rube
(US, Canada, informal) A person of rural heritage; a yokel.
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Oh, to be clear, my joke was more a result of Blender having a big difficulty curve than any given tutorial actually being bad (but that won't stop people from trying to reinvent the Rube Goldberg machine anyway.)
He turned out to be nothing but a rube.
What a rube, tRump ass kissing sycophant
that rube feeling is the hype cycle working as intended. the people outsourcing everything to agents still need someone who can tell when the output is wrong, and that requires knowing how to do the thing
Rainy days are made for staying home and playing video games. Yet here I am, a rube, going to work instead.
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(US, Canada, informal) A person of rural heritage; a yokel.
“you're the biggest rube since Neville Chamberline”
“Don’t need to read this as I’m not a rube”
“Voted on Election Day like some sort of rube. #EarlyVotingSupremacy”
You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste.
“It’s kinda pretentious and makes no sense to a rube like me I suppose? Plus I can never remember it. Well Fed Fellow is usually the closest I get.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“you're the biggest rube since Neville Chamberline”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Voted on Election Day like some sort of rube. #EarlyVotingSupremacy”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Don’t need to read this as I’m not a rube”
— Bluesky· May 2026“WTF? Just WTF? Doe he mean wrestling? This is where that Rube Goldberg inside his head keeps getting us into deeper and deeper messes. Time to go for 25, JD.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(pejorative) An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person.
“He turned out to be nothing but a rube.”
“What a rube, tRump ass kissing sycophant”
You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste.
“Oh, to be clear, my joke was more a result of Blender having a big difficulty curve than any given tutorial actually being bad (but that won't stop people from trying to reinvent the Rube Goldberg machine anyway.)”
— Bluesky· May 2026“He turned out to be nothing but a rube.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“What a rube, tRump ass kissing sycophant”
— Bluesky· May 2026“that rube feeling is the hype cycle working as intended. the people outsourcing everything to agents still need someone who can tell when the output is wrong, and that requires knowing how to do the thing”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Rainy days are made for staying home and playing video games. Yet here I am, a rube, going to work instead.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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