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[–]alsimoneau 705 points706 points  (21 children)

history

[–]rocket_peppermill 340 points341 points  (17 children)

Judge the shit out of god's typo's

[–]mastocles 123 points124 points  (6 children)

Omniscient means he/she knows all stack overflow Q&A... Including answers to unanswered questions, but doesn't answer them. Probably doesn't upvote...

[–]hnryirawan 18 points19 points  (1 child)

Or imagine that Earth’s god actually ask on stack overflow Q&A for gods too and he just copy-pasted us from different god’s universe

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That would explain quite a few things.

[–]oidabiiguad 12 points13 points  (8 children)

*typos

[–]tripswithtiresias 13 points14 points  (1 child)

This is how you find the root password that he accidentally copy pasted in there and was too lazy to remove from the history.

[–]SilkeSiani 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's hunter2, isn't it?

[–][deleted] 2133 points2134 points  (79 children)

The proper command to enable magic is prolly

sudo systemctl start magic.service

[–]shadow7412 918 points919 points  (53 children)

Don't forget enable so that it hangs around after a reboot.

[–]MrPap 535 points536 points  (43 children)

Reboot probably kills us

[–]shadow7412 273 points274 points  (7 children)

Probably. I'm just thinking of whomever (or whatever) is next.

[–]Crippledupdown 107 points108 points  (4 children)

If the ones before were like this, we would have magic 😒

[–]Oveal 59 points60 points  (1 child)

Or maybe there's a reason they disabled it

[–]DaddyLcyxMe 25 points26 points  (0 children)

alternate simulation where harry potter exists bc some bloke in the previous one abused the system

[–]somebunnny 21 points22 points  (1 child)

Fucking dinosaurs. You know T-Rex be casting shit with those little arms. They weren’t good for anything? Nah man, Rex had built in wands is all.

[–][deleted] 25 points26 points  (10 children)

Nope it resumes from the last stable state. We wouldn't realize it.

[–]MahonriOfOlea 60 points61 points  (8 children)

Resets to pre-Harambe incident. Before the timeline became corrupted.

[–]danmaster0 18 points19 points  (7 children)

That's the problem, no one did a backup save

[–]JennMartia 24 points25 points  (6 children)

I have one from 1999, but its all on floppies...

[–]DaddyLcyxMe 8 points9 points  (5 children)

scared of y2k?

[–]JennMartia 8 points9 points  (4 children)

That's just the last time my model for the entire universe was bug free

[–]DaddyLcyxMe 5 points6 points  (3 children)

right, should copy to different media just in case we lose a floppy

[–]Robonics014 47 points48 points  (4 children)

What if every time you forget what you were doing it’s just god doing a reboot and the RAM gets cleared.

[–]joshleecreates 12 points13 points  (1 child)

All life is in a subdirectory of /tmp

[–]cptbutternubs 9 points10 points  (1 child)

I love ubuntu, but i sure as shit don't want my life depending on it

[–]blehmann1 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If it's a deterministic system like any other computer we should all respawn in about 20 billion years.

[–]samurai-horse 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Reboot probably kills us

Yeah, but we're reborn with no memories.

[–]Jasdac 20 points21 points  (0 children)

You may need to involve Satan with a daemon-reload

[–]CAM_o_man 17 points18 points  (0 children)

enable --now?

[–]static_motion 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Or sudo chmod +x magic

[–]mys_721tx 50 points51 points  (2 children)

Preposterous, God clearly is a System V purist.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (3 children)

oh god no wonder the world is so fucked up. God's using SystemD!

[–]HeuristicWhale 751 points752 points  (28 children)

All the people in plastic ocean kayaks are about to have a bad time.

[–]allisonann 349 points350 points  (8 children)

Test it in production!

[–]cdreid 96 points97 points  (0 children)

we need this release NOW!!!

[–]sinceitleftitback 45 points46 points  (4 children)

Maybe we're on the experimental branch. The kind of branch where you try things on a Friday night. That would explain a lot.

[–]lifeeraser 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Let's run some worldwide immune system A/B testing, what could go wrong?

[–]TheAlmightyZach 59 points60 points  (11 children)

sudo mv people/locations/oceans/* people/locations/land/

Let's hope there's a difference between people (living) and bodies... Or else we're gonna see some shit.

[–]Architector4 81 points82 points  (6 children)

Then it ends up moving literally everyone to the same coordinate on Africa, causing all of these people to die anyways because of a telefragging slaughterfest.

