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Chuck Norris has died
- arduanika 6mo ago"Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name. In some ways men can be immortal." ― Chuck Norris
- northlondoner 6mo agoChuck Norris never dies. Culmination of Human sprit.
- philipallstar 6mo ago[flagged]
- bovermyer 6mo agoHe had some pretty awful views that he was pretty loud about, especially later in life. He also cheated on his wife at one point. However, so as not to speak (purely) ill of the dead, I will say that he was an accomplished martial artist with a prolific film career.
- sys32768 6mo agoTo be fair, you probably have some views some people think are pretty awful.
- bbkane 6mo agoMe 5 years ago did. I agree with all my views today. Who knows about me 5 years from now
- praptak 6mo agoI don't see how this matters. Whoever thinks I'm horrible is 100% allowed to say this after I'm dead.
- claytongulick 6mo agoOr, another option is that we could all give grace to others, even (especially) if they disagree with us.
- ericwood 6mo agoThere's disagreement then there's being an outspoken supporter of systematically trying to strip rights away from others because of your religious beliefs. It's much deeper than having differing views on fiscal policy.
- majorchord 6mo agoYour political opposite can and does say the exact same thing about you.
- ericwood 6mo agoThey would be liars, then.
- ranger_danger 6mo agoLiars according to who? Who gets to say what's a lie? This would still be just as pointless of an argument IMO... I think parent commenter is saying that you simply can't play the same game they are because you look identical to them from the outside; you're both saying the same thing. Left says you're trying to take rights away... Right says you're trying to take rights away. This does nothing to educate anyone or try to find a mutually agreeable solution... your arguments carry no more weight than theirs do. You both think you're "right" and the other is "wrong".
- ericwood 6mo agoThose are pretty wild accusations from someone who doesn't know me or my beliefs. I definitely have not been calling for those things, especially not through the lens of religion. Everything I said here in regards to his beliefs can be easily verified. It's crazy to me to respond "well you're doing the same to them" as a retort. I'm not?
- bovermyer 6mo agoOh, for sure. MAGA types think some of my views are absolutely abhorrent. I'm pretty sure there are a few cultures that would kill me for my views. Just because they hate me, though, doesn't mean I can't disagree with their position.
- LightBug1 6mo agoThere's a solid difference between 'awful' and just plain 'dumb'.
- kelnos 6mo agoThis is a tough thing. I do believe in moral relativism to a large extent, but I also think there are some things that are really just objectively morally and ethically "right" or "wrong". Hating on LGBT folks and trying to restrict their rights is one of those things that is wrong no matter how you dice it. People who believe otherwise are wrong, full stop. So it's not really so much about people thinking someone else's views are awful. It's about whether or not those views truly are awful. And I feel very safe in saying that if someone thinks my support of LGBT folks is pretty awful, they're in the wrong, not me. And I'm in the right to think their hateful views are awful. (Yes, I realize how arrogant that sounds, but I have to stand by it.) I think this is something that transcends politics or culture wars or anything like that. Having these sorts of hateful views are actively harmful to humanity's and society's future. That doesn't mean I think we should censor people (rampant censorship is also actively harmful to our future), but it does mean we need to somehow fix people and shift the culture toward one that lets people live how they want in cases like this where doing so doesn't actually hurt anyone else. I have no idea how to accomplish this, though.
- moscoe 6mo agoIf I can quote Chael Sonnen, I’d like to say ”you absolutely suck!”
- lich_king 6mo ago> He had some pretty awful views that he was pretty loud about, especially later in life. He also cheated on his wife at one point. In 1961, in his early 20s. You get ~80 years on this planet to make mistakes and have views that some other people will dislike. If these are the worst things we can accuse him of, while acknowledging all his charitable work, I'd say he fared OK compared to many other role models we have.
- SilverElfin 6mo agoApparently much more recently too: https://www.thepinknews.com/2021/01/13/chuck-norris-homophobic-gay-trump-capitol/ https://www.thepinknews.com/2021/01/13/chuck-norris-homophob... Turns out he was a MAGA Christian homophobe. That’s … disappointing. But I guess I was naive to expect something different.
