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for the record this IS an apple hate zone yes I have an android phone yes I have a bulky PC with its own USB port yes I use wired headphones. you can go ahead and try to fight me on it but keep in mind how scrappy I must be considering I’m broke as shit and have nothing to lose and can guarantee my phone screen won’t shatter in the brawl

desihabits

Just Indian things

arjuna-vallabha

I loved this

silverfyrefly

I am in love with both the elaborate welcome this little fellow received as well as the look of complete bafflement on the puppies’ face that clearly says “I am eight weeks old and what is this.”

kata4a

concrete meaning "not abstract" predates concrete meaning, you know, the material, by about two hundred years or so

yorickish-deactivated20220112

guy who invented concrete was like “this is the least abstract thing I’ve ever seen”

creaturey

i’m reading mattress topper reviews on amazon and i just love this one…. who are these variously shaped gays

gorejock

the sizes of the second two are literally fucking crazy. i cant even wrap my head around this.

plasmalogical

the 4'9 guy has 25 pounds on the 6'7 guy

wetorturedsomefolks

this man’s boyfriends are waluigi and wario

thepatronsaintoflostcauses

gemmarosity-deactivated20180906

i cant believe americans on tv really say rock paper scissors like???? its paper scissors rock omg do u irl americans actually say rock paper scissors????

gemmarosity-deactivated20180906

rb this with whether u say paper scissors rock or rock paper scissors

doing-talking

me normally: linguistic differences are so interesting and cool! I love hearing different dialectal variations.

me, reading “paper, scissors, rock” with my own two eyeballs: the lord is testing me

toshiroyojimbo

In french, it's also rock, paper, scissors wtf England?!

maddiesharafian

This one hovered around my heart for over a year <3

danidraws

A special Christmas episode of my comic in which holidays are complicated.

https://www.everythingisgoingtobeokcomic.com/the-christmas-special/

whitepeopletwitter

lemonsharks

Queue this up for six months after we break population immunity

saintsatellite-deactivated20240

2038 is going to be soooo bad

dyatlovpassingprivilege

sam please tell people about 2038

saintsatellite-deactivated20240

In short: almost all computers count time by counting the number of seconds since January 1, 1970 – this is the Unix Epoch. Older computers store all their numbers using 32 bits, with one bit reserved for the sign (since computers have to refer to time before the Unix Epoch too). So 2³¹ seconds after the Unix Epoch, all the 32 bit computers will instead think it’s 2³¹ seconds BEFORE the Epoch.

Most of our computers use 64 bits now. But lots of embedded systems going back God knows how long DON’T. And so the BEST case is that the computers go back to thinking it’s 1901. The worst case is they break and nobody notices until it breaks something much worse.

fuck-customers

Borrowed from reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/rbfiub/salvation_army_bad/

thespacesay

id: a digitally drawn Santa pointing at text. The Salvation Army is NOT a Charity. They're an Evangelical Protestant Church that uses donations to actively oppress LGBT Rights. They've threatened to close thousands of NY Soup Kitchens if forced to adhere to Civil Rights laws with gay employees. They refuse helping LGBT homeless that come to their shelters. Donations are spent lobbying against LGBT rights globally. Please research a charity before donating. Happy Holidays! / end id

wizard0rb

thinking about how an anonymous group (WHO DOESN’T SEEM TO BE AFFILIATED W/ SESAME STREET!!!) found out where jon armond lived and made him swear he wouldn’t show anyone cracks before they gave it to him

wizard0rb

oh i am SO glad you asked. gimme a sec

wizard0rb

Ok SO. This guy (Jon Armond) claimed to have seen a Sesame Street short as a kid where the cracks in a girl’s wall come to life. One of these cracks is referred to as the “Crack Monster”, which was apparently so unsettling that it “scarred him for life”.

After all was said and done, Jon would end up spending about THIRTY FUCKING YEARS looking for the short. THIRTY. He considered it his life’s work.

Listen. I can appreciate that level of dedication to recovering a lost piece of animation history, but uh. damn.

Anyway, he posted about it online, where many other people reported seeing it as well. The fact that there were multiple accounts of its existence, but little to no information on it anywhere, was what made it start garnering attention on the internet. Now a bunch of people are looking for it.

No one knew for sure what the title was yet, so most referred to it as the “Crack Monster Cartoon”, or something similar. The lack of a known title (or music, or voice actors, or writers, or literally anything) made it extremely difficult to research, but there were too many reports to write it off as a hoax.

So people kept looking.

