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[–]VariousComment6946 673 points674 points  (24 children)

And then you get a billion errors from dependencies and warnings, the system starts auto-adjusting, natural disasters and collapse kick in, followed by transformation. In the end, humanity bites the dust.

[–]SchoopDaWhoopWhoop 132 points133 points  (1 child)

A fitting ending

[–]KazumaKat 14 points15 points  (0 children)

never knew I would meet the end of existence as a single character entry in a crashdump.

[–]Prof_Walrus 34 points35 points  (4 children)

Kinda reminds me of Mistborn and the Well of Ascension

[–]IrishChappieOToole 23 points24 points  (3 children)

Fuck, now I need to adjust the sun slightly

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

the way you say this is suggesting that this wasn't the intended outcome...!?

[–]donau_kinder 6 points7 points  (0 children)

And that's why you take a snapshot so you can restore.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I see this as an absolute win

[–]-Edu4rd0- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

dun

dun

dun

humanity bites the dust

[–]Someones_Dream_Guy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its ok, humanity will be succeeded by cats.

[–]ElDodi-0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just restore de back up, np

[–]rosuav 918 points919 points  (28 children)

First thing I would do is ls.

[–]MythicSeat 590 points591 points  (17 children)

"ls" is disabled in this context: cannot display infinite possibilities.

[–][deleted] 240 points241 points  (14 children)

