• shads@leminal.space
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    6 days ago

    Would be amusing to see the look on her face if a Muslim sat next to her on a plane and started preaching. Or a Hindu. Or a Christian from a different sect.

    All these special snowflakes need to fuck right off and let the rational people live their lives in peace.

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        6 days ago

        And verily he said unto the assembled flock: “I use Arch by the way!” and there was much rolling of eyes and snorts of derision from the unbelievers.

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        6 days ago

        “Ed is the standard text editor.”

        Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.

        ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!

        When I use an editor, I don’t want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a “viitor”. Not a “emacsitor”. Those aren’t even WORDS!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!

        TEXT EDITOR.

        When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their “edlin” on a UNIX standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.

        Ed is for those who can remember what they are working on. If you are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE SO-CALLED “VISUAL” EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!

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        5 days ago

        I had some Debian pamphlets printed out for when I had a bunch of proselytizers coming by. Some would say we can’t take that others would just be like uhhhh thank you. Either way it busted ended up with two pamphlets in the recycle bucket.

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        6 days ago

        To join the Church of Emacs, you need only pronounce the Confession of the Faith:

        There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels.

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        5 days ago

        Nah, Sabaton at full volume. The Last Stand, specifically. No religious based complain about that one probably ;)

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      5 days ago

      Long while back I remember reading a news article about a middle eastern dude who was kicked off a plane because the passengers next to him saw him writing something scary looking.

      He was a math researcher.

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        5 days ago

        Well… I mean… Who knows what sort of crazy demon he was trying to summon with that spell he was writing?

        I’m from Australia, that would scare and confuse a number of the locals here too. We are also pretty damn racist.

        Just nowhere near as religious.

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      4 days ago

      No hate to my Muslim brothers and sisters, but under absolutely no circumstances would I recommend preaching Islam on an airplane…

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        4 days ago

        I hear what you are saying, but that’s a matter of perspective. I tend to be no more or less scared of Muslims than I am Christians. Talk to a lot of people in South East Asian and they can tell you some tales that don’t make mainstream news about Buddhists. I’m sure there’s a bunch of lore out there covering Hindus as well.

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          3 days ago

          Oh 100%, there are fanatics in literally any organized groups of human beings. That said, my previous comment was but a shallow poke at the fact that Americans are probably going to assume anyone preaching Islam on their plane is a terrorist.

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            3 days ago

            Yeah I know. Sorry to have stepped on your… Joke isn’t the right word… Social commentary?