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Dr. Quarex posted:I think 8-tracks were actually even more utterly forgotten and skipped in nostalgia They still make some, at least as of 2019. https://www.discogs.com/Mark-Ronson-Late-Night-Feelings/release/13831098
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Mr. Lobe posted:I wonder if there were weirdos who got nostalgic for telegrams when mass availability of phone networks became a thing
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Aug 27, 2021 17:38
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In my niche of weird horror movies, a TON of them are VHS only. It sucks lol
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Mr. Lobe posted:It's hard to think of a technology that was rendered more obsolete by its successors than VHS 8mm /Super8 film? Tiny grainy images, easy to over/under expose, fiddly tape on reels, 50ft of tape per 3 min of film, no audio on most consumer cameras, loud rear end projectors that need to be kept running for several minutes after turning off the bulb so that it doesn't overheat and start melting. I recently fixed up my grandparents old 8mm projector and have been digitizing the reels. It's fun to tinker with but objectively so much worse than anything that succeeded it.
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Aug 27, 2021 18:34
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Gotta be either Techmoan or Cathode Ray Dude
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Mr. Lobe posted:It's hard to think of a technology that was rendered more obsolete by its successors than VHS Ham radio and Morse code people.
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Aug 27, 2021 19:05
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Homing pigeons.
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Captain Yossarian posted:In my niche of weird horror movies, a TON of them are VHS only. It sucks lol Long live the new flesh?
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Tobermory posted:Long live the new flesh? 
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Tobermory posted:Long live the new flesh? Lol there is a vhs rental store in Atlanta called “Videodrome” https://www.videodromeatl.com/
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Now I've got a new place to visit.
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It's like this person saw Chris Parnell's character from Hot Rod and decided to emulate him, but for video formats.
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Saw this at the gas station by my house today. Inside was an old man in a suit, eating peanuts and staring into the middle distance and taking up a gas pump I very much would’ve liked to use. Nothing else unusual on the car.
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Sep 2, 2021 07:07
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I mean, church folks mostly being sent to hell tracks
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prayer group posted:Saw this at the gas station by my house today. With odds like that, why bother
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prayer group posted:Saw this at the gas station by my house today. Phophet
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prayer group posted:Saw this at the gas station by my house today. I dont think hes wrong
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The Hambulance posted:Ham radio and Morse code people. to be fair, using morse code aka CW in ham radio allows you to access a larger part of the radio spectrum with your license.
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This guy’s in LA right? It’s sad because he used to have this intense infowarrior ride about his family court case and then I think covid replaced all of it. I guess the pandemic does ruin everything
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Took me a second to realize they weren't advocating the KKK on that van
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The Hambulance posted:Ham radio and Morse code people. ham radio and morse are still used globally; it's just easier to have a computer translate (with a utility like fldigi) rather than try to learn any morse code 
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lol "800'000 kids go missing every year in the USA" 3.75 million children born per year in the US, so that means slightly more than 1 in 5 kids will go missing. amazing that this is the first I'm hearing about it
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"Infowarrior rides, chick tractors, vehicular screeds: gently caress Texas" Aren't those the lyrics to that one Agent Orange song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR8UcVruNgE Aw crap. So close.
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Klyith posted:lol "800'000 kids go missing every year in the USA" The 800k number seems to be true, at least as of 2012. However, 99% of them are found and returned.
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Johnny Walker posted:99% of them are found and returned. yeah, as CLONES
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Almost every kidnapped kid was kidnapped by a non-custodial parent in the middle of an acrimonious divorce.
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Catastrophe posted:"Infowarrior rides, chick tractors, vehicular screeds: gently caress Texas" It *is* a futuristic modern world, and things aren’t what they seem…
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Johnny Walker posted:There's ~70 million people that are under 18 in the US, so it's more like 1 in 90ish. right, and now repeat that every year for 18 years. what do you get as the total number of missing kids over that time, divided by the total population of kids? (assuming that there are no repeats because the kids are being abducted for the satanic child-sacrifice ceremonies at democrat headquarters) quote:The 800k number seems to be true, at least as of 2012. However, 99% of them are found and returned. there's also a big difference between "reported missing" and actually missing listen I know missing children isn't a joke but lets not start taking qanon idiots seriously
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Crusader posted:ham radio and morse are still used globally; it's just easier to have a computer translate (with a utility like fldigi) rather than try to learn any morse code Just know that every time someone uses a computer for CW, greybeards scream out in agony. Especially the straight-key purists.
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Klyith posted:right, and now repeat that every year for 18 years. what do you get as the total number of missing kids over that time, divided by the total population of kids? The very article quoted explains that it's like 100 children a year abducted by strangers. quote:The recovery rate for the estimated 115 children abducted by strangers each year, a very small but alarming segment of children reported missing annually, is less heartening. If we actually break down the numbers: quote:Each year, 800,000 children are reported missing in America, including some who are lost, injured, have run away from home or are abducted, according to the center, the nation’s leading clearinghouse of information about missing children. That means there's really like 250-300k per year of what we think of as "missing" children, of which 66% or so are taken by non-custodial family members. Then there are 500,000 cases per year of kids being at their friend's house and the parent doesn't know it and reports them missing. So a buried lede and massively inflated figures.
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pseudanonymous posted:The very article quoted explains that it's like 100 children a year abducted by strangers. More minors die of accidental gun discharges than killed by stranger abductors. This is why doctors ask if firearms are secured in a house with children, and do not spend time on stranger abduction during health and wellness visits. The same goes with death by sleeping with a child or infant in the same bed with an adult or larger child. My SIL is paranoid that her children will be abducted by strangers and has instilled such fear in them that the 14 year old boy is still afraid to leave the house alone, even though he is 6 foot 1 and 240 lbs, and plays JV football on the line. He can't walk to school which is 3 block away, she has to drive him and his younger siblings. Why yes, how did you know she spends all of her free time on social media, and will not get vaccinated? It's not like she isn't a 2nd grade teacher or anything like that.
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Ror posted:
Tell me more about this Puta Hex
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Klyith posted:right, and now repeat that every year for 18 years. what do you get as the total number of missing kids over that time, divided by the total population of kids? There are not 800k kids disappearing into the ether in the US, but that number did come from somewhere, and I think it's important to know that, and to know what is actually means. Someone has given them this scary, out-of-context number and it helped them start down this rabbit hole. I had a friend who went that way and it's loving nuts. People get crazy when kids are involved.
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Toupee Groupie posted:My SIL is paranoid that her children will be abducted by strangers and has instilled such fear in them that the 14 year old boy is still afraid to leave the house alone, even though he is 6 foot 1 and 240 lbs, and plays JV football on the line. He can't walk to school which is 3 block away, she has to drive him and his younger siblings. Why yes, how did you know she spends all of her free time on social media, and will not get vaccinated? It's not like she isn't a 2nd grade teacher or anything like that.
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