Phoenicianpirate @ Phoenicianpirate @lemm.ee

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Wow really? History really does repeat itself and not just rhymes... fuck me.

I made forum posts going as far back as 2000. Almost all of them are gone forever due to the reasons you mentioned. Even the wayback machine might have a snapshot of the forum, but not the threads made them, and not the posts made within those threads.

Piracy is the reason why video games survived what I call 'the early creation purge'. Basically if you look at the 20th century and see various media that was created, most of the early stuff is gone. Like in the silent film era, 90% of all the films made (if we are using Hollywood movies as a metric) are lost, and probably also the film of other countries, too. Even 75% of all early sound film is lost, and for TV, the earliest broadcasts were never recorded, and many from the 1940s to 60s were also never recorded and are lost forever.

Video games? They're the sole exception. Thanks to piracy and emulation, we can play computer and arcade and console games from the 1970s without issue. This has never happened before, and we have emulation devs and software pirates to thank. Ironically the overwhelming majority of abandonware video games online were not the originals... they were copies of copies that someone not only pirated back in the day, but also cracked. As a 90s kid, I smile whenever I see the RawCopy screen when I load up an old MS-DOS game.

Archive.org is doing God's work for a lot of stuff.

You know what is so ironic? I remember not that long ago (OK, like 20 years ago...) that once something was on the internet, it is there forever as long as file sharing and multiple hosts do it... but it has become abundantly clearly that, despite the fact that it can be REALLY hard to get shit off the internet, it doesn't make it impossible. We've already seen it happen. The truth is, there is so much stuff that people DON'T widely share, and even then, the interest in their sharing in a torrent style is limited (I once downloaded leaked emails regarding transphobic propagandists talking to one another and while I kept seeding for almost a year, I barely got anyone downloading), that it is actually possible to make large amounts of stuff just vanish.

I grew up in Dubai and most of my teachers were women. None of the boys ever gave any lip on account of their sex. If they did, the teacher wouldn't need to discipline them... we would.

You are far more generous and capable than I am. I started a monthly 5 dollar donation.

I give 5$ every month to wikipedia. I can give another 5$ to archive.org every month.

I am not now, nor have I ever been a Christian, but shit like this makes me go Jesus Fucking Christ.

Archive.org is a critical repository of knowledge and archiving the internet. Elon has cut nothing, but damaged a ton. It is kinda incredible how many damage he has done.

I say please and thank you to AI chatbots all the time. This is to make up for my misspent youth insulting Dr. Sbaitso...

Tell me that episode. I agvent watched that show since the 90s (at least beyond clips on YouTube) i think a binge is in order.

There was a thread on reddit that had someone speculate that he is an indirect serial killer. Meaning he tries to influence people into doing 'healthy' things that are anything but and keep bullying them into them until he results in their health declining to the point that they die. He had a relative that he did this to. The justice system isn't built for that kind of stuff and proving it there would be damn near impossible unless he somehow confesses to it.

Don't insult Brain like that! He is legitimately smart and does what he can given his circumstances (he is a literal lab rat in a lab that he has to escape from every night... and his only companion is barely functional).

Damn straight. I was an open office guy for a while, but word had a slight edge. Now that edge is gone and Libre Office is the clear winner. I will not be going back.

That is the most single pointless genocide ever committed then. The nazis and zionist want(ed) to kill everyone because they want the land... but Trump and Americans gain absolutely nothing by killing these people. If anything they lose a lot since the overwhelming majority of these people were vital workers.

Thorium? Fucking sweet!

One variation of the 'blonde as hitler' joke did include Röhm, with 'and as chaste as Röhm' being the statement.

It was and still is a homophobic joke. But given that the Nazis hated gays more than anyone else at the time, I think mocking him is still acceptable. Especially since Röhm was a power broker who was critical in Hitler's rise to power.

During the nazi era, comedians had a field day mocking Hitler and his cronies. The immortal joke 'the true Aryan is as blonde as Hitler, slim as Goering, and as tall/beautiful as Goebbels'. It was funny then and still funny now. Because none of them even remotely resembled the ideal they spoke about. This is even funnier when you include goblins like Himmler who was the head of the SS when he would never have qualified to even be an enlisted SS man when he was younger.

It is actually astonishing it took so long for lead to be banned in the US. Even Ben Franklin railed against the use of lead in daily life and he was someone who lived and died in the 18th century.

I am referring to that. When the 90s rolled around and the internet became viable and was still being heavily invested in by the government it was only then that corporations wanted to own the spoils while leaving the costs still up to the public to invest in the basic necessary research and development and infrastructure.

It could have been much, much better, is what I am saying. And you clearly know this, too.