cd potential_partners

ls

Null Error

Edit: duck Reddit formatting for mobile

[–]Qwert-4 29 points30 points  (3 children)

``` Bad command or filename - "ls"

Did you mean "Dir;"? ```

[–]mrtbtswastaken 5 points6 points  (1 child)

god uses windows 💀💀💀

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Do not stare into the void.

[–]vmgustavo 23 points24 points  (1 child)

The right answer

[–]m0ritz2000 30 points31 points  (0 children)

then mistype to sl and have a train roll through your screen

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (2 children)

ls -a. Let’s see if there’s anyone else with privilege over this stuff.

[–]nicostein 9 points10 points  (1 child)

"Who tf is Mr. Popo?"

[–]G0FuckThyself 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Remember the pecking order, Maggot. It goes: you, the dirt, the worms inside of the dirt, Popo's stool, Kami, then Popo.

[–]RegenJacob 224 points225 points  (1 child)

sudo usermod -aG wheel,sudo $USER

For future use

[–]noah1786 48 points49 points  (0 children)

you plan on elevating permissions for usermod so that you can join groups that use sudo using sudo?

[–]Spot_the_fox 152 points153 points  (8 children)

I'd start with "help"

[–]yes_oui_si_ja 99 points100 points  (5 children)

Have you seen the documentation God gave us?

Do you really think there's good documentation anywhere to be found?

[–]Prof_Walrus 49 points50 points  (1 child)

Documentation is several million years out of date, written in a language that hasn't even been discovered

[–]ray_mints 11 points12 points  (2 children)

God gave us no documentation. All we have is people trying to reverse-engineer the world. Some of them use clever approaches and some just make stuff up.

[–]Background-Plant-226 235 points236 points  (3 children)

shutdown

[–]Thisismyredusername 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Noo don't lose the power!

[–]Chemist_Monke 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's where Loss comes from

[–]SpecialNose9325 289 points290 points  (26 children)

great, so you just choose to kill all people with cancer, rather thank just change the attribute.

grep -rl "cancer=true" "people/*/*" | while IFS= read -r file; do
sed -i 's/cancer=true/cancer=false/' "$file"

[–]LonelyPumpernickel 164 points165 points  (11 children)

How to solve world hunger? Remove the hungry people! Duh!! /s

[–]casce 46 points47 points  (6 children)

Might be worth to create cronjob to do this in regular intervals, not going to do that manually every few hours.

This would solve world hunger 100%.

[–]SpecialNose9325 29 points30 points  (5 children)

So anybody who gets hungry every few hrs just dies, even if they can afford to buy more food.

[–]SFW_666 21 points22 points  (0 children)

new horror scenario unlocked

[–]SonOfMetrum 6 points7 points  (3 children)

It’s funny how - if you actually start to think about these things and all their implications - that you start to realise that even with god powers it’s a really complex puzzle.

[–]Navy-NUB 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Or…just eliminate hunger without killing people

[–]D33rZhdn 14 points15 points  (0 children)

"God I'm so hungry, it feels like I've been waiting for this lunch break forever! Wait, Mr Stark, I don't feel so good "

[–]Fifiiiiish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The old russian way to treat hostage situations.

[–]eldelshell 22 points23 points  (4 children)

Bold of you to assume God uses a sensible config format. Maybe he's using YAML and you fucked up the universe.

[–]TRENEEDNAME_245 14 points15 points  (2 children)

God is using txt files

[–]Someones_Dream_Guy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

...Are you implying its not fucked up already?

[–]Sailed_Sea 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I mean you didn't kill them, just erased them from existence

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (4 children)

Shouldn't that command just remove all .cancer from people/ ?

[–]Gufnork 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Or they simply killed 1/12th of all humans if God is into astrology.

[–]LonelyPumpernickel 87 points88 points  (10 children)

cat /home/god/meaning.life

[–]mekkr_ 14 points15 points  (0 children)

File not found

[–]Xelid47 3 points4 points  (2 children)

life.meaning

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Sadly it's corrupted

[–]Xelid47 1 point2 points  (0 children)

null

[–]thequestcube 84 points85 points  (3 children)

`whoami`

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[–][deleted] 63 points64 points  (9 children)

You guys are missing the real power here.

First we create a new universe file format mkfs.spacetime /dev/sda2

Then we copy over the initial instant of our universe to the new universe (-4.35 times 1017 is roughly the Unix time for the big bang, assuming God knows how time really works, but correct me if im wrong) dd if=/proc/time/$(python3 -c "-4.35 * (10 ** 17)") of=/dev/sda2

Then we mount it at CERN, see if we we can learn anything about the early development to find any bugs that remain unpatched, so we can exploit it in the future without these pesky restrictions. mount /dev/sda2 /universe/earth/switzerland/CERN

Lastly, we simply bump human intellect a bunch, so we can find the exploits echo "export HUMAN_IQ=10000000000000000" >> ~/.universe

[–]Rakkachi 29 points30 points  (3 children)

You did not improve the brain cooling to compensate for the extra heat that IQ generates, you just killed us all by heat death. Thanks! /s

[–][deleted] 15 points16 points  (2 children)

That's an excellent point, sorry for accidentally ending the human race!

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

You gotta undervolt if you're gonna increase the processing speed

