Gullible

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Littering 🚯 in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 3 points 21 hours ago

Just don’t credit me, I’m pretty sure I plagiarized it in part from elsewhere

Littering 🚯 in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

We are killing less. And overwhelmingly so. If you don’t count faceless, recontectualized packaged cow, chicken, and pig meat. We’re also still pretty good about keeping our close group alive, but medicine men, insurance, and numbers over 100 are a strictly cultural practice not cemented within our genetic memory in any helpful way, so society as a whole suffers under the burden of our limited empathy.

You can also get into the economics of governance to get a good look at what it would mean to move the systems in place enough to reach the sort of universal socioeconomic safety that you’d personally find acceptable. I’m a fan of Europe’s deal… up to a point.

I really don’t mean to cut things off, but the scope of this conversation would necessarily reach so incredibly wide that I don’t believe I can keep your attention or mine for a dozen pages of philosophy, biology, anthropology, history, psychology, and economics. In short, I, personally, can only expect people to fit neatly into a groove so long as it isn’t too far removed from the one we dug a hundred thousand years ago. Certain people have done too much to remove themselves, and to some degree us, from personal responsibility in the US to do anything but set fire to what we have.

Littering 🚯 in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (4 children)

I think you might have some ontologically incongruous standards. We are crazy apes. You can take the guns away, but the murder will persist for millennia, if not gene edited out. Banning the guns and lead bullets is more likely to work than expecting humanity to spontaneously diverge from its evolutionary roots as a bang bus murder ape

NutterButter and Lemmy both hope everyone is enjoying the weather while it lasts. in c/aww@lemmy.world
[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 13 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Fully tucked goat loaf sitting atop the feeder. Are goats cats??

Portuguese military rescueing a sheep during floods in Leiria area in c/accidentalrenaissance@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That sheep seems so bizarrely alright with what’s happening to it.

Annon relfects on W doing it for the love of the game in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

The funny part was the massive gas tax that doubled my gas budget, which was later repealed, but gas prices were unaltered by the repeal. And I think that’s happened like 3 times in my life. I still remember thinking a dollar was expensive for gas.

Pick one in c/dogs@lemmy.world
[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

A friend in high school was a fantastic artist. Whenever they had a spare moment, you’d see them doodling people and places and animals or just tessellating. But there was one thing they could never draw, monkeys.

Monkey faces are just too close to a human’s, so their instincts led them to draw cute little monkeys with the faces oddly close to children. It really ate away at them, until they finally managed to overcome their issue with practice. Number 5 reminded me of that. Though it seems more intentional

New Unredacted Banner Installed on DOJ exterior in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I was expecting “make America great again” so I misread it as “make America rape again.” I feel like someone should have looked over their propaganda to prevent this sort of thing

Annon relfects on W doing it for the love of the game in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 37 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Thank you. I could feel an aneurism developing further with every subsequent line.

Anon disrespects their elders in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

You could be, but the joke was to lash out in the sort of passive aggressive, out of touch obstinance that you can find in many older Christians in the US. I, as the (relatively) anonymous face, accept the responsibility and derision of playing the jester. You, as the audience, accept the responsibility of recognizing the group being emulated, and laughing at the fool.

It’s a form of punching down, sure, but I don’t respect socially bubbled bigots enough to care about their feelings, regardless of their age

Anon disrespects their elders in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That’s what happens when you watch too many video games, you start disrespecting your elders. Now, back in my day, etc..

(I hope the joke is more apparent now)

Anon disrespects their elders in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Video games are all either gay or the devil, and there’s nothing you can do to convince me otherwise

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Is my prank idea decent or will I waste my time? (sh.itjust.works)
 

Neighbor has short hedges rimming their yard to about ankle height. I’d like to extend them a bit every night by using my own hedge clippings, until they notice.

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Macrotrends is a ruleiable source (sh.itjust.works)
 

I’ve found incorrect information on there before, but this is just nonsense

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Anon defeats the slop agenda (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Gullible@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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Anonymous
11/03/25(Mon)11:55:56 No.283509426
>>283505479 (OP)
this is just qualityslop. You only like it because it's good

Anonymous
11/03/25(Mon)11:57:10 No.283509466
>>283509426
What?

