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

Even without the analogy I’m not sure what the original point is

Pretty sure he had a stroke writing this

House Activision’s been taking notes

They should have just add more rainbows to the skin

I think that’s called tattooing

Javascript bad.

Applause please.

Or a raccoon with a crowbar

(also, I fucking hate it when people censor the naughty evil words just by covering one letter. Everybody knows what that word is you numpties, either cover the whole thing or don’t do it)

There can’t be too many people on the internet who haven’t lost the game by now.

Or is it just an old fart thing? Do the whippersnappers even know about the game?

Doctor of Computer Science

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yeah that tracks.

Just me hanging out on my porch

If you think solar panels are the solution to our problems on a “significant” level, you clearly haven’t been paying enough attention and don’t understand the scale of the issues here – and no I’m not going to be the one who has to educate you

What if brain chemistry is just an excuse?

This has to be the single fucking stupidest opinion I’ve seen anyone voice whole year. Jesus fuck, forget anything I said about how I think you mean well, because you clearly don’t. You’re a fucking walking and talking example of the Dunning-Kruger phenomenon who has their head so far up their ass that they think brain chemistry is an excuse, and that your fantastically idiotic opinions clearly mean you’re wiser than the rest of us plebs when you can’t even process the thought that maybe mental illness could affect how much someone exercises. How you manage to function in society without dying of drinking bleach is completely beyond me

People who have never had mental health issues be like “why don’t you just stop feeling bad?”

I know you mean well but like jesus christ

Edit: nevermind they’re a myopic self-important twat and obviously don’t mean well

Right, because eating right will fix the climate and the economic system

Family tree’s a straight line

Oh yeah definitely; a lot of the AI crap out there hasn’t gotten rolled out to the EU yet – some of it because of the GDPR, thank fuck for that.

I’d practically guarantee there’s a nonzero amount of suits out there who think it’d be a fantastic idea, and have at the very least tried to make it happen, and that it’s only a matter of time before one of them talks somebody into it if they haven’t already

Naturally I had to try this, and I’m a bit disappointed it didn’t work for me.

I can’t make that “Looking for specific info?” input do anything unexpected, the output I get looks like this:

Spain did what