yeah, you certainly can spend more and get better, but most media consumers don’t actually care about long term storage like that.
i only know the pricing on those drives because i just had to replace one in a nas device. i only spent money on a nas device because i work in media and need to keep large files for clients. i follow a 3-2-1 backup system because my job depends on it, but it’s not at all necessary to enjoy media.
lmao, buddy you can get a 10tb hard drive for like $200 and fit all the pirated media you want on it. that’s less money than two mainline subscriptions for a year.
the VAST majority of data hoarders are pirates. very very few actual spend fortunes on their media collections. that’s why everyone is dogpilling you. it felt like you were attacking a strawman of the average user here and they feel the need to correct you about their nature.
it’s not about pirates feeling moral or superior. it’s about you being wrong about data hoarders.
stds on the whole are most easily spread through unprotected anal sex. especially those spread through blood and other fluids. there was also the difficulty of safely having a long term gay relationship at the time among other factors that led to gay men trending to have more hookups than most demographics.
it’s not that aids targeted gay people, it’s just that gay men In that era were more susceptible to stds in general. this was just the first time it started killing people en masse. and, as obvious as it may seem now to wear a condom, at the time we didn’t have the research to tell us how it actually spread or that a contraceptive could stop it. when you think of the condom as a tool to stop pregnancy it’s hard to reframe that as a tool for gay men to be safe. especially since it makes sex feel less intense. the government certainly wasn’t interested in studying it to figure that out.
as far as I understand that’s all that really changed too. we learned how it spreads and some basic tools and techniques we can use to mitigate that spread. it’s still a terrible disease, but that alone brought it from genocidal to what it is today. still dangerous, of course, but not killing people by the millions.
there’s nothing about negatively affecting others lives?
so successful sociopaths and narcissists don’t have a disorder?
i don’t think that’s quite right.
ok, did you read the body of the post?
did you try clicking the link? titles aren’t meant to convey all relevant info.
doesn’t sound ridiculous at all to me. you just don’t get it.
in Wisconsin there used to be a popular morning radio segment called “who’s more sheboygan” making fun of how backwards and redneck the area was. sheboygan has always had a reputation as the Florida of Wisconsin.
so yes, fair. America bad. but also here’s a little nugget of context to go with that.
idk, that had already changed the basic nature of how gods work from the book.
they also tended to go for cheap shots where the author really thought a lot about how to use certain gods.
for example:
in the epilogue of the anniversary edition of the book gaimam talks about wanting to incorporate Jesus, but deciding that the scene he wrote for him wasn’t good enough to capture what Jesus was to Americans. but he includes the scene in the post script anyway. it’s a quiet scene where Jesus comes and offers guidance in one of shadows most desperate hours.
in the show Jesus gets shot trying to cross the Mexican border. which is the absolute lowest hanging fruit when it comes to Jesus. i have made that joke before. I’ve heard others make that joke before. “if Jesus actually was alive right now he’d get shot at the border for being brown and communist”. they clearly just wanted shock value at the lowest intellectual price.
i don’t hate shows or movies just for adapting a story to a new medium. for example, the new dune movies really aren’t actually capturing the point of the books very well so far. that’s because the dune books are mostly people thinking about what people think it doesn’t adapt into visual mediums well. what villenuve has made is a great movie series regardless. the shining is another great example of that. i had a Stephen King fan try to tell me that Stanley kubrik was a hack for not following the book better. I’d argue that Stanley Kubrik is a better filmmaker that king is an author. the shining is an all time great movie regardless of what it was based on or how much it changed that material. that said, i do hate adaptation that add story elements and change basic rules of reality without putting thought or effort in to making it worthwhile. these two examples are great because kubrik and villenuve are masters of their craft that made these movies with immense amounts of care and effort.
