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BlemboTheThird , to lemmyshitpost in Another mystery solved.

It’s way cuter if he’s kicking his stubby ol legs

prettybunnys ,

I like to think he’s treading water, Godzilla is an expert in synchronized swimming.

GeorgeTheFourth ,

Yeah all the above is head canon for me now.

Madison420 ,

Squid locomotion.

Socsa ,

Godzilla is a duck confirmed

alphacyberranger ,
@alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works avatar

Quackzilla

grue , to lemmyshitpost in Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis breaks 25% of the law.

Three out of four of those corners (including the one in which the gummies are a misdemeanor) are also within the Navajo Nation. Kinda feels like that tribal jurisdiction ought to matter.

blanketswithsmallpox ,

They do. And for most purposes each reservation is it’s own little defacto nation. They aren’t truly, but definitely in spirit lol.

Everythingispenguins ,

They don’t necessarily. Historically they didn’t have jurisdiction over non-tribal members. Now there are some detainment powers, but it is not 100% clear still.

Eyelessoozeguy ,

Each nation has its own agreement with the USA that defines these things, it’s weird. I think it’s in Wisconsin where tribe members retain hunting and fishing rights to a lake sold as a private lake, when cops showed up, they had to let them fish and hunt or the land would be returned to the tribe. As per the agreement from long ago.

Everythingispenguins ,

Ummm that is a sold sort of. It is more clear now, but is history tribal police couldn’t reinforce the law or even detain non tribal members. After a supreme court ruling and a new federal law tribal place have some power over non-tribal members. But not to necessarily to the extent of other local law enforcement.

GravitySpoiled , (edited ) to linuxmemes in With GPL, you're programming Freedom. With MIT, you're programming for free.

I published some packages under MIT a couple of years ago. It is difficult to understand at first, I was happy with the license because anyone could use it like they want.

Today, I understand that I want to use GPL. With GPL everyone can use the code like they want and I can use their code like I want.

takeda ,

For writing an application GPL is fine if you don’t want anyone to profit from your work and if they make changes, contribute back.

Things are a little bit more complex if you are writing a library or code that is meant to be included in another application.

If you use GPL you might get rejected even by other open source applications, as GPL might be understandable as it will change license off the application or be outright incompatible.

This was the case with cursor library after author changed license everyone stopped using it: github.com/…/885156333ac9ca335a587b1dd08964074313…

The most ironic thing is that he created package from stack overflow answer:

github.com/GijsTimmers/cursor/blob/…/cursor.py

The original author never said they are releasing copyright or are making it public domain.

ReveredOxygen ,
@ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works avatar

Isn’t this why LGPL exists?

uis ,

It is

uis ,

if you don’t want anyone to profit from your work

Technically you can. There are two popular models: Lua model and RedHat model. In first you are paid to develop requeated features, in second for support.

Darkard , to aboringdystopia in Saw a nazi today

Looks like someone who needs some break lights replacing, maybe two tires as well.

downpunxx ,

sure does

tiefling ,

This is light. We used to deal with Nazis much differently back in the day

jawa21 ,
@jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I’ve heard that curbs were involved.

feedum_sneedson ,

That was you, was it?

urska ,

In which war you fought pal?

lars ,

Grandpa didn’t live long enough to find out he was old school antifa. A baller.

umbrella , (edited )
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

maybe they need to repaint their car because keys were somehow pressed and dragged against it.

maybe some pigeon broke some windows idk, those damn animals.

maybe the oil plug has came a bit loose and he loses the engine a bit ahead…

nazis justify more creativity.

some_guy , to aboringdystopia in My grocery store wants to know my BMI

I hate contemporary software norms.

RaoulDook ,

I hate that people just install apps for whatever now. A fucking grocery store app on the phone? What code could the grocery store possibly need to run on my device? For online grocery shopping, just use their website.

There are zero retail store apps on my phones. I don’t need any store’s app. I get all the discounts I need via the web and paper coupons in the mail.

Lustrate ,

Our local grocery store chain lets you set up both pick up and delivery orders by selecting items, scheduling, and payment in the app; which is really just a wrapped website. While this might not be your use case; it’s certainly something that can be useful for people that are willing to pay an upcharge for convenience and/or time savings.

RaoulDook ,

Why not just use their website instead of installing their code on your device? If they are competent their website should have all the above features.

Moneo ,

Cause I’d rather open an app then deal with an extra browser tab every time I want to use the site.