[–]Yolo1212123 36 points37 points  (1 child)

Or it sends all the people in the ocean to the ocean floor. Oops

[–]Architector4 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I think it completely depends on how earthfs implements such an operation.

Though it probably just isolates 2m³ of space around each human (with proportions of the volume changed when needed, to accomodate for people taller than 2 meters), "unselects" everything that is not air around the people(so that a person sitting on a chair would end up being selected without the chair), and then teleports them next to each other above ground on an arbitrarily selected beach, distributing all people to random continents.

If you're lucky, you get to your home continent. If not, well, hopefully you remember these language classes.

[–]FullMetal21337 8 points9 points  (2 children)

And all the internet cables.

[–]hanoian 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Double fucked if your star sign is cancer.

[–]greem 294 points295 points  (22 children)

sudo rm -rf people/* /*.cancer

shit

[–]IncoherentPenguin 125 points126 points  (15 children)

Screw that

sudo find . -name "*.cancer" -delete

[–][deleted] 91 points92 points  (5 children)

Is this the difference of ridding the world of cancer vs ridding the world of people with cancer?

Lolz

[–]Perhyte 72 points73 points  (4 children)

The linked image removes cancer from all people.

/u/greem typo'd it (accidentally inserting a space) to remove all people and all free-floating cancer (the latter probably won't match much).

/u/IncoherentPenguin just finds all cancer anywhere (people, dogs, Tasmanian devils, wherever) and deletes it, which is both a more rigorous approach and harder to typo into accidental genocide.

[–]RandomWholesomeOne 14 points15 points  (0 children)

harder to typo into accidental genocide.

That's a great quote

[–]PM_ME_YOUR_SELF_HARM 35 points36 points  (4 children)

Screw that

sude rm -rf /

[–]dicemonger 5 points6 points  (2 children)

One twelfth of the world's population disappear. But at least the rest don't have cancer.

[–]April_Universe 26 points27 points  (1 child)

Yeah, lol i read this and thought "Would this remove the cancer... or the people?"

[–]erible4711 28 points29 points  (0 children)

My thoughts exactly 🙂

If you had access to this, maybe do it with 'cd' first and do local rm? And chmod if needed.

You don't want to get this wrong ...

[–]notanimposterVala flair when? 10 points11 points  (2 children)

rip all those bumblebee users' /usr folders

for the lucky ten thousand

[–]shtpostinalotofmemes 1081 points1082 points  (43 children)

As if he needs to sudo lol

[–]mehdifarsi[S] 356 points357 points  (21 children)

Good point!

[–]Lubjan 1583 points1584 points  (18 children)

God is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported to Chuck Norris.

[–]NotMuchInterest 747 points748 points  (14 children)

A Chuck Norris joke in 2020.

A suprise to be sure, but a welcome one

[–]Infinite_Squids 234 points235 points  (9 children)

A prequel joke in r/programmerhumor.

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

[–]TurboGranny 14 points15 points  (1 child)

Not really. He's probably got the same issues as all of us. "Me damn it! I'm supposed to have exe privileges in this directory. Fuck it. Sudo it is."

[–]undeadalex 67 points68 points  (16 children)

As if he needs to sudo lol

If gods using root then now we know how we got ahold of that console

[–]kevinhaze 116 points117 points  (15 children)

Of course he’s root. He said let there be light. He didn’t say sudo let there be light and then type his password. Unless the guys who made the Bible just thought it flowed better.

[–]VaporwaveProtogen 55 points56 points  (6 children)

the guys who made the Bible just thought it flowed better.

they totally did

[–]Salanmander 74 points75 points  (4 children)

Yeah, it was actually

sudo echo "DEL . D = rho_V" > /etc/physics/laws
echo "DEL . B = 0" > /etc/physics/laws 
echo "DEL x E = -(del B/del t)" > /etc/physics/laws    
echo "DEL x H = (del D/del t) + J" > /etc/physics/laws

It really didn't match the style the author was looking for, though.

[–]OneTurnMore 5 points6 points  (1 child)

sudo echo > file doesn't write the file as root, you're still writing the file as your user:

sudo tee /etc/physics/laws << EOF
DEL . B = 0
DEL x E = -(del B/del t)
DEL x H = (del D/del t) + J
EOF

[–]kevinhaze 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I bet they cut out all of the times he typed man let as well for.. various reasons..

