and given that there's talk inside Hasbro along the lines of D&D having more potential for monetization I wouldn't be surprised if WotC were to try some kind of "D&D as a service" thing.

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As a non-rogue Archivist I approve this message. There are a lot of things that are lost forever, let’s save what we can.

HBO Max: so basically we're going to erase most of our shows as a tax dodge in a week and you can't stop us

A Youtuber who makes two hour long & strangely ominous video essays about Lost Media: it'll all be on Archive dot org by the end of the week you son of a bitch. Also the forbidden original pilot of Caillou and the French dub of the long sought after August 27th, 2001 Spongebob bumpers

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https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1849807678

There’s really nothing to say is there? Just everything to feel.

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The funniest thing is that Twitter is not one of the biggest social media platforms. It’s the 15th. Pinterest has more active users. It’s just that a lot of famous people use twitter so the advertisers aren’t that bothered about if they need to skip it. Muskman didn’t get that until he bought it and everyone started jumping ship.

When you ignore that it’s horrible that things like this can even happen, Elon Musk is honestly a fascinating and funny case study. Here’s a man who has built his entire reputation on:

Supposedly being highly intelligent

Never making mistakes due to point 1

If something goes wrong, it’s not his fault due to point 2

He’s coasted along on this reputation because capitalism has created an endless supply of doofuses who think anyone who has money probably did something to deserve it (he just inherited it) so all he has to do is throw money at projects that seem smart and futury and as long as they make a minor profit or produce something cool, his reputation is reinforced.

It’s not truly reinforced, obviously, because anyone with reasonable critical thinking skills can see that he’s not actually a scientist, he’s at best an investor who got lucky a couple times, and regularly takes the credit for stuff his employees make, but he’s got enough of the aforementioned doofuses that he’s gotten by so far.

He could’ve honestly kept out of the spotlight and just made infinite money if he wasn’t also an egomaniac who needs constant approval and attention. But then, for clout, he made a statement that he was going to buy Twitter. And Twitter held him to his word. And due to point 2, he can’t walk that back, because he never makes mistakes.

So now he’s lost 44 billion dollars because he couldn’t watch his mouth and cared too much about his reputation to just pay the 1 billion dollar fine to go back on his offer. So, due to point 1, he has to make it look as if he totally was going to really buy Twitter all along, and he totally has real plans for it. But Twitter is losing money, hard. So he starts looking for ways to make his money back. And somehow lands on… monetizing the system which verifies user identities…..?

No, totally a good idea, see point 2. Implementing it right away. People are misusing the new system? Not his fault, see point 3. But Twitter is largely funded by advertising, and advertisers can see what’s going on. So they start pulling out, which means Twitter just loses MORE money. Musk just dug himself a deeper hole. And now he’s just panicking while trying to convince everyone he’s got it under control. Digging deeper and deeper.

He’s fucked. He’s just totally fucked himself. And he’s taking one of the planet’s biggest social media platforms down with him. All because he can never admit making a mistake. Fucking hilarious. A cautionary tale of magnificent proportions. Tens of thousands of lives are going to be affected by this, as the platform they use to spread their work goes up in flames, and it’s horrible, but as we are suspended in the ennui, we can at least watch this moron blow up into fireworks. Amazing.

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Tuvok began the series as Janeways spy who infiltrated the maquis. How shit would he be att his job if someone could just ask “Hey, are you a spy” and he couldn’t just say “No”.

this is so funny, every other vulcan is out here lying about lying and tuvok is just here like ‘no we can’