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TotalLossBrain posted:Time for boutique VHS-rent-by-mail places to shine I played so many obscure SNES games because the guy who ran a sewing machine repair shop was also a giant nerd who rented games after he was done with them.
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Air Skwirl posted:They're pretty upfront about not knowing math. Skipping high school classes to smoke weed is probably a respectable strategy for actually learning math though. DrankSinatra posted:The amount of angry people explaining applications of high school math to someone with the username "Grassmannian" is sending me. The joke explained.
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ultrafilter posted:Skipping high school classes to smoke weed is probably a respectable strategy for actually learning math though. Only tangentially related, but one time in high school I got in a big argument with a friend because I asked our dealer for an 'eighth' of weed. "You're not from around here," he insisted, because it was actually called a 'half-quarter' and everyone in Toronto knew that. No man, I just know more than two fractions and like to be concise, I'm definitely "from around here."
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Mister Speaker posted:Only tangentially related, but one time in high school I got in a big argument with a friend because I asked our dealer for an 'eighth' of weed. "You're not from around here," he insisted, because it was actually called a 'half-quarter' and everyone in Toronto knew that. No man, I just know more than two fractions and like to be concise, I'm definitely "from around here." it's a three and a half does Toronto actually say 'half-quarter'? what the gently caress
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They literally did teach us compound interest in high school, and I never forgot about it because my first reaction was shock at how powerful it is.
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Some Canadian people just moved in next to me and I'm going to punch them for this poo poo. wtc.
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ben shapino posted:it's a three and a half "I'll have a half-quarter of bagged milk." Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
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Behold, the ad content propping up Elon’s Folly: Also, this is possibly the worst possible advertisement for Temple University’s English department: 
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ultrafilter posted:Skipping high school classes to smoke weed is probably a respectable strategy for actually learning math though. euclid was wrong i see at least 18 dimensions
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ben shapino posted:does Toronto actually say 'half-quarter'? what the gently caress In his defense, yeah. It's an embarrassingly common thing to say in this city. IME, it's one of the few things small-town Ontario has over us in T-dot; everywhere else I've been in this province people call it what it is, an eighth. On the other hand, literally every other city I've been in Ontario all the potheads prefer to smoke bongs with wide downstems stuffed with the broken-off end of a cigarette then packed in with weed. You take it in one hit, and I've heard it often called (no joke) 'poppers.' It's the most degenerate thing ever, gently caress their good math.
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Compound interest don’t mean poo poo if you got under $100 in it
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define bong im imagining people wandering around downtown toronto desperately looking for cigarette butts to put into a pac nw version bong e: one hitter or small steamroller? i can definitely see that so you dont have to put that on your lips goatsestretchgoals has a new favorite as of 02:19 on Aug 9, 2023 |
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Compound interest is great, which is why banks are putting more hurdles in the way of poorer people to access it - my wife's savings account only accrues interest if you deposit a certain amount a month and don't make any withdrawals. Sorry, we run out of money a lot just buying loving food so need to dip into the savings regularly, no interest for us.
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Dr. Lunchables posted:Compound interest don’t mean poo poo if you got under $100 in it It absolutely does, because it's how you then get hosed by a loan with compounding interest! That's what scared me
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Hyperlynx posted:It absolutely does, because it's how you then get hosed by a loan with compounding interest! That's what scared me Ok, fine. It doesn’t mean poo poo for a savings account with a … Y’know what? I named a friend’s AWD Chevy Astro Van “The Pussy Haunter,” and it’s made me laugh more than any tweets I’ve read in a while.
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MysticalMachineGun posted:Compound interest is great, which is why banks are putting more hurdles in the way of poorer people to access it - my wife's savings account only accrues interest if you deposit a certain amount a month and don't make any withdrawals. Not to be a shill, but online banks can get you 4.5% APR on no minimum balance online accounts. I use Betterment.com personally. While not as readily accessible as a local bank, it's not bad for mid-long term stuff...
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cult_hero posted:Not to be a shill, but online banks can get you 4.5% APR on no minimum balance online accounts. I use Betterment.com personally. While not as readily accessible as a local bank, it's not bad for mid-long term stuff... Betterment is currently at 4.75% actually.
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So, apparently Emenem is trending a bit, I wonder what's up? https://twitter.com/PopularLiberal/status/1688926217968500741 But don't worry, the guy who Elon refused to ban for posting CSAM is here to talk some "truth" https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1688948944670232576 ultrafilter posted:Skipping high school classes to smoke weed is probably a respectable strategy for actually learning math though. I was promised an explanation and all I got was a headache.
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I think Eminem is made speechless by Trump because he remembers that time he had to talk to the Secret Service after saying he wanted Bush Jr to die.
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Mister Speaker posted:Only tangentially related, but one time in high school I got in a big argument with a friend because I asked our dealer for an 'eighth' of weed. "You're not from around here," he insisted, because it was actually called a 'half-quarter' and everyone in Toronto knew that. No man, I just know more than two fractions and like to be concise, I'm definitely "from around here." A lot of drug dealers are absolutely dead set on proving every negative stereotype about them true
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snergle posted:i really want to see some of the newer movies that have come out but i cant justify getting a lovely streamer like paramount + for a month to watch one movie.