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- myvoiceismypass 6mo agoThe Obama Birtherism nonsense was certainly not in this dude's 20s
- RIMR 6mo ago"Don't speak ill of the dead"? How about "Don't be a bad person when you're alive"?
- bovermyer 6mo agoSomething I was brought up to believe was that you shouldn't speak ill of the recently deceased. A courtesy to those in mourning. I struggle with that rule sometimes.
- lern_too_spel 6mo agoAnd Chuck Norris was brought up to believe that gay people are the devil. I was conditioned to not take my parents traditions as gospel. The taboo against speaking ill of the recently deceased is not universal as we saw after Khamenei's death, and it is possible to debate whether we should discuss the failings of the recently deceased dispassionately, as newspaper obituaries usually do, and whether the impact on society of those critiques is net negative or not. There is the famous case of a premature unflattering obituary of Alfred Nobel upon the death of his brother possibly inspiring Nobel to think about his legacy, for example. All this to say that I don't think it's necessarily problematic for you to mention that he had and shared some pretty awful views.
- claytongulick 6mo agoGreat advice. Do you follow it? Is there one way to be a good person? Does being a good person also mean agreeing with your politics?
- ahhhhnoooo 6mo agoThere are good people whose politics I disagree with. If you are using your celebrity status to cause harm to millions on the international stage, systematically attempting to strip their rights, I think it's fair to say they weren't a good person.
- kelnos 6mo ago> Does being a good person also mean agreeing with your politics? Can we stop framing human rights as "politics"? People hating on others because they don't like that they're gay or trans or black or brown... that's just people being fundamentally awful people, and has nothing to do with politics. The fact that they are then taking their awfulness and engaging politically to enshrine their awful views into law just adds another dimension to it. I said this in another comment: if these people with awful views would stop trying to make those awful views laws, then I'd have much less of a problem with them; I could at least just ignore them. > Is there one way to be a good person? What a useless, one-dimensional take on the problem.
- RIMR 6mo ago[flagged]
- MBCook 6mo agoNah. The part where his name was relevant again because of the jokes and he started the eating and suing people over it.
- claytongulick 6mo agoIt was the part where he didn't say things like this about other people.
- miltonlost 6mo agoExcept he did worse by his actions. And did say that about other people. Like Obama being born in Kenya. Dude was racist
- myko 6mo agoLooked it up and he did say these things, pretty shocking how racist he was. RIP, hope he finds peace in the afterlife and leaves the hate behind.
- bdangubic 6mo agothis is class act for 1/2 of america
- titzer 6mo ago> Or was it when he said that a Black president would bring "1000 years of darkness"? I looked this one up. It's true. He's been going out of his way to be a political firebrand and claiming milquetoast Democrats are Satan for decades. It wasn't some offhand comment when cornered on stage. He's pushed white christian nationalism hard for quite some time. Sad, because it was so unnecessary, divisive, and crazy--a black mark on his legacy.
- huhkerrf 6mo agoBut it's not true the way GP phrased it. Norris did not say if a black man was elected then there would be 1000 years of darkness, he said it about a specific man who happens to be black. It's silly, but unless you're claiming that black politicians get special exemptions, his race is immaterial to this quote.
- taco_emoji 6mo agoYeah, his support of the Obama "birther" conspiracy was super classy.
- Findecanor 6mo agoMy dad was a film reporter in the late '70s/early '80s, and told me that Chuck Norris had been one of the friendliest celebrities he had ever met. My dad had some antiquated views himself too. People can have/be both, I suppose.
- kelnos 6mo agoThat's the thing: you can be a perfectly pleasant person to interact with, and people can genuinely enjoy interacting with you. But then you can start actively using your celebrity status to advocate for legally restricting the rights of people you don't like. That's the real problem, and that's why I wouldn't want to look at people like Chuck Norris as role models. Being polite doesn't make you a good person. It just makes you tolerable, or even pleasant, in personal interactions. Sure, we can talk about things like your dad's experience. But there's more to it than that.
- gotofritz 6mo ago"Class act" is doing a lot of lifting there
- guywithahat 6mo agoAs far as I can tell he was an incredible person in life, people only spoke well of him. Sad to see him go, although happy he lived a full life
- huhkerrf 6mo agoDeath had to take Chuck Norris sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight.
