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meme lord rule (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Micah

@rincewind.run

the six year old, watching basketball: "is this live?"

"yes"

"aw, I was hoping it wasn't so we can skip the commercials"

something interesting about raising kids whose main experience of TV is streaming is that they have absolutely no patience for ads

May 17, 2024 at 6:22 PM

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oak @mattoak.bsky.social • 2h

amazing this shit. that concept did not exist in my brain as a kid and now it's like hey man fast forward I'm bored.

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Rhinan Laville @rhinanlaville.bsky... • 8m

Humans adapt very quickly to comfort, safety, and convenience.

I'm convinced that any human who could time travel from before, say, 1900 AD to today would, inside of two weeks, be a Starbucks-ordering YouTube-addicted meme lord.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I know, why do people act like recording shows and skipping ads is at all a new thing. If anything it's harder to avoid ads on streaming platforms then broadcast TV because you can still record broadcast TV and skip ads.