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it’ll be a paperweight when the company goes tits-up

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then it’s your duty to sail the high seas like it’s 1899

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if scihub went down academia would crumble

Which items/products were you once able to get from local shops on a whim that you now more or less have to order online?

Sometimes I find myself shopping for things that I’d prefer to go out and get within the same day, but now I’d have to order and wait a few days to get…So I’m wondering what some of those things may be for you?

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Uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) give you a load of sockets to work with and protect your expensive electronics from damage

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If content is sent to your pc then there is a way to save it, regardless of how they try to hide that

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you haven’t known true fear until you’re working with incredibly toxic chemicals or weighing tiny amounts and get the jumpscare of your life by one of these

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and sitting in a cold dark environment while microbes consume you

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Don’t get into academia if you want thankful tasks

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nothing can be free in a capitalist society

unless you mean perpetual motion/magic energy in which case that was solved hundreds of years ago. It can’t be done

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It would be less of a problem. But most of the media I consume is younger than that, and yet it is still at risk of going away at any moment. Nobody wants to even sell digital copies, except for the ones on CD, DVD, etc. Most of the time your only option is a “license” to access it, or a monthly subscription. A couple of years ago I “bought” the new Blade Runner on Google Play. Turns out now you can only watch above 480p on their approved devices. Which does not include my PC, my main device. The same goes for the streaming services, you get shafted on quality if you aren’t using a “smart” tv.

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So they fell over? Got blown up? Buried in sand?

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Don’t we have much better modern aerial photos?

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I do wonder whether this was actually an effective way to look for them. Even with modern high resolution x-ray imaging it may be difficult to see the contrast between soft tissues and diamonds since they’re both primarily carbon

https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/92190d36-edca-4ab8-b9ce-f19cde7f6fa6.jpeg

bones show up well since they’re high in calcium, which has a much higher atomic number. Same with gold.

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