Tregetour ,

An open app simply is another type of browser tab, in my books. From a ‘screen cruft’ perspective I consider them roughly equivalent. At any rate it’s an interesting aspect of software design psychology…

RaoulDook ,

“I have sacrificed my privacy for a minor convenience” is another way you could have said that.

Moneo ,

How do I sacrifice my privacy by installing an app?

JamesFire ,

You’d rather have an OS tab than a browser tab?

Are you sure this makes sense?

Moneo ,

Yes I find it convenient to press a tile on my home page and have it take me to an app instead of opening a tab in my browser. I’m not sure how this is undesirable.

glimse ,

I get all the discounts I need via the web and paper coupons in the mail.

Well, you wouldn’t get Jewel’s discounts at all then. I stopped shopping there because they switched to app coupons but not everyone has multiple grocery store options

RaoulDook ,

I’ve never heard of a Jewel’s grocery store before, so nothing of value is lost to me.

glimse ,

I’m just explaining why someone would have a grocery app installed, not trying to talk you into shopping there. They’ve made the store worse in many ways beyond app coupons. Like getting rid of most of generics

Alexstarfire ,

Generally, I agree. However, websites run like shit when you don’t have great service, say like inside the store and they have no wifi. App runs a lot smoother.

Why would I do such a thing if I were in the store? Might see if another store nearby has what I’m looking for if they don’t have it. Might be checking to see what aisle something is on because I’ve spent 10 minutes trying to find it on my own and I’m frustrated as hell because I know they have it cause I bough to last time I was there.

Another reason is because the website is less functional than their mobile website. So if I want to browse sales and make a shopping list while on the couch, it’s far easier to use the app than their website. And a lot of places focus more on apps than mobile websites so this is just going to get more common.

Though, truth be told. IDK why I ended up getting their app. I really, really, really hate being forced to get apps to do things. Lots of digital tickets are going to app only now: Ticketmaster, airlines, etc. Last time I went to Arby’s they had a sign in the drive thru saying to go to their website to look at coupons. Which then told me to go to their app to see them. Nope, you can fuck off.

RaoulDook ,

I’ve never had any of those problems. Apps are not smoother than the web in general, they just are probably better at hiding latency and content loading process.

Also when I’m inside a grocery store, I don’t need an app or the website to find things since I can just walk over to them or ask an employee where the product is.

Alexstarfire ,

The thing about “general” is that means there are exceptions. Also, I pretty much never see employees walking around the store.

Beanedwizard , to insanepeoplefacebook in The moon is a hot topic worldwide!

Evidence: -Twitter/Musk

You can’t make this shit up

Shieldtoad , to memes in Choices choices.
qwertyqwertyqwerty , to insanepeoplefacebook in Sovcit sent in a "payment", T Mobile doesn't think so.

These sovcit posts look like they belong in the wizarding world or something to me. They read like

“I sent three eyes of newts to the ministry of dark arts, and one wing of fairy to the department of destinies, but the overlords of magic constraint still won’t let me fly my broomstick to the neverland. Why are they illegally preventing me from binding with the one true dark form? What did everyone else do to get their vessels stamped for approval?”

Meanwhile, their electric company is like, “Yo, you used $50 worth of electricity. We need you to send us $50 in usable currency if you want to continue using electricity from us. Please send us usable currency instead of jars of spiders like you did last month. Thanks.”

HereticalDoughnut , (edited )

Exactly. Every time I read one of these I get the impression they are trying really hard to say the right incantation of non-sensical legalese that will make creditors go away.

Sakychu ,

I mean that’s there whole idea right? You just have to mention all the magic case numbers or “ucc 3” and boom you can legally steal stuff from others!

Ilovethebomb ,

That’s exactly how I think of their logic, they genuinely believe language is magic, and if they say the right combination of crazy things, they get free stuff.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

I love this observation lol

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

You left out the part where they pay someone else $200 to be told how they are supposedly going to avoid paying that $50.

TragicNotCute ,
@TragicNotCute@lemmy.world avatar

An eye of newt is actually a mustard seed. This isn’t terribly helpful, but there ya go.

Reddfugee42 ,

Mustard seeds come from newts? TIL

Bluefruit , to selfhosted in Here is what 6 decommissioned servers looks like. My Jellyfin will be very happy

88 x 8TB drives? 704 TB of storage?

You got a whole damn data center lol. Good stuff dude. Was this off of ebay or direct from a company? I’m curious to know the total cost.