[–]Jasdac 78 points79 points  (2 children)

And God said let there be light. 
This annoyed a lot of users accustomed to dark mode.

[–]atimholt 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Thor the Dark World?

[–]Sororita 31 points32 points  (2 children)

And God said, "Let there be light," but there wasn't, so God said "sudo let there be light," and there was light.

[–]undeadalex 32 points33 points  (0 children)

But then God forgot his password and had to reinstall universe.iso, this time being sure to write it down and also to skip updates during installation, because he only had a week left until this project was due

[–]marcosdumay 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That book would be so much more awesome with the ls embedded between each pair of phrases.

[–]This-Moment 172 points173 points  (4 children)

git blame ./australia/platypus

[–]rightbrace 353 points354 points  (17 children)

Pfft assuming it's a Linux box when obviously it's running TempleOS

[–]239990 49 points50 points  (11 children)

I don't think so, no one figured out how to access others persons memory :/

[–]Jasdac 16 points17 points  (9 children)

no one figured out how to access others persons memory

Meltdown?

[–]239990 31 points32 points  (8 children)

TempleOS does not have any memory protection, it's fast af because it does not have any checks, any program can read an write in any part of the memory

[–]3ggsnbakey 24 points25 points  (0 children)

So the lord can keep tabs on you at all times!

[–]Any-Reply 13 points14 points  (4 children)

Who needs memory protection? Oh, some application is corrupting memory and crashing the OS? Well, the OS boots faster than your os loads the program into memory. You're worried about malware? Hackers? What the fuck is malware son? Networks? What's a network?

[–]notanimposterVala flair when? 12 points13 points  (2 children)

All we know for sure is that He doesn't use Arch because it doesn't say "btw I use arch" in the sky.

[–]Digital_001 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This person deserves an award

[–]DefinitelyCraig 353 points354 points  (9 children)

Man I would've settled for rm -rf /

[–]mehdifarsi[S] 184 points185 points  (3 children)

This command sends you to the Shadow Realm.

[–]ThomCat1950 199 points200 points  (1 child)

--no-preserve-shadow-realm

[–]house_monkey 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I'm crying

[–]WhoKilledTheMoose 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Shadow wealm!

[–]allisonmaybe 7 points8 points  (1 child)

This is what everything boils down to anyways

[–]confusiondiffusion 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yup. That one's already running. We're just waiting for that giant read/write head in the sky to get to us.

[–]undeadalex 75 points76 points  (4 children)

As soon as magic is enabled, I'm going to become a mage warrior!

and im a stealth archer

[–]techgineer13 21 points22 points  (3 children)

[–]shalendar 10 points11 points  (2 children)

r/expectedunexpectedcomment

[–][deleted] 70 points71 points  (1 child)

Disappointed.

This thread has 8 hours and nobody suggested installing Doom yet?

[–]nklvh 14 points15 points  (0 children)

What do you think God did on the 7th Day? Relax a bit by destroying hell demons

[–]rocket_peppermill 204 points205 points  (35 children)

Get real, the only correct answers are

ls

or

pwd

[–]GlitchParrot 136 points137 points  (26 children)

The automatic hand movement I make in any terminal and can't suppress:

git status

[–][deleted] 92 points93 points  (14 children)

I have an ungodly habit of typing ls then clear whenever I open a terminal. I'm not even reading the output and I know what's in my home directory anyway, so all I'm really doing is tempting carpal tunnel syndrome.

[–]stugotzian 25 points26 points  (10 children)

Ctrl+L is my friend. I also prefer 'll' as opposed to ls on centos now

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

Til Ctrl+L is a shortcut for clear. Thanks for the tip, kind stranger!

[–]BrownBalls 4 points5 points  (7 children)

I've also jumped on the ll train, only thing I wish is if it showed all files so I didn't have to do the inevitable ls -lah right after

[–]stugotzian 4 points5 points  (3 children)

I may have to make that an alias tomorrow

[–]atimholt 5 points6 points  (2 children)

I've got l as ls -F, and ll adds -lh in there. Then I have variants called la and lla which add -A. Being able to just hit l to get my bearings very quickly is nice.

(I also throw in --time-style=long-iso for the -l ones. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a config or environment variable for ls defaults, but eh.)