- moralestapia 6mo agoHaha, good one. I will have to steal this one for my upcoming valedictorian speech. The crowd is going to love it.
- plasticsoprano 6mo agoExcept is was said by Vice President Thomas R. Marshall upon Theodore Roosevelt’s death and co-opted as a Chuck Norris joke.
- ohjeez 6mo agoIt's a kickass obituary, no matter the subject!
- moralestapia 6mo agoI agree! It is funny because you usually think of Death as something inevitable and people just accept it but then ... some of these guys put up a fight. Mega-LMAO!
- chungy 6mo agoTeddy Roosevelt was the Chuck Norris of his day. It is appropriate.
- GolfPopper 6mo agoI think that comparison is quite unfair to Teddy, and overly flattering to Chuck Norris. Historian, sheriff, war hero, governor, explorer, and a successful President who reshaped America largely for the better. While Roosevelt was human, he led a life that very few have ever matched. That said, the line does fit them both.
- halcdev 6mo agoHe finally defeated life
- freedomben 6mo agoWhile normally making jokes after a person's death would be socially questionable, in this case Chuck Norris himself loved the Chuck Norris jokes. For me at least, a good sense of humor is maybe the most endearing personality trait. RIP
- blueflow 6mo agoGiving people reason to laugh while you are old and dying is a superpower. I wish i will have it, too.
- mft_ 6mo agoFundamentally, I'd argue that very little should ever be unreasonable or out of bounds to make jokes about; what is important is that it's good humour. Case in point: https://theonion.com/hijackers-surprised-to-find-selves-in-hell-1819566162/ https://theonion.com/hijackers-surprised-to-find-selves-in-h... And, as you say, in Chuck Norris' case, it's virtually obligatory.
- freedomben 6mo ago> Fundamentally, I'd argue that very little should ever be unreasonable or out of bounds to make jokes about; what is important is that it's good humour. On a personal level, I couldn't agree more. I do hope that culturally we get to that point at some time :-)
- Wololooo 6mo agoI mean, jokes are made to uplift, intent in joking is important and punching up is preferable to punching down, this being said this didn't apply to chuck Norris that would have already got to the punchline without throwing a single fist.
- rwoerz 6mo agoDeath has Chucknorrised?
- breve 6mo agoChuck Norris didn't have a near death experience, Death had an experience near him.
- WesolyKubeczek 6mo agoCommander Sam Vimes would like a word.
- SV_BubbleTime 6mo ago“We’d like to keep the circumstances private” Yes, but now I’m like, super suspicious.
- codingdave 6mo agoThere is nothing suspicious about a celebrity's family just wanting to deal with death in private.
- bdcravens 6mo agoYou're probably right, but that's not the usual wording you hear. Of course, when grieving, proper proofreading may not be (nor should it be) at the top of anyone's list.
- djeastm 6mo agoThey usually don't put it like that, though. It's usually just "please respect our privacy during this difficult time", etc.
- bombcar 6mo agoHe was defeated by Mr Rogers in a blood-stained sweater. Understandable they're keeping that quiet. (Ok, ok, technically it was Gandalf the Gray and White, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail's Black Knight)
- WithinReason 6mo agoI'm sure he'll get better soon
- pixel_popping 6mo agoChuck never dies.
- whizzter 6mo agoThe Grim Reaper wished that Chuck Norris had only come to play chess with him!
- kyleee 6mo agoHow did he die?
- hirako2000 6mo agoBoredom, last enemy to defeat was life itself.
- volkercraig 6mo agoHe was 86 years old
- ekropotin 6mo agoHow do you know that? Scientists tried to measure Chuck Norris’ age. The number refused to exist.
- seydor 6mo agoChuck Norris let him win
- westurner 6mo agoTotal Gym XLS has a 1-1.25" carriage bar for adding weight. 5gal bucket weights are the correct diameter to leave a gap between the weights and the floor. Chuck Norris facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris_facts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris_facts
- breve 6mo ago> "Chuck Norris actually died 20 years ago, but Death hasn't built up the courage to tell him yet." Death finally worked up the nerve.
