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[–] [S] 125 points 6 months ago (22 children)

While the image is "Gottfrid Svartholm, one of the co-founders of The Pirate Bay in his work station", he sure looks like Shaggy from Scooby Doo.

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  • [–] 41 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    I can't really tell why but he also looks extremely Scandinavian to me

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I'm gonna choose to take that as an insult to all Scandinavians

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  • [–] -4 points 6 months ago (13 children)

    Afaik it's not him but some rando.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (12 children)

    That is most definitely Gottfrid.

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  • [–] -3 points 6 months ago* (11 children)

    Mind telling me why Gottfrid Svartholm, a Swede, would be reading a Polish physiology book?

    The pic has been around forever, that's not proof by itself.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I have books in languages I don't or barely understand, some in topics I know fuck all about. Does that disbar me from being the nationality that I am?

    Is this an American comment that I'm too European to understand?

    Like... wtf, people can't own books in other languages now?

    Who's to say he doesn't know Polish? Who's to say it's even his and not a family member's?

    This is such an arbitrary and meaningless detail to pick up on in an attempt to disprove the legitimacy of a photograph of a guy who looks very likely to be Gottfrid, that it reeks of anti intellectualism.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    Where have you seen him reading it? Definitely not in that photo.

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  • [–] -5 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    Oh, so the room that is carefully made to his image as you imagine it, somehow by pure chance includes a thousand-page A4 tome on physiology in Polish? Because Swedish hackers are known for their love for Polish university textbooks as decoration, of course.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    How do you know it is his room?

    You're doing an awful lot of speculation to get your point valid.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Your trolling is too fat. Try trolling more subtly.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    There is no trolling, I honestly believe that is anakata due to the similarity, and others do to based on image search results.

    You're basing your entire evidence on a single books language.

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  • [+] -12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    This is you. You probably have an advanced case of the mirror disease, as in you haven't seen your peen without a mirror in a decade. Again, more subtle trolling is required.

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  • [–] 48 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Man, I haven't seen this image in a decade and I can still spot it.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Spot what? I’m sure I’ve seen this image, but dunno if there’s a deeper meme connected to it

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago

    Oh no, it's the installation wizard

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago

    This is how you know tech was good in the 90s.

    These overly nerdy and grim looking setups were actually just a good time since the tech was worth their salt.

    It’s also funny how there isn’t the same allure to having lots of modern tech the same way the 90s tech had the cyberpunk allure.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    Dude looks like shaggy cosplaying serial experiments lain

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    What is this book doing in this cave?!

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    It appears to be bracing a shelf. It would probably be holding a window open if there were any.

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    Judging by the age of those laptops, it may be a few dial up modems instead. “Local network? Nah, we’ll just have a bank of us robotics 56k modems. “

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Cyberpunk Shaggy.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Only if it's a pot Scooby snack.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    wróćmy do tajemniczego vana Scooba!

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Like Zoinks!

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