Krafting OP ,
@Krafting@lemmy.world avatar

Oh yeah, forgot to mention: All of this for free at my work, I work in a datacenter!

Bluefruit ,

Well now im very jealous lol. Good for you man, thats a banger deal.

deweydecibel ,

My Jellyfin is also running media from recycled HDDs from work. No where near this impressive haul, but it was nice to be able to get a solid 10 TBs for free to get my server going.

Krafting OP ,
@Krafting@lemmy.world avatar

My server got updated a lot, starting with a single 1 TB disk, the a single 4TB disk, to 6 4tb disks and now it will be 10 8TB disks

unwillingsomnambulist ,

Somewhere, an ISO27001 auditor’s jimmies started rustling.

brbposting ,

Do you think it’s possible for old decommissioned drives to be donated in a compliant manner?

Reference for others:

ISO/IEC 27001 is an international standard to manage information security. … It details requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining and continually improving an information security management system (ISMS) – the aim of which is to help organizations make the information assets they hold more secure. Organizations that meet the standard’s requirements can choose to be certified by an accredited certification body following successful completion of an audit.

stevestevesteve ,

It certainly is. ISO 27001 is a framework, not very prescriptive at all. Basically an auditor will ask “how do you ensure data isn’t leaving your facility in the form of discarded hardware?” If you say “here’s a link to our media destruction policy. It says all drives are wiped according to NIST 800-88 cryptographic erasure. If that is not possible or not applicable, the drive is destroyed. Here’s our log of decomissioned equipment” chances are very good they’ll say “OK great let’s move on to the next one” with only minor followup questions.

brbposting ,

👏

I recognize there’s a likelihood you are usually being paid for answers like that. Thank you for satisfying my curiosity for free :)

unwillingsomnambulist ,

Absolutely, and it’s usually up to the organization disposing of the drives to set and document the standard by which they abide.

brbposting ,

Thanks :)

xtremeownage ,

That, is a pretty good deal. Better start picking up some MD1200s!

Krafting OP ,
@Krafting@lemmy.world avatar

I have my eyes on some fiber channel stuff that got decomissionned, I’ll probably try something with that

frickineh , to lemmyshitpost in Day one and done

Pfft, I always buy a frozen pizza specifically because I already know I’m not gonna feel like cooking after grocery shopping because it sucks. I don’t even pretend anymore. All that fresh food is for another day.

Bluefruit ,

I specifically buy easy dinner stuff while.im out shopping for the same reason. I spent an hour getting food so now imma take it easy and eat this mac and chicken strips from the deli.

Swedneck ,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I’m curious how your shopping trips look like to be called exhausting, i just bike to the store, scan the products, stuff them in my backpack, pay, and bike home. Takes 15 minutes tops if i don’t leisurely walk around looking at the shelves.

dditty ,

I’m not the person you replied to, but when I go grocery shopping I usually buy ~$200 worth of groceries and expend a bunch of energy hauling them all up 3 flights of stairs to my place which can be tiring, plus traffic to/from the store, plus putting them all away, clearing space in the fridge, etc.

I’d guess it’s a combination of the physical and mental tolls of grocery shopping.

Ember ,

As a family that tries to cook as many of our meals as possible and generally visits the store once a week, it can be a big endeavor. To make balanced, healthy meals for the whole week requires a large variety of ingredients. This makes meal planning before the trip and having a list necessary, and then there’s a lot of searching for things that may not always be in stock.

Additionally, we often restock household necessities and toiletries on this trip as well, which requires more planning and a longer list. Add all this together with carrying all the bags, putting things away, etc, and it can be pretty exhausting.

lolrightythen ,

I’ve been on both sides and they’re both true. Biking in to get ingredients for one meal is quick. Taking a car to gather a week’s supplies (I still have to go back for something later) is a bigger endeavor.

I try to time it with my work schedule, which changes a lot. Old people block aisles and chat from 10 to 12. It’s deathly busy from 3 to 5.

JJROKCZ ,

A lot of Americans don’t have grocery stores within 15 minute bike distance

Katana314 ,

Taking a look at the other replies can certainly explain how American grocery stores became such big places. I’m American, but have the luck of comparing to European town layout and actually being walking distance from a grocery store. Theoretically, if the shops (and streets and parking lots) themselves were smaller, you could make frequent backpack-sized trips for fresh whatever because it would be a tiny distance.

