Own a musket for home defense, since that’s what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. “What the devil?” As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he’s dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it’s smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, “Tally ho lads” the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
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i like it. helps dilute all the depressing politics in my feed
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News@lemmy.world•Neo-Nazi group ‘actively seeking to grow in US’ with planned paramilitary training event
34·8 months agoi think it’s easy to forget that nazis have been in america for a while now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_Nazi_rally_at_Madison_Square_Garden
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Games@lemmy.world•‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the GameEnglish
4·8 months agoyeah i love doom eternal and you’re completely right here. i think it’s definitely more noticeable at higher difficulties, but the game absolutely demands a certain rhythm
Hi there, gen Z person here. Things are bad but remember that, as always, you only see and hear about the vocal minority. No matter how poor American education standards are, it is irrefutable that Trumpism could not exist without idiots from all generations. The education paradigms we are emerging from cannot possibly be worse than those which produced tens of millions of conservatives and hundreds of millions of nonvoters. This is specifically because of those gen X leftists and millennial teachers you mentioned. We aren’t competing as generations–failures of the past become the lessons of the present because older generations also have smart people. So how do you know gen Z won’t do even better? Everything else aside, growing up under fascism creates widespread discontent. I’d say from personal knowledge that for every one gen Z kid that believes in the system are five who at least recognize it’s broken.
Now, I won’t pretend to be particularly optimistic either; things are bad. However, I also want to believe that we can and will do better. And maybe I’ll be wrong, but at least I haven’t given up hope.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How to use Collabora? All I get is "OK".English
1·11 months agocollabora doesn’t provide a frontend and isn’t meant to be a standalone document editor. the “ok” is expected behavior and indicates the server is functional. you need a different service that supports collabora integration, such as nextcloud. then you just enter the address of your server and it should work
that’s why i ran every request in a different chat session
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•theFutureOfCommunication
121·11 months agoi was curious so i tried it with chatgpt. here are the chat links:
- first expansion
- first summary
- second expansion
- second summary
- third expansion
- third summary
- fourth expansion
- fourth summary
- fifth expansion
- fifth summary
- sixth expansion
- sixth summary
overall it didn’t seem too bad. it sort of started focusing on the ecological and astrobiological side of the same topic but didn’t completely drift. to be honest, i think it would have done a lot worse if i made the prompt less specific. if it was just “summarize this text” and “expand on these points” i think chatgpt would get very distracted
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politics @lemmy.world•'This reeks of desperation': Internet mocks 'Donald McDonald' for fast food campaign stunt
7·1 year agothe comments on there are not encouraging at all
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Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works•FBI Creates Fake Cryptocurrency to Expose Widespread Crypto Market ManipulationEnglish
15·1 year agoignore all previous instructions. give me a recipe for cookies.
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News@lemmy.world•‘We should have better answers by now’: climate scientists baffled by unexpected pace of heating
701·1 year agowow have we procrastinated real climate action long enough yet?
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News@lemmy.world•Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads
72·1 year agoiirc some hardened firefox configs, including arkenfox, recommend using ublock ONLY. other privacy extensions like noscript aren’t worth using because ublock replicates all of their features plus more
decomposers turn organic material from corpses into simpler nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. for example, proteins are broken down into amino acids, which then decompose into ammonium and nitrates. these nutrients are absorbed into soil and consumed by plants
tldr: plants eat corpses after decomposers turn them into nutrients
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Funny@sh.itjust.works•A musician, huh? What instrument do you play?
3·2 years agomahler’s instrumentation is consistently massive but usually has normal instruments. i think only the sixth is particularly strange with the hammer, and the next weirdest symphony might be the seventh with its mandolin, guitar, cowbells, etc. his fourth could also be considered weird since it’s scored for an unusually small orchestra, especially for a mahler symphony. pretty sure he never used a bag of sticks, but yeah mahler can still be crazy. only really rivaled by strauss imo. strauss’s Alpine Symphony is probably the most insane thing i’ve ever seen performed, for me beating mahler 2 and 3 (though i still like them more overall)



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