DVDs are dirt cheap, plentiful as fuck, don’t have DRM bullshit to have to deal with, last for decades when stored properly, and still look pretty damn good with deinterlacing. Plus, they don’t run any of the risks associated with piracy. Am I allowed to copy my DVDs onto my hard drive? That may be a legal gray area. But can they see that I copied my DVDs to my hard drive? Of course not. And I’m not making my ISOs and MKVs available to the world for download.

Spend 4 bucks on a used DVD. Give her the ol’

dd if=sr0 of=~/Videos/Movies/Title.iso

And keep the disc for basically forever. Copy it again if something happens to your file. EZPZ. Plus, it’s cool to own a physical thing imo.

This is a heck of a post to come across for me right now.

• The first rule of Water Club is that you always talk about Water Club.
• The second rule of Water Club is that you always talk about Water Club.
• If someone is sweaty or peeing yellow, the fight against their thirst is on.
• Only two cups of water (is not nearly enough)
• One cup of water at a time is plenty, but you should drink more
• No shirt, no shoes. Don’t want to get those wet.
• Drinking will continue for as long as the subject is not properly hydrated.
• If this is your first glass of water today, you have to drink it.

Water fucking rules, man.

95% of all life dies

Horseshoe crabs:

Disassociation is the soundtrack of my childhood! Can’t get hurt if I’m watching someone else be abused, even if that someone else is me!

~yes I’ve been to therapy and working through disassociation is still a daily struggle thx~

Doggy doggy WHAT now?

Here’s mine. I bought it new in 2015, and I wear it almost daily. It has never needed work.

My wife got me 8 TB about 3 or 4 years ago. It’s awesome. My Blu Ray library is on it and I still have 5 TB free

Guy’s license was probably already suspended.

Nope. You’re off by a power of 10 because 30 meters is 0.03 km.

So it’s 2,040,000 blue whales per hour. ;)

But in terms of miles an hour? About 38,000. Or, as the crow flies, LA to New York in 3 minutes and 51 seconds. That’s less time than it takes to listen to the hit Madonna song “4 Minutes.”

Our aim is to need this room. Clean your aim. Would help.

Tomacco. 🤤

This is totally the kind of shit my wife would have on her car or her macbook. I’d love to give her one of these lol

The Shawshank Redemption never gets stale for me, but it is a healthy time investment.

My cousin and I once invented the “Booter.”

One would ride a bike.

The other would ride a scooter.

The bike would tow the scooter with about a half dozen bungee cords. If you accelerated really hard on the bike, the cords would store all that extra energy, contract, unhook from each other, and send the scooter rocketing past.

Great fun. We never wore pads or helmets. For weight savings, of course. We were engineers first.

Coffee has always made me shit from the time I started drinking it regularly when I was 21.

But now, a cup of water in the morning will trigger it. Like my body says, “MOISTURE?? I guess we don’t need this anymore!!”

I’ve stopped drinking coffee since getting on Adderall. Which is a shame. I was getting into some good stuff. But I’ve got a history of heart trouble in my family so coffee has been replaced by herbal tea. Gotta have a hot drink to truly wake up.

One of the better evolutions.

POTATO XD

Hi. I’m an person in finance. Fuck Dave Ramsey. He gives decent financial advice, but the way he shoehorns God into financial matters so frequently was off-putting to me, even when I was a Christian. That, and he’s a racist, bigoted POS.

If you’re in the middle class, his baby steps are somewhat solid stuff, though.

• Learn how to write a budget. There are sites out there to help you with that. Personally, I’ve found I like a spreadsheet best.
• Reconcile your accounts daily. Know where your money has been and where it’s going.
• Squirrel away some cash. A grand ain’t much to have, but it’s a fuckton to owe.
• Don’t drive glitzy cars. A '99 Corolla gets you there just as effectively as a new Tahoe.
• Get out of credit card debt ASAP. If you can’t pay cash for it and you don’t need it, you can’t buy it.
• If debt is crushing you, use what windfalls you can get to pay them down.
• Eat out less. Cook at home more. Not only is it less expensive, it’s generally healthier.

But saving six months’ expenses and paying off your house early…yeah, that’s not feasible for at least 70% people. Especially renters.

The truth is Dave’s screeners do not let anyone through if his program can’t help them. I mean, a single parent in a rural town whose boss won’t pay them enough to survive and whose economic prospects are so limited that “just get a better job” will never work because there aren’t any. People who must rely on the generosity of others to get by and will be completely fucked if they lose their government assistance. Or worse - their job. There’s no financial advice that can help them. Because we live under an economic system that can’t operate if those at the bottom aren’t going through untold suffering and can be helped by “drive an old car, eat beans and rice, and just get a better job.”

At that point, it’s not the fault of the person. It’s the fault of the system. Dave isn’t the problem, but he’s certainly a complication.