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[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 193 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

OR...and hear me out...she was in fact a serial killer with the perfect alibi?

[–] lawks@aussie.zone 85 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm listening, but there's a deafening sound of a little lady standing by a swab production line, occasionally giving in to her intrusive thoughts of randomly snatching a swab, licking it, feeling a tiny shiver up her spine, giggling briefly, and putting it back. Her heart fluttering each time she dreamt of her next lick.

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 weeks ago

That's just to create noise in the pattern

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Her heart fluttering each time she dreamt of her next lick.

Wait. When did Lemmy turn into a romance novel?

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

🌍🧑‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Where you been surewhynot the whole intranets a romance novel

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[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's nothing to what Bert Thistlewaite does to them further down the line.

[–] BoosBeau@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I enjoyed watching Bert until he started charging

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 85 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This is really just a c/funny/mildlyinteresting/TIL/meme/SoMescreendumps mashup community by now...it's total anarchy with no direction or moderation.

[–] CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Is that a statement, compliment or an insult? I'm not good with gen Z (or is it alpha?) lingo...

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"Based" is generally positive.

See Urban Dictionary.

[–] Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It's millennial lingo actually.

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

Well I'm almost 40 so just about as millennial as it gets, I've only ever heard it from people in their mid 20's

[–] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

lil b would be rolling in his grave if he saw how people used it today

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[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 56 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

Please enlighten me as to how this counts in any way as a meme.

Edit: yes, except for, very specifically, the Dawkinsian sense, if one insists.

[–] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

It is a screenshot of text. Obviously that makes it the meme-est meme of all memes.

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 13 points 3 weeks ago

The meme is that it's an anti-meme. Very, very meta. Peak shitposting.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sure - a meme is a unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another, often propagating throughout a community and frequently subject to a form of cultural evolution.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 5 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

I know what Dawkins wrote but that definition is so all-encompassing to be unhelpful outside a specific area of discussion which is why in everyday parlance it's not used.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

If you don't like the meaning of the word "meme", you don't need to use c/memes.

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[–] anzo@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Perhaps the phantom itself was the meme by definition of those days, at the dawn of the Internet.. (:

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 6 points 3 weeks ago

I was there, Gandalf, I was there 3000 years ago. It wasn't a meme.

[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

A meme is a joke told in the form of a funny picture on the internet. This screenshot from Wikipedia may not be a typical meme, but it does have the structure of a joke, including a punch line.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

Do not talk to me about Dawkinsian sense, I was there where it got Elevated. /meme

Doesn't matter if it's a Wikipedia screenshot, it's a Wikipedia screenshot documenting an ancient meme. Like how the pic above is a widely propagated meme about a video game scene that actually refers to Dawkinsian stuff. Geddit?

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[–] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 3 weeks ago

The powers that be once again erasing women's achievements.

[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 43 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Of course OP is too incompetent to post the link to the source, so here we go again:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn

[–] Krankenwagen@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

You can just post the source with calling them names... Incompetent seems pretty harsh for fucking social media lol. Cool off, touch grass, deep breaths.

[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Well apparently people can always link the bluesky post or shitty ad infested news websites but never the original article/source. Which usually takes an additional 10s to find.

That's why I call them incompetent.

[–] ABCatMom@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If it only takes 10s to find, why make such a big deal?

[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Because a few hundred people have to do it and not just one person once.

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[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Because we should have high standards.

[–] blibla@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

uncalled for

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

They posted a TIL in a memes community, soooo

[–] jagermo@feddit.org 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The story es even wilder. The swaps were used in the racist killings of the NSU, muddling that even more.

What a clusterfuck

I hadn't heard of those...

What a world we live in. Neo-Nazis actually roamed the streets in the Netherlands against during an extreme-right protest, last weekend...

[–] x0x7@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The perfect alibi does not exist. /s

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

That woman knew how to cover her tracks. Fucking professional.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 weeks ago

licks fingers you need to keep your fingers moist when packaging up these little swaps, wouldn't want them getting contaminated from a drop on the floor!

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 8 points 3 weeks ago

Not only a serial killer but also a cat burglar, pickpocket, arsonist and numerous other crimes. A regular Doktorin Mabuse.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

So 40 murder cases in 15 years with no resolution.

Also, there's sure to be a useless trivia community?

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The resolution was that the DNA didn't belong to anyone involved in any of the crimes. It belonged to a woman who worked at the factory that made the contaminated swabs.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

For real that's like Dexter Morgan's cover for why he has so many blood slides. Uhh I work in a forensics lab...duh.

[–] Stolas@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

Would watch a documentary on this, assuming there is one.

[–] QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

She killed people without her face

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