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If y'all aren't using Plex and the skip intro and credits feature, you're missing out.
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My only bone to pick whether with binging or weekly episodes is holy poo poo release the show globally around the same time. I’ve had far too much spoiled because some of the richest companies in the world can’t manage international distribution. I’ll either end up acquiring the show another way or not even bother watching it if everything’s spoiled within a few days. Real irritating. Why yes I like Lower Decks! What do you mean there’s more than two seasons?!?
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May 3, 2024 12:36
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Great British bake off is like that. Totally incomprehensible releases
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May 3, 2024 12:37
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His Divine Shadow posted:The truck sucks, as most modern trucks do, it's just a given when it goes from a durable work vehicle to a double cabined small dick compensator used to drive around the suburbs with. yeah. my 83 rx-7 has sills that look like this. so its not a new phenomenon
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May 3, 2024 13:09
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Thanks for the paint education. I didn't know.
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May 3, 2024 13:51
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teen witch posted:To complement the Superfund search: I was born and lived at a nearby base to Lejeune, and my dad went there for work often. He also worked on jets that carried agent orange during Vietnam. Prostate and skin cancer.
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May 3, 2024 14:25
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TotalLossBrain posted:Yes, he plays a super admiral or something. Very embarrassing Orange peel on GM cars goes back at least to the Nixon administration
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May 3, 2024 14:38
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teen witch posted:My only bone to pick whether with binging or weekly episodes is holy poo poo release the show globally around the same time. Hello, I'm Amazon. I'm going to release five episodes of a show all at once and then take three months to release a trailer for the next four episodes and another two months to release those episodes. Then the show is going away for two years. Also pay me $20 more this year than last year. Here's a free copy of Fallout 2.
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May 3, 2024 14:55
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syntaxfunction posted:So literally any older show that's been put in a streaming service? MASH be cut down I guess? Not mash because it wasn't really a narrative show, but for example Lost, which was mentioned earlier, would be much better cut down on a repeated viewing. So much of that show was obvious filler or existed to remind people what they were even watching. But it was an artifact and function of its time and format.
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May 3, 2024 14:55
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wash bucket posted:This isn't something that just got shittier. I just found out WHY it got shittier. It's really remarkable how different we used to view the environment (and some still do). As utterly disposable, to do whatever you want with, without any limitation. More so, it's our RIGHT to do so, God given. My family had this camp on a small pond in Maine and I discovered dozens and dozens of very old shoe soles, glass bottles, and cans buried right beside the shore. There was probably more trash I didn't find. And it amazed me that 150 years prior, some folks saw this beautiful lakeshore and thought: Good place to dump all our trash. Boggles my mind, but it's clearly not out of the norm. In this way though, things are getting better.
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May 3, 2024 15:32
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lol people used to dig French drains in their yards to pour old motor oil into
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May 3, 2024 16:14
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I mean oil comes out of the ground, putting it back in seems very environmentally sound.
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May 3, 2024 16:21
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Mozi posted:I mean oil comes out of the ground, putting it back in seems very environmentally sound. it's its home, it's supposed to be there! Literally A Person posted:lol people used to dig French drains in their yards to pour old motor oil into also, lol, never heard this one. Seems like a lot trouble go through, I wonder why an oil hole wouldn't work as good?
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May 3, 2024 16:28
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UFOTacoMan posted:it's its home, it's supposed to be there! I mean, p much is. It's maybe a little fancier what with the rock and such but, yeah, oil hole.
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May 3, 2024 16:38
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That Elsbeth show is pretty good. The wife and I have been watching them and they're pretty entertaining. It's like CSI, but cute?
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May 3, 2024 16:47
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Isn't it still somewhat common practice to pour oil over dirt roads to keep dust down? I recall some Oklahoma hick contractor for this type of work getting in trouble for using PCB-laden oil. Probably in the last 10-15 years. Maybe I'm making poo poo up, idk
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May 3, 2024 16:48
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TotalLossBrain posted:Isn't it still somewhat common practice to pour oil over dirt roads to keep dust down? I don't think so anymore. It's mostly some form of salt now that they use as a replacement for oil. The oil replaced dioxin.
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May 3, 2024 16:53
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From what I've seen in this topic I don't trust any business to effectively handle their waste. I used to think Simpsons was a satire but I fully expect to hear a case of nuclear waste being buried under a play ground or important aquifer or something.
