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sleeptalker posted:Wtf they used the word "spoilers" in 1997? I swear I thought that was generally a post-2000 term. I believe they mean it in the sense that it will spoil a good time.
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guy in 1997 working for wired, firing up the lathe of heaven and he don't even know it lol
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loling at the idea that russia wasn't a kleptocratic mafia state in 1997
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lobster shirt posted:loling at the idea that russia wasn't a kleptocratic mafia state in 1997 They had applied enough costs if whitewash for Daily Show libs to take Obama's "reset" policy seriously in 2008.
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lobster shirt posted:loling at the idea that russia wasn't a kleptocratic mafia state in 1997 it was controlled by the US then
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chapo's done a few eps on the falwells, this doc looks great/fun https://twitter.com/BillyCorben/status/1580242266177691648
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Wow, 9 out of 10 with the Chinese Cold War still possible. We're right on track.
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PostNouveau posted:Wow, 9 out of 10 with the Chinese Cold War still possible. We're right on track. cancer rates (at least in the USA) are not on the rise..... yet...... but yea other than that, pretty prescient
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that wired excerpt has the layout and tone of the exposition in a cyberpunk rpg manual
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Mr. Lobe posted:I believe they mean it in the sense that it will spoil a good time. this got me into a google books rabbit hole trying to find the oldest use in reference to narrative fiction. i found a 1859 Harper's Weekly article that uses the phrase "spoil the ending" in reference to someone guessing the ending of a story. as far as the word "spoiler" goes, however, the earliest reference I could find was in a 1994 guide to the internet that has a section on internet etiquette. so I'm guessing it was something that started in pre-internet fandom (zines and stuff) that spread to the internet and eventually became common parlance. 
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I hadn’t seen that in a while and didn’t realize we were now at 9/10. Christ!
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They left out the worst "spoiler" of all- the kid in third grade who thought revealing endings made him cooler somehow What am I supposed to think. What a cool thing he described, it's like he did it himself!
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Frosted Flake posted:I hadn’t seen that in a while and didn’t realize we were now at 9/10. Christ! Which one do you think we haven't achieved? As far as I can tell we are 10/10
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Frosted Flake posted:I hadn’t seen that in a while and didn’t realize we were now at 9/10. Christ! looks like 10/10 to me
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trying to figure out if i can watch the adam curtis thing on my tv, for free. hell i'd even pay for it
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a.p. dent posted:trying to figure out if i can watch the adam curtis thing on my tv, for free. hell i'd even pay for it if you have a smart tv their interfaces for finding new apps may be weird, but should be simpler on a chromecast. try looking to see if bbc iplayer is an app you can download. otherwise i'm just watching a downloaded file on my pc through vlc player and i believe i can cast that to the tv if i wanted to
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I think the New Cold War is still largely rhetorical, but we’ll see how the next year goes.
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i say swears online posted:if you have a smart tv their interfaces for finding new apps may be weird, but should be simpler on a chromecast. try looking to see if bbc iplayer is an app you can download. otherwise i'm just watching a downloaded file on my pc through vlc player and i believe i can cast that to the tv if i wanted to cool thanks... i will try it
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Frosted Flake posted:I think the New Cold War is still largely rhetorical, but we’ll see how the next year goes. nancy pelosi insisting on visiting taiwan over chinese opposition and joe biden repudiating five decades of US foreign policy on strategic ambiguity mean I’d rank that one  china clearly doesn’t want war, but the US wants it now before it gets any weaker (hence the explicit goal of the ukraine war to weaken russia and take them out before pivoting to china) if china was as ruthless and psychotic as the US, the clear winning move right now would be covertly supporting russia in exchange for a mutual defense treaty of some kind. weaken the US and europe, and let them drive themselves to the point of collapse
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a.p. dent posted:cool thanks... i will try it ugh apparently i'd have to use a VPN for this. somebody post it on youtube!
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Learn 2  Windscribe has a roll your own plan and it can be as low as $2/mo
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torrenting and using plex is the ideal solution
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Yeah, I meant it more that China doesn’t seem interested. A lot of US foreign policy moves seem reckless or unexpected and it seems people aren’t sure how to react. The US offshored production to China and relies on buying consumer products from there to keep society stable and to drive the financial economy. Picking a fight with China does not really fit into all that.
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Frosted Flake posted:Yeah, I meant it more that China doesn’t seem interested. A lot of US foreign policy moves seem reckless or unexpected and it seems people aren’t sure how to react. sweaty tweaker USA pulling off its t-shirt and following china around, screaming FIGHT ME BRO COME ON FIGJT ME while china awkwardly tries to ignore us lol good for them. I’m glad at least somebody can be the adult in the room
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Futanari Damacy posted:They left out the worst "spoiler" of all- the kid in third grade who thought revealing endings made him cooler somehow Complaining about spoilers in class in a failed attempt to get out of todays reading quiz
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NeatHeteroDude posted:crazy that you didn't ask me about this. this is my whole poo poo! It's actually an article about troubled teens, and not about seeking the most attention.
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the teens certainly are in trouble when a blue star gets tehre though
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Frosted Flake posted:Yeah, I meant it more that China doesn’t seem interested. A lot of US foreign policy moves seem reckless or unexpected and it seems people aren’t sure how to react. The Soviets weren't interested in a cold war either. It only takes one side to be belligerent. Fly Molo has pretty much the correct read on the situation from my point of view. The only one of the ten that hasn't come to pass is the cancer one and only if you read that in the strictest sense, that it would have to be cancer rates that exposes the US healthcare system's fragility. It also frames it as linked to pollution which is much, much better since the 90s so it's only correct obliquely, that the US healthcare system is on the brink of collapse (or depending on the region is in a state indistinguishable from collapse), but whiffed both on the cause and mechanism. Still, given that this is a list of ten predicted catastrophes of which nine are mostly correct and this is closest to wrong, I'm willing to give it to them because actual consequence was predicted.
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AnimeIsTrash posted:the teens certainly are in trouble when a blue star gets tehre though additionally troubled teens
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Jello Biafra is starting his own podcastquote:This is not his long running YouTube rant-cast, “WHAT WOULD JELLO DO?” This is RENEGADE ROUNDTABLE!! Where Jello acts as Interview Host From Hell – in all kinds of free for alls with his not so hapless guests: https://alternativetentacles.com/2022/10/13/new-podcast-from-jello-biafra-renegade-roundtable/amp/
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just to be safe i googled moon unit zappa podcast and she's only done lots of guest appearances but doesn't have her own
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:chapo's done a few eps on the falwells, this doc looks great/fun That guy did Cocaine Cowboys? I will check it out.
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AnimeIsTrash posted:It's actually an article about troubled teens, and not about seeking the most attention. drat dude. between you and ben shapino and the surgery i feel bad for NHD, it’s been a rough week
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