Disney is also actively arguing in court that if you use the free trial you can’t sue them for anything. Ever.

Even if years later you die in one of Disney’s hotels because one of Disney’s restaurants didn’t care about your allergy.

So there’s that to worry about now.

This is partly because there is no such thing as a non-POS point of sale system.

I have literally never seen a depiction of Vietnam that was positive or shy of direct condemnation of how terrible it all was.

Seriously, even Forrest Gump’s innocent portrayal of it still managed to underline in bold that it was all pointless, needless, and cruel beyond reason.

Not sure what about any of that doesn’t line up with “sad”. None of those adjectives border on happy or nonchalant.

I think you’re confusing Rambo First Blood, which is about how fucked up he was after coming back from Vietnam, with the Rambo sequels, which are about how cool it is to blow stuff up.

I’ve tried bookwyrm and hardcover and a few others. In general I think they’re getting there, but there’s weird edge cases where it’s not as smooth an experience. Partly because they don’t have a critical mass of users, partly because Goodreads really was in a pretty decent place when it effectively froze.

All that’s going to improve over time, but atm, for me, switching costs from the old platform aren’t worth it.

See also: every other service Amazon has bought.

I miss when Goodreads had updates.

“Lets turn the Ionosphere and the Mantel into the halves of a capacitor! Free energy!” is Bond villain territory.

It’s definitely at least “Internet Lore” at this point? I mean the car company isn’t a namesake for no reason. I don’t want to give The Oatmeal too much credit but it seems to have been the meme generator for a lot of ‘the legend’ on the web, though it’s been kind of a counter-culture staple basically since he died.

IDK, just one of those things that I got interested enough to read actual books about awhile ago and it’s kind of scary how much “common knowledge” is more “common mythology”.

He wasn’t.

The War of the Currents was Edison and Westinghouse. The elephant was executed by the ASPCA and filmed by the Edison Studios years after, that company had been sold by Edison years before. The payment argument was Tesla and a manager.

Tesla and Edison wrote each other personal letters and spoke well of each other in public years later.

Edison was an asshole. Tesla’s ‘legend’ is weird.

Have a few ebooks and audiobooks in calibre that have been removed from Amazon/Audible. Nothing dramatic drama wise as far as I can tell other than the license expiring/moving.

It’s nice not having to worry about it.

Honestly 5 gb is thousands of songs, especially if they’re not FLAC / mp3 320.

It won’t be your entire library if you’re a music buff but it’s days worth of music.

One is probably the Disney River Boat movie.

Decently entertaining for what it was.

Also fun, they rely on quantum mechanics.

Individual “bits” on a SD card are electron buckets that are either “full” (they have an electron) or not. 8 bits to a byte ~1 trillion bytes to a terabyte.

That’s how you can tell this is obviously fake, the RAM needs to be connected pins first.

If it were on it’s side 100% legit.