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@jistring / jistring.tumblr.com

23yo.

i will never be against piracy ever but i also need physical media to remain

the average blockbuster carried about 3x as many films than that that are streaming on Netflix or any other streaming service, physical media along with piracy is more important than ever.

I thought this wasn’t true, because how could it be true? How could one small store have more movies than an online database? So I googled it.

I am surprised and depressed to learn it’s 100% true, according to google. A Blockbuster store was required to have a minimum of 7000 titles, but most averaged about 10,000. Netflix has 4000 movies. (And 1800 tv shows if you want to count those, but even included, it’s still less)

Now I’m even more depressed about the collapse of physical rental stores.

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bro i can’t come to the phone right now, neptune has a moon that shines like a star.

Hey 18 - 29 year olds,

THANK YOU! You made a difference. You may not see the overwhelming, immediate, desirable results. Please do not be discouraged. But you stopped more really horrible things from happening. Times are hard. So many people are struggling. But you showed up! Please keep showing up. Please become leaders. Please keep voting in EVERY ELECTION. You are a huge generation full of love, light, equality, and determination to see justice for marginalized people. Use your voices, lead, and VOTE😺💗🌸

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the other disconcerting thought is that the terracotta warriors used to be painted, just like the Greek and Roman statues, but the paint is long gone giving them this classic earthenware look and sparing us from the horror of exactly how tasteless the originals might have been.

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this is the absolute worst.

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looking at unpainted terracotta warriors: Awe inspiring. A wonder of the world. Gazing upon row after row of loyal automatons, one might know what it feels like to be a god.

looking at painted terracotta warriors: Qin Shi Huang’s wild’n’wacky theme park

Forget you guys that fit is fresh as hell

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The way anime girls act about each other’s boobs but it’s guys and their huge fat knuts

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Bro your balls are so big… I’m so jealous *gets behind and starts fondling them*

Kyaaa! Those are sensitive! Bro! *they flop all over the place*

Dude in the corner with tiny nuts: *looks down in shame*

certified iconic post

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Look we all want a robo dog but if you kill someone with a sledgehammer to steal theirs, they are going to find you. There’s no way a 75k$ dog doesn’t have gps

we are killing the dog

NO.

ALL DOGS ARE PRECIOUS.

Even robot ones.

its not a dog, its a machine used and designed for police surveillance and the entire reason they made it dog shaped is so idiots like you would go “awwww robot dog how precious” instead of seeing them as the oppressive tools they are.

we’re killing the fucking dog

That’s not a robot dog.

It’s a four-legged robot spider.

It is not a dog, a spider, a chicken, a horse, a fish, a tick, a mosquito, a tapeworm or a baby

It is a weapon

There is nothing morally wrong about breaking weapons that are hurting people for any reason other than to prevent those people from hurting others worse

the dog robots are fully capable of hurting people, and badly. failsafes that would prevent that have not been installed. the police are deploying a thing out in public that can maim anyone who touches it wrong.

look, when i was a kid i was passionately in love with the idea of robots–that humans would one day create another sort of intelligence to share our world with– and believed very firmly that we should respect and protect all our robot friends from the start, so there would be no violent humans-against-robots revolution or anything.

anyway it turns out that the people trying to keep end-stage capitalism running are really banking on us feeling more love for the robots than for the kind of people they’re going to be using the robots to oppress.

so like. maybe lets all agree right now that if a robot is being used to hurt a person, you need to smash the fucking robot. they’re going to make the robots really cute. they’re going to show us so many movies about how much robots need to be loved. and then they are going to use robots to hurt people.

let’s try not to fall for it, okay?