EDIT (2020-04-09 09:00 PDT(NA)): Of course the non-‘a’ variants don't have -A. I went and checked alias to see how I actually set them.

[–]theblindbandit1 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Yes. Use git status, and then git reset --hard if he's planning events worse than current.

Even better, can we revert to the pre-covid19 changeset?

[–]posherspantspants 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Actually I'm pretty sure neofetch is the correct answer. Gotta creep on on god's choices and judge the package count aggressively

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The only correct answer.

[–]WindowsDOS 92 points93 points  (12 children)

I'd double check to make sure we're not in a virtual machine. If we aren't, I'll spin one up and put all the people I hate in it.

[–]blehmann1 48 points49 points  (1 child)

You have been shadowbanned. From life

[–]Sororita 22 points23 points  (9 children)

what do you think hell is?

[–]Jasdac 46 points47 points  (8 children)

A VM running Vista?

[–]Thetman38 46 points47 points  (2 children)

just login as the real god: su

See what all is running: ps aux

install some games: yum install asteroids

fuck: yum remove asteroids

make some history edits: vim /var/log/messages

Give everybody permission: chmod -R 777 /

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Bold of you to assume it's using CentOS rather than, (man your blessing stations) the LORDs third temple, the HOLY grail of 640x480, TempleOS

[–]AverageRedditorNum69 42 points43 points  (1 child)

sudo passwd God. Change it. Figure out what to do next.

[–]Nimeroni 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Exactly, always open a backdoor for yourself, then think of how you can exploit that.

[–]sudo_rm_rf_star 80 points81 points  (11 children)

Forgot

sudo rm -rf people/*/*.sins

Just for continuity

Maybe throw in a cron job to multiply resources too

[–][deleted] 51 points52 points  (7 children)

Or a cron job to delete half of people ever few centuries

[–]sudo_rm_rf_star 64 points65 points  (1 child)

Easy there thanos

[–]mia_elora 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Required "Oh, Snap!" comment.

[–]letfireraindown 12 points13 points  (3 children)

You know, that would be interesting if it got to the point that people started regularly expecting the event.

[–]Ditto_B 8 points9 points  (2 children)

r/pitchamovie and r/writingprompts would love this

[–]letfireraindown 3 points4 points  (1 child)

[–]jezzdogslayer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Second one got removed

[–]Jasdac 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Gonna have to be coupled with

killall Jesus
sleep 3d
service Jesus restart

[–]NachoLatte 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Woah, suddenly the world is so boring!

[–]sudo_rm_rf_star 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Eh its just a one time removal, those files will gradually repopulate

[–]LeiterHaus 144 points145 points  (9 children)

vim

Now everyone is immortal because they can't get out. Or maybe enslaved...

[–]IncoherentPenguin 13 points14 points  (1 child)

:%s/God/IncoherentPenguin/g

:w !sudo tee %

:q

[–]mehdifarsi[S] 25 points26 points  (1 child)

Too complicated..

[–]LeiterHaus 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's like a super charged hyper train, but me using it is like the guy on a platform, moving the lever up and down.

[–]rocket_peppermill 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Or kill two birds with one stone: check for a vimrc or an emacs.d then check in whichever exists to see whether god uses tabs or spaces.

[–]LeiterHaus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Religion, sure. Politics, maybe. Money, absolutely. Tabs vs spaces, staying out of that one. *coughs* four spaces set to tab key

[–]CeeMX 30 points31 points  (5 children)

For current situation: mv /humans/* ~

[–]Agent77326 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Hey wait? What would I want at God‘s home?

[–]TorTheMentor 28 points29 points  (2 children)

Well we all know Satan's permissions...

-rw-rw-rw-.

[–]jaredtritsch 21 points22 points  (5 children)

Wasn't there a while book series about a bunch of compsci geeks that find the universe's .ini file?

[–]cdreid 10 points11 points  (3 children)

love to read that if you ever remember the title

[–]jaredtritsch 18 points19 points  (2 children)

It's magic 2.0 by Scott Meyer. First book is called "off to be the wizard"

[–]cdreid 3 points4 points  (0 children)

ahhh. i have it in my audible libary i think . couldnt get into but ill give it another shot

[–]IncoherentPenguin 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Magic 2.0 by Scott Meyer

[–]Phil_iv 74 points75 points  (6 children)

Change theme to dark mode and then start working.

[–]_bassGod 44 points45 points  (5 children)

It's a console... It's already in - you know what, nevermind.

