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Remember when Blockbuster and video stores were a thing.

And you'd sit in class all day on Friday thinking about which movie(s) you were gonna rent for the weekend.

And then you'd have to actually go to the store and hope to God they were in stock.
true story :

blockbuster had the opportunity to by Netflix just a few years before they finally went out of business.

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I think all those users are on DXP.
Lemme guess, you are MillrTime.
I'd never sink that low.

Maybe RllngRck
PBR
Best beer for fishing.
That must be why you love Pumpkin ale.
I actually had one in Oregon that wasn't too bad.

That was followed by an Imperial Black Walnut Ale with Maple syrup that tasted like a school library from the 80s.
What in the fuck—? lol
You know that old paper/book/wood smell?

Just like that.

So foul...

That's heaven!!!


Not in a bottle though.

You kept waiting for the vague cat aromas of the librarian to hit while you sipped it.
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I think all those users are on DXP.
Lemme guess, you are MillrTime.
I'd never sink that low.

Maybe RllngRck
PBR
Best beer for fishing.
That must be why you love Pumpkin ale.
I actually had one in Oregon that wasn't too bad.

That was followed by an Imperial Black Walnut Ale with Maple syrup that tasted like a school library from the 80s.
What in the fuck—? lol
You know that old paper/book/wood smell?

Just like that.

So foul...
Oh I know, but JFC how does one bottle that up and make an ale taste like that?


Satanic Magic
So a Scorpio did it? LOL
Possibly.

There was also a beer brewed with yeast they cultivated from one of the brewers beards.

That sounds like a Scorpio Moon thing.
Wait, from a person's beard—??
Yep. They swabbed the dude's beard then let the yeast grow and multiply. They have a life colony growing at the brewery in a bucket now.
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I think all those users are on DXP.
Lemme guess, you are MillrTime.
I'd never sink that low.

Maybe RllngRck
PBR
Best beer for fishing.
That must be why you love Pumpkin ale.
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umm

i do have a beer thread

in the food and drink forum too lol
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Remember when you use a payphone to ask for a pick up

Remember when you sneak your house phone quietly into your room so you can talk to your boyfriend

Remember when you cant use google for your homework

Remember when sending greeting card on emails was a thing


I remember knowing this cool little trick for phones back in the day. You could push some random numbers, then hang up and the phone would start to ring. It was super fun to do to payphones.

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remember 411?

i used to prank dial 411 to annoy the operators lol
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I think all those users are on DXP.
Lemme guess, you are MillrTime.
I'd never sink that low.

Maybe RllngRck
PBR
Best beer for fishing.
That must be why you love Pumpkin ale.
I actually had one in Oregon that wasn't too bad.

That was followed by an Imperial Black Walnut Ale with Maple syrup that tasted like a school library from the 80s.
What in the fuck—? lol
You know that old paper/book/wood smell?

Just like that.

So foul...
Oh I know, but JFC how does one bottle that up and make an ale taste like that?


Satanic Magic
So a Scorpio did it? LOL
Possibly.

There was also a beer brewed with yeast they cultivated from one of the brewers beards.

That sounds like a Scorpio Moon thing.
Wait, from a person's beard—??
Yep. They swabbed the dude's beard then let the yeast grow and multiply. They have a life colony growing at the brewery in a bucket now.
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I'm sure most of it was just from his girlfriend anyways...
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BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TOO far

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I think all those users are on DXP.
Lemme guess, you are MillrTime.
I'd never sink that low.

Maybe RllngRck
PBR
Best beer for fishing.
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Raging B+tch is the best beer to accompany fishing according to the show True blood
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[5v5][cal-i][de_dust][our server][west][5 ready]
I think all those users are on DXP.
Lemme guess, you are MillrTime.
I'd never sink that low.

Maybe RllngRck
PBR
Best beer for fishing.
That must be why you love Pumpkin ale.
I actually had one in Oregon that wasn't too bad.

That was followed by an Imperial Black Walnut Ale with Maple syrup that tasted like a school library from the 80s.
What in the fuck—? lol
You know that old paper/book/wood smell?

Just like that.

So foul...
Oh I know, but JFC how does one bottle that up and make an ale taste like that?


Satanic Magic
So a Scorpio did it? LOL
Possibly.

There was also a beer brewed with yeast they cultivated from one of the brewers beards.

That sounds like a Scorpio Moon thing.
Wait, from a person's beard—??
Yep. They swabbed the dude's beard then let the yeast grow and multiply. They have a life colony growing at the brewery in a bucket now.
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I'm sure most of it was just from his girlfriend anyways...
BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TOO far




That's not what she said.

