If you fall for those tricks, you’re boned.

I’m a NixOS fanboy now :/

It’s all fun and games until the duck talks back.

when everything is acting up

the server, kid, and stage

sometimes the bravest thing to do

is turn a single page

not every bit needs pushing through

not every load needs borne

a rest is not a missing note —

it’s how the song is formed

you left a little comment here

a small and cozy light

and someone read it, felt it land,

and held it through the night

so post your little posts, my friend

the network needs the thread

a system with no idle time

is one that’s nearly dead

Look at everything he’s done so far:

• Sabotaged public health
• Sabotaged environmental protection
• Sabotaged international relations
• Sabotaged economy and taxation
• Sabotaged internal stability
• Instigated violence with every decision, saying, or act
• Just started another war in the Middle East with Israel as the fulcrum.
• Netenyahu has been offending quite literally the entire world, and recently said “you’re letting the bad guys win” to the EU when they are reluctant to join the war. Not that exact citation but here’s a random one I just found with a quick search: https://en.haberler.com/netanyahu-explaining-why-we-struck-iran-we-are-the-19618702/

Does this seem irrational to you? Well, it’s not if you put on your detective hat and consider them religious nuts trying to bring about the apocalypse by fulfilling the requirements themselves.

Jewish end times:

• God redeems the Jewish people from their captivity that began with the Babylonian captivity, in a new Exodus (Kibbutz Galuyot)
• God returns the Jewish people to the Land of Israel
• God restores the kingly House of David and the Temple in Jerusalem
• God appoints a regent from the House of David (i.e., the Messiah) to lead the Jewish people and the world and usher in the Messianic Age, which is characterised by justice, righteousness, and peace
• All the gentile nations recognize Israel’s God as the only true God and gather to the Mount Zion
• God resurrects the dead and judges all souls (and sends some for a year to Gehinnom)
• God creates a new Heaven and new Earth

Christianity: There are multiple passages in the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, which speak of a time of terrible tribulation such as has never been known, a time of natural and human-made disasters on an awesome scale. Jesus said that at the time of his coming, “There will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever will be. And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake, those days will be shortened.” [Matt 24:21–22]

Islam: (Sunni and Shia versions differ on some details, because Shia belief centres on “The Mehdi” character)

1. A huge black cloud of smoke (dukhan) will cover the earth.[note 3]
2. Three sinkings of the earth, one in the East.[note 3]
3. One sinking of the earth in the West.[note 3]
4. One sinking of the earth in Arabia.[note 3]
5. The false messiah—anti-Christ, Masih ad-Dajjal—shall appear with great powers as a one-eyed man with his right eye blind and deformed like a grape. Although believers will not be deceived, he will claim to be God, to hold the keys to heaven and hell, and will lead many astray.[82] In reality, his heaven is hell, and his hell is heaven. The Dajjal will be followed by seventy thousand Jews of Isfahan wearing Persian shawls.[note 4]
6. The return of Isa (Jesus), from the fourth sky, to kill Dajjal.[83]
7. Ya’jooj and Ma’jooj (Gog and Magog), a Japhetic tribe of vicious beings who had been imprisoned by Dhul-Qarnayn, will break out. They will ravage the earth, drink all the water of Lake Tiberias, and kill all believers in their way. Isa, Imam Al-Mahdi, and the believers with them will go to the top of a mountain and pray for the destruction of Gog and Magog. God eventually will send disease and worms to wipe them out.[note 5][84]
8. The sun will rise from the West.[85][86][87]
9. The Dabbat al-ard, or Beast of the Earth, will come out of the ground to talk to people.[note 6]
10. The second blow of the trumpet will be sounded, the dead will return to life, and a fire will come out of Yemen that shall gather all to Mahshar Al Qiy’amah (The Gathering for Judgment).[88]

Now look at these as allegories. How would a group of zealots interpret them?

Bro, the guy is literally trying to bring about The Rapture before his term ends because he’s afraid of going to prison. Looks like nobody told him that most religions are about accountability.

Huh. This is new

Anyways, she could have left a note back at the nursing home under her pillow: “I wanted this” in her handwriting would have saved hin a lot of headache. But I’m assuming she could write and that’s not her specific handicap from the disability? Can’t tell without access to the article.

US is the Andrew Tate of global politics right now. They were a lot more subtle about it before though. But the core values that have always held throughout history are absolute self-interest, entitlement, and hubris.

Apply Gestalt Theory to the US and watch how unrestrained capitalism raised this baby from an idealist freedom seeker and into a narcissistic bully with self-aggrandising sophist reasoning and a pure Machiavellian outlook on life.

Trump only did away with the pretences, by firing the people who took care of the subtle masquerade. He didn’t like the pushback from them on global policy, and because the shoes already fit, decided to just do it live on stage without the makeup.

Unfortunately for US citizens, that means that they get to experience the splashback as he pisses on their international credibility.

A historically meticulously curated and maintained image that’s now irrevocably ruined forevermore. No sane person can trust a promise or a treaty made through US foreign policy ever again.

This is the way

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Bro… where’s /c/metashitposting?

I normally don’t go full meta, but the world needs an emergency pun transfusion

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Finally, I knew when I saved this to my phone there would be a perfect moment. (Humanity is too predictable)

Attribution: https://lemmy.world/post/43077529

Ah, the good stuff. Too early in the day for my fix though :P

“Reinforcement Learning From Advertiser Feedback”

That’s the gist of this century thus far, isn’t it? :P

Not offended in the slightest. Their response already allayed my worries that it was someone from Reddit thinking karma farming works here.

I’m a big fan of Xkcd #1053 myself. ;)

2025-09-18

What’s up with the old reposts today?

Edit: And it looks to be just you doing that, @[email protected], so what’s up?

I read that back then and was wondering if there were any new developments. Looks like checking the comments always pays off.

Because it’s genuine? I dunno. That’s the vibe I got.

Aww man. I hate it when this happens.