What does this mean?

Something about me everybody should know, I like big women, whether that be height or width.

I used to be super pedant, but my wife threatened to leave, so now I am just a regular one.

Thank you for the correction.

Interesting. I was already out of school in 2013 so never knew about this discovery. Thank you for letting me know.

Thank you. I am glad my time in college has finally found a use!

Modern birds almost certainly evolved directly from the Dramaeosaurus, not T. Rex, but otherwise, great meme.

Ahh yes, back when humans hadn’t created the eyedrops that allowed us to see color, everything was sepia.

Merlin isn’t open source?

Says who?

Yeah, I do. I just was trying to be funny. I failed.

I thougjt it was funny. Oh well.

Children are starving within a 5 mile radius of this vanity project.

You don’t realize how bad it until you go to a sporting event. Every square inch that can be turned into advertising has been, and when you don’t have the commercials taking your attention, you definitely realize you spent $400 to get 1 hour of content stretched to 3 hours with a really awful DJ to fill in where the ads would have gone.

I don’t necessarily know how the British system is different than the US or Canada but I am a strong supporter of the US and Canada model where the federal government essentially funds the infrastructure and then the other 80℅ is through donations and fund drives and the government by law can’t dictate the actual content beyond ensuring a certain percentage of funding is earmarked for educational material.

But yeah, people should decide if what they upload can be deleted

I am talking about publicly funded data hosting.

It wouldn’t be used for piracy, obviously, but for what people were originally using YouTube for.

Think of all those video series from back in the day where some random dude just walked you through step by step of a house building process. Those videos are still there, but no matter what you type, you are unlikely to find the videos you really need. Just fully forgotten by the algorithm and buried on page 14 or 15, long after you gave up.

Whereas your local National Public Hosting affiliate would have every reason to prioritize that content.

I hate saying that it was different back then, but it just was. Social media was not seen as the way normal people become famous the way it is now.

It was just people attempting to create cool stuff and find a community.

The way we have PBS and NPR, I really think we need to start talking about community shared content hosting. It could go a long way in preserving knowledge without succumbing to corporate greed.

Oh man, you got in the van with them and were taken to a second location?

You are lucky you actually got speakers

I think it is possible the guys sold you the decoy model.