deviating from the source material isn’t inherently a sin, but making a much worse story when you started with a good one that was already written and loved and using its name to draw people in is worse than just making a bad show. a bad show is easily ignored, but a bad adaptation will put people off of the source material you love. or worse, will supplant the source material in the cultural zeitgeist and you’ll forever have to specify “i mean the book, not that terrible movie they did”. i think tv American gods was… just ok. it completely failed to capture what i liked about the book, but others seem to like it well enough. it has gotten multiple people i know into the book, so i can’t hate it entirely.
similar to the Witcher show. i hated it. it had nothing of the books in it. it was schlocky and the plot BARELY made sense. they just went off and did entirely their own thing after season 1 and it was shit. but everyone who hasn’t read the books seems to still like it so maybe I’m just a hater.
thematically it holds up fine. productuon wise it’s about what you’d expect from 90s scifi. it even has early cg aliens, with a tv budget. lots of big rubber suits or people with skin paint and wigs.
surprisingly dark too, especially in the latter seasons. they just keep making the main characters fail and suffer and betray each other and get tortured and have their friends and family die in front of them after failing to escape the body horror mad scientist that wants to steal your organs and trap you in the matrix…
i actually had to stop watching it towards the end over the continuous concentrated negativity. it’s not a very happy show very often. still good, i just can’t deal with shows that never turn on the lights. like bojack horseman and mr. robot. two other shows that are just too depressing for me to watch. i resonate too hard the consistent downward spiral with no positive moments, then the feeling sticks with me. all three are really good shows that i had to turn off for my own wellbeing.
would only work if buying in full and would still require a messy title transfer and taxes when he gives the vehicle over.
the best way would be to have the non-buyer do the first part then the person that actually wants it do the second.
that said, it would still probably give you a big hit to your credit score unless buying outright, and if you can afford to buy the cat in cash you probably don’t need to be running two man cons for a discount in the first place.
ah yes, psychohistory. math predicting the future is the initial idea that gets asimov’s “foundation” rolling.
nah, that all lives in short form video these days.
it’s the perfect format for it. just long enough to say something crazy, not long enough for you to ask questions about it.
that and social media. take this website for example. lemmy.ml and lemmygrad both have some veeeeery interesting ideas about the history of certain authoritarian governments.
show a map of the land area it takes up and you might actuality convince some people it’s not lol.
it could be like milk lovers trying to call almond milk bad for the environment due to water usage. despite cow milk being infinitely worse. the propaganda machine did its job well. if you bring up non dairy milks to an American conservative in 2025, nine times out of ten they’ll feel the need to smugly tell you how terrible almond milk is and how we shouldn’t be allowed to waste all that water on it. if you try to tell them that cow milk is worse they’ll just tell you you’re wrong and that the data is lying.
i straight to showed one of them the hard numbers on how much cows are putting out greenhouse gasses and she just said “that can’t be right”. it didn’t FEEL right to her so she just didn’t believe it…
if you wrap a burger in foil it’ll keep in the fridge as long as there’s no veggies.
put that whole thing in the oven for like 15 minutes on like 300 and it’ll come out nice with a bun that has a pleseant, light crunch on on the outside.
thicker burgers might be harder, i usually do this with smash burgers. just, for the love of God, add the veggies after reheating. please.
no no, it just needs your location data every second to make sure it’s set to the correct time zone. Microsoft and their 1.8 million partners decided that the clock can’t work without your location data.
(I’m joking, for the inevitable person that’s going to try to disagree)
this whole exercise is really meant to exist in schools. like, schools for young kids.
we’re adults arguing about which nursery rhyme is cooler while forgetting that this isn’t for us. it needs to be easily understood by children. that’s why we use one with only short easy words.
even the sentence structure of the second one is complicated and hard for a child to remember.
yeah, it could be the liar guard’s desire or prime directive to send you down the deadly path. to him that could be interpretated as the correct path. especially if these are automatons working off of some machine logic. like, they don’t even need to be out to get you, that’s totally something that bad code could do on accident.