Video CD is actually the format of choice up there. tracking this sort of stuff may or may not have been part of my job at one point.

Their regular army is underfed, under equipped and mostly useless. Artillery and stuff like that might be an issue, maybe some of their SOF.

They won't fire them - we'd destroy them. They might take potshots at other stuff, but China would end them faster than they would if they got that ridiculous.

That's the real beauty of distance ed.

I totally forgot that site existed. I spent too much time there when I first found it - it's jarring to see that a site that has been so much a part of my life is only visited by 0.076 % of internet users.

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Flickr is still a good source of images from Creative Commons, and a dump site for event photos. Tons of cosplay, wedding, graduation, corporate picnic and other stuff where staff photogs can dump their entire memory chip so folks can scroll through and perv on the cosplayers or look for the pics that they're in.

FB is going to fight it by subsuming the other platforms. It already has cross functionality with Twitter and Instagram, so I don't need to check in to all three, necessarily, and I can post to one and have it crosspost to the other two for me, at least to an extent.

I think print will stick around a bit longer as a vehicle for advertising, especially coupon circulars. It's dying, for sure, but there's still enough of a market for small town news type stuff to keep it on life support for a while.

Twitter seems to really suffer from the echo chamber, too. I have to monitor it for work and half of what I read is just a cesspit of misinformation and vitriol. If Twitter died tomorrow, it wouldn't be soon enough, but I'm sure something else would rise up to take its place.

My daughter is super in to YouTube channels - her goal is to start a successful channel of her own. I still sort of follow Communitychannel, 'cuz she's still sort of adorable.

My kids and their friends (all HS aged) are on FB pretty much all the time, between Messenger and the actual site. They use other networks too, but it's not like FB is dead. It seems to be the 'go-to' site for group activity stuff like sports teams and other things like that, and to maintain 'loose' connections with…

I hate political posts - with one or two exceptions, I unfollow folks who post mostly politics.

Player /b/.

Most of Fire of Unknown Origin is good, too. Joan Crawford would have fit right in.

Wow. Until I saw it spelled out, I'd never realized that Uhluhtc was a nod to another character.

Veteran of the Psychic Wars, although True Companion is up there.

Harry Canyon might be the best of the lot, but the whole package is a solid B or so, with at least a dozen quotable lines, and a good soundtrack. The Taarna storyline was better in print, but still okay, although not nearly as epic a conclusion as they were looking for.

It's not a sitcom, but why doesn't Lethal Weapon get the same Christmas movie love that Die Hard does? In my headcanon, they take place over the same time frame (or at least overlap).

The Ice Harvest and The Grifters make a 'nice' double feature.