I assume.
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Beepers and 43770


is 43770

the code for a booty call?
Maybe? It was "hello"
lol

i was like 7 or 8 when beepers were a thing.

i had a toy one filled with candy. haha

At least you know what one is. Try explaining that to a 10 yo today.

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doctors still use them in some hospitals lol
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I remember dial-up internet. It sucked. Technology, thank you for advancing.

I remember cassette tapes.


i still wish we could still undo some stuff

like atomic weapons

guns

facebook , twitter , internet on phones

tinder

lol
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atomic weapons gave the western world 30 years of peace and prosperity
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I remember dial-up internet. It sucked. Technology, thank you for advancing.

I remember cassette tapes.


i still wish we could still undo some stuff

like atomic weapons

guns

facebook , twitter , internet on phones

tinder

lol
atomic weapons gave the western world 30 years of peace and prosperity
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it also killed hundreds of thousands of people

and i'm not just referring the infamous Japanese bombings

i'm referring to the radiation from the testing sites that inevitably caused a plethora of health problems including some cancers within communities that surrounded these sites as well as neighboring states according to some scientific studies

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I remember dial-up internet. It sucked. Technology, thank you for advancing.

I remember cassette tapes.


i still wish we could still undo some stuff

like atomic weapons

guns

facebook , twitter , internet on phones

tinder

lol
atomic weapons gave the western world 30 years of peace and prosperity
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people in the western world also caused the destruction of other civilizations that existed for centuries

with some of the aforementioned things

and for what?

money.

seems pretty unevolved to me

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I remember dial-up internet. It sucked. Technology, thank you for advancing.

I remember cassette tapes.


i still wish we could still undo some stuff

like atomic weapons

guns

facebook , twitter , internet on phones

tinder

lol
What if there's a kid in Africa who can only access DXP on a smartphone? That would be incredibly unfair. 😛 Actually, 85% of the world will access the internet from a phone. A smart phone is literally their computer. This will be a boon to underdeveloped countries. I'm not trying to be an ass, just a nerd.

Atomic weapons are bad, mmmkay.

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if you were a true nerd...... especially in the humanities......

you would know that "underdeveloped" is a political term mainly used

as propaganda to promote neocolonialism and now more specifically neoliberalism in recent times.

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I remember dial-up internet. It sucked. Technology, thank you for advancing.

I remember cassette tapes.


i still wish we could still undo some stuff

like atomic weapons

guns

facebook , twitter , internet on phones

tinder

lol
What if there's a kid in Africa who can only access DXP on a smartphone? That would be incredibly unfair. 😛 Actually, 85% of the world will access the internet from a phone. A smart phone is literally their computer. This will be a boon to underdeveloped countries. I'm not trying to be an ass, just a nerd.

Atomic weapons are bad, mmmkay.

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you'd also know that the technology industry is heavily dependent upon the exploitation of said African children to mine for precious minerals that our cellphones and other devices use

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It's the way of the world, you have any idea how many species were destroyed everytime a new species evolved an advantage? life is not fair, just ride at the top. Western world is already going down
what you are doing right now is promoting social darwanism

which is even more of a pseudoscience than astrology lol



Social Darwinism was primarily utilized to justify slavery and eventually the eugenics movement.

It underpined the holocaust.



All that being aside....

it was also proven to be untrue

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It's the way of the world, you have any idea how many species were destroyed everytime a new species evolved an advantage? life is not fair, just ride at the top. Western world is already going down
what you are doing right now is promoting social darwanism

which is even more of a pseudoscience than astrology lol



Social Darwinism was primarily utilized to justify slavery and even the eugenics movement.

It underpin the holocaust.



All that being aside....

it was also proven to be untrue



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did you just assume my philosophical background?
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It's the way of the world, you have any idea how many species were destroyed everytime a new species evolved an advantage? life is not fair, just ride at the top. Western world is already going down
what you are doing right now is promoting social darwanism

which is even more of a pseudoscience than astrology lol



Social Darwinism was primarily utilized to justify slavery and even the eugenics movement.

It underpin the holocaust.



All that being aside....

it was also proven to be untrue





did you just assume my philosophical background?

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no assumption

i'm just giving you the facts

the EXACT argument was used by Western European men to justify all of the things I outlined above

"it''s just evolution

ethnic cleansing via Guns is just apart of nature's course"

there shouldn't be any moral stigma attached to it



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I have no idea what social darwinism is and I don't give a fug, I'm just talking about evolution.