- westurner 6mo ago"The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book" (2009) https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Official+Chuck+Norris+Fact+Book https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Official+Chuck+Norris+Fa... re: Official Chuck Norris Facts #1 - #101 w/ scripture: > #1: "Chuck Norris was bitten by a cobra, and after five days of excruciating pain ... the cobra died."
- westurner 6mo agoOf this list of martial arts films: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_martial_arts_films https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_martial_arts_films Which are similar in plot and character arc to "Man of Tai Chi"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Tai_Chi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Tai_Chi Which Chuck Norris films are also similar? > Forest Warrior, A Force of One, The Octagon, Forced Vengeance, Sidekicks, Which "hacker films" are also similar?
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- ramesh31 6mo agoChuck Norris disagrees.
- neurocline 6mo agoChuck Norris dominated WoW Barrens chat back in the day. It was kind of weird and amazing at the same time.
- sourcecodeplz 6mo agoRIP legend
- lhakedal 6mo agoDeath becomes Chuck Norris.
- forinti 6mo agoHe was supposed to die last year, but death took a while to muster the courage to call him.
- blitzar 6mo agoDeath once had a near-Chuck experience
- jonplackett 6mo agoChuck Norris doesn’t die. Death gets Chuck Norris.
- looneysquash 6mo agoThere's not a body inside Chuck Norris's casket, there's just a fist.
- booleandilemma 6mo agoI'm surprised Chuck Norris agreed to this.
- willio58 6mo agoThere was a period of like 2 years when I was a kid where chuck Norris jokes were all the rage on the playground and I made an iPhone app that listed them all. Jokes like “Chuck Norris is able to slam a revolving door.” Anyway, I “built” this stupid app when I was like 13, copy-pasted like 300 jokes in there and a random one would show every time you tapped the screen. Chuck Norris’s estate blocked the app from going live. I wish I had printed that rejection out and framed it.
- alias_neo 6mo agoI'm pretty sure they were all the rage when _I_ was at school, but that was long before the iPhone. I'm curious on what grounds they blocked the app.
- dfxm12 6mo agoIf you're curious, maybe you can look into Chuck's lawsuit against Penguin's book of Chuck Norris facts. He would eventually "co-author" his own book. The obvious guess here is trademark infringement (over use of Chuck's name/likeness) and/or copyright (if some of these facts were lifted from his book).
- alias_neo 6mo agoInteresting. I get the likeness thing, but surely one could publish jokes about anyone they wish and that would be satire or fair use or something? Facts and copyright is an interesting one, because I'm surprised a fact can be copyrighted, unless it's the wording specifically.
- dfxm12 6mo agoFor better or worse, in the US you can pretty much sue anyone for anything. A court certainly requires more evidence to declare liability than Apple would to remove an app. As far as copywriting facts, are you really under the impression that Chuck Norris is the only man who can factually slam a revolving door? :)
- Noe2097 6mo agoIt's a trick; he will come back unscathed in the next episode.
- tchock23 6mo agoFirst Wade Boggs and now this. Just awful.
- messe 6mo agoWade Boggs is very much alive. He lives in Tampa Florida. He's in his late 60s.
- markus_zhang 6mo agoOh this guy is a legend. Did he do anything with tech peripherally? I hope we can put up a dark top for him as an exception.
- krapp 6mo agoNot even every important influential person in tech gets the black bar. You think an actor who is mostly known for low-effort internet memes and pretending to be a cowboy on tv deserves it?
- kstrauser 6mo agoI guess it’s a generational thing, because I shouldn’t actually be surprised that someone would know so very little about Chuck Norris.
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- excalibur 6mo agoYou must be fun at parties.
- krapp 6mo agoUnlike Chuck Norris I'm the life of the party.
- supern0va 6mo ago>He was a typical pro-gun anti-abortion homophobic and racist MAGA Christian conservative. Sure, but let's be real: people here are hardly mourning the man himself, so much as a few ideas of him from media they loved, and the cultural impact of Chuck Norris memes from their childhood and such. He's not around anymore to bolster any hateful messages. Let people have a moment of nostalgia for memories watching him roundhouse kick bad guys with their grandma, or dumb Chuck Norris memes on the playground. That's what people remember.
