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BearlyArrived
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BearlyArrived
@charleslivefree
Nostalgic for things that make sense, like tires with sidewalls. Fan of old hobby shops, video stores, and shoe and clothing stores where you try things on.
New Hampshire Katılım Kasım 2022
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@sammysan97 @SenAngusKing I've noticed people fundamentally don't understand what an "accident" is until it happens to them.
I'm going to add some stickers to my tub now that I'm thinking about this.
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@SenAngusKing If you saw how many boomers come into the hospital for hip fractures and brain injuries from slipping in their shower you'd advocate for this too. We legit spend trillions on CT scans and hip replacements for these people every time they fall.
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Prevention measures like an $11 bath mat could save Americans tens of thousands of dollars.
If Medicare would send these out to every recipient in America, I’ll bet the investment would pay for itself in under a year.
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@ellonico people could just go to target and buy their grandma a mat. Why do we need to pay taxes for this
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@ThoughtPolic3HQ @jaegermedia1 Only got 40 min. Last thing I remember was the lead up to a speech where they didn't show the speech. That ended it for me.
Plus it looked like the whole thing was going to be some tired procedural about the red scare.
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@jaegermedia1 I could barely make it through Oppenheimer once. Making someone watch it twice has surely been banned by the Geneva Convention.
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Christopher Nolan has mastered the art of making his films appear to be deep at first glance, but on the second watch revealing just how superficial and pretentious they really are.
Has anyone actually been able to enjoy a movie of his on the second viewing?
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This is not only true of cars but of almost every piece of modern equipment. Most of modern “innovation” is just a fancy electronic layer over everything that used to be activated mechanically.
More layers, more fragility, more expensive but it looks “slick”
Frank Brown@FrankBr05713205
As a longtime automotive technician, I have noticed through the years that almost every time manufacturers come up with new and improved it ends up costing the car owner more money. Here is one example. A simple thermostat, which served us fine for years has now been replaced with a water control valve that is actuated by the car’s computer. So we went from a part that cost around $15 to one that now is $250 and up.
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@Cernovich This is a pretty profound statement in a couple ways.
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Recent history may as well be ancient history.
Jack Posobiec@JackPosobiec
My parents were at the 1976 Bicentennial at Valley Forge and have told me my whole life how big of a deal it was Tons of people came, covered wagons that ACTUALLY traveled from every state with parades 250th doesn't feel as big. It was a different country
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@aviationarchive Rather stay in the plane than fall from it.
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On Nov 27th, 1951 Ft. Worth held its breath while this B-36 circled the city's murky skies for some six hours with a defective landing gear. The pilot ordered 16 crew members to parachute to safety and then he and two others prepared for the job of landing the crippled giant.
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@JanaTx17 @JackPosobiec My sisters did so many of these! I miss when there were rows of patterns and fabrics and yarns in so many stores.
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@JackPosobiec I had to wear a dress like this and my mom made a 3' x 6' sheet cake for the celebration on the lawn at our small town courthouse.
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What do you remember about the 1976 Bicentennial?
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@JackPosobiec President Ford visiting our town on Patriots Day 1975 which kicked off the whole thing.
And people swarming everywhere.
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@Culo_Kelly @bugsandfishes Belay that order and scan those photos before disposing.
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@bugsandfishes Have a friend who's been a funeral director for over 30 years. He's very clear, the kids throw everything in the dumpster. Pictures too? Yup, nobody wants them
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When your parents die you will, if you're lucky, be an adult with a home full of your own possessions and all of a sudden you have to fairly swiftly deal with your parents home and all of their possessions and you absolutely cannot cram all of the latter into the former.
Cimmerian Pervert@cimmerian_v
All of this for $20 at an estate sale — people, especially the children of boomers, are profoundly stupid.
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@infinitethird Still not as good as independent but a little better.
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who remembers Hollywood Video? better selection and a dirtier vibe (complimentary)
Poirot@Argenpoirot
Blockbuster fue el paraíso. No tenias la pelicula a un click, tenias que ir, recorrer pasillos, buscas y buscar, ver si estaba disponible el VHS. Y te vendían hasta los caramelos y todo tipo cosas para la experiencia cine en casa. Que hermosos recuerdos.
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Hang on a minute. I can trigger your memory: One of the things BB brought to the party was low-density shelving, placing titles on the wide side of the tape. This meant you had an easy pick and some social pressure to grab a popular title.
The independents had deeper shelves than you see here and would stack 3 or 4 deep while being able to have over 30 different titles instead of one.