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May 3, 2024 16:54
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Literally A Person posted:lol people used to dig French drains in their yards to pour old motor oil into everyone i know still does this
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May 3, 2024 16:56
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TotalLossBrain posted:Isn't it still somewhat common practice to pour oil over dirt roads to keep dust down? I'm sure it happened more than once, but speaking of superfund sites....Times Beach outside of St. Louis was a poster child for this poo poo. A contractor got paid to dispose of all of the dioxin from the nearby loving Agent Orange factory, and also to tamp down dust on the roads in Times Beach, so hey two birds one stone: https://www.epa.gov/mo/town-flood-and-superfund-looking-back-times-beach-disaster-nearly-40-years-later quote:Nearly 40 years ago, an individual was paid to spray material on the roads to suppress the dust in this small Midwest town. What the town didn’t know was that he was spraying those roads with a mixture of the highly toxic chemical compound, dioxin, and waste oil. When the town was inundated by a terrible flood in December 1982, that toxic mix spread beyond the roads and covered the town. It was so hosed the federal government bought the entire town, started shoveling all of the topsoil into incinerators, and buried everything else in the town in a giant landfill. I remember driving by the soil incinerators as a kid on the way to Six Flags. It was wild. Squiggle fucked around with this message at 17:12 on May 3, 2024 |
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May 3, 2024 17:06
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Nuclear waste no . But there is def waste of all kind just dumped everywhere
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May 3, 2024 17:24
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redshirt posted:It's really remarkable how different we used to view the environment (and some still do). As utterly disposable, to do whatever you want with, without any limitation. More so, it's our RIGHT to do so, God given. This poo poo always blew my mind. I grew up in the southern US in a farming community. People literally depended on the environment for their livelihood. Fishing and hunting were very popular. Everyone grew vegetable gardens. These people were deeply connected to the land. But they seemed to despise nature. Everyone dumped used motor oil in ditches. They gladly hoarded and continued to use pesticides “the government” outlawed. Animal cruelty towards pets, livestock, and other animals was the norm. I poo poo you not, they selectively bred silent rattlesnakes by accident because everyone killed snakes on sight. A local university came out to study the phenomenon. Like you said, nature was just a resource to be extracted and used to them. Edit: Actually, I’m being a bit hyperbolic about the rattlesnake thing. That did occur due to people killing rattlesnakes but it was a region wide phenomenon. Not just that one community. They certainly contributed to it though. wash bucket fucked around with this message at 17:39 on May 3, 2024 |
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May 3, 2024 17:32
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wash bucket posted:This poo poo always blew my mind. I grew up in the southern US in a farming community. People literally depended on the environment for their livelihood. Fishing and hunting were very popular. Everyone grew vegetable gardens. These people were deeply connected to the land. Indeed. We're having this big thing in Maine over so called "Forever Chemicals", that were the result of State supported programs to use "treated" waste as fertilizer on farms, like 40-50 years ago. Now all these farms are laced with all sorts of toxins that are basically impossible to remove while having a farm. So now the State is working on a program to buy out these farms. A whole thing.
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May 3, 2024 17:43
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When I was a kid my cousins and I would go deep into the woods behind my grandparents' farm, where there were all kinds of tree-tunnel tractor trails down to large fields tucked into the woods and forest paths and streams to run along and explore, real Bridge to Terabithia poo poo. One day, we discovered the massive sinkhole where all of the surrounding farmers dumped old refrigerators, washing machines, cars, fuckin...whatever. It was clear some of them had been there more than 50 years. It's an image that always stuck with me.
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May 3, 2024 17:44
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Squiggle posted:When I was a kid my cousins and I would go deep into the woods behind my grandparents' farm, where there were all kinds of tree-tunnel tractor trails down to large fields tucked into the woods and forest paths and streams to run along and explore, real Bridge to Terabithia poo poo. One day, we discovered the massive sinkhole where all of the surrounding farmers dumped old refrigerators, washing machines, cars, fuckin...whatever. It was clear some of them had been there more than 50 years. It's an image that always stuck with me. Oh yeah, we had one of those in a gully near our house. It was a small-ish canyon but you could walk to the bottom on the hill of trash and old tires on one side of it.
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May 3, 2024 17:50
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wash bucket posted:Oh yeah, we had one of those in a gully near our house. It was a small-ish canyon but you could walk to the bottom on the hill of trash and old tires on one side of it. Jesus, old tires thrown off the road into the woods makes up like 10% of the mass here.
