More like “which country do you dislike slightly less”. None of them are in the positives, it is just a choice between two evils.

They don’t gelatine themselves though.

Indeed. With our current system it was only a matter of time. As soon as the internet became a default thing which everyone needed to access just to function in their daily lives, it would of course be subjected to the exact same exploitative mechanisms that the non-internet part of our lives have suffered from since the dawn of history.

Racism. You know the thing that the US was founded on.

No, they were created to facilitate pyramid schemes and scams.

We have shawarma.

Sometimes the cash in works, Top Gun for example, and that is why they keep trying, ignoring all the times it doesn’t work.

What is “serious life” exactly?

Rowling literally uses her Harry Potter profits to fund her TERF agenda. So there is no separating the art from the artist there. The art directly is part of the hate.

There are lots and lots of other great childrens books which will be equally capable of getting children interested in books, but their parents are too lazy and stupid to learn about them.

Or you had an encyclopedia and a variety of assorted reference books on your shelf at home. This is not really as much about information technology as it is about laziness and lack of curiosity. The same thing is a widespread phenomenon today, even with the internet.

Same as the internet then.

Yeah, this has nothing to do with the internet. It is just about lazy vs. not lazy. The exact same scenario happens today, despite the internet.

As long as they are Republicans they are not against Trump. They have just added an extra layer of hypocrisy to the already thick layer of hypocrisy Republicans consists of.

You can still buy cheap tiny portable fm radios, old or new, if that is your thing.

His second rule was, to have a due balance of young men, frequently of very young men, selected fromthe students of the university, in order to impress a movement of gaiety and juvenile playfulness on the conversation; an additional motive for which, as I have reason to believe, was, that in this way he withdrew his mind from the sadness which sometimes overshadowed it, for the early deaths of some young friends whom he loved.

Thomas de Quincey - The Last Days of Immanuel Kant (1827)

Kant is not really like other Enlightenment era thinkers though.

Aren’t there loads and loads of radio stations which livestream through the internet?

Says the tankie who approves of Putins genocide of the Ukrainian people.

Plenty of replies in this thread suggests it has indeed caught on. The part where people are watching movies at higher speeds that is, not cinemas showing them at that speed.

That is not true. There was a standard, which is different from todays standard. Which is why it looks funny being played at todays standard, but mostly they get digitally fixed and they look completely natural now.