Oh, yeah, camcorders could be used as a portable VCR. Thing was, the camcorder my dad bought used mini VHS tapes, so it was a two-step process to transfer them to the smaller tape, and then transfer it back. So the loss in quality from the two-step process was quite noticeable. It wasn’t until we got a second VCR that we could finally have much better quality copies.
Adding a bit of ethanol is not bad, in and of itself. We do it here too.
Increasing the amount of ethanol further, in order to extend fuel reserves, can start to have negative effect on the engine— one of those side effects includes causing the engine to backfire.
Time hasn’t been kind to VHS, because VHS sucked as a format. It had so many flaws, I’m not even gonna bother to list them because anyone who was ever reliant on that format is already having PTSD flashbacks while they’re reading this sentence. We only used it because it was the best thing available at the time (other than BetaMax, of course, but the licensing fees that Sony demanded for it killed that format before it really got anywhere, and LaserDisk was absurdly expensive, and very cumbersome to handle). The instant a better format came along, we moved along with it.
My first thought is kids fucking around. Or not-kids fucking around.
But, yeah, probably just a prank. I’ve lived in New York long enough not to jump every time I hear a bang that sounds like a gunshot, because most of the time, it isn’t. Firecracker. Car or truck backfiring. Especially now that they’re adding more ethanol to the gasoline, a car or truck backfiring is more likely than it used to be.
And that it continue to be used as a tourist site, so people can go there and look at him and the other prisoners there like zoo animals.
I was using prison as an allegory for religion, not as a justification in and of itself, and certainly not as a rationalization for religion.
Some people need to be put in prison to stop them from killing.
For some, even that isn’t enough to stop them, and they will use prison itself as the excuse - or even the justification - for the killing.
Lol, I remember that. I watched the hearing on CNN or something. I think Bill Gates smiled.
It was like shooting a vampire
People don’t need to believe in an invisible sky wizard to have a common sense of either of those things. and I’m not particularly impressed with religious morality, nor with many of the societies that religion has built.
But such a belief is very useful as a common means to control and exploit people, both individually and en masse.
Stop posting things to Reddit and then acting surprised when Reddit does something shitty
It was actually worth paying for. And you couldn’t just go and access it online, because “online“ didn’t really exist. It wasn’t “a thing“. Not yet. If you wanted to carry around a copy of those articles in your pocket, you needed to buy a magazine. And people did exactly that. Newsweek, specifically, was in print for 80 years.
I do. Back in the 90s, I actually had a subscription to their thing they called a “magazine“. It was made of paper!
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Have you never watched their shows?
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Oh, finally some good news
From the get-go? You mean the get-go where we blew up an elementary school full of little girls?
After decades of the most terrifying sci-films preparing me for this, I’m so very disappointed by how incredibly stupidly and predictably this all is transpiring.
By no measure are any “incredible means” (VR, cyber attacks, time travel, clones, mind control, etc) being employed here other than an incredibly stipid man with an incredible amount of power going incredibly unchecked by an administration incredibly obedient to the whims of a single man so incredibly corrupt and incompetent.
No, because writing for the onion right now, imagination would be completely useless
The only thing that could possibly compete with the completely bonkers insanity that’s actually happening in our reality is an absolute Titanic amount of hallucinogens. And that’s a pretty risky bet as it is. like, it’s a “maybe“. and I don’t think any single person could possibly keep up. It would take a huge team of people constantly tripping to meet the onions weekly deadline of articles.
And that is simply non-sustainable.
I’m serious. Trumps Easter “Allahu Akbar” tweet may, in fact, be crazier than the onions famous “fuck everything we’re doing five blades“ article (if you haven’t read it, do yourself a favor and read it right now— for context, it was published just months before the Gillette Mach5 razor hit the market, seemingly predicting it)