This 4th of July we celebrate our independence from these absolute bell ends. Time for the long shadow of the revolution to come home and sever the grip of king sausage fingers.
The incident has been reviewed, and we have no concerns over the officer's actions and we are satisfied that they were reasonable and proportionate in the circumstances.
We would ask that footage is not further shared to allow the legal process to take its course.
Kids are not easy. Anyone who tells you raising kids is easy has never raised a kid.
But occasionally, they do something like this and dad is sitting at the table, weeping, and all the hard stuff is gone.
Lately I've been ripping DVDs on my homelab and streaming from @plex. I couldn't be happier about it knowing that the files can be preserved more easily and flexibly. Disk space has premiums high from AI, but s3 glacier is cheap, and libraries are plentiful.
Before streaming, I was a big DVD collector. I bought nearly a thousand movies. I thought I was building a library. And I will tell you a secret:
DVDs rot.
The glue that holds the layers together can become opaque so the laser doesn’t read the disc properly or it can simply degrade so the disc falls apart or it can warp or expand so the disc won’t spin properly in the drive.
So, in addition to needing to keep antique hardware with delicate moving parts in working order to play these games or watch these movies, the media itself is degrading.
Yeah, your purchased digital movie might get deleted from the network over rights issues at some point in the future or the service that provides it might shut down. But if you buy a BluRay and put it on a shelf for five years and then decide to watch it, there is a decent chance it won’t work.
I love a beautiful Criterion movie box set or a game with cool box art and a manual as much as the next guy, but people overly romanticize physical media. The universe is governed by entropy and everything is falling apart.
@OwenShroyer1776 Owen, love ya bud, but you're looking like a man with a van that says 'free candy' on the side of it.
The look is so loud I can't hear what you're saying.