- reactordev 6mo agoChuck Norris didn’t die, we simply phased out of his reality.
- bnchrch 6mo agoI can only assume Chuck has decided to relieve the grim reaper of his duties, leaving us all here to meet our own end not with a scythe but a roundhouse kick.
- 5555624 6mo agoShades of Piers Anthony's "On a Pale Horse," Death showed up to take Chuck Norris and Chuck killed him, taking his place.
- ourmandave 6mo agoI loved that series, until the last book. Maybe the novelty had worn off. It's been a long time since I read it, but didn't the current Death decide to retire and pass the role on?
- bell-cot 6mo agoIf you're referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_a_Velvet_Cloak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_a_Velvet_Cloak - note that it was written a couple decades after the prior books of the series, for a different publisher, to a different length. Those would be yellow flags with almost any author.
- 5555624 6mo agoIn "On A Pale Horse," Zane kills the current Death and assumes the role. I don't recall that he then steps down in a later book.
- npn 6mo agoA part of internet dies with him. RIP.
- endriju 6mo agoWishing him speedy recovery! Legend
- Archit3ch 6mo agoHe immediately asked the ferryman for a coin to get to the other side.
- vardump 6mo agoSo I guess Chuck Norris has now keys for the Pearly Gates and is the one who gets to pick the heavenly club members. I'm sure roundhouse kicks are somehow part of the process. Why do I feel like an era has ended... Rest in peace.
- throwaway29303 6mo agoGodspeed. ;~;7
- calebelac 6mo agoWhat a legend. I enjoyed reading the comments here. RIP.
- delichon 6mo agoI fear the crime wave as the thugs hear about this and take the streets back. Be careful out there people.
- Insanity 6mo agoOh wow, coincidentally I watched a Chuck Norris film recently with my (90 year old) grandmother, which resulted in me diving down a bunch of Chuck Norris memes for the first time in more than a decade. RIP
- with_a_herring 6mo agoThe headline is inaccurate. Chuck Norris is alive and kicking in another dimension.
- vladde 6mo agoone of my favorite stack overflow questions: Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color? https://stackoverflow.com/q/8318911 https://stackoverflow.com/q/8318911
- ChrisArchitect 6mo agoSome recent discussion on that one a couple Advents ago: https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/20/ https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/20/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42468318 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42468318)
- bityard 6mo agoI came to the conclusion a long time ago that early browser developers must have really been on quite a lot of drugs.
- m463 6mo agoAnd the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of days. — from The Book of Mozilla, 12:10
- dugmartin 6mo agoNo, it was just there were no PM filters.
- figassis 6mo agoThis just means we're in a simulated universe. He's respawned elsewhere.
- raffael_de 6mo agohe has become death.
- rootusrootus 6mo agoChuck Norris does not go to heaven, heaven comes to him.
- aimanbenbaha 6mo agoThe Grim Reaper requested permissions from Chuck Norris to take his soul.
- simpaticoder 6mo agoChuck Norris (and Michael Landon) were golden age role models for young men. Strong but thoughtful, firm but compassionate, and deeply principled but also practical. Yes, these were acting roles but they picked those roles for a reason. Rest in peace, Chuck.
- LetsGetTechnicl 6mo ago[flagged]
- jayGlow 6mo agoit's possible to disagree with someone politically and still acknowledge their positive aspects.
- LetsGetTechnicl 6mo agoWhat positive aspects are there for someone who supported racist birther conspiracy theories and supported Benjamin Netanyahu?
- ceejayoz 6mo agoTo Godwin a little, Hitler's veganism doesn't make him a "role model", even if you think veganism is a good thing.
- Kye 6mo agoFortunately Godwin's law was only an observation of a tendency and, as Godwin himself clarified, not a proscription against an apt comparison.
- raw_anon_1111 6mo agoSorry you don’t get to say “Well this person doesn’t think I have the right to exist and be respected as a person. But I’m sure glad he saved a puppy once.”
