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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:imo all films and tv shows should be available to stream directly from the Library of Congress i think a sufficiently broad reading of the enumerated powers of congress would agree with you; i think that fits in nicely with the goals of clause 7 and congress's responsibility regarding post offices and post roads mr dejoy, please post these bits
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Oct 20, 2023 20:26
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:you can't even parody this guy Inflation means bigger numbers which means we're Winning
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Oct 20, 2023 20:28
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ngl i hope dvds make a comeback
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Oct 20, 2023 20:29
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Monkey Fracas posted:Like some services advertise "4k streams" but they're always loving upscaled/compression artifacted anyway yeah? what really matters is how far away from the TV you are. you can sit closer to a 4k screen without it affecting the quality, for example a 40 inch tv is good for 5-8.5 feet with 1080 but 3.5 and 5 feet for 4k. 4k is better for big houses because a large 1080 like 70 inches needs 9-14.5 feet but 4k needs 6-9 feet. otherwise you aren't gonna be able to tell a difference https://www.avu.ca/video/perfecting-proximity-finding-optimal-tv-viewing-distance/
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Oct 20, 2023 20:30
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selec posted:Liberalism (small L variety here) really is a mental illness. Give kids unproven drugs vs take personal responsibility. Always blame someone else for your problems! Oh it’s so hard to not walk out of the grocery store with junk for your kids 
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Oct 20, 2023 20:31
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Edgar Allan Pwned posted:ngl i hope dvds make a comeback https://x.com/helencasey1970/status/1714154865088229664
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Oct 20, 2023 20:36
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i'm gonna be raiding best buy at the end of december before those all get slashed to poo poo with a box cutter
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Oct 20, 2023 20:38
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:you can't even parody this guy "I SAW TWO GUYS ON THE BEACH MAKIN A SPREADSHEET AN THA SPREADSHEET STARED AT ME!"
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Oct 20, 2023 20:52
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:This is like getting excited about a new edition of a college textbook; I just don't get Apple people. it's just capitalism. you see this for all sorts of new products, electronics, shoes, whatever the gently caress
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Oct 20, 2023 20:53
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actionjackson posted:it's just capitalism. you see this for all sorts of new products, electronics, shoes, whatever the gently caress gotta get excited for something
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Oct 20, 2023 20:57
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Number back down to 420. So much for the tech rebubble!
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Oct 20, 2023 21:01
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Vox Nihili posted:Number back down to 420. So much for the tech rebubble! JAY
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Oct 20, 2023 21:15
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Blue-Ray lol
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Oct 20, 2023 21:21
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Glumwheels posted:Give kids unproven drugs vs take personal responsibility. Always blame someone else for your problems! Yes? These companies have thrown billions of dollars into researching how to make the junk as addictive as possible
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Oct 20, 2023 22:03
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I can't even stop walking out of the grocery store without junk for myself
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Oct 20, 2023 22:06
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That article didn't mention it, but this includes their web site. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/10/13/best-buy-no-longer-sell-dvds-after-holiday-season/71173846007/ Like, if you don't want to devote shelf space to movies, OK, whatever. Turn your stores into glorified extended warranty shops or whatever it is you think you're doing, but not even stocking discs online is just dumb.
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Oct 20, 2023 22:11
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FlapYoJacks posted:
i’ll take your word for it but even so, a “30 minute diy project” plus proprietary tools to replace a battery should be illegal
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Oct 20, 2023 23:03
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you can replace those batteries with a hair dryer, a few pics, and a small suction cup. The batteries are $30 and come with the tools to open the phone. It’s a 30 minute DIY project.
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Paradoxish posted:Also a lot of people are absolutely unwilling to admit that the era of massive leaps in consumer technology is basically over, because that really became an identity for a huge number of people. You can even see this showing up in tech journalism, where you'll routinely have phone reviewers barely disguising their ennui with the latest whatever despite it being objectively great in every possible respect. Growing up in the 80s and 90s I was absolutely obsessed with technology and computers (I know, shocking for a goon). One of the things that feels different now is how uncertain the near future is technologically. As a kid it felt like there were all of these emerging technologies that you could be confident in working as advertised and having a huge impact. Lots of ink was spilled about how great and awesome things like CD-ROMs, the internet, and cellphones were going to be, and it wasn't just hype. Yeah there were some duds. Some people thought Oculus-level VR was right around in the corner in the late 80s. It feels like the smartphone was The Last Technology, and now the future is uncertain as to what near-term advancements we can expect technologically. But you can't get funding for research without promising some payoff for investors, so we just have these hype bubbles, self-driving cars that are not self-driving, and slightly faster iPhones.
