It’s fine, you’re doing well. You just need a few comments back and forth, then you start your fourth comment with “well, actually I think you’ll find…”.

On the fifth comment, you need to attack a minor spelling or grammatical error they have made.

Sixth comment, try and sound like you’re reasonable, and they’re obviously not… then it’s a race!

First person to compare their opponent to “basically Hitler” wins!

You should receive between 100 and 1000 argument XP, depending on the level of your opponent (you get about 10% more for a victory, but you can still level up if you lose every time).

It’s pretty mainstream in Lemmy Terms. On Lemmy, to be a niche computer user, you need to be running FreeBSD, Gnu/Hurd, TempleOS or still be running AmigaOS :)

MY MIDDLE NAME IS LOOT PACKS MCGEE

No it isn’t.

Ah man, looking at those bullet points I realize I’ve got the first two down pat

No you haven’t.

Looks great, thanks! :)

Looking at some of the Excerpts from “I could pee on this and other poems by cats”, I think ours are actually very well behaved (so far!).

They’re all boys (and twin brothers) and they’re all equally adorable, although maybe that one’s a little more equal than the others :)

They actually all lie about different things.

Grey cat likes to lie to get into the room you’re in, if the door is closed, by pretending there’s a horrific emergency on the other side of the door. “Help! Help! Let me into the bathroom with you! My agony shall not subside until I have access to this room! I am ill! I am dying!”

Stripey cat likes to open cupboard doors, cardboard boxes and then hunt, kill and eat pouches of wet cat food, then pretend it wasn’t him at all, and he is hungry and hasn’t eaten for days.

Black cat likes a more traditional “I’ve not been fed yet, I am starving”, and also “I have no idea how the water bowl ended up upside down, but it looks like we’re out of water again”.

Thankfully, none of them will scratch or bite (at least not me or my partner). Black and stripey will both gently push your hand away when they’ve had enough tummy-tickle-time. Grey cat can be tickled for at least ten minutes. He just waits for you to get bored.

I love that someone wrote a poem about our cats. Thank you.

I think they’ll like it too - I fear they’re growing tired of me singing “Who’s a little black/stripey/silver cat with a fluffy little nosey-wose, who is a cat with a fluffity tail” to the tune of “Ride a White Swan” by T-Rex.

Three little posers.

Reminds me of the two explorers from That Mitchell & Webb Look (youtube link)

“Of course not! Not North Wales! That’s ridiculous! It’s nothing like North Wales. No, South Wales of course. The resemblance is uncanny”

Before everyone gets in a panic from reading the headline, the bug is from ~2014 - 2015ish, so it’s almost 10 years ago now.

“But Vladimir, you were never going to find any Nazis out there! The Nazis were in you all along!”

There’s obviously a lot of crossover between musk-dislikers and z-worshippers.

We’ve not really changed government though - we’ve just swapped right-wing Tories for further-right-wing Tories, with occasionally slightly-less-right-wing Tories. The same government has fundamentally been in power for 13 years. We’ve said “More of that please” twice.

The last Labour government (Tony & Gordon 1997-2010) was thought by some to be drifting a little close to the right

This is our national punishment for not electing Ed Milliband because he looked a bit funny and ate a sandwich wrong in a photograph.

We’re sorry Ed and can we please have you back. Your policies were actually really good and Clegg was lying about the student loan thing :(

The problem with fining incredibly rich corporations, is they either laugh it off, or just pass that “cost” onto the consumers.

I suppose the options are things like:

a) International regulation against “disabling parts of a product without good reason”. Products simply cannot be sold legally

b) Enforced warning signs on packets (like cigarette packaging) - each HP printer box or online advert must display a warning sign covering 60% of all images stating “We are a predatory company and will disable your products for no good reason”.

If those don’t work, then death penalty for top 3 highest ranking of the company and top 3 highest paid of the company, per violation, per year.

Probably referring to this: Cyberpunk 2077 anti-corporate virus

I think he means “The law against shooting people dead with guns” is what stops people shooting you dead with guns, if you are to mention anything related to bible burning.

However, the info you’ve dug up there is really interesting, thanks!

I previously wasn’t bothered by it, but you’re totally right. I can’t unsee it now. It’s wrong and I’m now bothered by it.

The middle X is a nice reminder to press either the left X or top-right X and make it all go away.