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- canucker2016 6mo agofrom his instagram for his last birthday ( https://www.instagram.com/p/DVtiSHbETbX/ https://www.instagram.com/p/DVtiSHbETbX/ ) I don’t age. I level up. I’m 86 today! Nothing like some playful action on a sunny day to make you feel young. I’m grateful for another year, good health and the chance to keep doing what I love. Thank you all for being the best fans in the world. Your support through the years has meant more to me than you’ll ever know. God Bless, Chuck Norris
- arkaic 6mo agoLiterally 10 days ago
- reverius42 6mo agoGood health just doesn't mean what it used to.
- fiftyacorn 6mo agoI grew up watching action films in the 80s and 90s. I always like Chuck Norris ones as they had a humour and ridiclousness about them Films like Missing in Action ,or delta force where the motorbike fires a rocket were just great at the time I get he had some funny views later in life - but the films were a laugh at the time
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- boubacardiallo 6mo agoMy condolences, he was one of my favorite childhood actor :(
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- rdiddly 6mo agoThey're not that far apart, honestly.
- LetsGetTechnicl 6mo agoThat's true. These days it seems the ideal conservative man is more like a caveman eating steak off the bone versus a thoughtful caring Atticus Finch type.
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- WesolyKubeczek 6mo ago> What a load of horseshit. Government is "what we do." It's not imposed by alien pod-persons. On the other hand, when eventually the reckoning for this administration comes, would you welcome the idea of collective responsibility?
- rexpop 6mo agoI would welcome collective responsibility only if it means collectively acknowledging the harm that was done, listening to those who were harmed, and committing to repair, not just punishing those in power. Restorative justice asks each of us to examine how we contributed to or normalized the conditions that allowed this harm, and then to take concrete, shared steps to repair relationships, redistribute power, and change the structures that made the reckoning necessary in the first place. Unlike penal justice, restorative justice is idempotent and we shouldn't fear its application.
- Beijinger 6mo agoFrom Reddit: "I heard that the opening 27 minutes of Saving Private Ryan were loosely based on a game of dodgeball played by Chuck Norris in 2nd grade." ;-)
- wvlia5 6mo agoChuck Norris didn't die, Death chucknorried.
- lschueller 6mo agoWouldn't be suprised, if he dies back and announces a film for next year. He made it that far in life, that even if you might disagree with him on all and everything, you would still like him.
- pcardoso 6mo agoJust like Val Kilmer? https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/18/val-kilmer-resurrected-in-movie-ai https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/18/val-kilmer-resu... RIP both...
- ekropotin 6mo agoClickbait. He is not dead, he just decided to retire from the world of mortals.
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- Goofy_Coyote 6mo agoChuck Norris once slapped Pi so hard it became rational for a moment. RIP dude, we’d continue the jokes, may your soul laughs as hard as we do. Chuck Norris once bet 42 is a prime. He won.
- domador 6mo agoSorry, but these Chuck Norris jokes are more like Bruce Schneier facts: https://www.schneierfacts.com/ https://www.schneierfacts.com/
- ndsipa_pomu 6mo agoI used to love the Schneierfacts, I mean I still do, but I used to as well. They were obviously a bit more niche, but that made them funnier to my mind. > For Bruce Schneier, all zeros of the Riemann zeta function are trivial.
- Goofy_Coyote 6mo agoOh! I didn't know that was a thing! hahaha love it!
- proxysna 6mo agoI remember having a "Chuck" plugin installed on our Jenkins back in mid 2010's. Gave me a Chuckle every time i forgot it was there.
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- dnw 6mo agoChuck Norris hasn’t died, he summoned the death. RIP.
- polothesecond 6mo agoVery cool thread. Middle school jokes and culture wars. I’m so glad we don’t allow political threads on here and can instead bask in the intellectual might of people talking about TV man the did/didn’t like.
- snerc 6mo agoWalker told me I have AIDS https://youtu.be/pQZX0nzvMag https://youtu.be/pQZX0nzvMag
- Kye 6mo agoHe kicked it, but the consequences of his long-standing support of the march toward hatred and division linger on. The section on his Wikipedia page is helpfully succinct if you want to understand the basis of my not joining in the japes and jokes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris#Political_views https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris#Political_views
- racl101 6mo agoChuck Norris decided to take the final sleep on his own. Death tried years ago, but Chuck didn't feel like it.