Raxiel ,

I’m in the UK, the supermarket is less than 10 minutes away by car, but it seems impossible to spend less than an hour in there shopping for a family of 4. There’s a smaller shop in walking distance, but everything costs more there and it’s not economical for a weeks worth (not to mention the more limited range).
My solution is to pay the big store to pick it for me, then I just collect it. Cheaper than delivery, they’re the ones sat waiting for me and if there’s a sub I don’t like or something I forgot, it’s just a quick visit, not an odyssey.
Still use the local but just for top ups if needed

ColeSloth ,

Like the last day it looks like it can still be usable before you’re forced to “throw away money”.

AI_toothbrush , to greentext in Trans community ally

Lol no thats not why they get offended. If you tell a cis person “they are trans” that means they look like the other gender. Its the same as misgendering a trans person but with a few extra steps. Also maybe they are attacking you because this is harassment…

tkk13909 ,

How the fuck is this harassment?

Observer1199 ,

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  • tkk13909 ,

    Counterpoint: It’s just not harassment.

    “In general, civil harassment is abuse, threats of abuse, stalking, sexual assault, or serious harassment by someone you have not dated and do NOT have a close family relationship with, like a neighbor, a roommate, or a friend (that you have never dated).”

    www.courts.ca.gov/1258.htm

    bastion ,

    It’s social harassment, whether or not it is civil harassment.

    casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

    If we are to interpret explainer text meant to inform the public as word of law such as you have:

    The civil harassment laws say “harassment” is:

    • Unlawful violence, like assault or battery or stalking, OR
    • A credible threat of violence, AND
    • The violence or threats seriously scare, annoy, or harass someone and there is no valid reason for it.

    The actions described in the green text could be interpreted as a credible threat of violence that is seriously annoying/scaring the individual, as they specifically mention how brave it is for trans people to show themselves in public, when the victim has never initiated the discussion or topic and has made clear both that they do not qualify for the classification and are uncomfortable with the label. This, by your logic, would make it civil harassment.

    tkk13909 ,

    You know what else could be considered a threat of violence? Literally anything by your standard.

    casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

    Don’t look at me, you’re the one that wanted to start playing armchair attorney bud. Don’t get upset just cause you less practiced at this shitty game.

    SeattleRain ,

    But why would that offend if you constantly tell people there’s no difference tran women and cis women. If you told a trans person you didn’t believe they were trans they would probably take it as a compliment.

    Lime66 ,

    Trans people don’t tend to take that as a compliment since it implies trans people don’t usually pass and can be easily clocked most of the time

    BestBouclettes , to aboringdystopia in But how would they be able to live on that?

    But it’s not real money in their bank accounts! They can barely go by as is!

    Sprokes ,

    Aren’t they using that to get loans? They can easily buy anything they want using that as a collateral. So it is real money.

    BestBouclettes ,

    Pretty much yeah. It’s virtually unlimited money.

    faintwhenfree ,

    Seriously, I saw some of besoz finances (which is a tiny sliver of the big pie) and he got a loan at 0.1% for $2m. Imagine that, and then he doesn’t even have to repay the loan. It’s just as long as he’d pay interest he’s A okay.

    Sylver ,

    That’s why they play a whole different game than us. He isn’t worried about paying back that interest or loan, he’s trying to find a way to make that $2m pay him back 1% or more per interest period. They never have to consider the loan amount, because those interest and payments will be done in 10 years while the profits from that loan will explode into hundreds of millions.

    See? Anyone can do it, it’s honestly really fucking easy to come up with a million dollar idea. The hard part is that first couple million dollars. If you aren’t born with it, you will literally never have access to that type of wealth.

    Promethiel ,
    @Promethiel@lemmy.world avatar

    You could write this in stone and metal on everything on earth; carve it into the very DNA of humanity. And still…

    A big subset of these leeching fucks and their admirers would still be on “but he’s so smart and if it so easy how come not every blah blah blah”.

    They really do mistake financial Inertia with intelligence; billionaires don’t actually need finance degrees the stupid fucks.

    FlyingSquid OP ,
    @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

    Look at Trump. Doesn’t matter that all of his wealth is on paper and he’s in massive debt. Unless he’s in prison, he will die in the lap of luxury.

    BestBouclettes ,

    That’s only because they let him do it, in a less corrupt country his ass would be in jail already.

    damnedfurry ,

    You have to pay loans back. Do you think lenders are in the business of handing out free money? They lend because they get a return–if they didn’t, there would be literally zero motivation to lend.

