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  • "tHeY rUiNeD sUpErMaN, mAkInG iT pOlItIcal"

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  • I mean, cartoons from when I was a kid were problematic in different ways.

    G.I. Joe taught me that the U.S. Military were the good guys and 'Cobra' were the bad guys. While I'm sure Cobra was probably bad, I'm not so sure about the first part. Also, guns are less dangerous than pepper spray and never lethal. On the other hand it also taught me that no matter how hard the GI's fought against the bad guys, they would never stop them for long or truly defeat them, so I guess that it wasn't wholly inaccurate.

    Ducktales taught me that miserly Billionaires that hoarded vast amounts of wealth were lovable good guys actually.

    I'm not even going to get into what Thundercats taught me.

  • Liberals, standing in the way of progress no matter what!

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  • What's there to negotiate? Once the fascists and the liberals are out of the way the Marxists and Anarchists can start a stateless society based on mutual cooperation. It's a win-win.

  • We had this in my house growing up

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  • The radio tuner had short wave in addition to Am and FM which was pretty cool at the time.

    Hell, I still think that is pretty damn cool.

  • Screen size & your importance

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  • It's the same thing. The workers work, management just makes sure the workers work.

  • Screen size & your importance

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  • You're the hero the company doesn't deserve, but the one it needs right now.

  • We had this in my house growing up

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  • Did you have to hide from the T Rex on your way to school?

    I kid. I started out buying records and cassettes, but 8 tracks were "outdated" by the time I was a kid. Though our huge old school "console"* could play 8 tracks and when I was 13 I found my mom's box of old tapes. She had Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Queen etc. It was quite the musical education.

    • A console was a giant piece of furniture only slightly smaller than a coffin that had a radio, record player, and speakers built in. It's what got replaced by the "sleek, modern" units like the one in OPs picture.

  • We had this in my house growing up

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  • They mean All the Things in One cabinet 😁

  • Removed

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  • The fact that Snopes used "Trump said in January 2025 that he never visited Epstein's island." as evidence is what's truly sus.

    Trump is one of the lyingest liars ever to lie. NO ONE should believe a word out of his mouth, much less a 'fact checker' website. Trump could finally admit he's a fascist child abuser and I would question it just because it came out of his mouth.

    You would likely get more truth out of Trump if you simply assumed he meant the exact opposite of everything he says.

  • 💀 💀 💀

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  • When I was filling out paperwork for my last job, it had a space for 'Country', which I thought was odd, but I put in USA anyway. The manager who took it said to me "You were supposed to put what County you live in here." I said "Read it again"

    Apparently they had been using the same form for years and no one noticed it said 'Country'.

  • White House to Vet Smithsonian Exhibits to Ensure They 'Align With Trump's Interpretation' of US History'

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  • They've already redacted Trumps name from the files.

  • Vintage

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  • I was looking at some PC's at Best Buy and a salesman came up to try and give me the hard sell. I asked if I could buy the PC without Windows on it for a discount.

    "How would you use your computer without Windows on it?"

    "I'm going to install Linux"

    "What's that?"

    "It's an operating system"

    Blank stare

    "Like Windows or OS X..."

    Blank Stare

    Sigh "I already have a copy of Windows at home"

    "Oh! Well I don't think you can do that, no."

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook gives 24-karat gold gift to Donald Trump

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  • My only Apple computer was a G3 Powermac, which I got used from the resale store at the University I used to work at, which means I got it real cheap.

    Compared to the boring and clunky Windows XP machine I had, I loved the design of the hardware and the software. I loved that to access the mobo to upgrade the RAM I just had to lift up a latch on the side of the case (my Modern case isn't even as easy as that to get into). I liked the colors and the 'handles' that made moving the tower around easy if you needed to. I had a very tacky aesthetic back in the day where if something was made of clear blue plastic I would buy it, so that Mac fit right in with my 'decor' lol

    Compared to XP the UI was a lot more sleek and modern imo, the dock was a game changer because I rarely used more than a handful of programs so having them always available was cool. Plus my simple minded ass was impressed by the animations. The "hot corners" were super useful. as was resizing the windows by dragging them to the edges of the screen. The overall look was just much more nice to look at. I think it was 10.3 Panther if I recall correctly.

    At the time I was just starting to learn about Free and Open Source software, so I thought the fact that they based OS X on Unix was pretty cool. The first DE I ever installed was on that Mac (LXDE?) and the first FOSS programs I installed was on there, VLC and The GIMP I believe. I also loved how easy it was to install programs. You would just download the file and drag it into a folder called 'Apps', and to uninstall you just deleted or moved the file out of there. Compared to the 'install wizards' and the 'add/remove' control panel on Windows, it felt like actual wizardry.

    I think more than anything the geek in me just liked learning a new set of skills and a different way of doing things, but overall I loved the experience. When they announced the iPhone I was excited. I was actually one of those people who carried around a mobile phone, MP3 player and Digital Camera at the same time. So the thought of just having to carry around 1 device to do all those things was like a dream come true. Then I heard about the price and was less excited (it was almost $1000 in today's money adjusted for inflation). I was a working class stiff after all. Then I found out about the lack of apps and thought that was weird. But still I was pretty much on board.

    I got a iPod Touch to replace my Nano and kept my flip phone. That's when I realized that I had to jailbreak it to fully unlock the functionality. That's where they finally lost me. I had been planning on buying another Mac but I figured if they were willing to lock down their phones like that- it was only a matter of time before they did the same thing with their computers.

    It ended up being a good decision because on my next (Windows Vista) PC I learned to install Linux and I could do some really tacky things with the UI then! lol. Compiz anyone :D

    All this to say I think Apple was actually in fairly decent (if still too expensive) place prior to the iPhone, but their whole 'walled garden' approach to computing just wasn't my bag at all.

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook gives 24-karat gold gift to Donald Trump

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  • This almost makes me wish I still used Apple products so that I could boycott them.

    Ive been Apple free for 20 years though.

  • Black Holes

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  • I appreciate you taking the time to reply in detail, thanks :)

    I've never heard of the Ruliad before- I will definitely look into that.

  • Black Holes

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  • I appreciate your detailed answer, thank you for taking the time :D

  • Black Holes

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  • Gracias, amigo

  • Black Holes

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  • It's confusing. I don't understand what the difference is between something which is made of 'a pure abstract concept', specifically math, and a simulation- which is also made out of math.

    I'm not saying it's something ran on a computer somewhere, just that the abstract concepts that make up our universe, if it is "made of math", clearly has rules that it obeys- like the speed of light in a vacuum or the other constants. Which would seem to be analogous to parameters in a more traditional simulation. If 'math' is something that exists independent of sentient beings, couldn't whatever that is be the 'thing' that the 'simulation' is ran on?

    I guess where I'm getting hung up is the idea that the universe can be 'made of' something that has no 'reality'. Am I just misunderstanding what it's meant by 'made of math'? Like even if math is 'discovered', how would that be any different than us inventing it, if it exists 'without any reality'?

    To be fair, there is lots of stuff I don't understand, but I am trying- go easy on me.

    I was being cheeky about the 'cheat mode' thing (unless it's real then I'm in).

  • Black Holes

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  • I've heard that 'our reality is made of math' before. Does this mean that we do in fact live in a simulation, even if that simulation wasn't necessarily programmed by 'higher dimensional' beings?

    If that is the case, could we conceivably 'hack' the universal code and unlock cheat mode?