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- u1hcw9nx 6mo agoChuck Norris promising the USA will have 1,000 years of darkness if Obama wins in 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ae9b-B_EQ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ae9b-B_EQ0
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- gotofritz 6mo agoWhy are you afraid of the truth
- cthalupa 6mo agoIt's an objective fact. He said it. The thing about Norris is that this isn't just generic policy stuff. I think pretty much all politics has impact on People and therefor matters, but you can abstract a whole lot away on a lot of policies in economics, etc. I think empathetic and caring human beings can disagree on many things. But racism and homophobia aren't areas where I think empathetic and caring people can disagree, and I don't think those should be legitimatized by calling them political. He wanted to strip rights from gay people and propped up all sorts of racist rhetoric and birtherism against Obama. That's not political. That's being a shitty person.
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- zorobo 6mo agoStill 986 years to go!
- northlondoner 6mo agoHe was a hero in tech and science as well. I recall during my PhD studies, we always create new memes on our field that Chuck can finish things in no time. In loving memory of Chuck Norris.
- northlondoner 6mo agoThe only person that can train LLMs with his mind.
- monista 6mo agoStrange if you never heard about Bruce <s>Lee</s> Schneier.
- esher 6mo agoChuck Norris counted to infinity. Twice.
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- ndsipa_pomu 6mo agoHe was known to be racist (at least in later life), so a black mourning ribbon wouldn't be appropriate.
- shdudns 6mo agoRacist? That's new. Because he's conservative? In the 90s he sued one of his franchisees for defamation of character because they were racist.
- SeanDav 6mo agoThe earth was too scared to have him on it anymore...
- k6hkUZtLUM 6mo agoI remember trade chat (/2) in wow on the Medivh server would often turn into Chuck Norris jokes. There were always about how bad ass Chuck was. How tough and impossibly manly. One of my favorites. Chuck Norris jumped into a lake. Chuck Norris didn't get wet. The lake got Chucked.
- encom 6mo agoTrade chat (like /b/) was never great, but one of the first WoW addons I developed was designed to filter out garbage like this, and make idling with your guildies in Ironforge tolerable. It's funny for a while, in measured amounts, and then it becomes tiresome.
- mewse-hn 6mo agoAnal [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]
- jiveturkey 6mo agoChuck Norris doesn't die. He prepares himself for the next battle, with Jeff Dean.
- ferfumarma 6mo agohttps://www.thepinknews.com/2021/01/13/chuck-norris-homophobic-gay-trump-capitol/ https://www.thepinknews.com/2021/01/13/chuck-norris-homophob...
- saltyoldman 6mo agoHe'll be missed. I basically grew up on his movies.
- cwoolfe 6mo agoChuck Norris died? I didn't think that was possible...
- dark-star 6mo agoChuck Norris didn't die -- Death just became Chuck Norris
- theandrewbailey 6mo agoDeath did not come for Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris came for Death.
- yawpitch 6mo agoHe hasn’t died, he’s just moved on to an eternity of roundhouse kicking Satan.
- jongjong 6mo agoThe headline is incorrect. Chuck Norris didn't die, he transcended. Also, the grim reaper hasn't yet gathered the courage to tell him.
- dbacar 6mo agoI even remember the times he was not vintage yet, but the real thing. Maybe even watched his famous fight scene with Bruce Lee on the cheap cinemas back in the day. Good days. RIP .
- uwemaurer 6mo ago17 years ago we launched the first "Chuck Norris Facts" app for Android (March 2009). It was a big success until end of 2010 when Chuck Norris sent his lawyers after us to get the app removed from the Android market. Chuck Norris won, we took the app down
- zem 6mo agochuck norris roundhouse kicked it so hard it became an iOS app!
- NoSalt 6mo agoWhat in the Hell could possibly take down Chuck Norris??? We are all DOOMED!!!
