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@dasinfogod @fandompulse @RMBee Just about everything that survived is available digitally. This is not legal advice.

@fandompulse @RMBee The common fallacy is that EVERYthing is available in digital & streaming form. I purchase physical media for two primary reasons: 1) Items that interest me, such as silent film or back catalog titles, may be deemed non-profitable, so unavailable for stream. 2) DRM is revocable.

Peter Jackson laments the death of physical media: “You can get Blu-rays and DVDs, but they’re almost a niche product for aficionados now,” Jackson said. “Since they only sell small numbers, no studio wants to put extended features on them or to extend the cuts. We did hours and hours of behind-the-scenes material for The Lord of the Rings DVDs, and so many people have thanked me for doing them. People would watch that stuff over and over again because it inspired them to make films. That’s all gone now, and I think it’s a real shame.” Do you still get real books and DVDs?

@valnerium @DanFriedman81 @Is_Not_Brian They do, just to get away from you.

@DanFriedman81 @Is_Not_Brian A million shit particles live in my toilet, but I don’t celebrate every flush.

Why the fuck does NYC have an Israel Day Parade lol

@GodUsopp31 @DanFriedman81 @Is_Not_Brian The "fake country" retarded argument will be really funny in another 78 years.

@DanFriedman81 @Is_Not_Brian Israel is not some monolith of Judaism. It’s a fake country founded on apartheid. They don’t deserve a parade.

Court footage reportedly captured Henry Nowak’s final moments after he was stabbed. Lying on the pavement struggling for breath, Mr Nowak could be heard saying: “I can’t breathe.” He repeatedly told police he had been stabbed and was desperately trying to explain that something was seriously wrong. But instead of immediately treating him as a victim in critical condition, an officer told him he was under arrest on suspicion of assault. “I’ve been stabbed,” he said again. A male voice then allegedly replied: “I don’t think you have, mate.” Henry Nowak later died after his lungs filled with blood and he effectively drowned in his own blood while handcuffed on the ground. The footage is genuinely disturbing. Yet our Government and Keir Starmer refuse to even recognise this awful murder or mention Henry Nowak’s name. SHAMEFUL!

@Steve_Sailer @RexQueQuondam @ScottMGreer I think 1991 was the first year Wal-Mart surpassed Sears, which was almost impossible to believe back then.

@RexQueQuondam @ScottMGreer As in, "Instead of us, the world's largest retailer, doing what you want, Mr. Salesman, how about you do these 9 things for us first and then maybe we will think about your proposition?" Except, they always said things more brusquely than that.

"The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that once believed they were eternal"

@Steve_Sailer @RexQueQuondam @ScottMGreer The Waltons are truly the world's richest family. Elon might top them on some lists, but his wealth is tied up in stock that would crater if he quit, died, or tried to liquidate in any significant quantity. (for example SpaceX is valued at 1.2T but has 20B revenues, 0 profit)

@Steve_Sailer @RexQueQuondam @ScottMGreer The reason Sam Walton isn't called a genius is that he seemed normal and was from Arkansas. He was so forward thinking that he made his four kids equal shareholders (20% each kid + himself ) in 1953 when the business was worth little. 1/2

@2haveandhavenot @charlesmurray There are always pros and cons, but I think Bezos has overall improved the standard of living of humanity. I'm reminded of a sign on an a bathroom door at Borders that was closing, "Sorry, this restroom is closed. Please use Amazon.com's."

Some intellectual quarrel with, "have made my life immeasurably better" vis a vis Mr. Bezos. Amazon can be argued to have degraded American commerce, and the value of 'tactile' purchasing. Otherwise, (and this may be a central distinction between two sets of human beings), if envy is present in your evaluation and feeling towards others, then you resent billionaires, just as you resent the pull-up champion next door. If you've never had envy of anyone or anyone's status or wealth, then you see their beautiful Ferrari, and you see and love the Ferrari. Envy does distinguish you from those without it.

Three men—Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk—have made my life immeasurably better. And yet they’re the bad guys. Are there billionaires who do not deserve their wealth? Sure. That’s a small price to pay for those three and the many other billionaires who enrich our lives on a less lavish scale.