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Tiggum posted:Just torrent them. You don't need to figure out what service they're on in your location or how to access it, everything is just in the one convenient place. Click, download, watch. You mean, the simple process of go to website, find out website has been shut down, go to a different website, find out it's moved to a new domain but which one is secret, try typing a few country domains in, get in and feel like a hacker, look for the thing you want, find out it's not there, look for another thing you want, find that it's there but the first two seasons are individual downloads and the third is a DVD rip, notice that there's no seeders, look for the THIRD thing you want, torrent program needs to update, then you torrent it, and bing bang boom you're done?
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It really isn’t hard to torrent most stuff
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John Lee posted:You mean, the simple process of go to website, find out website has been shut down, go to a different website, find out it's moved to a new domain but which one is secret, try typing a few country domains in, get in and feel like a hacker, look for the thing you want, find out it's not there, look for another thing you want, find that it's there but the first two seasons are individual downloads and the third is a DVD rip, notice that there's no seeders, look for the THIRD thing you want, torrent program needs to update, then you torrent it, and bing bang boom you're done? Private trackers aren't hard to get into.
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cult_hero posted:Not to be a shill, but online banks can get you 4.5% APR on no minimum balance online accounts. I use Betterment.com personally. While not as readily accessible as a local bank, it's not bad for mid-long term stuff... Hey, thanks for shilling, I'll check it out 
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John Lee posted:You mean, the simple process of go to website, find out website has been shut down, go to a different website, find out it's moved to a new domain but which one is secret, try typing a few country domains in, get in and feel like a hacker, look for the thing you want, find out it's not there, look for another thing you want, find that it's there but the first two seasons are individual downloads and the third is a DVD rip, notice that there's no seeders, look for the THIRD thing you want, torrent program needs to update, then you torrent it, and bing bang boom you're done? qBittorrent supports search plugins that make things dead easy.
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John Lee posted:You mean, the simple process of go to website, find out website has been shut down, go to a different website, find out it's moved to a new domain but which one is secret, try typing a few country domains in, get in and feel like a hacker, look for the thing you want, find out it's not there, look for another thing you want, find that it's there but the first two seasons are individual downloads and the third is a DVD rip, notice that there's no seeders, look for the THIRD thing you want, torrent program needs to update, then you torrent it, and bing bang boom you're done? This post feels like it's from a decade ago. These days, the vast majority of the time, it is just as easy as Tiggum suggests it is. Occasionally you run into this kind of trouble, but then again, you also often run into trouble with streaming services not having what you're looking for, dropping content they used to have, etc. If it's more than a few weeks to months old, and it's something reasonably popular, you can find a torrent for it, in high quality, with seeders. And you don't have your viewing interrupted by ads and you don't have to give money to Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, Paramount+, Disney+, and Amazon Prime. The only downside is that you have to download your media ahead of time instead of stream it. If you do want instant gratification, quite a few TV shows can be "pirated" by simply searching for them on Dailymotion. That's less reliable but it's handy sometimes. I'd maybe feel guilty about artists not getting paid, but as the current ongoing writer's and actor's strike has told us, they weren't really getting paid anyway.
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Last time I torrented something it was like six months ago and it was basically exactly as described? Like, this isn't the place for a  discussion, I know, but I don't know why torrenting is supposed to be easier now than it used to be, seems pretty much the same.
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It's not that is easier, it's that not doing has gotten harder.
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Mister Speaker posted:In his defense, yeah. It's an embarrassingly common thing to say in this city. IME, it's one of the few things small-town Ontario has over us in T-dot; everywhere else I've been in this province people call it what it is, an eighth. Hippocrass posted:So, apparently Emenem is trending a bit, I wonder what's up? This made me remember about the time I smoked with a guy who had a bong that was a figurine of one of the ICP dudes loving Eminem in the rear end. This would have been at the height of both their popularity.
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John Lee posted:Last time I torrented something it was like six months ago and it was basically exactly as described? Like, this isn't the place for a EZTV (for current TV shows) and TPB (for that plus everything else) haven't moved around or been difficult to find for years (despite what the Wikipedia article for the former may claim). If your government blocks either, you can use a VPN (a free, lovely one will do) or just change your DNS to 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 to get past. If you're looking for something unpopular or obscure you might have more trouble, but you're going to have trouble finding that on legitimate streaming services too.
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Air Skwirl posted:It's not that It's this. My wife has finally agreed to just let me get the shows she wants before she goes on a trip instead of complaining about Netflix not letting her watch content she's downloaded to her device when she's out of the country. Netflix got huge precisely because it was so convenient and provided good value with a huge library of films and shows. Now they mostly just have in-house content (cancelled after one season) and gatekeep the gently caress out of it.
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If TPB is banned in your country there are a lot of sites that list proxies, but note that a lot of proxies look like the real thing until you start downloading. Then you're not getting that 700 mb video, because the download has become not_a_virus_and_definitely_not_malware.exe.bat.scr with a less obvious name. So basically like p2p from two decades ago 
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D-Pad posted:This made me remember about the time I smoked with a guy who had a bong that was a figurine of one of the ICP dudes loving Eminem in the rear end. This would have been at the height of both their popularity. lol ICP at the height of their popularity vs Emenem at his.
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NAh, its extremely easy now. A few years ago it felt like there was a slump and some people were using usenet or whatever instead, but its great right now, and very easy.
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Hippocrass posted:lol ICP at the height of their popularity vs Emenem at his. i mean, there was a whole super homophobic song about ICP on the marshall mathers lp. the beef was real
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The height of ICP's popularity was when the released that on song. The one the meme is from. The only ICP song anyone has ever heard.
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