- teeray 6mo agoJokes aside, this octogenarian was living his golden years enviably. He was summiting peaks last fall, doing 500 lb barbell curls, and still sparring in his birthday video just 10 days ago. We’ve all gotta go sometime, but the way Chuck Norris went out was the way I’d want to go—able to do it all right up until the end. He was a lot of folks’ childhood hero, but that title is freshly renewed in my eyes. I have new inspiration in my fitness endeavors going forward.
- maerF0x0 6mo ago> 500 lb barbell curls ?
- teeray 6mo agohttps://www.instagram.com/reel/C-2-oV5vk8q/?igsh=MWFtZmR5MHlzbWppdw== https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-2-oV5vk8q/?igsh=MWFtZmR5MHl... EDIT: acknowledged. fake.
- threetonesun 6mo agoThose are... very fake weights. Or AI. But probably just fake weights.
- pesus 6mo agoHe forgot to actually curl it. Like someone else said, the weights are almost certainly not actually 500lbs. Even elite bodybuilders and strongmen in their prime don't come close to curling 500lbs, let alone an old man. Looking at the video, if it was legitimate, it would be 585lbs (6 45lb plates on each side plus a 45lb bar), which is even less believable.
- yunwal 6mo agoTo be clear, this is 100% a joke. The world (at least as of a few years ago), was about half that weight. https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/pdklnx/leroy_the_machine_walker_just_set_a_world_record/ https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/pdklnx/le...
- brailsafe 6mo agoAnyone remember barrens chat?
- Scotrix 6mo agoChuck Norris doesn’t die.
- nasaeclipse 6mo agoChuck Norris didn't die. He simply moved to a parallel Earth that needed him.
- moron4hire 6mo agoMy mother told me, "Chuck Norris passed today at 86" and my mind immediately went to, "I would never expect him to pass anyone on the sidewalk at any slower speed."
- donohoe 6mo agoChuck Norris doesn't upvote on Hacker News. His presence alone sends posts to the front page. No more.
- ncrtower 6mo agoSo many commenters here are, or choose to be, completely obvlivious to the fact that Chuck Norris was a racist little man who decried Obama becoming president, supported Trump through both campaigns, and openly hated muslims and gay people. Yeah, really tough guy.
- tmountain 6mo agoYeah, I was pretty bummed with how Chuck Norris and Hulk Hogan turned out in the end.
- shagie 6mo agoMankind will help restore your faith in mankind. https://youtu.be/7ssDFzesdn4 https://youtu.be/7ssDFzesdn4
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- LogicFailsMe 6mo agoI think the weakly efficient market of mortality is the only fix here. Dead attitudes and mindsets need their advocates to die of natural causes for society to advance IMO. Also known as "blank advances one funeral at a time."
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- jstrebel 6mo agoDeath will soon realize that he messed with the wrong man.
- monista 6mo agoChuck Norris haven't died, he just went to carry out the Last Judgement of God (ant probably torture Satan on the way).
- kelnos 6mo agoI had no idea he was in his 80s (older than my parents would be), and that he did Walker, Texas Ranger when he was in his 50s. The final episodes aired when he was 61! That's nuts. Not a fan of him in real life (based on how he portrayed himself publicly), but I do find his level of physical fitness even more impressive back in the 1990s (and even up until his death), given his age.
- aanet 6mo agoFrom one of my friends: "Chuck Norris didn't die. Death had a near-Chuck Norris experience." RIP
- DDayMace 6mo agohe's not really dead, one of his morning push-ups just launched him into a new universe.
- vivzkestrel 6mo agodeath had a near chuck norris experience
- tsoukase 6mo agoAt my country we produced some weakness jokes: When Chuck opens the fridge, he finds the jelly trembling. CN might be the only favourite person in HN that has protected his IP by lawyers. THAT is an achievement.
- pissmaster42069 6mo agoHe fought Bruce Lee in the film way of the dragon
- dostick 6mo agoHe wished the death on himself because he couldn’t bear witness to trump being alive.
- nz 6mo agoAt long last, Bruce Schneier is now the mightiest man alive. https://www.andrewhay.ca/archives/661 https://www.andrewhay.ca/archives/661 https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1057708-bruce-schneier-knows-youre-reading-this/ https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1057708-bruce-schneier-kn...