[-] wombatula@lemm.ee 21 points 10 months ago

Yes, he is an asshole:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/nzmvbi/butch_hartman_how_a_formerly_beloved_cartoon/

He has become an absolute villain and scam artist, and absolutely fits the douchebag label he is being given here.

This post has been brought to you by the committee to ruin your childhood because you asked too many questions, in association with John Kricfalusi.

[-] wombatula@lemm.ee 36 points 10 months ago

Sorry to be the one to break this to whoever still believes this:

The main myths surrounding the Great Library of Alexandria are that 1) it was just one enormous library 2) containing a half-million or more scrolls full of ancient knowledge that was 3) sensationally destroyed in a senseless act of vandalism.

Problem is, there's no hard evidence to substantiate any of that nonsense. There are so many fantasy accounts of the “Great Library,” its founding, its contents and its destruction that we today really do not know how much of it is true and how much is revisionist bullshit. But we're pretty sure most of it is revisionist bullshit.

It's more likely that the “Great Library of Alexandria" was actually comprised of two or three (or maybe more) small “libraries,” which were just limited collections of scrolls and reading rooms associated with various Greek temples. These were all part of the larger Mouseion (a scholarly Greek institution honoring the 9 goddesses of the Arts, aka the Muses), which had branches all over the Greek world at the time, all the way back to Athens.

The Greeks were also famous for making multiple, multiple handwritten copies of any literature they encountered, such that the scroll collections at Alexandria probably existed as duplicate copies elsewhere all across the Greek world. So, it would be virtually impossible to destroy the collected knowledge of the Ancient World by simply destroying one “library" in one city.

Furthermore, the alleged fiery destruction of the “Great Library” has undoubtedly been blown out of proportion for millennia, right up to the present, by opinionated pseudo-historians attempting to assign blame for one heinous act that may not have even happened. The fact is that nobody knows how the Great Library (or several small reading rooms) of Alexandria came to an end. Very likely, it met the common fate of most libraries throughout history…a gradual decline of interest and eventual extinction due to lack of funding.

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submitted 10 months ago by wombatula@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I know the "best linux for gaming" is probably one of the most common questions, but I have heard that some distro can have issues with some hardware, I have a crappy old PC with an integrated radeon R7, which distro would you recommend?

[-] wombatula@lemm.ee 24 points 10 months ago

I have never met a person (that wasn't chronically online) in real life that cares about Pineapple Pizza, it's a silly internet meme.

[-] wombatula@lemm.ee 20 points 10 months ago

Yeah seems really weird that a service with 2/3rds or more of the users than Discord is completely unknown to me or any of my fellas on the group discord when I asked them.

Can't tell if I am falling out of touch, the service is aimed at a completely different demographic than me, or these numbers are bullshit.

[-] wombatula@lemm.ee 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

So anyone on a website other than instagram is an ugly man or a lesbian...

...man the hot takes just keep coming don't they?

[-] wombatula@lemm.ee 21 points 10 months ago

You really are confused, I never asked for a list, and didn't take this personally in any way.

I just think you have some weird misogynistic views of what a woman is, and what their interests are.

[-] wombatula@lemm.ee 53 points 10 months ago

Oh cool she definitely represents the entire female population of the world. Maybe you should go try and meet a second or even third woman (not including your mother), it might give you a broader perspective.

[-] wombatula@lemm.ee 91 points 10 months ago

Every woman I know is making scrapbooks, knitting her own hats and some more for others, taking care of some kids

Wow... there's a lot to unpack here... have you ever met a woman before?

[-] wombatula@lemm.ee 72 points 11 months ago

I cannot fathom why this is the title.

[-] wombatula@lemm.ee 34 points 11 months ago

How dare you disparage Hank Scorpio by comparing him to Elon!

One is a cartoonish villain that's become completely unhinged in his mad quest for power, the other is voiced by Albert Brooks!

[-] wombatula@lemm.ee 119 points 1 year ago

Single-use vapes should be illegal for waste reasons alone.

[-] wombatula@lemm.ee 59 points 1 year ago

Yeah cause a Warrior Poet is something that nobody has ever aspired to, or claimed is the peak of masculinity.

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