They weren’t stupid they just didn’t know any better. There’s a difference, and it’s an important one in these troubled times.
Lembot_0002@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Yeah, people in the VII-th century were so stupid that the writer might be not trolling but sincerely believing in the bullshit he wrote. Barbaric times…
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
stray@pawb.social 2 days ago
So many ancient writings are shitposts though. This could very well just be OOP trolling the kind of people who would be scared of such a message, or even making a joke we no longer have the references for.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Some Roman general “Look, there’s no such GODDAMN THING AS RUNE STONES. Now go take that fucking Druid village or I will give you something to be scared about.”
Droechai@lemm.ee 2 days ago
The romans where more scared of flying menhirs when trying to invade gaul villages with druids
flandish@lemmy.world 2 days ago
how is that different than today? hint: it’s not.
drolex@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
The translation is not very accurate. It should be read something like this:
[Insert pepe]
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
When you try to lie to IT support.
“Are you sure you didn’t download and run InsidiousDeath.exe?”
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I thought it was a heavy metal song! But it didn’t play anything and just started asking for bitcoin. Obviously my audio drivers need to be updated, please fix them so I can listen to the song.
Proceeds to ignore advice to not run it again and starts downloading it before IT leaves room.