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I've realised the last few times I've been sick it's really knocked me on my ass for a few weeks. I definitely can't bounce back as well as I once could even a few years ago. I'm a generally healthy person, I eat ok, I exercise, I'm not a fat who no one will have sex with. It's annoying because I get very frustrated when any illness lasts longer than a week.
 
Instead of streaming I turned on AM radio to listen to the playoffs while driving. I remember being a small SCRAM and my dad listening to the same radio station.

Also some days I get up and things go pop and click they probably shouldn't. I haven't even gotten to have my mid life crisis with a salmon colored double breasted suit and a convertible yet.
 
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Have you tried using desktop mode?
Oddly, this happens on a desktop, but when I just checked the site on my phone, the images aren't blown up. I guess I have to browse the site on mobile for the foreseeable future when I intend to buy anything there. *sigh*

I like to think that with streaming and with the popularity of some songs, there will always be a place on radio/in people's ears for songs from the 70s and before, but it's strange watching the stations change.
Someone elsewhere on the 'Farms suggested Soma FM. I know they have separate channels for 70s and 80s music.

Over the air radio, as the market becomes more national and less local, is starting to become more cookie-cutter in the formats that get presented - just like modern-day music has. As a result, stations are changing with current trends in music and broadcasting,.. and not necessarily for the better.

Sure overkill, but look at the consequences of doing nothing at all.
I think the internet making sex and nudity more accessible has played a huge role in desensitizing people with their attitudes towards sex and nudity.

Pre-internet, one had to actively seek sexual content out or secretly find an adult's stash of porn and be able to view it without getting caught. Anyone who did get caught definitely got a stern talking to at the bare minimum. This was also a time when parents kept more of an eye on that thing and generally avoided exposing their kids to gratuitous sex or porn until they were old enough to understand what they saw and the ramifications/consequences that came with it.

Now, the internet has made it easy to find porn even by accident. It also doesn't help there are sites such as OnlyFans who have such an extensive collection of porn people can find every sexual kink and desire known to exist (and likely several more they wish didn't).

People who believe their kids should keep their innocence as long as reasonably possible now run up against the thots and orbiters who proudly boast Sex work is empowering! and want the entire world to see their genitalia and degenerate sexual displays in the most unfiltered ways possible. The average person likely doesn't want a return to Puritanical values, but sex being as available and open as it has has created a one extreme to the other sort of situation where sex and nudity barely makes most people flinch any more and has cheapened the concepts of intimacy and self respect.

Thread tax: Lines on the eye chart looking fuzzier when they seemed clear enough not all that long ago.
 
Watching 2 mins of any modern animation movie for young audiences and realising this shit-the humour, animation itself etc- just isn't made for my generation.
It's always the same formula. start with a clumsy protagonist. A mismatched buddy they bicker with until the third act. The helpful authority figure is actually evil?? WOW.
 
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It's always the same formula. start with a clumsy protagonist. A mismatched buddy they bicker with until the third act. The helpful authority figure is actually evil?? WOW.
Don't forget the token forced-in girl power character who must remind us every scene she's in that she's all about girl power.

And the mismatched buddy or odd couple trope (think grumpy Shrek and happy go lucky Donkey) isn't anything new but it's well overdone at this point. Directors know it makes for fun banter and bickering that helps pad out runtime and is what audiences like to see so is low risk to add in.
 
And the mismatched buddy or odd couple trope (think grumpy Shrek and happy go lucky Donkey) isn't anything new but it's well overdone
I thought the Judy/Nick dynamic was cute until the movie faceplanted into that twist where the sheepish assistant mayor turns out to be staging a race war so she can be queen of the rubble or whatever. "What if the oppressed become the oppressors?” was a clever idea but they didn’t write a story around it.
 
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Ordering an overhead projector lens (fresnel lens) from ebay, mounting it in a foam packing box and rigging this box this over my shitty CRT to make Flight Sim 98 to be 3d.

Little did I know that 15 years later the VR headset I ended up buying used the same concept.
 
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Listening to zoomers and millennials reeing about Trump even though they don't remember what it was like to have the dumbest President in history on 9/11 being led around by the nose by fucking neocons, the worst political plague America has ever experienced.

Trump is not as bad as Dubya.

As for 9/11 in general, it's sad there are adults who don't remember a time before it. It's not the event itself so much as the knock-off effects it triggered. America is a more dour and stupid nation than it was before. Osama got what he wanted. Dubya said they did it because they hated our freedom, then he destroyed our freedom. The SJW plague couldn't exist without the elimination of freedom preceding it.
I remember leading up to last year's election, when a kid question why Trump said negative things about the Cheney's, I had to explain to him who Dick Cheney was, why we all hated him, and why the Iraq war was started over a lie. The 2000s are now as much history for school children as the 70s and 80s were for us.
 
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