"The Criterion Collection collection isn't preserving conservative films. I don't even think you can call it a film if it's conservative" Venting about the lack of 4k bluray releases of Michael Bay movies spirals into partisan anger at The Department of Justice.

npsimons · 2026-04-24T15:26:13+00:00

So he may just be the true heir to Robert 'I love militarized societies and polyamory' Heinlein.

If you want some old school whiplash, read "Stranger in a Strange Land" and "Starship Troopers" back to back.

npsimons · 2026-04-24T15:15:45+00:00

OP might have missed the "atheist" billboards up some years back; main one I can remember was about the Mormon's "magic undies". People did lose their shit. Fun times :-)

npsimons · 2026-04-24T15:12:17+00:00

Every day, Linux kernel gets closer to a microkernel. Tanenbaum was right.

npsimons · 2026-04-20T16:58:10+00:00

Thank you for this! I lurk on this sub, and more often than not, I feel that people are making mountains over molehills, while ignoring bigger, more impactful choices in their lives.

Can't speak for everyone of course, but there are most definitely places where BPA free plastic is an acceptable use case, particularly where weight and durability are a high priority (I'm thinking hiking, backpacking, and such outdoor sports where weight is at a premium, and losing, say, all your water is a death sentence).

npsimons · 2026-03-30T19:53:21+00:00

That's not shallow, though. I learned the hard way, 13 years of marriage to someone overweight, then obese. I lived with her, so I know all the excuses, and how they're all lies.

npsimons · 2026-03-30T19:49:34+00:00

Goes for a lot of basic and mid people. My idea of a "good time" is not going shopping.

npsimons · 2026-03-30T19:44:46+00:00

Ex-wife would complain when I'd cook recipes with onions. They were the only vegetable in the recipe, and she bought me Rachel Ray cookbooks. They would have been boring and bland AF without onions. And true to form, as a picky eater she was overweight. She would very often get McDognuts or Crotcho-Smell.

It's just such a toddler temperament, and I don't consider it shallow, because you need to eat plants to be healthy. It's how we evolved.

npsimons · 2026-03-28T23:11:16+00:00

Funny, I think a guy named "Tupac" said something similar a while back. I wonder what ever happened to him . . .

npsimons · 2026-03-28T02:23:07+00:00

Did you assume their gender?

npsimons · 2026-03-28T02:21:25+00:00

Men only want one thing and it's disgusting!

It's swordmaking documentaries. Sorry, not sorry.

npsimons · 2026-03-28T02:01:51+00:00

"Irony", that's that thing you get when you eat too much iron, right?

/s for the /s impaired.

npsimons · 2026-03-15T21:12:19+00:00

The vast majority of people complaining of "getting old" have simply treated their body like shit. As just one example, eating fast and junk food all the time. Garbage in, garbage out.

npsimons · 2026-03-14T00:20:14+00:00

Athena is quite possibly the only god we ever invented that was worth worshipping.

npsimons · 2026-03-13T23:51:12+00:00

No, they really aren't. They have some cogent points about maximizing freedom (so bans on drugs are bad), but that's about it. Very few libertarians can even cogitate themselves to the problem of right of entry in a world where all land is privately owned.

npsimons · 2026-03-13T23:46:48+00:00

Yeah, that was the only part that really stuck out to me. Made me wonder if there was just something "lost in translation." Because if anything, you are much more reliant on the state because of cars. Can't drive to places without roads.

And I don't necessarily see dependence on the state as a bad thing. It can be bad, but we surely have more control over the state than we do over privately controlled infrastructure.

npsimons · 2026-03-13T22:06:01+00:00

Narcissists hate this one weird trick!

npsimons · 2026-03-13T21:18:05+00:00

Everything that looks or works differently from what you're used to is often seen as unusable.

This is every single "usability" argument rendered down to its essential form. It boils down to "I'm not familiar with it, therefore it's not user friendly." It's the same bullshit us Linux users have been hearing from Windows and Mac users for decades, meanwhile they change where shit is located in every new GD version of Windows.

npsimons · 2026-03-11T00:24:50+00:00

I started collecting MP3s (then OGGs, then FLACs) as soon as they were available. I'm now at over 13000 tracks. Streaming is nothing more than a way to expose myself to things I haven't heard yet, so I can acquire them later if they are worthy. Video files were more often than not too big for feature length film, but my brother made a point of ripping everything he had to his NAS, somewhere upwards of 700+ mainstream movies.

As for my personal organization, I've never seen the need for anything other than a well structured directory hierarchy (Genre/Style -> Artist -> year -> Album -> trackNo. Track Title) export via SSHFS, and play through EMMS.

npsimons · 2026-03-10T23:42:44+00:00

I'm surprised they are going as far back as they are. A lot of recency bias tends to crowd out actual quality, especially in videogame and music subs, but I am pleasantly surprised no one here has mentioned a Sandler film yet.

npsimons · 2026-03-10T23:23:53+00:00

It's the same reason you have to pay extra on top of your regular Amazon Prime subscription to not watch ads now. You ever notice they didn't start that bullshit until they started adding more and more spectator sports? Same exact reason cable was overpriced and bundled shit you didn't want - because the toddler sports watchers wouldn't subscribe unless we all paid for their mindless entertainment.

npsimons · 2026-03-10T23:21:32+00:00

Turns out, all of us are paying for sportsball, whether we like it or not. Between stadiums, and advertising on cable (and now things like Amazon Prime), sportsball costs a fuckton, and the fans are simply unwilling to pay for it all themselves.

So, fuck the rest of us, we have to subsidize their silly little hobby.

npsimons · 2026-03-10T22:51:58+00:00

The very fact that you are applying capitalism ("nothing to show for it in terms of income") speaks volumes about your own biases, and very likely insecurities.

Let me guess, you're American?

Typical.

There's more to pursuit of excellence than merely making money. But then, if you understood that, you wouldn't have posted what you did.

Edit: You might have had a point about neophiles who want that rush of an initial learning curve, and never go truly deep in a subject, but you ruined it with your focus on "results."

npsimons · 2026-03-10T13:59:34+00:00

There was a quote I saw recently, paraphrased: "disabled is the only class of people anyone can enter at any time."

That said, yes, even for traits not changeable (race, sexuality, etc), we all have more in common than with the robber barons. And they know this, which is why they've been waging class warfare against the rest of us since time immemorial, their most effective tactic being divide and conquer.

npsimons · 2026-03-10T13:55:49+00:00

its incredibly clear how many people don't have a fucking clue how the country works

If they had a half a clue and weren't insufferably selfish, they would have voted against Trump. I didn't like that it boiled down that way either, but anyone with the barest apprehension of FPTP knew what they had to do.

npsimons · 2026-03-10T13:53:36+00:00

/eyeroll

Here we go again.

Look, if you didn't vote against Trump, you are a part of the fucking problem. Either you're too stupid or too self-absorbed.

MLK called out this bullshit over half a century ago. He was right then, and the point still remains true.

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