    BestBouclettes ,

    Obviously they pay it back, but the assets used as collateral usually grow faster than the interests they have to pay back. Which is pretty much free money.

    ImplyingImplications ,

    Yes, Musk easily found $44 billion to buy out one of the largest social media platform in existence but there’s absolutely no possible way for him to pay a $6.6 billion dollar tax bill because he doesn’t have that kind of liquidity!

    BradleyUffner ,

    Make them take out loans against their portfolios to pay the wealth tax.

    ininewcrow ,
    @ininewcrow@lemmy.ca avatar

    Lol … That’s the game every rich person plays and we all accept.

    They’re super rich so they can use their imaginary wealth to get even more rich.

    When you ask to tax them, the money doesn’t exist or it isn’t what you think it is so you can’t tax them.

    Rentlar ,
    ininewcrow ,
    @ininewcrow@lemmy.ca avatar

    Beautiful

    BestBouclettes ,

    We all accept it because these people and their friends own most of the media, so it’s easy for them to make us turn a blind eye to it.
    That and they also own enough representatives that there is barely any wiggle room to get out of this mess.

    umbrella ,
    @umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

    break up their monopolies then.

    woelkchen , to linuxmemes in Valve made the right decision
    @woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

    Steam Linux Runtime is based on Debian Stable releases. It’s literally the Why Not Both? meme.

    tallricefarmer ,
    @tallricefarmer@sopuli.xyz avatar

    Where does valve use Arch? because i thought steamOS was a fork of Debian , and i am kinda confused by the meme

    Artyom ,

    The Steam Deck runs Arch

    woelkchen ,
    @woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

    The Steam Deck runs Arch

    And Debian and Ubuntu (depending on the Steam Linux Runtime version)

    russjr08 ,

    SteamOS before 3.0 was based on Debian, but with 3.0 they decided to move away from Debian and now use (immutable) Arch.

    TTimo ,

    Totally why not both

    match , to memes in Trolly problem solved any % WR
    @match@pawb.social avatar

    A trolley is heading towards 4 people. If you pull the switch, it will be diverted towards 1 person. Also, if you slip the switch by pulling it after the front wheels have passed but before back wheels do, it will probably come to a complete halt before hitting anyone, but there is a 20% chance that you’ll fuck up and kill all 5 people. There are exits to the east, north, west, and south.

    What will you do? _

    AlolanYoda ,

    Look North

    match ,
    @match@pawb.social avatar

    To the north, you see a quaint downtown district that shows signs of recent renovation, and even more recent sudden collapse. A gastro-brewpub advertises trivia on Tuesdays. There are two bearded men sitting at an outdoor table with their beers, watching in rapt horror as the trolley speeds towards the people bound to the tracks.

    You hear an emergency whistle from the trolley.

    What do you do? _

    OneWomanCreamTeam ,

    Look south

    match ,
    @match@pawb.social avatar

    Immediately to your south are the trolley tracks. On your left, the tracks diverge, leading towards the desperate, pleading faces of the track-bound.

    On the other side of the tracks is an old grain silo preserved by a historical society. It looks freshly painted in white. In the distance, you see a block of slot houses all looking the same.

    A woman in designer yoga pants is walking a panicked-looking husky.

    The emergency alarm of the trolley is blaring.

    What do you do? _

    rmuk ,

    Get ye flask.

    match ,
    @match@pawb.social avatar

    You can’t get ye flask.

    AlolanYoda ,

    Take Husky i

    OneWomanCreamTeam ,

    Examine grain house

    match ,
    @match@pawb.social avatar

    On the side of the grain house is the words “OLDE MILL” in four-meter-high block letters. The original silo dates back to the late 1880s when the town was originally founded, before it was absorbed into the greater city metro. There’s a memorial plaque at the base, but you can’t read it because it’s on the other side of the tracks, and also because the speeding tram is in the way.

    You expect that they may add a new memorial plaque after today.

    The emergency alarms are blaring. There are screams ahead on the track.

    OneWomanCreamTeam ,

    Go to grain silo

    blanketswithsmallpox ,

    You find that your mother has already emptied it and lays sweating against it’s metallic surface like some sort of heavily breathing walrus with questionable white stains just around her neckline.

