"i use linux as my operating system," i state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. he swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision.
"actually," he says with a grin, "linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+linux."
i don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "i use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's linux, but it's not GNU+linux."
the smile quickly drops from the man's face. his body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. as he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!"
coolly, i reply "if windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" i interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. even if you were correct, you won't be for long."
with a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. he lies on the floor, cold and limp. i've womansplained him to death.
i've seen screenshots of it from 4chan, and i've encountered it multiple times on reddit, often with the "womansplaining" joke removed. it's honestly surreal to see something i wrote spread so far. i created a copypasta and it's a weird feeling
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@lynnesbian Having lived without the character limits (not this instance but elsewhere) ... yea ... they're clearly dumb IMO and I'm ready for any spicy take that they're destroying our brains and discourse.
@maegul@lynnesbian they don't need to be anywhere as low as they are but we also don't want people putting the entire bible in a toot (actually happened, caused a bunch of problems)
I’ve been on a number instances/platforms now with limits ranging from 4,000-15,000, and AFAICT it’s basically never a problem. So long as the UI has an “expand” option for longer content, nothing is lost.
@lynnesbian Walking by in my shabby golf shirt and cargo shorts. I Stop, look inside the room, and derisively exclaim "Use putty on Windows to log into your nix boxes like everyone else you f@$kin nerds."
@lynnesbian I'm really looking forward to the first distro fully compiled with clang. Sticking it to RMS and his zealots would be a huge win, avoiding the GCC bloat would be just a cherry on top.
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