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xkcd #3163: Repair Video

Title text:

The statue should be in the likeness of whatever sculptor posted the sculpting tool repair video that was most helpful during the installation of the statue.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3163/

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[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 153 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 88 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or worse, "nevermind, fixed it".

[–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 92 points 1 month ago (2 children)

deleteduser said: [deleted]

randomuser said: "It works! Thanks OP!" (posted 12 years ago)

[–] Skipcast@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is where wayback machine excels

[–] Zink@programming.dev 24 points 1 month ago

Thanks for posting this, because I started getting bummed thinking about how much of a great resource the full reddit history would be to just have online, were that whole thing not ruined gut bad reasons by bad people.

But then you reminded me about the good people.

I found the helpers, Mr Rogers!

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I feel strange when instead of deleted it is a random bunch of words, a trademark of actively having used some browser extension to clear out your posts and comments as part of the exodus from reddit.

Then I feel good about seeing the effects of protesting against the reddit megacorp, but also hair pullingly annoyed because FUCK NOW WHAT DO I DO ABOUT THIS TOASTER

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't even know how much help I removed from reddit before I left. The only sub I left in tact was the lemmy sub to help people escape at the time.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I hear that mentioning lemmy as a reddit alternative attracts the ban hammer on reddit nowadays. I do it anyways when I'm feeling cheeky.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or, another annoying one, you find a thread, solve it yourself, and can't post because the thread is locked for whatever dumb reason. You make a new thread and it never gets traffic from search engines. Only the old one. So nobody ever solves the problem because some mod is worried about necroing, oh the horror.

[–] bob_lemon@feddit.org 16 points 1 month ago

The new thread also gets closed as a duplicate of the old thread