    PoolloverNathan ,

    Examine trolley

    Davel23 ,

    Save game

    match ,
    @match@pawb.social avatar

    Saved to slot 1. Name this save?

    Bahnd ,

    Kant-stop-me-now-2024-4-8.trolly

    match ,
    @match@pawb.social avatar

    Saved as Kant-stop-me-now-2024-4-8.trolley.

    To the north, you see a quaint downtown district that shows signs of recent renovation, and even more recent sudden collapse. A gastro-brewpub advertises trivia on Tuesdays. There are two bearded men sitting at an outdoor table with their beers, watching in rapt horror as the trolley speeds towards the people bound to the tracks.

    You hear an emergency whistle from the trolley.

    What do you do? _

    Natanael ,

    Throw a wrench at the wheel. I don’t think my aim is good today though, but it got quite the speed

    interdimensionalmeme ,

    Roll initiative

    PoolloverNathan ,

    3

    interdimensionalmeme ,

    Critical failure The wrench slips between the spokes but is then wedged right out and bonks you on the head. You fall unconscious.

    interdimensionalmeme ,

    Ponder downtown’s gentrification

    Bahnd ,

    Attempt to derail the trolly by pulling the lever while the front is past the switch track and the back isnt.

    PoolloverNathan ,

    /etc/passwd

    nul ,

    Check if it is Tuesday.

    IndiBrony ,
    @IndiBrony@lemmy.world avatar

    Heh, that’s the name of my local news channel.

    AnyOldName3 ,
    @AnyOldName3@lemmy.world avatar

    Look at the wheels to check for bogies. A train or tram without bogies will come to a stop. One with bogies will multi-track drift until the tracks get too far apart.

    match ,
    @match@pawb.social avatar

    The tram is a low-floor streetcar and you cannot see the wheels from where you are. You identify it as a Flexity from some time after 2021.

    You hear an emergency alarm from the Flexity streetcar.

    What do you do? _

    Nurse_Robot ,

    Look north

    Edit, because north and south have already been done

    Look West

    match ,
    @match@pawb.social avatar

    To the west you see a Flexity streetcar coming down the tracks. It will pass by on your left side in a few seconds. The driver is a middle-aged black woman who, under other circumstances, might remind you of a television chef; at the moment, she looks dour and resigned, like a television chef whose frittata burned.

    At the end of the street, there is a grand opening sign for a new fast-casual dim sum restaurant named Dim Sum Kitsch. The sign advertises $5 soup dumplings. There is a faint smell of frying oil coming from that direction.

    The emergency alarm is blaring.

    Nurse_Robot ,

    Walk west

    match ,
    @match@pawb.social avatar

    You walk west to the end of the street. There is a fast-casual dim sum restaurant here, which smells lovely. On the other side of the intersection is a flower shop, but it appears to be closed today. Across the street are trolley tracks, and past that is a dog park. You can go north, south, east, west, or into the restaurant.

    The sound of the tram is behind you now.

    What do you do? _

    Cabslock ,

    Eat some dim sum.

    match ,
    @match@pawb.social avatar

    You enter the restaurant and, without even looking at the menu, begin ordering at the counter. The cashier, who you imagine is the owner’s daughter, is baffled by your perfect Cantonese pronunciation. She responds in English with the price and tells you it will be 12-15 minutes.

    Fifteen minutes later, you are sitting at a table holding chopsticks and staring down three steamer baskets of dumplings. The street outside is clogged with ambulances, police, and screaming mourners, but that just means you have the restaurant all to yourself. The owner’s daughter replaces your teapot with a fresh pot of oolong.

    GAME OVER

    DUMPLING ENDING (2/?)

    Final score 160/150

    AlolanYoda ,

    This is an amazing string of comments. I look forward to crossing paths again

    Nurse_Robot ,

    Enter restaurant

    match ,
    @match@pawb.social avatar

    You enter the restaurant and, without even looking at the menu, begin ordering at the counter. The cashier, who you imagine is the owner’s daughter, is baffled by your perfect Cantonese pronunciation. She responds in English with the price and tells you it will be 12-15 minutes.

    Fifteen minutes later, you are sitting at a table holding chopsticks and staring down three steamer baskets of dumplings. The street outside is clogged with ambulances, police, and screaming mourners, but that just means you have the restaurant all to yourself. The owner’s daughter replaces your teapot with a fresh pot of oolong.

    GAME OVER

    DUMPLING ENDING (2/?)

