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[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 25 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

RE: the original comic

I think the attitude of "oh, if you're a maladjusted man, you need to go get a girlfriend" is a toxic social expectation and one of the major causes of the male loneliness epidemic.

There are a lot of sad men in the world who have very solvable emotional problems. But instead of working on self improvement (exercise, mindfulness, therapy, getting friends, starting a hobby), they go looking for a girlfriend to fix them. The girls say "this isn't the 1950s, buckaroo, I don't have to be your mummy anymore", and reject the men. Then the men become incels and go online looking for male validation. They find the manosphere, and people like Tate say "exercise, eat good, practice grindfulness, and hate women". And since some of that advice is good, the men feel better and follow the bad parts too, like hating women. Which just makes them more bitter and lonelier people.

So, uhhhh, cultist who wants a demon to kill your rival. You should go for a walk, have a nutritious meal, do something that makes you happy, think about your place in the universe, and make a new friend. You don't need a girlfriend to practice healthy living, and you certainly don't need to hate women to practice healthy living.

[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

Making new friends is exactly what daemon summoning is for.

[–] asqapro@reddthat.com 8 points 13 hours ago

I had that mentality of "I just need girlfriend to fix me" for a long time. I was lucky that enough people like you made posts and comments like these and the message eventually got through to me. Therapy has been great for helping me understand how to fix and improve my life without relying on someone else, and that's motivated me to exercise more, eat better, and improve my mental health through journaling and other activities.

I know it can sometimes feel like you're shouting into the void with comments like this, where a few people upvote and you get some silly responses, but you never know if your comment may be the one that finally gets through to someone. I appreciate comments like this and I hope people never stop repeating it.

[–] mokey@therock.fraggle-rock.org 3 points 15 hours ago

Sir, this is a Wendy's

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I remember thinking it was cool when Doom loaded with R_Init: Init DOOM refresh daemon

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 13 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

That message has been forever seared into my brain and comes up when seeing the word "daemon".

[–] Kabutor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You mean in all caps? Isn’t that a bit much?

[–] Morphit@feddit.uk 8 points 23 hours ago

Not enough. Needs some \u001b[1m

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 14 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

crontab is actually neutral evil

the artist, i think, is owen cyclops

https://owencyclops.com/comics/

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Cron is absolutely lawful, not neutral. If there's any deamon that defines lawfulness it's sendmail, but after it, it's cron.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 2 points 23 hours ago

Cunningham's Law ftw

[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 7 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

What about the Daniel Suarez Daemon, a decision tree designed to take over the world?

[–] NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 20 hours ago

I'm so ready for that thing to be real and just take over this shit.

I'm an idealist lol.

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 21 hours ago

Loved them all. What's next?

[–] Pyro@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I've never heard of daemons outside a programming context

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Maxwell had one!

[–] vanillama@programming.dev 16 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

They were divine beings above humans and below gods, they're probably the main inspiration for both angels and demons in Christianity

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Nope, daemon is just the Latin spelling. Sometimes we use it nowadays for fun to mean different things.

[–] vanillama@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

In religious studies, daemon or daimon is used to refer to pre Christian supernatural beings as I said. There's a huge difference between beings that may or may not be evil vs demons who are generally regarded as evil by definition. Demons got their name from daimons, but they're not fully equivalent.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 22 hours ago

They were demons but with a funny æ

[–] Klear@quokk.au 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 7 points 23 hours ago (2 children)
[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 13 points 23 hours ago (2 children)
[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 6 points 21 hours ago

Stop poking meeeeee!

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 3 points 23 hours ago

Cool. Looks fun. Thanks.

[–] Klear@quokk.au 3 points 23 hours ago
[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 5 points 23 hours ago

They appear in Warhammer a fair bit.

[–] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 19 hours ago

That doesn't look like Pantalaimon?

[–] xSikes@feddit.online 2 points 21 hours ago

Daemon = day man with some twang

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 2 points 22 hours ago
[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 1 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

So why are they called daemons and not demons?

[–] zarlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Many people equate the word "daemon" with the word "demon", implying some kind of satanic connection between UNIX and the underworld. This is an egregious misunderstanding. "Daemon" is actually a much older form of "demon"; daemons have no particular bias towards good or evil, but rather serve to help define a person's character or personality. The ancient Greeks' concept of a "personal daemon" was similar to the modern concept of a "guardian angel"—eudaemonia is the state of being helped or protected by a kindly spirit. As a rule, UNIX systems seem to be infested with both daemons and demons.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing)

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

They're equated because Christians label all heathenry as demonic.

Tl;Dr It's the same word but with an æ

[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 1 points 17 hours ago

Ah, the joke's part of a quote - my first thought was you highlighting it might cause a po-faced editor to remove it.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 21 hours ago

Alt spelling.