The really small stores or very best stores with over 50,000 titles would shelve them like a library.
And you can see, a different paradigm - a library needs depth; while a bookstore is trying to sell bestsellers and places them, to this day, wide like blockbuster did.
This is also the trick that streamers employ with big thumbnails for scrolling. Appealing, easy, and gives the fake notion they have a lot to watch even as they are tipping their hand to push certain things.
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Typing out a standard defense of a video store is not crashing out.
The mom and pop shops had charm, but the reality of Blockbuster was that their massive inventory and scale made them the undisputed king of movie and game rentals.
You didn't rely on a small local shop when you actually needed to secure a new release on a Friday night.
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Complaining about the actual process of Blockbuster completely misses the point. It wasn't a chore, it was a destination. My mom made going to the video store a Friday night event for our family.
Late fees were only a problem if you lacked basic responsibility. Return your rentals on time.
Not having exactly what you wanted on the new release wall was a feature. It forced you to actually wander the aisles and discover movies you never would have picked otherwise.
And the scratched discs and worn out tapes argument is completely exaggerated. We rented every single weekend and never once encountered an unplayable movie.
BRING BACK BLOCKBUSTER!
Allen Ivermectin@FanSince09
No. We’re not doing this. Blockbuster sucked. The mom and pop video store was cool but Blockbuster was bad, the whole process of going to blockbuster was bad. I’m a physical media guy but there isn’t anything I miss about blockbuster Video stories died out bc people were tired of Blockbuster. The late fees, never having what you want to see, scratched discs and worn out tapes.
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@NostalgiaPro Also you'd combine it with other things like picking up Chinese food. Wasn't uncommon to run into friends.
Doordashers don't get it.
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@owroot My regret is since these were not as good times, I didn't like them as much as the 90's, which in turn were not as good as the 80's.
I guess the lesson is to enjoy now, because things only get worse.
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I was in high school in this era during the early 2000s. It wasn't a glorious golden age or anything, but compared to today, it actually was pretty great. Largely because of the lack of social media and phones but also because society wasn't actually nearly as insane. Woke didn't exist and a lot of general presumptions of the generation before still existed in some form. It wasn't historically glorious, but it was pretty normal.
internet archiva@internetarchiva
“It’s weird seeing people just chilling without their phones” High school in 2000s:
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@CoreyWriting All this shelving, for 2 titles.
At the independents over 100 different movies would have been in the same space.
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You all really miss having to pay late fees to see a movie?
Poirot@Argenpoirot
Blockbuster fue el paraíso. No tenias la pelicula a un click, tenias que ir, recorrer pasillos, buscas y buscar, ver si estaba disponible el VHS. Y te vendían hasta los caramelos y todo tipo cosas para la experiencia cine en casa. Que hermosos recuerdos.
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My big thing was finding out the 4th of July was a bigger deal than Patriots Day - if they knew about it at all.
Gyro City Genius@chestnuthillave
I knew most of these dishes were New England Chinese food specialties but boneless spare ribs being primarily a northeast thing is shocking to me, it’s like when I found out the rest of the country doesn’t eat steak tips
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@AlexTran677026 Watched with dad when mom was out. First time I set eyes on an uncensored pair of t***
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🎬 Used Cars (1980) is one of those forgotten comedies that feels way messier and meaner than most studio comedies of its era — nonstop hustling, fake commercials, political scams.
At the center of it all is Kurt Russell as Rudy Russo, a sharp-tongued, fast-talking salesman whose wit, sarcasm, and morally ambiguous charm drive the chaos.
His performance gave the film its edge and convinced studios he could carry darker, more complex roles, paving the way for his legendary run in the 1980s.
Love Classical Music and Movies 🎺🎻💖🎥🎬@AlexTran677026
Name a comedy that never fails to make you laugh.
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@JackPosobiec 1975 also the peak of the US bike boom. People of all ages swarming the streets on 10 and 12 speeds. Nobody sitting home except the aged.
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My parents were at the 1976 Bicentennial at Valley Forge and have told me my whole life how big of a deal it was
Tons of people came, covered wagons that ACTUALLY traveled from every state with parades
250th doesn't feel as big. It was a different country
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@AndrewGilmerUS @sciencegirl The low mileage on my cars breaks the used car market.
I should be driving one of those tired Leafs that has like 40 miles of range left.
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@sciencegirl Gas. I don't even leave the house much anymore.
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What is something you've officially stopped buying in 2026 because the price has become genuinely insulting?
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