BillyClark

Wait, you can learn about something just by searching for that thing on Wikipedia?

Jesus needs to be an only child and conceived by god or he’s not special enough.

I seem to recall that back then, there were a lot of myths about virgin births. So even that lie wasn’t particularly special, in the grand scheme of things.

I used to say things like, “I’m straight but” whatever. This was about 30 years ago, and I just didn’t know what to do with the idea of gay men, so I would occasionally say things to virtue signal that I was okay with it.

But it turns out that I was just overcompensating and dealing with a bit of “main character” complex. I really didn’t need to say or do anything overt to be accepting of gay people.

Yeah, I think this is a pretty textbook example of no publicity being bad. There are some counter-examples I think, but maybe people will argue against it. But I think giant consequential scandals like the Watergate scandal are bad publicity.

We don’t need to put that man’s name on anything more than it’s already on.

Okay, you’ve left out a key part of the post, the title. “We’re catching strays” (as in “stray bullets”). So, the point is actually that “red hat” Linux and “red hat” MAGA have no important connection, yet the word play, “you can’t spell hatred without red hat,” works just as well for red hat Linux. That’s why it’s a stray bullet. It wasn’t aimed at Linux, but it hit Linux, anyways. That’s the point of the post. That’s why it’s posted to the Linux Memes community.

OP’s humor is that Linux accidentally shares a symbol with these MAGA people, and so if you post it to a bunch of Linux people, we can all jokingly say that it seems like they’re criticizing an innocent Linux distribution.

My comment was a joke that I invented some situation where Red Hat had accidentally done something far worse in the past. I don’t know what you’d call it, maybe a play on dramatic irony. They’re taking these stray bullets, so wouldn’t it be funny if they’d made a similar mistake in the past, only a million times worse, but only a few people knew about it.

You see these sorts of jokes all the time on TV. Like a guy has it all set up to propose to a girl on the big screen at a baseball game, and so before that, they put them on the kiss cam, and she refuses to, saying that she doesn’t like public displays of affection. So, then the knowledge that the proposal would be much worse is funny.

So, there’s really no extra context. If you understand the humor of OP’s post, I think you should understand the humor of my comment.

Okay, I’ll explain it to you, but only if you play along.

Explain to me what is the purpose of OP’s post, with the protest sign at the no kings protest.

Downvotes are meaningless, except to give me a list of usernames who don’t know how to participate in adult discussions. I don’t have much in the way of respect for people who take stock in them. Donald Trump got the most votes in 2024, and it doesn’t mean anything except that tens of millions of people made a poor decision when voting.

I literally just explained it to you. I’m not being cagey. I think you must be used to not getting jokes, so I’m not sure why you’re blaming me.

You don’t understand the humor of hearing about something that seems to be a coincidence, and then hearing a separate example that is overtly terrible in the same way?

Honestly, it’s a little weird that people can’t identify such obvious shitposting in a meme community. This is the second time it’s happened in two weeks.

It didn’t help their cause when they coincidentally came out with the “Fascist Fedora” release, and they had to decide to stop naming their releases after types of governments.

With this comic, I will now be better prepared. If something like this happens, I will simply say, “Hooray! My very own butt-snipes! Thank you! Where are the tongs?”

In this case, it seems nature and nurture would be pointing in the same direction, though, since mothers generally raise their own children. So if either nature or nurture had an effect, you’d expect it to have a result.

Just wait until the next time the groundskeeper comes by with his lawnmower.

The jokes on you! I don’t know what my bank account number is and I can barely remember my phone number!

Are they… Are they holding those signs with their gills?

And they found a black police officer to arrest him.

If you want to get even more real, the people who maintain the quests, usually the adventurer’s guild or the hunter’s guild in these stories, would pay for the quest reader. Probably the people who accept the quest requests would just tell the adventurers what to do, and bypass the entire board.

It would be in the guild’s interests to have illiterate people do quests even if they were poor, to control who got what quests, and not to let the adventurers get too smart. The guild would be able to scam them out of so much money that way.

The article strangely doesn’t say the dog’s age. But it has a pic of him as a puppy in 2012, and says he was gone for 11 years.

Since the article was written in the last few days, that means that Forty-Cal was about 3 when he went missing, and was about 14 when he returned.

The article said that two dogs went missing from their backyard at once, and the other came back after a few weeks, so she thinks someone took them from her yard.

Presumably from his description as being friendly, he lived as a family pet for all these years, and then was abandoned.