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Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by garbagecoder »

zdw wrote: post #85
photochemsyn wrote: post #42

One real danger of putting all historical video media on streaming sites is that it makes it far too easy to introduce an Orwellian Ministry of Truth that is empowered to rewrite the past to make it conform to today's acceptable social norms, academic ideologies, government agendas and so on. For example, one could make the argument that Alfred Hitchcock's entire library promotes negative stereotypes of women - and i…

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…

That’s not an instance of the Ministry of Truth. My brother in Christ, that’s a corporation doing that.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by garbagecoder »

15155 wrote: post #120
iambateman wrote: post #63

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This is like keeping a shotgun in your house to protect against the government. If the government is ready to conduct systematic disinformation campaigns, your DVD’s probably won’t help.

How did Vietnam and Afghanistan fare against "the government?"

Better than the Confederacy my cherry picking cliche replyguy.

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Post by Sinidir »

rajin444 wrote: post #173
klyrs wrote: post #138

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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.

The Werther Effect is thoroughly studied effect. There are plenty of studies on the issue.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by a13o »

I did a physical media purge a few years back, and kept just a drawer-ful of my absolute favorites. This past Christmas I thought I'd watch one of them - but then I realized I don't even own a DVD player. I don't think I ever did. Some game console would play it, or my PC. But now the PC has no 5.25" bays, and the game consoles are all-digital.

My conclusion is not that the author's husband is right. But rather that I should get rid of these remaining DVDs. I've never thought much about digital nomadism, but I suppose I practice it. There's always something new to watch.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by gjsman-1000 »

zikduruqe wrote: post #152
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…

Or the SpongeBob SquarePants "Panty Raid" episode.

There are some episodes like that where... like, I am against censorship in general especially considering the state of our world right now, but it is still weird to me that a cadre of writers thought that would be a good idea to make - and network executives agreed!

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Post by nhtsamera »

cgh wrote: post #155
eggy wrote: post #57

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Sort of like the anniversary edition of ET where Spielberg replaced the guns with walkie talkies, and other digital edits. Ironically he was criticized for too much smoking in the West Side Story remake. And sometimes a film I want is nowhere to be found, even a mainstream, older hit. I keep a few boxes of DVDs to make sure I can show them to the people stuck in the Matrix in the future!

The lack of smoking is something to ponder. It's always so glaring to me when TV shows that take place in the '80s and '90s show almost no one smoking, when in fact if you went into any public place, probably 30-50% (or more, if it's eg a pub) would be smoking, including in people's homes, offices and so forth. I wonder if the huge and realistic amounts of smoking seen in shows like Mad Men will be edited out one day…

Rail travel is one of the last places that you still see this in the US.

I took a cross-country Amtrak trip right before the pandemic, and most of the conductor's announcements were just to tell us when the next smoke break would be.

When the train got stuck waiting for cross traffic at a freight yard in rural North Dakota, an incipient passenger mutiny forced them to break the rules and let everyone pop out for some light trespassing and nicotine consumption.

It felt strange in a similar, but opposite way to what you're describing.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by fullmoon »

shuntress wrote: post #193
neuronic wrote: post #88

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This seems weird. No one disagrees that there are 2 biological (genetic) genders. Gender identity is something entirely else that is being actively researched. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6677266/

You are incorrect in two ways. First, you are conflating sex and gender. Second, sex is a bimodal distribution rather than a fixed binary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex

Intersex is about characteristics, not biological sex.
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