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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • I feel there’s a similar relation between Mac :: Ubuntu (me) :: Arch.

    I try to explain to folks that I have very little interest in anything outside of /home. I truly use Ubuntu because I like the desktop and Steam works and I have all the dev tools I need. But a certain type of otherwise competent Mac-using developer thinks I must be a 1337 h4x0r to even dare to use Linux for actual work.


  • tryagaintoMemes@sopuli.xyzIt's the dream
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    28 days ago

    Came here to say this. I know the rest of the replies here are the perils of late stage capitalism and a growing feeling of hopelessness but god fucking damn it people need to know how good air-reheated fries are! We gotta take the wins where we can.



  • I don’t think he ever shied away from pointing out its tragic inevitability if you push a group of people far enough, but his goal was always to avoid it.

    …it is as necessary for me to be as vigorous in condemning the conditions which cause persons to feel that they must engage in riotous activities as it is for me to condemn riots. I think America must see that riots do not develop out of thin air. Certain conditions continue to exist in our society which must be condemned as vigorously as we condemn riots. But in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard.


  • tryagaintomemes@lemmy.worldI can ship that
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    1 month ago

    I think she was included to mock the notion of aristocratic bloodlines. Arranged (forced) marriages between royal families were always for the purpose of procreation and, well…

    But yeah, you need so much setup and context and certainty around the bona fides of the OP that the punchline itself (if I’m even right about the intended punchline) just gets suffocated.

    There’s only one guaranteed way this joke would land and that’s if Vivian herself had posted it.