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How much money would it take for you to eat hot soup while watching a spooky movie? (sh.itjust.works)
 

I usually watch tv while I eat, and quickly realized that horror and bisque aren’t the ideal match. $200 for me.

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When a tutorial in a game stretches out far too long, do you also picture yourself punching the tutorial npc in the throat and running away? (sh.itjust.works)
 

I’ve been going through some older rpgs, and I’ve found that the tutorials are both entirely out of character and mind numbing. It’s hard not to envision myself taking my time back by violence. Anyone else do something similar or am I peculiar?

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Can we consider degenerating from maga.place and hilariouschaos.com? (sh.itjust.works)
 

Both instances are pointedly political and looking to spread their particular philosophies to the threadiverse. Moreover, their users aren’t exactly winning any awards for charm. Can we put it to a vote before they become a nuisance?

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How do I determine what a mystery dongle does? Edit: solved (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Gullible@sh.itjust.works to c/askelectronics@discuss.tchncs.de
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Got a used business laptop and found a recessed dongle in it. The original owner says they have no clue, that it’s been in there since they got it. There’s no way a dongle is keeping this thing running, is there? I’ve already swapped the OS, if that matters at all

Update: yubikey! Thank you all for the information, I’m definitely still learning

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What’s the deal with the abundance of eBay listed laptops lacking drives? (sh.itjust.works)
 

I’m starting to get back into the swing of tech at large, and found a business laptop that fits my needs for a portable low power emulation device. When I look to buy it secondhand, because I don’t intend to burn money or the environment unnecessarily, I find dozens of extremely cheap listings without drives. Are these secondhand from businesses removing and drilling the drives or is there something else going on?

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I did it! (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Gullible@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.world
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Finally back in Linux after so many years! My first recent attempt was waylaid by a locked down bios beyond my ability to bypass, but I’m done! Thank you, to everyone who helped out in my previous post!

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~~Trying to unlock and put Linux on a locked, proprietary pc and I need some help~~ 2 years of compsci isn’t worth a $20 pc. I’m returning it and getting my money back. Details in post (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Gullible@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.world
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Final edit: having now done more research, the bios is secured and to get to boot options would essentially involve manually editing the bios with a second computer and downloading Chinese software to finish the job. I think I’m just returning this one. This is a bit beyond my skill level

I purchased a Lenovo mini pc online to turn into my second ever Linux machine (whoo), and when I tried booting it up for the first time, I found it asking for a network to sync data from an Amazon employee. I will be frank, fuck Amazon. If someone stole it, I hope the lost money was enough to cause Bezos to shit himself and die, only for a clone to rise in his place to do the same in a never-ending Sisyphean hellscape of skin peeling feculent horror. The fantasy that my holding on to this, and it is likely a fantasy, will affect Amazon is a bonus, not a detriment.

Now, that said, it was probably resold from Amazon’s stock at a decent discount, but not wiped. How can I install Linux on a machine that I don’t actually have full access to? I’m passably tech savvy, and more than willing to learn more to get back on Linux after 10 years of Microsoft pissing me off.

TLDR: How can I install Linux on an Amazon OS machine that I don’t actually have full access to?

Edit: my flash drive is ready, just struggling to get to the boot menu at this point. I can only mash so hard for so long!

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He’s not sleeping. He has important things to do! (sh.itjust.works)
 
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What’s the ideal ripeness for plantain chips? (sh.itjust.works)
 

I’ve been making plantain chips for a bit, and I’m always dissatisfied with them. If my plantains are too ripe, the chips can’t crunch up. Not ripe enough and they lack the slight sweetness I love.

I decided to grab the greenest ones at the market to slowly ripen them at home, but even that’s a bit wonky, as they tend to ripen on top but not the bottom, which leaves me with something peculiar and delicious, but certainly not what I’m looking for.

So, how do you consistently get plantains in the Goldilocks zone?

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