MrGG

A while ago (soon after the Reddit exodus, but I can't recall specifically when) it seemed like every other post on Lemmy was just shitposting bean memes. I still see beans referenced periodically. But if your experience on Lemmy was strictly highly curated you may have not experienced the beans.

I haven't seen this movie in a really, really long time, so I don't remember what the dad actually looks like, but in this frame and at this angle he looks like a weird morph of Tommy Lee Jones and Bob Odenkirk

There are school-aged people on Lemmy? I assumed the vast majority are older millennials (with a touch of gray), who are also Linux users, not straight, and have some level of obsession with Star Trek and — God knows why — beans.

Haha also yearly for me. I have actually written a small utility in rust that interacts with mysql, but it was basically just transposing python to rust, plus it's hacky as hell and I didn't really learn anything.

I've stuck that rust book in the "one day" silo, along with the guitar, learning French, eating healthy, and getting enough sleep. One day.

Nice! Just in time for my yearly "I should finally learn rust" and then forget about it a week later habit.

This is extra entertaining because I doubt many people here know of MJF or his catchphrase, so without context you probably just seem nuts

I've been using Kagi for a few months and it has been exponentially better than Google. I wouldn't have known about it if it weren't for people talking about it on Lemmy, actually.

To be fair, he is obligated to toe the line and regurgitate his talking points, otherwise the IDF might make him go to the front.

What if God's real test is being able to think critically for yourself, not giving into idolatry (ie the church), and actually appreciating the message that Satan was trying to provide us? It'd be real awkward if the true entrants into heaven end up being not devout Christians, but free-thinking Satanists. 😁

But isn't that at random? He's a tailor at this point in the show, not an intelligence officer assassinating targets for his job. Doesn't "I have a list of enemies and I might kill one of them" sound slightly psychopathic? Garak does come close to being revenge-driven when he reconnects with Tain and rejoins the Obsidian Order, stating he has people he wants to take care of (such as Dukat), but I don't believe he outright says he's going to kill them, it's something much more subtle and discrete.

I have to respectfully disagree (also I bloody love that we are debating the psychological nuances of a fictional character from a show that ended, what... 25-ish years ago?)

I can't recall, off the top of my head, Garak ever telling a joke per se. He got his enjoyment out of subterfuge and misdirection - did he kill that ambassador or was he just a gardener, which was extra intriguing because earlier in the show you didn't really know what his previous line of work was, you just had suspicions. But if he did then it was in the past and it was an assassination in line with his job. He can get off on hinting about that kind of thing, and his colleagues can go along with it, because it was in the past and it was a professional hit, so the people around him don't have to worry about him doing the same to them. It's like listening to vets tell war stories, even if they killed a whole lot of people you know it was for their job and a good cause. They can even joke about it, because it's in the past.

But in this joke it's implying that he's just going to kill somebody at random, because he hasn't decide who that person is going to be. He isn't in the Obsidian Order at this point, so he's not assassinating to protect Cardassia. In Pale Moonlight he assassinates, openly even, but it's for a good cause and it is indirectly sanctioned by Sisko. His style of humour was basically masterful (and kind of dark) trolling, not blunt "har har I'm going to kill someone" jokes. I guess you could infer that he might be killing someone in a professional context, and maybe there are multiple targets so he hasn't decided which target to kill yet, but obviously it's a short form meme so there isn't room that kind of context. As is, it feels like a poor caricature of who the character really was.

That said, the joke is still funny and I have no idea why I've typed this much about a fucking meme instead of working 😂

While I could hear "I haven't decided yet" in Garak's voice, and this is very funny, I don't think it fits with in-universe Garak. He's not a psychopath killing people at random — he had specific reasons to kill the people he did, and generally with surgical precision. I can't see him planning to just kill someone for no particular reason.

(sorry for being that guy and criticising a joke)

(I still upvoted!)