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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The time to post this was a week ago.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

This is definitely a repost.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 25 points 17 hours ago

This reminds me of the boy who cried wolf. Eventually the boy cries wolf too many times, townspeople stop listening to the boy, and stop responding to the cries.

The way we tell it, though, is that the boy is falsely crying wolf each time. And the townspeople eventually learn their lesson and stop responding.

One hypothetical that I always think about is what if the boy is correct each time, and there really is a wolf every time? Well, I think the townspeople would eventually grow numb to the cries and stop responding anyway, and kinda leave the boy to fend for himself because they're sick of helping him. We'd see the same result even if the boy did nothing wrong.

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 142 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 21 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I’m so glad I’m not missing out on a slightly larger margin.

[–] OhShitSon@lemm.ee 47 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

True. So it consumes more of my internet! Grrrr!

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 19 hours ago

The speed of a sheep, the voracious appetite of a lion for my money.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

You can see the quality difference right?

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Not at my phone without zooming in. 🤷‍♂️

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 11 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Okay don't take this as an insult, but you gotta get glasses or update your glasses or something. Either that or your phone screen is really bad.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 12 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You’re just jealous of my superior anti aliasing brain skills.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Not if it's temporal anti aliasing!

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 0 points 17 hours ago

I resemble that remark!

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 19 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I told you not to vote for the Sheep-Eating Wolves Party!

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 points 15 hours ago

Don't blame me, I voted for the sheep-eating-coyote!

[–] zloubida@lemmy.world 101 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

If you wanna be even wider eyed, consider that trump 'tariffs' are a great way to extort other counties, they'll all pay that extortion fee directly to donald trump to avoid the tariffs. He will leave the white house a trillionaire in 4 years and nothing can stop it.

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

I hope for an artery to clog while he forms his signature little O mouth together with accordion hands, and eyes-crossed falls over mouth frothing to be never seen again. The end.

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 46 points 1 day ago

This comic is several decades old by now. This means her daughter is now all grown up and voting Trump now.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 3 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Lol, you're complaining, when all memes were much worse in visual quality not that long ago.

[–] Affidavit@lemm.ee 12 points 17 hours ago (3 children)
[–] camr_on@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

Nearsightedness jumpscare

[–] Affidavit@lemm.ee 1 points 17 hours ago
[–] camr_on@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Back in my day we waited 40 minutes to see a 2kb meme

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 8 points 17 hours ago

brrrrrrrrrrrr--eeeeeeee-srreeeccch-be-beeep-be-beeeeep

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 5 points 16 hours ago

Back in my day, we had to hand-draw our memes in the back of school textbooks, then wait until next time we had a lesson in there to see if anyone had seen it.

[–] KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The choice was between a very selective sheep herder and a very nonselective sheep eater. Not wanting to watch some of the sheep get all the good stuff, they decided on the sheep eater. While being exceptionally cruel to them, this one is also being exceptionally cruel towards the sheep favoured by the herder, so in their perspective, not much was lost.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 21 hours ago

I’d say it was a non selective herder and a semi selective eater.

[–] mEEGal@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

150 million sheep would beg to differ

[–] RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee 3 points 15 hours ago

We only had 67% voter turnout, so that'd be about 112 million

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 18 hours ago

Only they see themselves as wolves, which would explain why they call the others sheeple

[–] VubDapple@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Nicely done

[–] WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Even Tommy Douglas thought that the mice would elect cats. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqgOvzUeiAA