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MEGA THREAD - Trump shot but safe, 2 others killed at PA rally

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  • Surprised you're not already banned just for the c-word. I mean, if someone crashes their car through a storefront, I could speculate without evidence that the driver was excessively old, young, drunk, or just plain stupid and it's left up to the reader to take my comment with a grain of salt, but if I so much as entertain the possibility of this shooting being anything besides what is being reported by official channels, I must be silenced.

    • It’s Too Hot to Fly Helicopters and That’s Killing People

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  • That's not true, otherwise Phoenix would be unlivable. It's close, but not quite there yet.

    • It’s Too Hot to Fly Helicopters and That’s Killing People

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  • Same as Russian roulette...

    • Gunshots reportedly fired at Donald Trump rally - as former president rushed off stage

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    • 5 people escape hot, acidic pond after SUV drove into inactive geyser in Yellowstone National Park

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  • All of those things are possible, but statistically, being distracted is far more likely than any of them... More likely than most of them combined, even.

    • 18-year-old charged with violating mask law: ‘I didn’t even know it was a law. Nobody knew it was a law’.

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  • You just want to legalize murder!

    /poeslaw

    • DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again

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  • DVD is better than Blu-ray in that regard - I've ripped DVDs that look like they fell off a truck and got run over multiple times and had no problem, meanwhile about 1 out of 5 Blu-rays I got from Netflix would have problems despite looking pristine. It has to do with the data density, Blu-ray packs so much more in the same amount of space, one microscopic scratch wipes out so much data...

    Of course some DVDs suffer from bad materials. I was re-ripping my collection recently, and I have a few that have sat in a closet untouched for years, not a scratch on them, but the drive won't even recognize there's a disc. Probably oxidation of the reflective layer.

    • DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again

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  • Way back when I used to copy movies to .avi files, my computer was in one room, my TV in another, I had a video card with TV out and a long set of cables, I'd preserve the copyright warning because it gave me time to start the movie then walk to the living room to watch it...

    • DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again

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  • VHS was kind of 2.5 thanks to macrovision...

    • DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again

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  • Yo ho!

    • DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again

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  • That's just single layer - dual layer is something like 8.4 if memory serves (which it often doesn't...)

    • DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again

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  • Wow, I don't even remember that. I've been playing DVDs on a computer basically forever, which rarely obeyed such restrictions...

    • DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again

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  • I've been doing this since 2008 - although I only recently setup Plex in 2017, before that I just ran a web server and played movies in a browser on various smart TVs, but around 2017 was when my main TV got an update that rendered its browser mostly useless... Fuck Sony by the way. And before smart TVs I just had a video card with TV out and long cables... Or burning VCDs, I still have my 5-disc DVD changer that could play VCDs as long as they were burned to CD-RW discs, though it's just gathering dust now.

    • Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service

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  • Tell that to my employer... We moved to a bigger office a little over a year ago. The old office was cramped, but it was reasonably quiet. Those of us who are on the phones were in a corner pretty well shielded from everything else. The new place is one huge continuous expanse, and we're right in the middle of it. And it's what I would call cheap and unfinished, but a commercial realtor would call it "modern industrial" meaning you can see all the wiring and ductwork and such- and bare concrete. Which makes sound carry throughout and echo. Just the other day my boss had to go hush a gaggle of developers that were congregating 20 feet away and laughing uproariously.

    • Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service

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  • a more useless application of electrons

    Microsoft is worse... Have a problem, google it, find a link that has a promising summary, click it- "try Windows 11!" Because that's what dead links do.

    • Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service

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  • under the age of 40

    I'm pushing 50 and I won't call if there's a website...

    • Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service

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  • My wife... She will never stop buying from Amazon no matter how shitty they become. She was refusing to go to Wendy's for a while because they were considering surge pricing, she swore up and down she would not reward a company for doing that - so I said what about Amazon? How often does prime get you free shipping anymore? And with streaming, now you have to watch ads when you didn't before... But of course that's all "different".

    • A Black man got a job interview after he changed the name on his resume. Now, he’s suing for discrimination | CNN

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  • Surely nobody would go on the internet and tell lies...

    • Biden tells Hill Democrats he ‘declines’ to step aside and says it’s time for party drama ‘to end’

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  • "have you tried not being poor?"

    • An airport is an air-port. A port via the air.

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  • No shit?