The Usenet post I linked to claims it’s originally from the 1st quarter of 1990, but who knows if that’s accurate or not. I actually can’t find a good source for whether Stumpf is the original author or just the one who posted it to rec.humor.funny.reruns, but it’s usually attributed to him at any rate.

But yeah, fairly ancient by internet standards. I remember first running into it in the 90’s

Apple’s OS updates – whether iOS or macOS – haven’t been very good for years now

That’s what we in the “getting snowed on” business call sleet

Gamers aren’t persecuted anywhere near enough

Some plans less so than others.

Also, I like this framing of users as the enemy. Matches my experience, really.

Wasn’t expecting a fucking rainforest

Orders a

Makes sense that it’s not a Tesla.

Looks like your Lemmy frontend / client turned the community mention into a link so it just took me to lemmy.world, but here’s one that’s not a link: !political_weirdos@lemmy.world

It just irritates the fuck out of me when people write an obvious swear word but either omit letters or “censor” them with eg. *, like that somehow makes it not swearing even though EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT THAT FUCKING WORD IS.

Either don’t swear if you think it’s so bad, or just write the naughty words out instead of pretending “f*ck” isn’t a bad evil naughty word because you hid one letter like a fucking mentally deficient child.

FUCK.

Oh look it’s the short incel who is convinced that clubs ban short men.

Dude, your problem still isn’t your height. Your problem is that you’re a bitter and unpleasant husk of a person, who would rather blame everything and everyone else than actually do some self reflection, because that’d mean facing up to the fact that you’re the problem – feeeeeeeeeeeemales don’t avoid you because you’re short, they avoid you because you’re you.

These people point out how they want female attention at these clubs, only for these women to deliberately ignore them and go up to taller men instead, and start seducing them, like a bunch of sluts

“I was entitled to feeeeeeeemale attention but didn’t get any, therefore the women are sluts.”

Your problem isn’t your height. Your problem is that you’re an unlikeable misogynistic cockwomble

Kittyvision 3000

Well, only one session left for that to happen. Let’s see, who knows?

Jesus fuck, I didn’t even know about this. That’s an actually dystopian draft, holy shit that’s bad – here’s to hoping that either the final is much saner than what the current draft is, or that it just doesn’t get signed by eg. EU countries, but I’m not exactly feeling hopeful

Ah surprising that Poland’s still got copyright laws that relaxed, I thought they’d been more or less harmonized in the whole EU. Finland’s laws used to be pretty much like what you describe too, but they were changed… uh, fuck, I think 10 – 20 years ago to be stricter and I have a vague memory that they claimed it was to be more in line with how most other countries are in the EU, but it’s very much possible that either the politicians behind this lied, or that I remember wrong

That’d depend on your local copyright laws, but it’s probably illegal.

Getting caught without your friend calling the cops on you is extremely unlikely, at least assuming you don’t do anything fantastically stupid

Javascript bad.

Applause please.

Hah my sneaky brain edited that right out, didn’t even notice until you pointed it out

And it’s usually the people with room temperature IQs (and I’m talking Celsius) calling everything AI. You know, the type who can’t recognize actual AI pictures and probably also thinks the Moon landings were faked