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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by testfactor@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Okay, I read a story someone linked here a while back and I'm trying to remember the title.

The story was structured as an old school web forum where people were discussing the meaning behind certain lines of an ancient poem.

The poem described a malevolent force in the woods associated with a particular kind of tree that would, cyclically, take people from the town.  Maybe oak?  Ash?

I think that the person taken was turned into wood in after being lured in by a beautiful girl.

One user on the forum was trying to trace the historical roots of the poem and managed to find the town he believes was the one referenced in the poem.  They had a yearly festival that included cutting down all the trees of that type and burning them.

In the end, they guy researching is presumably taken by the forest, after some events outlined in the poem begin to happen again and then he stops posting.

Any guesses?

Edit: I found it. Managed to piece together enough memories to get there. Title was "Where Oaken Hearts do Gather" https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/where-oaken-hearts-do-gather/

[-] testfactor@lemmy.world 166 points 1 month ago

Well, not every metric. I bet the computers generated them way faster, lol. :P

[-] testfactor@lemmy.world 94 points 3 months ago

I honestly think the more likely explanation is that he doesn't realize Kamala Harris and Nikki Hayley are different people. They're both just "that woman I'm running against" to him.

[-] testfactor@lemmy.world 95 points 3 months ago

Quick math says that's about a 19-20% return annually for the 10yrs since 2014.

The average APY of the S&P 500 over the same time period was about 11-12%.

So definitely way outperforming the market, though maybe achievable with one or two good picks on individual stock?

Definitely not a good look regardless.

[-] testfactor@lemmy.world 204 points 4 months ago

Fun fact, whether this meme is pro-Israel or pro-Palestine is 100% decided by what date you consider the "start" of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

[-] testfactor@lemmy.world 77 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I'd be interested in how many people go to the inauguration of other countries heads of state.

Like, my best guess is that it's a dig at, like, Gov Abbott, but I agree that I don't think I'd expect him to, even if he was a Democrat.

[-] testfactor@lemmy.world 67 points 5 months ago

Oh dang, did the new remaster go back and redo all the Vivian dialogue to match the original Japanese!?

I was already stoked for this game, but that's got me double stoked!!!

[-] testfactor@lemmy.world 184 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna defend the guy who got shot here. According to the article he was a real piece of work, and it seems like he was a credible threat to the life of the officer he put in the headlock.

I don't think the officers did anything wrong in this one. Broken clock twice a day and all that.

[-] testfactor@lemmy.world 74 points 7 months ago

Do you really think the reason people hate Java is because it uses an intermediate bytecode? There's plenty of reasons to hate Java, but that's not one of them.

.NET languages use intermediate bytecode and everyone's fine with it.

Any complaints about Java being an intermediate language are due to the fact that the JVM is a poorly implemented dumpster fire. It's had more major vulnerabilities than effing Adobe Flash, and runs like molasses while chewing up more memory than effing Chrome. It's not what they did, it's that they did it badly.

And WASM will absolutely never replace normal JS in the browser. It's a completely different use case. It's awesome and has a great niche, but it's not really intended for normal web page management use cases.

[-] testfactor@lemmy.world 125 points 7 months ago

For context so other people don't have to dig into it like I did.

This is the Alabama state HoR. Not the National HoR.

This is the Alabama 10th district, which is suburban Huntsville (more PhD's per capita than any other city in the union).

That said, it's been pretty 50/50 in past elections, and this was a 66/33 split in the Democrat favor, which is a pretty enormous swing.

So, Alabama's going to be an interesting watch. I wouldn't be shocked to see a lot more flips come November.

[-] testfactor@lemmy.world 173 points 7 months ago

In the Bibles defense, it didn't just rain:

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened. Genesis 7:11

So, like, most of the water probably came from underground, not from the rain. Though I'd imagine both were pretty bad.

Not saying the story is true or anything. Just pointing out the straw man, since the Bible doesn't claim all the water was from rain.

[-] testfactor@lemmy.world 102 points 11 months ago

Forgive me if I wait for more concrete evidence than the word of a guy who refuses to cite his sources because he thinks Twitch is in collusion with the US Government and he may be thrown in jail or disappeared for doing a write up on some publicly available source code.

[-] testfactor@lemmy.world 66 points 11 months ago

Like, I don't really care one way or another, but are we not on Omegle's side on this one?

Like, yes, Omegle was a cess pit. We all knew that. It was basically 4chan with video chat. But, like, this case seems like a parenting failure more than anything, right?

I don't know that I see why this is Omegle's fault really, and it's kinda dumb they had to shut down over it.

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