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but things lead you to make one choice over another! def a topic for another thread tho huh.

for anyone not grabbing the reference, I'm wrapping up Treeship's observations and marcos's disconnect w/Philip K Dick's theories

obviously we're all starting to see the black iron prison here

https://images.gawker.com/18odwyjcs21z3gif/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_470.gif

(except that that's probably too big)

im way behind on this but related to tuomas/finland/small world conspiracy, are any of you familiar with the "finland doesn't exist" conspiracy?

it is silly but man it is legit one of the best-written conspiracies i've seen in a while, an endlessly fascinating idea where japan and russia secretly invented it. there's secretly just a giant sea full of fish they use there, ppl who think they live in finland actually live on the shore of russia or sweden or whatever, nobody has ever been inland because it doesn't exist, the language is an invention co-created by japan and russia ("which is why it sounds like those languages mixed together") etc. it's very very good

ok then where did Aki Kaurismaki come from

The burden of proof is clearly on Finland to prove it exists.

They would have done it already if they could.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4uiEvOun40

"1- What about Finnish people? Are they all in on the conspiracy?

A. No. People from Finland genuinely believe they're from Finland. In reality they are from small towns on either the Eastern part of Sweden, the Western part of Russia, or the Northern part of Estonia."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3DAVJ_NtYo

There should never be an event or holiday where more than maybe one gift is required.

rip van wanko otm re "nothing matters"

excuse me, re "lol nothing matters"

Dece Metallica tune, very prescient in its employment of internet slang

I like the one with the Ewoks. They were plucky and resourceful.

Yes, I agree, Caravan of Courage probably is the best Star Wars movie. And I don't even think that's the half bottle of cherry brandy talking.

Ewoks were cute I loved them

I had an Ewok village toy when I was a kid (bought from Ingleston Market near Edinburgh. Pretty much the only time I’ve cared about anything Star Wars related (I had a Yoda toy too, I guess).

Used to love Ingleston market!

There should never be an event or holiday where more than maybe one gift is required.

― Yerac, Thursday, December 6, 2018 4:15 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm and would subscribe to your newsletter

But maybe an exceptions for kiddies under, say, 7. But on your eighth birthday...one gift! From now on!

ironic structure for you to suggest thh

I had an Ewok village toy when I was a kid (bought from Ingleston Market near Edinburgh. Pretty much the only time I’ve cared about anything Star Wars related (I had a Yoda toy too, I guess).

― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, December 7, 2018 7:08 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Star Wars toys (and static representations of the art/design of the SW universe more generally) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Star Wars movies

Bounty Hunter Leia was my childhood alter-ego until RIP I think I lost her in the sandbox.

As long as we are posting our dumb movie controversial opinions I'm going to go out and say that Infinity War was better than Black Panther

most supero movies are

i never her

darraghman is my favorite supero

People who wear airpods look like they got an oral b brush head stuck in their ear.

My controversial opinion on superhero movies is that Wonder Woman was boring af

Not sure you'll shock anyone with that one

xp

Basically wearing those airpods automatically ups your douchefactor.

If I saw someone who actually had toothbrush parts lodged in their ears I don't think my first thought would be "what a douchebag" unless I had another reason.

Question: if I am someone is also wearing Google Glasses, that offsets the douchiness of the Airpods, right?

Airpods are an incredible invention that liberates people from tangled earbud cords. If I was rich I would own them.

imagine tho that you heard in 1988 that they would have had invented airpods that were commercially available in 2018 amd waiting like a dog at an oven door your whole life for this and it was just a fuckin pair of earphones

I would be happy because I contemplate most technological change with dread. (Medical advances excepted—those are good.)

Airpods are an incredible invention that liberates people from tangled earbud cords. If I was rich I would own them.

― Trϵϵship, Friday, December 7, 2018 11:19 AM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the hilarious thing is that there are literally hundreds of wireless earbuds and headphones that have existed for much longer than Airpods and don't look douchey and cost a fraction of the price and sound great, but Apple has this great knack for "inventing" stuff that's been around for 5 years and charging 5X more than it should cost

xpost Well your decade-younger self will be heartened to know that innovation at Apple now just mostly entails remaking old things in new sizes.

wait there are a million completely wireless earbuds that don't look like dangly plastic earrings

Lol xxp

exposer Seriously? I was just shopping for not-Apple AirPods for my daughter, and most if not all of the ones I found reviewed that were considered remotely comparable were comparably priced, and while there were lots that were cheap knockoffs (we got her a pair) all of their reviews conceded they were nowhere near the quality of AirPods but were good enough considering how much money you save.

Ha! Autocorrect changed x-post to exposer!

they’re good for phone calls

They just look like apple earbuds without the wires? Why are they douchey?

The Apple Corporation has been running the most marvelous shell game for at least the better part of this century. If only Radio Shack had thought to paint their products white, man.

This is not a controversial opinion, I don't think.

I mean if you take the amount of emperor's new clothes snakeoil going on in the audio industry and multiply that by the amount of emperor's new clothes snakeoil going on in the apple universe, well yeah I think that many $50-70 options would be as good as AirPods

Is there anything functional in the long part that sticks out? Why does it have to look so much like regular headphones that someone snipped

They are somehow as bad and worse than people who are on their bluetooth at the gym.

They need a place for the bluetooth receiver

If I designed a flying car I wouldn't make it look like this

https://rawkandrolljunkie.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/car-on-blocks-no-wheels.jpg