I'm more anti colonialist than you could even imagine could exist, don't use big words on me, I'm not american and not easily impressed.
lol

i'm not using big words

"The term Social Darwinism is used to refer to various ways of thinking and theories that emerged in the second half of the 19th century and tried to apply the evolutionary concept of natural selection ( aka evolution via survival of the fittest) to human society. "

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It's the way of the world, you have any idea how many species were destroyed everytime a new species evolved an advantage? life is not fair, just ride at the top. Western world is already going down
what you are doing right now is promoting social darwanism

which is even more of a pseudoscience than astrology lol



Social Darwinism was primarily utilized to justify slavery and even the eugenics movement.

It underpin the holocaust.



All that being aside....

it was also proven to be untrue





did you just assume my philosophical background?


no assumption

i'm just giving you the facts

your argument is the EXACT same argument that was used by Western European men to justify all of the things I outlined above

"it''s just evolution

ethnic cleansing via Guns is just apart of nature's course"

there shouldn't be any moral stigma attached to it



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I have no idea what social darwinism is and I don't give a fug, I'm just talking about evolution.

I'm more anti colonialist than you could even imagine could exist, don't use big words on me, I'm not american and not easily impressed.
lol

i'm not using big words

"The term Social Darwinism is used to refer to various ways of thinking and theories that emerged in the second half of the 19th century and tried to apply the evolutionary concept of natural selection ( aka evolution via survival of the fittest) to human society. "

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darwinism and evolution have nothing to do with morals, they're just facts.

I don't care about morality.
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I have no idea what social darwinism is and I don't give a fug, I'm just talking about evolution.

I'm more anti colonialist than you could even imagine could exist, don't use big words on me, I'm not american and not easily impressed.
lol

i'm not using big words

"The term Social Darwinism is used to refer to various ways of thinking and theories that emerged in the second half of the 19th century and tried to apply the evolutionary concept of natural selection ( aka evolution via survival of the fittest) to human society. "



darwinism and evolution have nothing to do with morals, they're just facts.

I don't care about morality.
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Darwinism aka evolution by natural selection is a theory

Kropotkin's theory which bases evolution on cooperation in lieu of competition just gets less attention

because again Darwan's theory aided in justifying the horrors of the industrial revolution and colonialism
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I have no idea what social darwinism is and I don't give a fug, I'm just talking about evolution.

I'm more anti colonialist than you could even imagine could exist, don't use big words on me, I'm not american and not easily impressed.
lol

i'm not using big words

"The term Social Darwinism is used to refer to various ways of thinking and theories that emerged in the second half of the 19th century and tried to apply the evolutionary concept of natural selection ( aka evolution via survival of the fittest) to human society. "



darwinism and evolution have nothing to do with morals, they're just facts.

I don't care about morality.
Darwinism aka evolution by natural selection is a theory

Kropotkin's theory which bases evolution on cooperation in lieu of competition just gets less attention

because again Darwan's theory aided in justifying the horrors of the industrial revolution and colonialism
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I see darwinism more as an interpretation than a theory, in the sense that it can't be proven or disproven, even if you could catalog all the facts of evolution, people would be able to use them to argue for or against darwinism till the end of times. But in the end it doesn't matter. All interpretations might be valid.

I don't know about kropotkin's theory but it sounds mighty bollocks.

You are implying that I might be using darwinism to justify the dominance of western european imperialism, but I don't need to justify anything, as it already exists, regardless of moral standards.

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I remember dial-up internet. It sucked. Technology, thank you for advancing.

I remember cassette tapes.


i still wish we could still undo some stuff

like atomic weapons

guns

facebook , twitter , internet on phones

tinder

lol
What if there's a kid in Africa who can only access DXP on a smartphone? That would be incredibly unfair. 😛 Actually, 85% of the world will access the internet from a phone. A smart phone is literally their computer. This will be a boon to underdeveloped countries. I'm not trying to be an ass, just a nerd.

Atomic weapons are bad, mmmkay.


you'd also know that the technology industry is heavily dependent upon the exploitation of said African children to mine for precious minerals that our cellphones and other devices use


There is exploitation of children in Africa. They are being exploited in diamond and gold mining. They are also being exploited in mining for cheap cobalt, which happens to be a resource used in cell phone and laptop batteries. No argument there. I hope to see that change. I believe it will change.

The irony is that the standard of living will change through the advent of technology. Technology will offer under developed countries access to education that they don't currently have. People will have better access to to employment opportunities. All this will be easier and cheaper to implement through technology, which is here and will continue to proliferate anyway.

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#1

The irony is that most of the stuff you said is actually a lie.

Africa is a continent first of all and what you see on tv and other media outlets is just a small representation.

Just take the economic diversity and living conditions in the U.S which is just a country...

now can you imagine the diversity within Africa?

