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Neverbeaten

@ Neverbeaten @lemmy.world

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  • the one where ross says a slur

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  • I agree.

    When we were a young married couple decades ago, we’d check out movies from the library on VHS tape. One we loved was Topper. In the VHS transfer, there was a line from the protagonist giving “good advice” to another main character: “You haven’t lived until you’ve beat your wife.” In all earnestness.

    That line was mysteriously missing from the DVD and all subsequent versions I’ve seen.

    I think it is detrimental to society to whitewash shameful past behavior. We need to acknowledge it, remember how bad things have been, and respect the progress that has been made. It also helps us reflect on ways we might be acting now that could be viewed as horrific or backwards in the future. It helps drive continuing progress.

  • People always want their ideal conversation to sound like movie characters, but in reality most people talk as if they're in an interrogation room or how people sound like on police bodycam footage.

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  • This is one of the things I love about the movie, The Big Lebowski. The characters often start a sentence, but transition to a different thought before finishing the first sentence. They’ll pick up an overheard word or phrase they like and use it in their own conversations. It feels so much more real than typical move dialog.

  • Smashing Pumpkins Singer Billy Corgan Mysteriously Claims the Government Contacted Him About ‘Things Way Above My Pay Grade’

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  • I’ll always love the early albums, but I knew Billy lost the plot the first time he talked about and insisted that different paint colors on the same guitar make it sound different (noticeably different). He hasn’t been reality-based in many years.

  • Internet picture of a monkey

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  • After watching many, many episodes of antiques roadshow, I’ve come to a conclusion about what kinds of things appreciate and become investments and what things are worthless.

    Anything marketed and sold as a “collectible” is worthless after the fad has died down. People will hang on to them despite the bubble popping, in some sort of hope they’ll be valuable again someday. This guarantees they won’t become valuable because so many people have large collections and preserve them well.

    The things that are actually valuable after 30+ years all have two things in common.

    1. They are things that hold some sort of sentimental, cultural, or historical significance
    2. They are rare. Maybe they were mass produced things that were basically commodities but no one valued them enough to preserve any. The few that are preserved (usually by a handful of unrelated individuals that may be compulsive or eccentric) become valuable because of a large group of people nostalgic for those items coinciding with scarcity. Or maybe they’re historical documents or artworks that are truly one-of-a-kind.

    The things that become investments are exactly the things no one thought about collecting, but that were ubiquitous and loved enough to engender some kind of nostalgia or significance to a large group of collectors. If the demographics of the bulk of the collectors are in the 1% for some reason, then the values can get truly astronomical. But these also fluctuate in value as these rare items come into fashion to collect (or fall out of fashion). The more ephemeral or fragile in nature an item is, the more rare it is to survive for lengths of time and therefore the more value it could potentially have… things like cardboard toys from the 1920s can be incredibly valuable if they’re in great condition. Those were the cheapest toys and likely considered somewhat disposable back then. No one really valued them at the time, so very few were preserved.

    All that said, anything lots of people keep as mint as possible in their boxes will likely never be as valuable as when they were initially sold as new. Especially if “collectible” was a key marketing point for it.

  • I’m somewhat of a bad dude myself 🐟

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  • It looks like Brak.

  • Both the original Star Wars trilogy and the prequel trilogy end with the fire roasted Anakin.

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  • Luke finished what Obi Wan started.

  • Tesla Cybertruck sales collapse, company accepts trade-ins with extreme depreciation

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  • Tesla is the original meme stock.

  • US Tourism Sector Plunges into Unprecedented Revenue Crisis in 2025 as America First Policy Ravages Global Visitor Arrivals

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  • Mosquitos interrupted by daily rain and a hurricane or two every year.

  • Trump warned automakers not to raise prices after his tariffs and be happy how ‘great’ they are

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  • That will come. He’ll also stop payments on Treasury Bonds. Not paying agreed upon obligations is his MO in business.

  • San Diego becomes first U.S. city to ban digital-only grocery store discounts

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  • This is why I shop at Aldi and Costco and my local grocery co-op. No secondary prices. No coupons needed. No rebates that aren’t automatically applied at point of purchase.

    Don’t shop at garbage places that do pricing shenanigans.

  • Tesla Owner Doxing Site ‘Dogequest’ Relaunches on Dark Web

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  • Acknowledge Polerviking’s meat!

  • Is using vivaldi instead of chrome degoogling?

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  • The best general use Firefox forks are Librewolf and Waterfox.

    Using any chromium engine based browser skews the market share to Google. The greater percentage of pages viewed with chromium, the more sites and designers go all in with Google. The device fingerprinting and tracking is one of Google’s big lock in money makers.

    Getting as many people as possible off chromium engine browsers is positive for the web in general.