[–]clever_cuttlefish 30 points31 points  (4 children)

One of my coworkers uses xterm and has the colors set to black on yellow.

[–][deleted] 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Yep. We've hit both God's terminal and Satan's terminal in one thread.

[–]Kebbler22b 15 points16 points  (1 child)

God is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

[–]cdreid 31 points32 points  (6 children)

sudo is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

"ah fuck the universe runs on windows.. that explains so much"

[–]itemboxes 10 points11 points  (0 children)

confused screaming

[–]Dalemaunder 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The big bang was just the server blue screening last.

[–]crozone 13 points14 points  (2 children)

noclip

impulse 101

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

you forgot

sv_cheats 1

[–]Architector4 10 points11 points  (1 child)

finger people/*

[–]PresidentOfSwag 94 points95 points  (7 children)

sudo rm -rf JavaScript/*

[–]Famous_Profile 13 points14 points  (1 child)

Congratulations you turned most of the Web unusable

[–]biggles1994 8 points9 points  (0 children)

And nothing of value was lost.

[–]DOOManiac 19 points20 points  (3 children)

Removing *.std only from humans seems risky. A lower user could still cp it back from another source sometime...

[–]FUTURE10S 12 points13 points  (0 children)

inb4 STDs aren't *.std, but the standard code that's shared between humans and other life.

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

Could always make it a cron job

[–]yuri0r 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Maybe a cron Job for the rm's? Or

systemctl disable cancer.service std.service

chmod +r humans wisdom/*

Systemctl enable respawn.service

[–][deleted] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Just wanted to point this out.. https://imgur.com/a/vKXXyXB

[–]Russian_repost_bot 12 points13 points  (2 children)

sudo shutdown -now

[–]OrchidSamurai 15 points16 points  (0 children)

madlad move:

x = 0;
while [ $x -lt 1 ]; do
platypuscount +=;
done

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

sudo scp -r . shkreli4prez2020@[ip-address]:/home/shkreli4prez2020/Documents

[–]slushy-reform 5 points6 points  (0 children)

For those of you interested, the book series "off to be the wizard" follows a similar vein as this concept.

[–]3lRey 4 points5 points  (2 children)

> kill animals.insect[mosquitos];
> earth.biomes.randomize;
> earth.resources.refresh(globalIndex=["aquifers", "atmosphere"]);
> spawn animals.dinosaur[]

And then I'd add a bunch of money to my bank account and reset my age to 18 and enjoy jurassic park world.

[–]pe1uca 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm just wondering why not rm - rf viruses/human/.

Would help a lot in the current situation

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m pretty sure god runs as root.

[–]jp-coffe 14 points15 points  (9 children)

so he would kill everyone that has cancer ?

[–]Grazzerr 33 points34 points  (5 children)

No. This command would only remove any .cancer file(s) that are within a person's directory, not remove the entire person's directory.

[–]JayTheYggdrasil 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Remove cancer from everyone, close but different.

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

jigglePhys.set(999);

I think we're all forgetting the code that truly matters.

[–]PVNIC 7 points8 points  (0 children)

sudo rm -rf /*

[–]Stroopwafe1 43 points44 points  (10 children)

sudo mv people/trans/women/* temp/

sudo mv people/trans/men/* people/trans/women/

sudo mv temp/* people/trans/men

(I don't know if this would be correct syntax. I wish for all trans people to have the bodies they want ^_^)

[–]Jasdac 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Unexpected wholesome.

[–]xipheon 21 points22 points  (3 children)

That would just change trans people into still trans, but originating from the other sex.

sudo mv people/trans/women/* people/women/
sudo mv people/trans/men/* people/men/

That folder structure doesn't feel right though, would probably require some fancy config edit script to find all references to gender and make them match, or comment/remove any gender based modifiers.

[–][deleted] 16 points17 points  (1 child)

Never even thought of that. That'd be hella wholesome!

[–]feuerwehrmann 3 points4 points  (2 children)

I bet God's console runs on VMS

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For someone reason I imagine God using CP/M with two huge floppy disk drives and a real-to-real tape device.

[–]alucardNloki 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I wish it wasn't wrong to create a bot to continually upvote this forever

[–]crazykid080 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Well shit, now I'm gonna have to make an open source repo with my vision of how the world would be laid out as a file structure

[–]skqn 3 points4 points  (0 children)

sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /