Visions of the future

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Visions of the future - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

What on earth does demure mean apart from its usual meaning?
The same as its initial meaning, but lacking the “submission” context. It’s a mindful attempt to be kind and facilitating to other people.

It was a meme to call everything “demure” for a while, stemming from a viral video.

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Very Demure, Very Mindful | Know Your Meme

Very Demure, Very Mindful is a viral video and catchphrase popularized by TikToker Jools Lebron, aka @joolieannie. The TikToker posted a series of videos a

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In this case, mostly being non-imposing in an “elegant” manner
Read Philip K Dick. He’s got books about that.

It strikes me that this might be exactly why Rome prevailed.

“Commander, we are poised to break the Roman line! Our time is now! Give the order and their forces will be crushed!”

“Bruh I have like zero bars right now what the fuck”

I think it’s more that the Carthaginian army was unstoppable in the field but didn’t have the necessary siege equipment or technical knowledge to take Rome before allied reinforcements arrived but sure why not, Hannibal didn’t finish the job because he had no bars.
So you’re saying Hannibal didn’t finish the job because he had no (cross)bars?
So if I had a time machine you’re saying it might be worth it to learn some ancient languages and take a book on basic siege engines back with me?
Yes.
Alright, that was a wild ride. It turns out the dude thought his elephants were enough, but they just weren’t. Barely made it out of there intact.
I feel so fucking old, spending all that time and energy, trying to translate the first half.
We’re going to need Linguistic Archeologists pretty soon.
Urban Dictionary and Knowyourmeme exist.
I feel like knowurmeme doesn’t give me the same quality of value it once did
Those already exist
WE NEED TO GO BACK! WE DON’T HAVE ENOUGH ELEPHANTS!!!
Siiiiiiiiiiiiiick
He should be in the Alps already if he’s serious about this.
I hope he doesn’t find a stranger there…

I long to be out there, with my brothers, waging war against the Empire

Those eyes have seen some pixels
Skyrim Intro But It's Brainrot (Gen Alpha Slang)

YouTube
We need to erase Christopher Columbus
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus - Wikipedia

Apparently it didn’t work.
Or maybe it did and we were saved from a worse path.
I’m definitely not mentally prepared to find out what the timeline worse than this one is like.
It turns out Carthage is the never ending empire that rips open the chaos realms and brings about Warhammer 40k.
I’m sure that timeline was just as boring and dumb, except that the soviet officer that stopped the nuke being fired during the cuban missile crisis was in the other room, and the world ended in 1962.
Hmm, is that really worse? Sounds like we were put out of our misery.
I was considering a line at the end about how it may have been a more merciful timeline for many, sadlol.
God I wish the worst thing this timeline had was Gen Z cringe, sounds like heaven.
I had a mentor tell me, “wish in one hand, shit in the other. Which one fills up first?”. Not 100% sure what they meant, but it sounds provocative
Shitting is more productive than wishing.
Aka stop wishing and go do things
Stop wishing and go shit.
It’s easier to understand if you say “wish into one hand, shit into the other. See which fills up first”
Unfortunately it's all related

Ok but

I watched that Hawk Tuah thing and I’ll admit I laughed pretty good.

I don’t know why it became a meme though

I don’t know why it became a meme though

Cute girl talking about riding dick in a humorous way.

Hawk Tuah was fascinating in observing the generational divide in meme cultures.

Boomers found it crass, GenX/Xilleniala mostly found it funny at face value, and Zillenials/GenZ made hawk tuak jokes steeped in 5 layers of irony because they found it “cringe”.

It was Minions 2.0.

The Fall of Civilizations podcast had a wonderful episode about Carthage that I found very sad and beautiful.
Fall of Civilizations Podcast

A podcast that explores the collapse of different societies through history.

Fall of Civilizations Podcast
To be fair “sad and beautiful” is the standard for the Fall of Civilizations podcast
I found the story of Carthage to be particularly interesting because they fell because Rome was so petty that they couldn’t allow them to exist. Cato was a dick.

Cato was a dick.

Julius Caesar would like to award you a consulship.

oh no kids use words I don’t understand what a hellscape

Gyatt rizz, fam!

(I do not know what this means)