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ChaoticNeutralCzech
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  • I didn't know there was a "verified neo-Nazi" badge.

    Oh wait, that's what the regular one is now.

  • The PR is getting way ahead of rocketry results. It's not helping that Elon is involved.

  • The dark web site that has your SSN: first.100,000,000.digits.of.pi.txt - Torrent Download

  • ._.

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  • I could but I'm too tired. Here is a picture of bulk glitter instead. Good luck finding listings for kilograms of uranium.


    Obligatory mention: industry leader Glitterex has a customer that buys significantly more than anyone else, and they refuse to spill the beans. Internet folk have been searching for the answer for years with little luck. If you live in the Jersey City metro area and have torture equipment, you might solve a great conspiracy theory. /s

  • My school even blocked archive.org because of this. Good luck checking like ⅛ of Wikipedia references.

  • Have you been to Greece?

    No, I'm not referring to more ancient ruins. Greeks allegedly(?) leave rebar protruding through their roofs to keep them legally unfinished and save on taxes.

  • Guess what other obscure old system used rectangular pixels? The IBM PC.

    CGA and EGA used resolution modes that were multiples of 320x200 (PAR 6:5). VGA's 16-color hi-res mode was the first to support square pixels at 640x480, and it would become a standard for years to come because TempleOS and Windows used it (you can even force Windows 7 to run in this mode!)

    The NES and SNES had PAR 16:15 8:7 (oops) (which is often ignored in emulation), and so did the most common NTSC DVD-Video mode (none of the commonly used ones had square pixels but you only really notice it with subtitles - you cannot correctly display them at native resolution on an LCD).

    And that's just the successful systems I know off the top of my head.

    Soviet personal computers failed for other, obvious reasons. They struggled to copy the latest chips, and the economic incentive was minuscule despite the government's investment - very few people could afford a computer in the Eastern Bloc, and they could not be exported due to patent infringement and being years behind. The economy collapsed after USSR broke up and nobody wanted to invest to rebuild the industry.

    That being said, people in the Eastern Bloc were very resourceful with what they had (mostly clones of Atari's 8-bit home computers and IBM PCs). A blind person from Czechoslovakia made a speech synthesis sound card for an IBM-compatible PC, which functioned well enough to allow him to be employed as a full-time programmer. At least one of the three exemplars works to this day.

  • Because nobody will spend the effort of stopping the Earth for the sake of depressed people

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  • Nah, likely just incorrectly declared and the importer failed to respond to a tax evasion fine. The Czech Republic is pretty lax when it comes to regulating such things. They could be legalized without a CE certificate, just some paper work.

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  • Or I can reply to your comment and have you receive a notification. Yeah, it's done, I even extracted the images from the document (native res, no scaling).

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  • Sorry, there have been tech problems. It's done, I'll just extract and upload the rest of the images from the PDF.

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  • I am handicapped, my penis does not have a USB port. I am thankful that there are erotic aids made for people like me.

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  • TL;DR My country's customs officers seem to have misappropriated 7 buttplugs, 8 Venus ball sets, 3 non-USB penis devices and 7 sets of BDSM straps.

    We had a large shipment of illegal sex toys seized in the Czech Republic, and the customs office held an auction with publicly disclosed contents of the package. There were several suspicious amounts. I have a copy of the list:

    Not auctioned individually, only as a complete set. 1 CZK ≈ 0.04 USD. Yes, we have words for sex toy but they specifically chose more formal wording.

    ItemDescription of the auctioned itemQtyUnit priceCZK total
    1Erotic aid - anal jewel, 3 pcs/set594300 ($13)178 200,00 ($7722)
    2Erotic aid case300210  ($9)63 000,00 ($2700)
    3Erotic aid (penis)40600 ($25)24 000,00 ($1000)
    4Electric pump4090  ($4)3 600,00  ($160)
    5Sex aid - straps193300 ($13)57 900,00 ($2509)
    6Erotic aid - anal jewel with tail99210  ($9)20 790,00  ($891)
    7Erotic aid for penis without USB77300 ($13)23 100,00 ($1001)
    8Venus balls112300 ($13)33 600,00 ($1456)
    9Enema210120  ($5)25 200,00 ($1050)
    10Enema with black pouch30150  ($7)4 500,00  ($210)
    Total price (CZK)433 890,00 ($18,315)
    Auction start at (CZK)144 630,00  ($6105)

    The goods have been legalized for resale in the EU even though some lack CE certification.

    Auction notice including photos (Czech, PDF, 9,74 MiB) / Deep-L's English translation of the document (view in browser) - gets interesting on page 5, or just click the hyperlinked items for extracted images (only 6 seems to have been published)

    Above is translation of a Reddit comment I had made here but since overwritten with a power-delete tool.

  • Is this even a meme? It's a screenshot of yet another Windows/windows joke.

  • That was a joke, and so was the previous sentence (a reference to the birdsarentreal conspiracy. Seriously, how do comms towers harm birds?

    Edit: collisions with tall AM towers' guy wires

  • Please explain