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May 3, 2024 17:52
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When I was a kid it seemed like any unmaintained wooded area of the suburbs had a clearing where a car was melding with nature. Wild to think they were probably put there when my parents were young and they're probably still there.
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May 3, 2024 18:06
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Our issue in Los Angeles is that the Montrose Chemical Corporation illegally dumped a fuckload of DDT and PCBs into the ocean. Some of it they dumped in the sewers, but most of it was put in barrels, which they dumped from ships close to shore, and intentionally punctured so they would sink and they wouldn't be caught. Thank you, Montrose Chemical Corporation, for making our world-famous beaches a hazard, and for improving our water with handy toxic chemicals!
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May 3, 2024 18:11
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This is why among other things the clean water act attaches personal liability to people who violate it
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May 3, 2024 18:20
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Houle posted:From what I've seen in this topic I don't trust any business to effectively handle their waste. I used to think Simpsons was a satire but I fully expect to hear a case of nuclear waste being buried under a play ground or important aquifer or something. There are multiple schools in the US that have grossly unacceptable levels of radiation.
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May 3, 2024 18:21
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Time_pants posted:There are multiple schools in the US that have grossly unacceptable levels of radiation. This cures the cancers caused by the school being on a superfund site.
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May 3, 2024 18:36
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Rottentomatoes.com, sometime in the last few weeks, abolished a lot of user accounts with no notice whatever. I'm not sure whether they cancelled just spamgourmet.com type shell email accounts (which stop dickheads like them spamming us) or abolished all user accounts. So every user, including me, who bothered to review any movie on the site, has had our reviews deleted, with no chance to save them. loving SCUM. Also, the whole point of the site (IMO) was to display aggregate ratings of professional reviewers from magazine and newspaper etc. websites, with a list of quotes and ratings from them, and links to their full reviews, on each movie's main page (at rottentomatoes.com). Now you have to click through links to get to them. I'm guesstimating this is because many of the linked reviews are now dead links, and rottentomatoes doesn't have the rights to reprint any of them, even quotes therefrom. Oh, and the RT page for each movie has been redesigned so it looks 'nice' (supposedly) on a loving phone but awful on pads or computer screens due to all the wasted space. This trend is cancer (with apologies to the schoolkids actually contacting cancer mentioned in the above post). gently caress YOU, Rottentomatoes.com !!! BigBadSteve fucked around with this message at 18:56 on May 3, 2024 |
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May 3, 2024 18:50
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BigBadSteve posted:Rottentomatoes.com, sometime in the last few weeks, abolished a lot of user accounts with no notice whatever. I'm not sure whether they cancelled just spamgourmet.com type shell email accounts (which stop dickheads like them spamming us) or just abolished all accounts. I love that the actual website content appears to take up only about 40% of the screen while the big giant ad takes up 70%  And the rest, just a black void, sure. Should I turn my monitor on its side to read this in the right ratio? Or move my eyeballs so they're on top of each other
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May 3, 2024 18:53
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I get that Letterboxd is for snobs, of which I am *not*, but Christ have a bit of dignity there RT.
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May 3, 2024 18:55
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If you care anything about what you write, save it locally, good grief.
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May 3, 2024 19:13
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doctorfrog posted:If you care anything about what you write, save it locally, good grief. That’s why there’s a 44MB file on my computer named good_posts.txt.
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May 3, 2024 19:14
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wash bucket posted:This poo poo always blew my mind. I grew up in the southern US in a farming community. People literally depended on the environment for their livelihood. Fishing and hunting were very popular. Everyone grew vegetable gardens. These people were deeply connected to the land. 
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May 3, 2024 19:15
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doctorfrog posted:If you care anything about what you write, save it locally, good grief. That's why I print out funny memes and share them with the gang at Dennys.
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May 3, 2024 19:20
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BigBadSteve posted:Rottentomatoes.com, sometime in the last few weeks, abolished a lot of user accounts with no notice whatever. I'm not sure whether they cancelled just spamgourmet.com type shell email accounts (which stop dickheads like them spamming us) or abolished all user accounts. If you're trying to back up your reviews try searching for your user profile page or whatever (not sure how RT accounts work) on https://archive.org/
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May 3, 2024 19:24
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wash bucket posted:I poo poo you not, they selectively bred silent rattlesnakes by accident because everyone killed snakes on sight. A local university came out to study the phenomenon. Beavers are nocturnal now because they were hunted nearly to extinction to make hats.
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