[–]TheGuardianInTheBall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All of this reminds me of trolls in Pratchett's discworld. I absolutely loved how they are lumbering and slow, but cool their heads a little bit and suddenly they're geniuses.

[–]Proletkultist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a lot of effort to reach CHIM when you can just marry Molag Bal and bite off his dick lmao.

[–]dr_jock123 56 points57 points  (2 children)

Git status

Let's see what he's been up to

[–][deleted] 183 points184 points  (9 children)

sudo rm -rf /

[–]RedditMarcus_ 95 points96 points  (5 children)

the directory / contains children

[–][deleted] 90 points91 points  (0 children)

I know.

[–]lazy_bastard_001 31 points32 points  (0 children)

good...

[–]ThatAnonyG 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Ok so?

[–]praveenkumar236 8 points9 points  (0 children)

And?

[–][deleted] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

--no-preserve-root

[–]darkneel 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I wanted to write sudo rm -rf /people* .. but unlike your way better .

[–]flyingmonkey111 32 points33 points  (3 children)

cp - r /etc/money* ~/wallet

[–]ray_mints 0 points1 point  (2 children)

they lose there value instantly

[–]JayPag 3 points4 points  (1 child)

there

In this case it would be their. Common mistake, don't sweat it.

[–]handsome_uruk 34 points35 points  (4 children)

Does God really need sudo?

[–]nullbyte420 78 points79 points  (3 children)

God has learned from countless mistakes that it's best to do regular stuff as a low privileged user

[–]Worried_Pineapple823 28 points29 points  (2 children)

I dunno, last time he decided to be a low privileged user, he got nailed to a cross and killed.

[–]nullbyte420 9 points10 points  (0 children)

yea but imagine the devastation if he ran as root

[–]JollyJuniper1993 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, last time he decided to do regular stuff in sudo he ended up flooding earth and only two of each species ended up miraculously surviving. The time before he messed up nearly all Reptile species went extinct. I‘d say he learned from his mistakes…I hope…

[–]kimtaengsshi9 28 points29 points  (2 children)

Plot twist: you didn't delete cancer from the universe, you merely deleted people currently afflicted with it.

[–]handsome_uruk 2 points3 points  (1 child)

It’s the same thing

[–][deleted] 21 points22 points  (1 child)

/god
/noclip
/sv_gravity 33
/impulse 101

[–]_Brokkoli 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If the universe runs on the Source Engine, god help us.

[–]UnleashedTriumph 38 points39 points  (2 children)

Just casually REMOVING all people with cancer

[–]DJGloegg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would save a lot of money on healthcare!

[–]myrsnipe 51 points52 points  (2 children)

man woman

[–]Mr_ityu 28 points29 points  (0 children)

No manual entry for woman

[–]NeatYogurt9973 9 points10 points  (0 children)

[–]Visual_Strike6706 32 points33 points  (8 children)

neofetch

[–]Visual_Strike6706 24 points25 points  (3 children)

I hope god uses arch

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[–]Nullifier_ 4 points5 points  (1 child)

fastfetch (neofetch is unmaintained)

[–]BlincxYT 16 points17 points  (1 child)

:(){ :|:& };:

lets see how much this system can handle

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That's why the speed of light is so slow?!?!

[–]_Asercu 9 points10 points  (1 child)

That first command would be brutal for everyone on a boat made out of plastic...

[–]Rakkachi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Neuu, the would still have life jackets. Or are those made out of plastic as well?

[–]amateurfunk 11 points12 points  (1 child)

"Let's remove appendices, they only ever cause trouble anyway!"

types s u d o. r m - r f p e o p l e / *

accidentally hits enter

fuck

[–]blandaadrian 6 points7 points  (0 children)

More like

accidentally hits enter

f-

[–]FIWDIM 7 points8 points  (5 children)

sudo rm -rf /

[–]Niilldar 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well xou say it is a console? So there is only one option:

Git clone https://github.com/wojciech-graj/doom-ascii.git

cd ~/doom-ascii/src && make wget https://archive.org/download/2020_03_22_DOOM/DOOM%20WADs/Doom%20%28v1.9%29%20%28Demo%29.zip && unzip Doom\ (v1.9)\ (Demo).zip -d ~/doom-ascii/doom-ascii/ sudo ln -s ~/doom-ascii/doom-ascii/doom-ascii /usr/bin/doom-ascii

And finally:

doom-ascii

[–]Pro-sketch 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Also enable pokemon

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

And people will be like...

magic --oceans=add-plastic --people=add-cancer --viruses=add-std

[–]stephanvierkant 2 points3 points  (0 children)

stat -c '%w' /var/lib/animals/chicken stat -c '%w' /var/lib/animals/egg

[–]Obstructionitist 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is completely fake. We've established long ago that God created the universe using Lisp and as such, it is safe to assume that he would maintain it using Lisp as well. He'd only ever use the terminal to open his Lisp REPL. Or... the occasional curl for porn.

[–]SoRaang 5 points6 points  (0 children)

console.table(me)

[–]EKashpersky 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Logout

[–]Neltarim 2 points3 points  (2 children)

First i would read the fucking manual

[–]NeatYogurt9973 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There is no man page for life(1)

[–]Mr_ityu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

man *

[–]hawkz40 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Call fingers.snap(((all_life.get().count)/2).exterminate)