I’m gonna leave out some details in the middle here, since I don’t wanna make this thread too long. But it’s super interesting, I’d recommend checking it out for yourself. Let’s just skip to the weird part.

After years of searching, Armond received a fax to his workplace with an untraceable number. It read:

“WE HAVE THE COPY”

Additionally, they said they would send him said copy of the short, on one condition: he was to never show it publicly, or post it online in any way.

Whoever it was that contacted him, they did NOT want it to be viewed by the general public.

here it is, btw.

So six months pass. Armond gets a letter, which says

“WE TRUST THIS COMPLETES YOUR SEARCH”

Also enclosed in the envelope is a DVD.

To clarify, he received it on a SUNDAY. These people, whoever they are, found out where he WORKED, and then went to the effort of delivering it PERSONALLY on a day where there was NO MAIL, just to send the message THAT THEY KNEW WHERE HE LIVED AS WELL.

FOR THAT SESAME STREET CARTOON.

So now he has it. And he tells people he has it, but that no one else can see it. Which is, of course, INCREDIBLY unsatisfying to the people online who have also been searching for it, right?

Enter Dycaite, the founder of the Lost Media Wiki.

So Dycaite started looking into it as well. Like I said, I’m skipping a bunch of details in this thread, but long story short he eventually received an anonymous email.

The email contained CRACKS.

There were no instructions telling him not to share it. Dycaite didn’t hesitate, which is how we got the version of CRACKS that I linked.

With the newfound context provided by the video, it actually makes complete sense that it was only aired a few times. This short was made right before the word “Crack” became widely known as a euphemism for drugs, which is how you get characters like “The Crack Monkey”.

Sesame Street doesn’t want to be associated with that, so they stop airing it right? Eventually it’s forgotten about, the only record of its existence being Sesame Street’s digital archives.

(It’s believed that the person who emailed Dycaite had access to these archives, due to the timestamp and title at the start of their version of the clip.)

So… that’s it right? It SEEMS like it should just be a classic story of formerly lost media, cartoon stops airing, gets lost, people online find it again. We even know WHY it was lost, not because it was “too scary” or whatever, just because it didn’t age well.

But there’s still SO MUCH mystery surrounding CRACKS.

The version of CRACKS that Jon Armond received was different from the version Dycaite received. Armond says his version appears to be an actual recording, as it starts with a brief appearance of Bert and Ernie, before transitioning to the short. As mentioned earlier, Dycaite’s version seems to come from some kind of archive.

So it can be reasonably assumed that the people who contacted Armond are not affiliated with the person who emailed Dycaite. The person who contacted Dycaite also didn’t seem to care if the short was released to the public. Armond still hasn’t released his version of the recording to the public, though has apparently shown it to a few people privately.

So why all the secrecy? And why was Jon Armond given a copy? Did they simply feel bad for him, or was there something they didn’t want him to discover in his search? Was the version Armond received (and therefore the version that was aired) somehow different from the version Dycaite got????

i don’t fucking know babey!!! and neither does anyone else apparently!!!!

oh AND the group who didn’t want CRACKS to ever be viewed doesn’t actually seem to be affiliated with Sesame Street, since they presumably don’t have access to the archives. (otherwise, why not remove the info from the beginning and send that version?)

so there’s an unofficial Sesame Street Forbidden Knowledge Guild out there i fuckin guess!!!!!!!!

anyways that’s cracks for you

(this isn’t comprehensive btw, and i may have gotten some stuff wrong. if you wanna know more here’s a good video on it)

wizard0rb

this is the version of this post w/ the right links btw

kabaks

my condolences to the op of that usamericans dont put their country when writing out their addresses post. the notes are sooooo funny

kabaks

i think we should start the celsius vs. fahrenheit discourse again

kabaks

its like performance art. mwah

creationfail

badlich

SEVENTH GRADE???? SEVENTH?????? 12-13 YEAR OLDS DON'T KNOW ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES????????????????

oneflydude

HELLO????? YOU WHAT????

higgity-heck

PLEASE say sike. please god i want this to be a very elaborate joke so badly. does it not just come up in general? like casually from adults in your life?

foxqueen-katarian

I think it depends on where in the US you live, I grew up like an hour from the Canadian border, and the Main route from Quebec to the only good beach in the North East goes through my hometown, so knowing about Canada was a thing. Formal education where we talked about current events was 4th-5th grade. (I didn’t think England was an actual place that still existed until around then. Little me thought everyone died because of Plague and only the Pilgrims who came to to US survived. Little me was kinda stupid)