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While watching a DVD from the library my TV popped up a message saying to press a button if I wanted to watch this from additional providers.

It's never done that before so I looked it up and turns out Roku TVs have added all sorts of creepy things in the privacy section since I last checked.

One of which being they take screenshots from what you're watching and send them to third parties to identify it.

Fucking hell! Remember when every fucking device in your life wasn't a spy implanted in your home and working against your interests to try and sell your data? Remember how nice that was??

Remember when the TV was just a tool that would play the things you plugged into it?

Why must the future suck SO much?

excusethequality

TVs collect a huge amount of data. Here's how to use privacy settings to limit the surveillance on TVs from LG, Samsung, TCL, and every othe

A good rundown on what each brand of TV is up to and which settings you should turn off.

victusinveritas

There's more:

boppinbobby-moved-deactivated20

crying

chadhulk

I have mixed thoughts on sex work. I love sex, but I hate work!

kybercrystalgems

“Yeah, we hate seeing you work too!”

burglarsonarceny

how does this post keep getting better

everythingfox

(via)

rvllybllply2014

Love this so much

robinade

the practical magic musical looks great

sffan

well this fucking bangs

senshiofserenity

animenostalgia

Happy birthday to Usagi Tsukino, also known as Serena, Bunny, and Sailor Moon!

xx-haqlue-deactivated20201129

kaldurcalms

Palestinians are stronger than any marine

(Sharing their other link because they have a regularly updated account that they use like a normal person, everyone be normal about this please)

haystarlight

Y'all are going to school while this is happening? Is there even a school?

queselevaaser

Even the uni students are doing their level best to continue studying! The isnad foundation and the ihyaa foundation are both fundraising to support uni students continue their studies. Isnad works in the north, ihyaa on the south, and yeah i do mean north and south ghazzah.

Link to the isnad fundraising campaign

Limk to the ihyaa fundraising campaign

phallusmagnificus

nosimpincurly

You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

catherinebunnington

Reblog to materialize $250,000 in prev's bank account

aubrey-plaza

THE SHAPE OF WATER (2017) dir. Guillermo del Toro

bicolossus

These are the best tags @puddle–wonderful

uncleromeo

aquadraco20

Good catch! Shape of the Water doesnt use modern day American sign language, but this was intentional. There were two ASL coaches who taught Sally Hawkins (the main actress) how to sign using period appropriate ASL to match the time period depicted in the film.

dear-ebony-rose

^^^ ALL of this!

marzipanandminutiae

no surprise there- it’s Guillermo del toro, who hired dialect coaches so specific for “upper-class Northeastern American c. 1901” and “northern British 19th-century upper-class person who was taught to speak more Posh at some point” that people accused the actors of Bad Accents

virtualgirladvance

idontevenhaveone

... the worst bit is I know several people this could be, especially given the 'in Australia' clarification

derinthescarletpescatarian

If you know them then there's a chance I might know some of them and that thought will keep me up at night.

antikate

This wasn’t the guy who we all know who used to spray his jeans with Mortein and then light himself on fire, was it?

harlemshakemp3

He used to sit at the back of the bus, cup his hand, spray deodorant into it, then open it and light it on fire with a lighter in one fell swoop to try and impress girls.

He had to stop because the bus company begged our school to tell him to stop bc of legal liability. His hands never actually got damaged after doing it for about a year.

harlemshakemp3

I reached out to my old friend in question here, because I've been thinking about him all day.

I do not know what "the amulet" is. I have no idea what "the amulet" is referring to.

harlemshakemp3

I instantly remembered when he said that.

While we were all at the local park doing legal things that teenagers would do back in the late 2000s, my friend here found a rock at our old smoke spot that was unusually smooth and flat. He liked it so much that he took it to the woodwork classrooms at school, drilled a hole in it, and hung it on a necklace.

When we asked why he weanwearing this dinky-ass pebble on his neck, he claimed it prevented him from ever getting food-related illnesses: wouldn't get food poisoning, couldn't over-eat, was able to ingest anything (prior to him finding The Amulet, a few of us used to play a game called "Devil's Piss" where we would take turns shoving random food bits into a bottle of coke, and the first person to take a sip would get two dollars from the other players).

When we all asked him for the proof that this rock is magical—because nobody believed him, obviously—he said to meet him behind the History block at lunch, where he said he would drink two litres (or half a gallon) of milk in one go and not puke.

We met him there, and about ten of us all watched him down a whole bottle of strawberry milk in two or three breaths.

He didn't puke.

He jumped up and down and punched his stomach to prove it.

He still didn't puke.

I'm so glad I'm alive.

msboutofcontext

spacefinch

This is honestly better advice than “if at first you don’t succeed, try try again.”

By all means try again. But do that after you figure out WHY you failed!

skittlebits

You know how we all joke that writers should stop writing kids in the Chosen One roles because they’re kids and have no experience, etc., and how older people would actually kick ass in that kind of role?

Try telling someone 30-60 years old that they need to put down all of their commitments because they need to save the universe. If it were a book trilogy, the first book would just be the messenger trying to convince the Chosen One that saving the universe is more important than them losing their job for not showing up, their pets home alone, or the risk that their insurance won’t cover whatever injuries they may sustain.