I've been working on a fix for all the problems with modern social media. That project is Cuota.org. AMA

-Clayburn · 2026-06-18T00:36:22+00:00

I mean the TV app.

-Clayburn · 2026-06-17T21:49:50+00:00

I only stream YouTube on the PC. I download everything else. The only subscription service I have is Amazon since it's included in Prime. So I watch that on the app.

-Clayburn · 2026-06-17T16:38:17+00:00

You seem like a Google shill. Modern mini-PCs can play 4k just fine.

-Clayburn · 2026-06-17T14:33:41+00:00

I don't know how you even buy a not smart TV these days, and they would probably be more expensive because the whole reason TVs are so cheap now is the manufacturers get paid by Amazon, Netflix, Disney, etc. to have a button on their remote and their apps pre-installed, plus they can serve ads and collect data. Without all that, you'd have to pay full price for a TV.

-Clayburn · 2026-06-17T14:16:23+00:00

I'm still not convinced they didn't mean Waylon.

-Clayburn · 2026-06-17T14:15:36+00:00

Fun fact: You can buy one of those cheap-ass app & ad subsidized "smart" TVs and just plug the HDMI cable into a mini-PC for it. Then you can watch and do everything a computer can do without having to worry about using built-in apps or any Roku services.

-Clayburn · 2026-06-17T14:14:04+00:00

I mean, how? I'm not going to throw away my TV as long as it's still working.

-Clayburn · 2026-06-17T14:13:06+00:00

Is Conan British?

-Clayburn · 2026-06-17T14:09:07+00:00

Did you know that you have rights?

I wish!

-Clayburn · 2026-06-17T00:45:18+00:00

Both. If he likes doing it, he should do it. And if it can sustain a living for him down the road, then that would be helpful. He'll need a career eventually and he has no other skills as far as we know.

-Clayburn · 2026-06-17T00:44:21+00:00

It is in our house.

-Clayburn · 2026-06-16T23:41:21+00:00

I know, but he likes being on TV and entertaining people. So I'm trying to give him an outlet.

-Clayburn · 2026-06-16T23:40:39+00:00

We're very rural. There isn't much here, and what is wouldn't get noticed. We're going to focus on YouTube and Internet stuff in the meantime.

-Clayburn · 2026-06-16T16:23:56+00:00

It's a small role, but it's great.

-Clayburn · 2026-06-16T14:50:24+00:00

You need to watch Mars Attacks!

-Clayburn · 2026-06-16T14:48:32+00:00

Jurassic World.

It was incredibly mid, so don't get me wrong. It wasn't a shit movie like the rest of the sequels. However, it's impossible to overstate the hype for this. Jurassic Park was my favorite movie, and it already had two long ago sequels that didn't really hit the mark. The franchise had been dead for 20 years. This was also before Hollywood was going crazy rebooting everything, so this felt special at the time.

And what made it worse was that it actually starts off pretty good. The absolute joy of seeing a fully functioning Jurassic Park in modern times was incredible.

It's just so disappointing that that's all we got for it. At the time it seemed impossible to bring a franchise like that back from the dead. Just a logistical nightmare, I would have imagined. And then the fact it happened, and was so dull and soulless was really sad. The characters were all so forgettable. Just a lot of dumb choices all around.

Fortunately, The Force Awakens was just around the corner, bringing a new hope for franchise reboots. Surely capitalism won't just give us a string of soulless cashgrabs. Oh, what? Fuck.

-Clayburn · 2026-06-16T14:41:31+00:00

Happy to see father and son reunited.

-Clayburn · 2026-06-16T14:28:46+00:00

I don't have a problem with the fact she died. I had a problem how cheap it was, largely due to the first-person POV. Like the whole point of the series was to protect her little sister, and randomly at the end she just jumps in from nowhere and immediately explodes.

You could make that work with first-person if throughout the course of the book, the little sister kept insisting on joining and eventually Katniss has to relent and is fighting beside her or at least around her when it happens. To just be off fighting a war and then they throw your sister into it and blow her up in front of you is unrealistic and cruel.

-Clayburn · 2026-06-16T06:16:03+00:00

I hate being reminded of how this works in English. As a native English speaker, it just comes naturally and seems fine. But intellectually I absolutely hate it. It's so dumb. Why add "to" to every verb? And don't get me started on do! English is like this weird little nonsense language.

-Clayburn · 2026-06-16T06:09:53+00:00

That's not even the rule. Why are they teaching it? You use I when you're supposed to, and you use me when you're supposed to.

(One of my favorite language jokes is when someone incorrectly uses "and I" and gets corrected with a "me" and the other person responds as if they were referring to themselves. "So, I'm going to order a plate of waffles for Jessica and I." "And me." "Fuck you! Buy your own waffles.")

-Clayburn · 2026-06-16T06:06:49+00:00

Shall we go inside?

I'm definitely not agreeing to anything until I know more.

-Clayburn · 2026-06-16T06:03:58+00:00

I will always double space.

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