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  • As for reasons DVDs are so cool. LGR made this pretty rad video about all the cool things one might get for putting a DVD into a PC’s DVD-ROM drive. :D

    https://youtu.be/L2MdOK92MHE?is=xyZsGw-iJI1e3qoP

    It’s bizarre how much derision you get for collecting physical movies you care about though. I always simply respond with “Have you ever really wanted to watch a favorite movie and found it got dropped from streaming services you do have, and worse, it’s nowhere to be found at all?”

    Not to mention how streaming operations can simply cut, censor, or edit anything they like depending on various cultural factors at play.

    Usually it gets them to think.

    The biggest scam is “buying” movies on platforms like Amazon. Although, kinda hypocritical of me, if you’ve seen my Steam library! 😂


  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytoScience Memes@mander.xyzLiterally
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    That was beyond embarrassing. 'Pubbies dragged him through the mud for a spectacle to feed their news apparatus to get their seals clapping again.

    He rightfully exercised his rights and gave them nothing as they just slandered him over and over.

    Guy did the best he could while working for a bunch of cultist buffoons (who would share a single braincell, if only they could share anything, because sharing is socialism.)

    They’re desperately clawing for ANYTHING to support their bizarre conspiracies and pin their disaster on him. And of course distract from The Files and The War I guess.














  • My personal theory is that this is kinda like an “echo” in Minority Report.

    Basically, when you’re still fresh, everything is new. Brain is like “Write this down! Interesting!”

    But a lot of adult life stops being an adventure. You clock in and out, automatically say “fine thanks, you?” to the thousandth “how’s it goin” that year, drive the same route to and from the job, the grocery store, etc…

    The brain has seen this before. The experience isn’t novel. It tosses it out with the trash. Why hang on to a million copies of "Went_to_Work_did_stupid_job_had_reheated_chicken.mp4" ? You also are getting crappier sleep, so things don’t record as readily to long term storage.

    Heck, I would clock in, hear the stupid “ding” sound, and legit not be sure if I actually just did that or if my brain was recalling the billion other times I’ve done it, 30 seconds later.

    So anyway, I guess what I’m saying is, the key to a long experienced life might be to keep your brain “guessing” by switching things up, trying things differently, always learning new skills, trying to interact with different kinds of people.

    The endless, rote, routine is a certain kind of hell.

    Anyway, I’m no neurologist or anything, just another frustrated working class, but I think I’m on the money here lol.


  • Yep. Alt-righties / racists are still on the “secret cabal of Jews is why your life has problems” schtick, so if you see “goyim” being thrown around or “You know, ((THEM))” it’s usually a dog whistle.

    It’ll get used like “sheep” like “eat slop, goy”. As if people who aren’t anti-Semitic are somehow “sheeple” letting themselves be manipulated.

    That kinda thing started getting used heavily around meme communities like iFunny where you could never be sure if it was being “ironic” or not. (Although I heard the FBI caught various violent racist groups trying to recruit through there).

    It started to break out, unfortunately.