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Oct 20, 2023 23:11
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NyetscapeNavigator posted:Growing up in the 80s and 90s I was absolutely obsessed with technology and computers (I know, shocking for a goon). One of the things that feels different now is how uncertain the near future is technologically. As a kid it felt like there were all of these emerging technologies that you could be confident in working as advertised and having a huge impact. Lots of ink was spilled about how great and awesome things like CD-ROMs, the internet, and cellphones were going to be, and it wasn't just hype. Yeah there were some duds. Some people thought Oculus-level VR was right around in the corner in the late 80s. And now you see silicon valley desperately trying to make dotcom boom 3 happen with ever more crazy poo poo like metaverse , Bitcoin, NFTs, and AI. Except now instead of making a technology people actually like and want to use first, they want to go straight to rent seeking and speculation immediately. They were establishing property values in metaverse before anyone was even using it.
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Oct 20, 2023 23:26
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Half Price Books is the merchant of all media. Just go there. They have a huge dvd selection
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Oct 20, 2023 23:29
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NyetscapeNavigator posted:Growing up in the 80s and 90s I was absolutely obsessed with technology and computers (I know, shocking for a goon). One of the things that feels different now is how uncertain the near future is technologically. As a kid it felt like there were all of these emerging technologies that you could be confident in working as advertised and having a huge impact. Lots of ink was spilled about how great and awesome things like CD-ROMs, the internet, and cellphones were going to be, and it wasn't just hype. Yeah there were some duds. Some people thought Oculus-level VR was right around in the corner in the late 80s. The next big bubble is "flying cars" aka oversized quadcopter drones
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Oct 20, 2023 23:29
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Edgar Allan Pwned posted:iphones are pretty easy to repair and you can go to a cell phone repair place to swap batteries for you. androids are a mix. especially with glass backs. the phone releases are so incremental I just replaced my 12’s battery. I’ll probably get a new one once it isn’t supported anymore.
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Oct 20, 2023 23:46
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Glumwheels posted:Give kids unproven drugs vs take personal responsibility. Always blame someone else for your problems! Oh hey, speaking of your headass lib opinions, did you ever contend with this? Or did you just avoid it by walking into the street for a few weeks to scream "CHUD" at people who wished that child hunger hadn't increased at historic rates in this country during a Dem administration? Rectal Death Adept posted:
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Oct 20, 2023 23:51
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Lol
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Oct 20, 2023 23:53
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haha
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Oct 20, 2023 23:59
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NyetscapeNavigator posted:Growing up in the 80s and 90s I was absolutely obsessed with technology and computers (I know, shocking for a goon). One of the things that feels different now is how uncertain the near future is technologically. As a kid it felt like there were all of these emerging technologies that you could be confident in working as advertised and having a huge impact. Lots of ink was spilled about how great and awesome things like CD-ROMs, the internet, and cellphones were going to be, and it wasn't just hype. Yeah there were some duds. Some people thought Oculus-level VR was right around in the corner in the late 80s. The effectiveness of consumer rear end drones in Ukraine and Palestine has convinced me that's the Next Technology worth being a hobbyist for.
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Oct 21, 2023 00:17
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Beached Whale posted:Ray tracing is a scheme cooked up by Big Video Card to get nerds to drop thousands on pointless upgrades So was moving to 1440p
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Oct 21, 2023 00:53
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Nobody needs that much p
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Oct 21, 2023 00:54
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Then why are my balls so capacious?!
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Oct 21, 2023 00:58
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Akratic Method posted:Then why are my balls so capacious?! it's to make room for the candy since you are a pinata. sorry you had to find out this way.
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Oct 21, 2023 01:58
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lmao if I was taking a beach vacation and mattyglasias walked past then started talking to me about anything I’d immediately [REDACTED]
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Oct 21, 2023 02:13
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bet you wouldnt do a god drat thing
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Oct 21, 2023 02:13
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i would spit in his face
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Oct 21, 2023 02:14
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id beg to polish that egg
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Oct 21, 2023 02:14
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Cuttlefush posted:bet you wouldnt do a god drat thing I'd like to do the most obnoxious nerd voice I can and see how many times I can say WELL ACTUALLY while talking to him
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Oct 21, 2023 02:19
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anime was right posted:median wealth going up means nothing if prices went up even more but, because one number went up, we can safely ignore the other, worse number. Also the other number stopped going up as fast as six months ago if you selectively ignore all these important price categories so really it's almost like there's no problems at all
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Oct 21, 2023 02:24
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Akratic Method posted:Then why are my balls so capacious?!
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Oct 21, 2023 02:24
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I was talking to these cool guys on the beach and tried to use my Twitter arguments on them and for some reason it wasn't working??? I'm assuming it's because the media brainwashed them bc otherwise I don't know it makes no sense
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Oct 21, 2023 02:28
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SardonicTyrant posted:It's an evolutionary holdover, to store pee for the winter. To expand on this, the extra pee in the winter is to serve as thermal mass, and in summer as a heatsink since you can jettison the pee.
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Oct 21, 2023 02:35
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I feel like I'd be compelled to pretend I was with him on everything, and try to work him into admitting he posts poo poo he knows is explicitly dumb and wrong both for negative attention and to cape for his paymasters, but secretly I was recording it all on my phone so I could post it online and blow away his plausible deniability smokescreen so as to permanently remove him from all future cultural conversations.
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Oct 21, 2023 02:39
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