@bradvanderwaal @charlesmurray @elonmusk He owns shares in companies that would be worth far less if he stopped working. It's essentially the market saying Elon himself is worth hundreds of billions to those companies. If he gave the shares away, their value would collapse. Sadly, most dummies think of Elon as:

@charlesmurray Say we go with your belief that they make the world better, why is it that @elonmusk needs a Trillion dollars to continue to do the work he is doing?

@TonyIsHere4You @charlesmurray Economic illiteracy is a serious problem. Finance is invisible infrastructure. People see the delivery trucks, the iPhone, the shiny cars. They don't seen the loans, insurance, valuation, and risk management that put them there. But remove the financing, and none of it moves.

@charlesmurray The problem is not the people you mentioned, it's all the billionaires today that became that way through financial engineering, not actual wealth creation. This phenomenon has been the central factor in hollowing out the middle class in this country.

@BelAves @nickgillespie We could consistently use alternative words. Industrial Titans. The Industrial Age. Every single time, without exception, correct people who say things like "robber barons."

@nickgillespie The Robber Barons, along with Gilded Age, two of the worst naming conventions in American history. Neither accurately describe the times nor nature of the late 19th century and were invented by progressive historians to make the progressive era seem better in comparison

Is there any discourse more boring and stupid than billionaire eliminationism? This time it's Fran Leibowitz, saying, 'They add nothing to New York. In the 19th century, those robber barons, they employed people.' Good old robber barons!

If I wanted to design an op to fragment, demoralize, and distract the Right it would look a lot like Candace Owens and Russell Brand asking whether Israel had secret control of Brigitte Macron’s penis and the rifle that killed Charlie Kirk.

@SwipeWright I'm still working on that, as my wife often complains.

Knowing how to prepare a meal for yourself from raw ingredients is one of the most necessary and basic skills a person must learn. I can't believe people are throwing tantrums over being expected to do it.

@edodreaming @RichardHanania Rabies, mostly in South Asia and Africa.

@RichardHanania Man's best friend killing 40000 of us each year?

Which animal do you think kills the most humans, setting aside mosquitos? Turns out it is snakes, by a large margin. 100,000 deaths per year. Dogs are second, at 40,000. Didn't know Elephants killed 1K a year! Sharks get a bad rap. But they only killed six people in 2023.

@metanerdy @RichardHanania I don't need Google to see that you struggle with reading comprehension.

@RichardHanania The real tragedy is that by a large margin the biggest killer of humans are humans. Google it.

@dontsayrino @timecaptales I keep hoping someone like Elon (best suited) could come up with his own awards. Most mainstream awards, except for sports, are totally politicized and have been for decades. Far worse is when mediocre works are honored simply for ideological reasons. That is commonplace.

@timecaptales Almost 50 years ago, my liberal literature professors agreed that Borges had been deprived of a Nobel for literature because he was a conservative. That is how long the Nobel has been politicized.

In 1977, Jorge Luis Borges — already blind, already legendary — sat across from William F. Buckley on Firing Line & explained why English is the greatest language in the world & why he respected it too much to write his poetry in it.

@timecaptales Thank you so much for posting that. I hadn't seen that interview. Really fascinating.

@christopherrufo Why is nobody mentioning how clueless Bezos was about the threshold? His example was a nurse making $75k but the actual figure is under $54000. She is well into the top half.

The argument against zeroing out taxes for the bottom half is that they would then have no skin in the game and any tax increase for the bands above them would seem to be a pure benefit—it’s always easier to tax some else. Result: higher taxes and spending, same problem as now.

@bonchieredstate Hilariously wishful thinking and sounds kind of like: youtube.com/watch?v=iVBX7l…

"Thomas Massie will be more powerful than ever. He'll even be a viable presidential contender in 2028." It's the same stuff they said about Liz Cheney. Dude's future is on the podcast circuit.

@Steve_Sailer Scott Boland (great cricket player who found out his grandfather was aboriginal is up to 1/4). I'd think similar for those pictured, 1/8 to 1/4 or so. Identity stuff is like a lot of things, fine, maybe good, in small doses. Toxic in large amounts.

Seriously, the appearance genes in Australian Aboriginals seem to lean toward the recessive, so people who look like they are from Belfast can be somewhat Aboriginal by ancestry. It's kind of the opposite of being part sub-Saharan, where it's usually fairly easy to tell.

Australia has solved its problem with Aboriginal underachievement!