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it feels a little insane to talk to people and tell them that these things happened, that they're wrong, and have them not beleive it because they cannot find through google these items. the entire world for so long was made up of not-internet communication that i find it so startling when i'm confronted with the fact that internet communication seems to be the only thing that is real or accepted anymore.

//just a lazy day in bed watching Storm of the Century. I really miss made for TV movies - something about the "hook" before commercial break to keep you watching, the middling production value with sometimes breakout performances, and overall weird content that wasn't good enough for a feature movie or long enough for a tv show.

// i need to buy a printer and finally decided on which brand and model - on sale for the past three months for $160. decided to wait for black friday and now the sale price is $199 TT_TT

// one of my favorite things about columbo is that, as the show hits it's stride, columbos appearance gets more jump-scare esque for the killers. many times the audience is as shocked by columbos sudden appearance as the killers.

i don't work from home, and i cannot simply download software to my company computer, so not having access to my "brain" for 8 hours a day is a killer. looks like i'm back to apple notes and notion once again.

//it's just extremely hard to interact in the space when almost all of the public forums for the community are moderated with pendatic and hypocritical rules. someone asks where they can get the novel in original chinese? despite moderators being fully aware that you can only do it through mirror sites due to ID lockdowns, you get a slap on the hand for suggesting *piracy* sorry to be the one to inform you losers, but the entire community is built entirely on pirated material. these projects are not author approved, and while i'm not the type to believe that piracy of this particular media is taking away from the artists (we can't access chinese servers obvs) it certainly isn't sending money to them, and given the crackdown on recent non-hetro material it could explicitly endanger them. so much of this community is built on some weird false moral high ground re piracy and it's exhausting. combined with how many translators exhaustively insert themselves into the work, acting as if they have some stake or claim over it when they just pirates like everybody else it's 0 wonder AI translation websites are blowing up.

even if there was someone dumb enough to believe an algorithm could accurate judge age with 100% accuracy - which is the legal requirement now - their legal team would never allow it. courts generally don't care that you did your best to comply.

//this is season is sooooo rotten to me. my biggest gripes? - christian is not giving constructive criticisms - the judges are not giving constructive criticisms -barely any time spent on the designs/designers -who is everybody? who are these people fr? and now we've got an episode where the contestants are choosing someone to go home? this show was about creatives competing not reality show survivor. we have so many shows like that already and if PR goes that way, it's a worse version so why watch. it feels like the designers are just all alone on this season without support and they don't respect one another or the judges at all.