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Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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mynameisnull wrote: post #161
yucky wrote: post #132

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The US has by far the largest public library system in the world, and it's not close. So by what metric would you consider it underfunded?

If you mean the library of Congress sure. If you mean the most libraries not based on a quick google ( https://www.quora.com/Which-country-in-the-world-has-the-mos... ). But I guess it depends on what you mean. I am genuinely curious as there are several ways of looking at this. Also, the person above could have been talking about compared to days past. I can tell you the libraries I had access to when and where I gr…

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Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by rajin444 »

klyrs wrote: post #138
at_a_remove wrote: post #116

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Mustn't forget tidying up the wrist-slitting in 13 Reasons Why.

Nor should we forget the social contagion risk of suicide > After the series' release, a study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found that suicide among teenagers rose by 28.9% in the month after Netflix launched the show.

Nor should we forget to beware the man of one study.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by Sakos »

jsz0 wrote: post #109

Alternatively consider reducing your addiction to television/movies and stop worrying about where your next fix is coming from. In the golden era of piracy I used to be a huge media pack rat spending hours a day obtaining more media to stash away. One day my ZFS array puked and I lost almost everything. I wasn't even upset. It was a blessing in disguise to be liberated from caring about hoarding media. Never seeing y…

I have terabytes of movies and series. I've spent like 1 hour in the past 12 months adding some stuff to my collection. HDD space is extremely cheap and keeping a local copy is such low effort that I don't see why I should get rid of my collection. Some of it is also so rare as to be impossible to find unless you're a member of some private sharing sites (try finding a complete archive of Jon Stewart on The Daily Show).

I've also lost terabytes of shows/movies before and wasn't affected by it at all. Shit happens. But I prefer having high quality copies immediately available. I've had a complete rip of the animated show "Hey, Arnold!" for like 3 years and only just started watching the whole thing now, and I'm thankful to my past self for giving me such convenient access to something I enjoyed so much as a kid.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by Karsteski »

meindnoch wrote: post #131
Karsteski wrote: post #12

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Guess I'll be relegated to living in a cabin in the woods if we ever get to that point...

…and will pick up the hobby of making ingenous mail bombs?

Probably not, although I did used to be a chemist...

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by werdnapk »

birdyrooster wrote: post #115
zdw wrote: post #85

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There are already incidences of this: The TV show Community is missing an episode on Netflix for some reason (edit: reason was Ken Jeong in what could be interpreted as blackface). The IT Crowd is missing one in some geos because it was considered anti-Trans by some - that episode also has the unrelated and hilarious plot where Roy and Moss convince Jen that they're loaning her a "black box that holds the entire inte…

BBC is notorious for black face on their programs even in recent decades.

The main character in Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy is a black face, but do people honestly say any face painted in black is racist? Noel is clearly using a black face in his show for artistic reasons and isn't racist in the slightest... IMO.

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evandale wrote: post #148
inetknght wrote: post #140

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`XXY` is a valid combination of sex chromosomes. The person has two `X` chromosomes so is female. The person also has one `Y` chromosome so is male. Which sex is the person? Is it a birth defect?

XXY is Klinefelter syndrome. By definition it's a condition where boys and men are born with an extra X chromosome. Their sex is male because, also by definition, the presence of a Y chromosome means male.

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Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by ac29 »

klyrs wrote: post #138
at_a_remove wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mustn't forget tidying up the wrist-slitting in 13 Reasons Why.

Nor should we forget the social contagion risk of suicide > After the series' release, a study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found that suicide among teenagers rose by 28.9% in the month after Netflix launched the show.

While 28.9% sounds like a shocking number, it was only a few dozen additional deaths.

A few additional concerns with the paper:

-The authors made no effort to try and determine if any of the people who died had seen the show, or even had heard of it.

-Suicides were up the month before the show was released as well.

-In fact, suicides in that age group had been trending up for years according to their data, which is not mentioned in the discussion of results at all.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by Karsteski »

EvanAnderson wrote: post #39
Karsteski wrote: post #12

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Guess I'll be relegated to living in a cabin in the woods if we ever get to that point...

That’s eerie. I say almost exactly the same thing. I don’t know if I feel fortunate to have lived thru the period of people having access to personal computers that they actually owned or sad because I will know the pain of having had it.

Yea I feel that. I honestly think that the only reason my goals aren't to just buy a piece of land in rural Canada and live life in peace is because it's not the lifestyle my girlfriend wants. That being said, we still want rural living, just not as extreme as I sometimes dream about
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