The_Lurker

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on Sorry, but it's true. · c/tenforward · 3 pts · 11d

JMS pitched B5 to Paramount, and then Paramount mysteriously made DS9, a show with no similarities at all....

The whole reason the film industry is on the west coast is that they were trying to avoid paying for Edison's patent on the motion picture camera. So, yeah, Hollywood was founded on IP violations.

on knew a few guys like this · c/memes · 10 pts · 46d

There were 3 black kids in my neighborhood growing up, all from the same family. Their parents were white. I didn't know what "adopted" meant, so I thought that under certain conditions, white parents could have black kids.

My high school was about 2000 students, and only one of them was black.

I didn't see my first truly black person, skin so dark that it glowed blue under florescent lights, until my folks took us to tour the Smithsonian in DC. I was 10ish? I saw her on the Metro and couldn't stop staring (sorry). Opened my eyes to just how wonderfully diverse people could be.

on My 98 Oldsmobile · c/lemmyshitpost · 2 pts · 46d

My Olds 98 had bench seats and separate lap and shoulder belts. The steel bumpers extended 3 feet under the car. It was 2 1/2 tons of steel. The steering wheel would not collapse under an impact. The car could survive Armageddon. It could plow through lesser cars (because the brakes were bad). But I would end up impaled on the steering column.

Fit 8 comfortably tho. 7 miles to the gallon...

Don't use Windows? No good reason to use Microsoft as a consumer OS anymore. Alternatives exist. Corps only respond to money. Don't use or buy Microsoft or LG products. As long as you use MS the shitshow will continue. Complaining does nothing.

Enterprise or commercial products might still require MS.

Linux, Mac, BSD, Haiku, ReactOS are just a few operating systems that will work.

Free and "it just works" flavors or Linux are Fedora KDE and Mint. Haiku and ReactOS are still works in progress.