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[–] 37 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (13 children)

This is fake/satire or something else fictional. It got me.

So they didn't look at the contents of the discs? I didn't read a single paragraph confirming the contents match the labels. I wouldn't be so sure that Windows 95 is on the discs.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    All I thought was those are definitely not windows 95. They probably did check the discs and found malware of whatever sort. I wouldn't be surprised if they're literally being used to install backdoors on legacy infrastructure systems that report back to China - crippling our infrastructure at a moments notice is a pretty strong weapon.

    Or maybe it's not malicious but hey I'm just some random guy on the internet shit posting, I just like to think up spy novel stuff happening irl because it's fun.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    just searched it the news site it is from is complete BS going on about dogs giving birth to things that aren't puppies and other fake stuff.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    The format itself is weird. CD drives are already getting scarce, what about drives for these? They might as well be zip drives.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    A mini CD works in a regular CD or DVD drive. Usually there'll be a special recess to k line them up with the centre of the disc tray, but you don't really even need that.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    They don't work in most slot loading drives, only the tray loading, or spindle type.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I guess I wasn't counting a slot-loading drive as a regular drive.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I assumed you used regular to mean any drive, but the slot loaders weren't exactly common until Apple and Sony started using them. So not exactly regular.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    We had a mini CD adaptor in the house when I was a child (basically a plastic ring with clips in the cutout so it'd hold a mini CD and make it the same size as a regular CD), but everything that took CDs that we owned had an indentation for a mini CD already or had you put the disk on the spindle yourself. The two exceptions were later on, a Nintendo Wii, which would have worked as it played Gamecube disks and they were the same size, and a slot-loading car stereo, but we didn't have any audio mini CDs, so I've no idea if that would have worked better or worse with the adapter.

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    [–] 17 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I was so confused. I couldn't find the story anywhere else. Then I couldn't find the publication or the writer. Then I read the community info. What's the Viral Magazine equivalent of "ate the onion?"

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    [–] 10 points 10 months ago*

    This was actually an unfortunate time travel accident, the truck was from the future, carrying a cargo of Microsoft Windows 2095.

    (The OS is actually just a giant pulsating copilot logo that charges you by the minute to look at it while your brain slowly liquifies)

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago (16 children)

    This is fake, and this account has created this community of literally-fake news. The way this is being posted without context makes this definitionally misinformation at best, and disinformation at worst. Check this community's sidebar.

    To anyone who is reading this, adjust your blocklists or user tags accordingly.

    To the OP: you need to put this somewhere in your posts, and not just the sidebar of your community. Many people come here from a feed. So, here I am, doing it for you, since you can't be bothered

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  • [+] [S] -9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (15 children)
  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (12 children)

    Since you actually asked, rather than just reposting that picture, here's my issue:

    I could potentially get behind the idea of an onion-esque satire of the current state of our world. However, everyone on here knows that the onion is satire. Whenever anyone calls your works into question, your response is not to clarify that it is satire, but to troll them. On another post, someone said "could I get a source for this" , and you just responded with a link to the same post. You have made up many different things on this new community, and while some of them are pretty clearly fake (like this one), others are so nearly plausible, or require actual technical knowledge to understand why they are implausible, that people are seriously engaging with these.

    Basically, you're too good at your job, and in a world where satirists are becoming more reliable journalists than the actual journalists, creating a one-man-band to troll people with shitposts that are nowhere labeled as such is, I believe, damaging to the community of Lemmy. We have a hard enough time trying to keep the hankies from filling the entire space with authoritarian propaganda. We don't need a load of posts further undermining credibility.

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  • [+] [S] 0 points 9 months ago* (11 children)
  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    And I agree with you on the "ate the onion" part, but even the onion and mcsweeneys have come to accept that, in our current world, satire has to be approached differently.

    As for the disingenuous and patronizing walmart shit, see my "strawman" comment on your other post. I'm not going to keep wasting my time repeating myself to you about why your strawman accusation of supporting corporations is so shitty.

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  • [+] [S] 0 points 9 months ago* (9 children)
  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (8 children)

    I'm sorry, I must not have been clear with my strawman accusation:

    When someone in the comments challenges you, you post that picture saying how sorry you are that you're hurting some megacorp's brand image, or otherwise. You paint the person criticising you as if they are trying to defend Walmart, Amazon, or the US Government. THAT is a strawman, and is a lazy deflection tactic away from their valid criticisms.

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  • [+] [S] -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)
  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Ah, I think I figured it out. No, it's not about propaganda in politics. Actually, the thing which is most annoying is that im pretty sure that you and I agree that these corporations are awful. But what you see as satirising the corporations, I see differently, because to me, corporations are the only political players that matter. They have all the money, and all the power, and I think that crying wolf about tiny things that the megacorps never really did actually does desensitise people to the tiny (and great) indignities to which these corporations actually subject the world. So, in another comment you asked me with which stories I take issue, and my answer is this: any which paints a corporation, capitalist, or despotic regime as doing something it has not actually done, as these false stories read like real ones, and cheapen the very cause with which I believe you and I both agree.

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  • [+] [S] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Absolutely. My only concern has been how many people have been eating your particular onion, in a time when our society really needs to be focused on the very real things being satirised, and not believing things that are literally branded as false. As such, anything I can do to make it clear that these are onions, I will do. I just think you could do more to make it clear that they're fake.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    I love your idea for a community and I love your writing. Let the idiots pout because they want to be able to read and trust without evaluating sources.

    Hey idiots! Always take time to evaluate if what you are reading is real and check sources! The sidebar for the community point blank says that it's all fake and you guys are still mad because you fell for it???

    I fell for it at first! I think that's hilarious. It made me double back and read the comments and check out the community sidebar.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Did they check to see if the disks actually had Windows 95 on them?

    What if they actually were hiding drugs?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Stealing this for my Monster of the Week campaign, but I'm not sure if I should change it to Windows 11 or Windows ME so the players will know they're cursed CDs for the adventure hook.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Damn...I haven't been this conflicted about a community since Freeze Peach Patriots. Good job(?), watching with interest.

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  • [+] [S] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)
  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Small suggestion: you can add a small section/spoiler with a disclaimer at the bottom of each post introducing the community and explaining how this isn’t real news, since at that point, the reader would have had the full experience.

    This will both promote the community to those of us visiting organically and also immediately validate the premise on the spot if the reader fell for it.

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  • [+] [S] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Were they for the GameCube? /s

    I kinda want one. Would make for a cool coaster.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    federal agencies have been notified.

    This phrase has a different meaning for me than it used to.

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    [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Image is AI generated. The 'Chinese' characters aren't.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Downvote for fake bs wasting everyone's time

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    [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Fake. The discs appear to have the same proportions as regular CDs, so the spindle hole is too small.

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    [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    outside Hughes County.

    So it was in another county. (I am unaware of any land within the USA that is not part of a country, or a county with another name.)

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