    Final score 160/150

    datavoid ,

    I don’t know what I just witnessed, but I’m here for it

    PoolloverNathan ,

    Load save *.trolly

    onion ,

    You just gotta switch between one bogies’ wheels

    IndiBrony ,
    @IndiBrony@lemmy.world avatar

    Inspect the switch

    match ,
    @match@pawb.social avatar

    You see a hand-operated railroad switch consisting of a lever, a brightly painted switch signal, and a switch stand. It is connected to a pull rod on the tracks. There is also a remotely controlled switch machine nearby; it appears this manual switch was left in for redundancy. A black and white sign nearby says DO NOT TOUCH.

    The train is close enough that you could reach out and touch it, but that would be dangerous.

    What do you do? _

    IndiBrony ,
    @IndiBrony@lemmy.world avatar

    Touch the train

    match ,
    @match@pawb.social avatar

    You reach out totl touch the train. The metal siding of the train is cold and smooth, and the bright, saturated reds and blues painted along it remind you of a cartoon. There is an advertisement for a local law firm speeding past you too quickly to read.

    A fifth of a second later, your ring fingertip is caught on the edge of a metal panel and sheared off.

    Your finger is bleeding. What do you do? _

    IndiBrony ,
    @IndiBrony@lemmy.world avatar

    Panik

    match ,
    @match@pawb.social avatar

    You scream, waving your hands over your head in a frantic dance. You fling blood droplets everywhere.

    What do you do? _

    PoolloverNathan ,

    Would you like your possessions identified? [ynq] (n)

    menemen ,

    Kill all 5 people.

    match ,
    @match@pawb.social avatar

    You activate your dark heart, moving so fast that you perceive the train coming to a crawl, then a stop. The sky itself looks dark, the physics of relativity cracking under the strain of your newfound power. Gliding on ink-black wings erupting from each limb, you approach, meet the gaze, then execute each of the track-bound mortals, only processing what your body is doing after you pull your claw out of the chest of your fifth and final victim. By the time the train arrives – seconds later by the timelines of the weak – you have already left this town for gorier pastures.

    GAME OVER DEMON ENDING (1/?) Final score: 14/150

    Fuckfuckmyfuckingass ,
    @Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world avatar

    I would say an 80% chance of killing anyone is preferable to a 100% chance.

    jsomae ,

    This. On average it’s the same number of deaths, but there’s also the 80% chance to avoid the guilt of killing anyone. The guilt of killing 5 people is presumably not 5 times worse than the guilt of killing 1 person.

    mokus ,

    Xyzzy

    feannag ,

    I was not expecting to see this reference today. What do I do if the trolley is conducted by an angry little dwarf with a nasty knife?

    mokus ,

    Pick it up after he throws it and throw it back!

    KillingTimeItself ,

    Ok so lets think about this.

    We have 1 person, and 4 persons, since there are five total. But since there is only a 20% chance, we can consider 20% of 5 people, to be the statistical average of one persons. Meaning that statistically, on average, this should do, absolutely nothing.

    owenfromcanada ,
    @owenfromcanada@lemmy.world avatar

    Get ye flask

    flicker ,

    You can’t get ye flask.

    owenfromcanada ,
    @owenfromcanada@lemmy.world avatar

    GO DENNIS

    interdimensionalmeme ,

    Dig down one level

    mriguy ,

    You are eaten by a grue

    troglodytis ,

    This seems particularly cruel

    VirtualOdour ,

    Kill jester

    themeatbridge , to lemmyshitpost in Trust exercise

    Can’t. My phone keeps reorienting.

    ObviouslyNotBanana OP ,
    @ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world avatar

    Can’t even trust your phone these days smh my head

    PhoreTwunny ,

    You just gotta lay it flat on a table, then spin it.

    ObviouslyNotBanana OP ,
    @ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world avatar

    Beyblade style!

    badbrainstorm ,
    @badbrainstorm@lemmy.today avatar

    If android just turn off auto-rotate in drop down menu

    EffortlessEffluvium ,

    Not mine, it’s Occidental.

    Cryophilia ,

    Eyyyy

    Katana314 ,

    Tell it that, while you “support” its decisions, funding its college education will be contingent on finding a spouse to have a baby with.

    Follow me for more toxic phone-parenting tips.

    RandomVideos ,

    Turn yourself upside-down

    jubilationtcornpone ,

    At last! I knew that inversion table I bought four years ago and used three times was going to be good for something.

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