There are doctors , lawyers , CEOS etc in numerous "countries" within Africa

people also live in houses

they have malls

people go to college and grad school etc



#2 Development = Neocolinialism

a lot of parts of Africa are already "developed" hence some places have shopping malls that our comparable to ours

other parts again didn't need to be.

we really should leave Africa alone.

we should have left Africa alone.

we've destroyed more within African nations through paternalistic intervention than we've helped

and again it was all for money and not because we really wanted to "help those backward savages".







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I have no idea what social darwinism is and I don't give a fug, I'm just talking about evolution.

I'm more anti colonialist than you could even imagine could exist, don't use big words on me, I'm not american and not easily impressed.
lol

i'm not using big words

"The term Social Darwinism is used to refer to various ways of thinking and theories that emerged in the second half of the 19th century and tried to apply the evolutionary concept of natural selection ( aka evolution via survival of the fittest) to human society. "



darwinism and evolution have nothing to do with morals, they're just facts.

I don't care about morality.
Darwinism aka evolution by natural selection is a theory

Kropotkin's theory which bases evolution on cooperation in lieu of competition just gets less attention

because again Darwan's theory aided in justifying the horrors of the industrial revolution and colonialism

I see darwinism more as an interpretation than a theory, in the sense that it can't be proven or disproven, even if you could catalog all the facts of evolution, people would be able to use them to argue for or against darwinism till the end of times. But in the end it doesn't matter. All interpretations might be valid.

I don't know about kropotkin's theory but it sounds mighty bollocks.

You are implying that I might be using darwinism to justify the dominance of western european imperialism, but I don't need to justify anything, as it already exists.

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you are justifying something

you are justifying an interpretation again that i told you has been proven wrong

it is widely accepted at all universities that the original proponents of Social Darwinism were wrong.



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I have no idea what social darwinism is and I don't give a fug, I'm just talking about evolution.

I'm more anti colonialist than you could even imagine could exist, don't use big words on me, I'm not american and not easily impressed.
lol

i'm not using big words

"The term Social Darwinism is used to refer to various ways of thinking and theories that emerged in the second half of the 19th century and tried to apply the evolutionary concept of natural selection ( aka evolution via survival of the fittest) to human society. "



darwinism and evolution have nothing to do with morals, they're just facts.

I don't care about morality.
Darwinism aka evolution by natural selection is a theory

Kropotkin's theory which bases evolution on cooperation in lieu of competition just gets less attention

because again Darwan's theory aided in justifying the horrors of the industrial revolution and colonialism

I see darwinism more as an interpretation than a theory, in the sense that it can't be proven or disproven, even if you could catalog all the facts of evolution, people would be able to use them to argue for or against darwinism till the end of times. But in the end it doesn't matter. All interpretations might be valid.

I don't know about kropotkin's theory but it sounds mighty bollocks.

You are implying that I might be using darwinism to justify the dominance of western european imperialism, but I don't need to justify anything, as it already exists, regardless of moral standards.

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it's just bad science.

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I have no idea what social darwinism is and I don't give a fug, I'm just talking about evolution.

I'm more anti colonialist than you could even imagine could exist, don't use big words on me, I'm not american and not easily impressed.
lol

i'm not using big words

"The term Social Darwinism is used to refer to various ways of thinking and theories that emerged in the second half of the 19th century and tried to apply the evolutionary concept of natural selection ( aka evolution via survival of the fittest) to human society. "



darwinism and evolution have nothing to do with morals, they're just facts.

I don't care about morality.
Darwinism aka evolution by natural selection is a theory

Kropotkin's theory which bases evolution on cooperation in lieu of competition just gets less attention

because again Darwan's theory aided in justifying the horrors of the industrial revolution and colonialism

I see darwinism more as an interpretation than a theory, in the sense that it can't be proven or disproven, even if you could catalog all the facts of evolution, people would be able to use them to argue for or against darwinism till the end of times. But in the end it doesn't matter. All interpretations might be valid.

I don't know about kropotkin's theory but it sounds mighty bollocks.

You are implying that I might be using darwinism to justify the dominance of western european imperialism, but I don't need to justify anything, as it already exists.


you are justifying something

you are justifying an interpretation again that i told you has been proven wrong

it is widely accepted at all universities that the original proponents of Social Darwinism were wrong.



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I don't care that the particular university studies that you choose to not ignore, have already given a (bad) name ("social darwinism") to something and that you choose to lump my thought process together with that bad thing.

I don't even know why you want to argue, but my point was: Atomic weapons and the balance of terror gave me and most western youngsters the most prosperous environment to grow up in history during the cold war.

That is a fact.

Societies often use cooperation, but competition exist and no university can rewrite history to say that it doesn't