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In my book, that puts Bean Bunny in the role of Darko, just so there's a reversal of the "Why are you wearing that stupid bunny suit?" jibe and counter-jibe.

I mean, Muppet Christmas Carol kept Fozzie out of the rest of the movie just so they could make a Fezziwig/Fozziwig pun, so such a massive cast decision for the sake of one gag isn't out of the question.

Now, there are other rabbits in the Muppet cast, but I think Bean is the best known, and probably has the most range to go from cute to creepy without it being too obvious from his appearance.

The firing of Bean's voice actor (Steve Whitmire) makes this somewhat less likely, but I think they could recast Bean's voice more easily than for Rizzo "ain't comin' back until Steve does" Rat or Kermit, and they weren't all that picky about Kermit.

"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

Here's Tom with the Weather."

-- Bill Hicks

Exchange line 6 for "Su-u-ure. I bet you can't walk away from my desk without asking me to do something."

A clever manager would go away and come back in 10 minutes with twice as much "urgent" work as previously and no pretence, but it would be funny for those 10 minutes.

Maybe it's the (default) configuration on my distro, but info bash is the same information as man bash but with no bold text for headings and things. Ironically, I think I'd have to sit down with man info or info info for an hour or two before I could figure out how to get that formatting to show up in info.

FWIW, most if not all bash builtins turn up when searching in man bash for [four spaces]command-name[space], but as someone else points out, the help command also er, helps.

If you grab the tail of a dog and wave it to and fro, it is not likely that this will make the dog happy, even if it looks a little bit that way to an outside observer.

Likewise, trying to make a terminally online person do what you think is normal (or even necessary) will not make them act or feel like you do, even if they're willing to go along with it for a while.

To use another animal metaphor, they'll come out of their shell when they're ready, but they may never be ready, and other people have to be OK with that.

Of course, by "terminally online person" we should substitute whatever actual psychological diagnoses are responsible for the person acting the way they do, not what they do, assuming such diagnoses are even possible (or valid).

Most of the *fetches (and clones by other names) have an option for showing a different distro's logo without having to go through any major changes. neofetch, moribund though it is, has --ascii_distro for that purpose (Weird choice of an underscore in an option. Most programs use more hyphens to separate words in long options).

This did get me to install screenfetch (superseded by plain old fetch but realised that too late for this comment), cpufetch (a year old, still in active development) and archey4 (likewise) after I did a bit of research on similar programs though, so maybe the sirens got me one way or the other.

It's not Linux native according to the icons in Steam, so try one of the Proton compatibility layers.

Proton Hotfix wouldn't run it for me but Proton 9.0 got me into the game's prologue and difficulty select (which requires walking around). Haven't played any further than that though, so can't tell if there are to be any problems with other levels.

Was able to modify sound, graphics and mouse settings with no trouble too.

Edit: Made it through to the first intermission screen with no problems. Well, at least not software related. Skill issues are another matter.

As you point out, intelligence is fuzzy and dependent on many factors. Which is why a straight line hard cut-off above and below the mean of a distribution seems pretty arbitrary to me, even if it is based upon a particularly useful way of delineating variance from a mean.

Both you and @iopq@lemmy.world missed the word "is" in the last sentence.

The hypothetical hater clearly installed the package.

"Just use Flatpak."

"But that will use 2GB when a system package will use 34MB."

"Duh, it's not 2GB total. Flatpaks share dependencies."

"I don't have any other Flatpaks on my system."

"..."

"..."

"OK, so it'll be 2GB. Your next one will be smaller, though."

"If I install one and if it shares any dependencies with the first one."

"Pff. You're just a hater."

"Yeah, I hate that something that should be small is using 2GB of space."

Last week was the first time I think I've ever got a random Internet tarball to configure, make and make install. Program even did what it was supposed to too. I was amazed.

I'm sure cognitive scientists had good reasons for that somewhat arbitrarily defined band of the bell-curve when they gave it the name "average intelligence" but it's pretty clear that the joke isn't using that definition.

50% of people are below average intelligence.

(Yeah, yeah, the implied conclusion is fallacious reasoning, but it's still funny.)

Try to take deep breaths. If it's low blood oxygen as others say, that could help.

Alternative if your brain/body won't allow it: Try holding your breath. You might have control over that. The aim is to hold long enough trigger a gasp reflex which will, hopefully, shake you awake.

The hard part is finding the presence of mind to remember things to try when you're in an altered state of consciousness.

Meanwhile in another universe "No one voted on my comment, therefore they're ignoring me because I'm right"

And in another "wow that's a lot of upvotes, I knew I was right!"

Your logic elsewhere may or may not be sound but your diagnosis on why people are voting the way they are is clearly not.

Self burns are rare. You just admitted you're no better than someone from a group you hate.

Actually, the British beat the French to it. The Halifax Gibbet pre-dates the guillotine by about 100 years.

Yet another case where another nation somehow becomes better at a sport the British invented.

The southern English are trapped between a rock and a hard place with the whole thing. They do like the idea of stealing culture from the French, but they want to appear to be separate at the same time. And appearing northern would be even worse.

Immediately not trust it and assume I'm too stupid or ignorant to see what the flaw in the system is.

And next I'd be worried that, flaw or not, the authorities might find out about it, because that would almost certainly not end well.

Even if there's truly a way to get something for nothing, someone else will find a way to take it away.

UKGOV haven't started on things like Wikipedia yet. They know kids use it for school and blinded by ideology though they are, even they can see there'd be an enormous backlash if they blocked it any time soon.

If that's going to happen at all, I doubt it would be before the next election. That's whether Labour get re-elected or the Tories make an unexpected comeback. You can tell how far Labour have fallen in the eyes of their party faithful when they've taken a Tory-drafted policy and made it their own.

Ironically, the up and coming third option fascist party, have said they're going to repeal the Online Safety Act. They have other fish to fry if they get in, and they'll want to keep their preferred demographic(s) happy while they do it.

I assume that eventually something like the OSA would come back to "protect the children". They love the current US President.

None of this is hopeful. Take this as more of a rant.