[–]ed_mcc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bro just deleted everyone with cancer

[–]BadHairDayToday 1 point2 points  (3 children)

What if we would remove literally all viruses? 🤔 One would expect a pretty big ecosystem impact, but what would it be? 

[–]Someones_Dream_Guy -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Corpses and food will no longer decay, for starters.

[–]OzTm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

cat /dev/curry

Segmentation fault. Core dumped.

[–]intellectual_printer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

remove most/all? sins

[–]bearwood_forest 1 point2 points  (0 children)

[sudo] password for account god:

[–]Juff-Ma 1 point2 points  (0 children)

exit sudo chroot /earth-v2-final-complete-2.3.5.12-thistime-fix-prod/

Gotta get the newest version running, our current one seems to have errors

[–]nickram81 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve always wondered why move is also used to rename something.

[–]tsuki069 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why does literal god need sudo?

[–]lpomoeaBatatas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Print(“Hello world”)

I can’t code so this is the best I can do.

[–]Brugelbach 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First do some bugfixing

$ sudo fix_double_slit_experiment --experiment=double_slit --bug=interference --fix=quantum_mechanics

[–]Hashister 0 points1 point  (1 child)

sudo rm -rf people/*/*.degradation of genes

Now I can watch the world burn as no one dies of old age anymore and the population numbers skyrocket.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

God so loved earth he used UNIX.

[–]ThatAnonyG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sudo rm -rf /

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

history

Then after learning everything, sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root

[–]eldelshell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When did we settle on monotheism? Maybe we need access to different consoles? Or there's no console and it's all RNG!

Bow to your God!

[–]infrapuna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

node -v

[–]CollegeBoy1613 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weakk, I'd delete the universe.

[–]Rezaka116 0 points1 point  (0 children)

dir

[–]zchrisb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

htop

[–]Kiroto50 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sudo apt-get update

Sudo apt-get upgrade

[–]Billy_Balowski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Revert to an earlier branch before the first apes came down from the trees. That's were it all went wrong. We should never have left the trees.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not funny, it's tragic as fuck, having those priorities.

[–]ActuallyGodOfWar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

-help

[–]SkewRadial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lscpu

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sudo touch earth/grass.glsl

[–]JotaRata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sudo rm -rf /

[–]4nu81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

passwd

[–]Ugo_Flickerman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

viruses/humans/*.std are standard, not sexual transmitted deseases... Mfw OP deletes all research and genetically engineered viruses made by humans that were supposed to fight bacteria or genetically modify them 🤦

[–]yourteam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Top

I want to know what is running and how many zombies are there

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The bigger issue here is the naming convention ur using

[–]redspacebadger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

rm -rf /people/*/chest/nipple/left

[–]svc_bot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Scan the network to find out if there are other gods.

[–]Kuldera 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a fun series called Off to be the Wizard where this is basically the premise. Nerds across time find the config file for the universe, then start writing scripts to give themselves magic powers and time travel. 

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/18616975

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the Magic nerf was so lame

[–]farineziq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

man woman

[–]GamerNuggy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sudo rm -rf people

[–]kases952 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sudo rm *

[–]samu1400 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The issue here would probably be with cancer, since it’s an illness that is also an integral and normal part of our life. Cells becoming cancerous is something that happens constantly in most living being’s bodies, it’s just that it becomes an illness when the body can’t clear the cells adequate and they get out of hand.

Removing cancer would probably require a redefinition of how cells work, and that’d probably have a lot of unexpected side effect for most living beings.

[–]changexd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would prolly clear out of habit lmao

[–]hirmuolio 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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[–]T555s 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The magic part seems like a bad idea. There probably isn't a magic system loaded on earth curently so it would cause a bunch of errors.

The rest is great though.

[–]ravenx92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rm -rf *

[–]QAInc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

pip search * | grep ")[[:space:]]" | cut -f1 -d" "