BallsInTheShredder

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[–] BallsInTheShredder 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When somebody who's smart believes something that seems dumb to you, doesn't that suggest that you might be wrong and/or misunderstand what they said?

With you on that but also feel that in general judging others doesn't ring as being very smart to me. I was bullied a lot growing up, judged etc. And that taught me how people's judgemental remarks can affect others which helped me avoid that train of thought myself.

I eventually became judgemental myself, for a while and realized that I was a very.. angry and sad person.

I think the biggest game-changer for me was being taught gratitude. I went from hyperfocusing on everything wrong about my life, and others to training myself to instead search for what's nice about life, and others.

So personally? Being judgemental toward another human being doesn't seem like a smart thing to do as it will just bring down others AND myself

But also.. none of us handpicked to be born in our particular bodies. None of us hand-picked and chose the circumstances we would grow up in in life, nor the variables that would change us and mold us, genetics and so many factors form a person. So judging a person that just happened to grow in a different body and think differently than myself? What good does that do? If I was born in their body instead of mine then I would think exactly the same way that they do so I am absolutely no better, none of us are. Sure people do bad things and have annoying traits but at the end of the day being mad at them and judging them does nothing because we would be exactly the same in their shoes. Want to be angry at something or judge someone I guess place that judgment at fate, the cosmos, the universe, just in general things that are out of our control and we do not understand. But people in general aren't really good or bad we are just a product of trillions of factors that we had absolutely no say in nor control of. It's not like people can just.. exit human existence for a bit become enlightened and then enter our bodies again now thinking exactly the way others think they should.. they just got what they got, and our that way because this life made them that way really.

[–] BallsInTheShredder 1 points 1 year ago

Hadn't heard of x manager, thank you! Super giddy right now, I've been using modded versions of the apk for years but a few months ago my go-to stopped working and haven't found a viable replacement until now. Really godda give them props I'm super surprised at how easy that was lol

Also I'd used revanced but quit when the original got buggy. With how crappy their ads have gotten now I'm going to give the new version a shot thanks for mentioning that as well

[–] BallsInTheShredder 4 points 1 year ago

According to the wiki article that you linked:

However, due to many legal, regulatory and technological obstacles, cable television in the United States in its first 24 years was used almost exclusively to relay terrestrial commercial television stations to remote and inaccessible areas. It also became popular in other areas in which mountainous terrain caused poor reception over the air. Original programming over cable came in 1972 with deregulation of the industry.[1]

So basically for that first 24 years - around '1948 -'72 it was primarily used to get broadcast television to people in areas with poor reception.

Then came cable companies, producing content.. without as many commercials as OTA t.v. I wasn't born early enough to know the 70's, but did grow up with antenna television and remember being introduced to cable. First thing I noticed was that there weren't any ads at all on some channels. When I was a kid the ad free channels on my setup were 09, 10, 19, 20, 21, and some others I'm likely forgetting. I didn't actually have too many more than that, and a lot of that was filler. The ad free channels were the meat and potatoes of my experience!

So, maybe history doesn't say it was marketed that way, maybe the cable companies didn't either, I won't claim to know, but I will tell you that seeing channels without ads was a pitch on its own back then, you noticed it when you visited others homes and talked about it, others noticed when they visited out home and thought about getting it themselves etc.

Maybe it wasn't a pitch, and the whole deal, but it was damned sure a selling point.

We got reception just fine, somehow even in my rural area, what we didn't get was relatively new, commercial free movies, or titties.

[–] BallsInTheShredder 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there other damage not being shown in the pic? Frame damage etc?

Otherwise, seems like it would be much cheaper to just replace the bumper? Assuming frame damage but still.. I know with the price of parts nowadays that's probably going to be sky high from a shop but with some elbow grease and a local pull apart you may even be able to get it done in an afternoon, maybe even with matching paint

[–] BallsInTheShredder 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What makes it a tabby cat? Asking for a friend that claims her cats are anything but tabby

[–] BallsInTheShredder 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh wow, so during a strike the union pays employees? Never realized this happened but it makes so much sense now, so the employees can strike without having to worry about going broke. Would be cool if that funding were extended so that if an employer decides to give strikers the middle finger, those people can ride that funding until another job is found. Reducing the hold companies have on employees.

[–] BallsInTheShredder 5 points 1 year ago

Birds aren't real anyway

[–] BallsInTheShredder 2 points 1 year ago

Downloaded it, checked disable ads and it asks for a configuration Id? Assuming I make one on their site but can't figure how I would connect this app to the site

[–] BallsInTheShredder 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's with the weird capitalization of north America?

[–] BallsInTheShredder 2 points 1 year ago

Where is this set up at? I'd like to see

[–] BallsInTheShredder 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

With everyone self hosting huge servers like this, my question is.. how can I access some large ones like this? Kodi, Plex?

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