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    7 days ago

    I knew I recognized him from somewhere.

    I have no idea who he is, but this is my favorite quote ever, as someone who’s both a goth/punk poser and works in cybersecurity.

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    7 days ago

    Once I offered to buy John Waters a drink, and the bartender got offended

    Edit: at the very idea that John Waters would ever be charged for a drink

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      6 days ago

      Yeah, I have zero in my house now. I have over 1k on my ereader, in my pocket, and on my tablet. Even when I read physical books I never had this many, every time I got to a couple hundred I’d take them to Goodwill for others to enjoy. My reading list is so long, it’s not like I’m likely to reread anything. Every book I reread is one other book I won’t get to read before I die.

      I see bookshelves like this these days it’s like someone with a lot of vinyl. They’re either old (old to me and I’m almost 50), or just into an old format for some reason. Nothing wrong with that, it just doesn’t mean the same thing it used to.

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    6 days ago

    I think books are cool. Anyone who read books is a cool person and not yet lost to social media addiction. They can still be in the moment with themselves.

    I had a period when I could not read a single page in a book because my mind was constantly wanting to use the phone instead. Many people are like that right now.

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    6 days ago

    Sure, the guy has a ton of books in the shelves. But how many mysterious badly sorted storage boxes of books he has? Now that’s the real test of character.

    Also ask probing questions about how many obsolete programming books he has. It may get awkward but it has to be done.

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      6 days ago

      My friends have an Estonian book that teaches fortran 77 and BASIC if I remember correctly. It’s a truly wondrous tome.

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    6 days ago

    I like books but its media in a different form. It could be great or it could be trash. The book format says nothing. I’d consider someone who watches the YouTube channel Angela Collier as more educated than someone who has a bookshelf full of Danielle Steel novels.

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      6 days ago

      sure, but the point is if they don’t have any books at all

      the former person would and should have books

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        6 days ago

        Someone with no books but watches Angela Collier is more educated than a person with a bookshelf of Danielle Steele.

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          You know, I’m not so sure I agree, actually.

          It is really, really, really easy to engage with content on Youtube passively. That is, without really paying attention.

          If a person watches Angela Collier on a side screen while playing a video game or something, and can’t really recall anything she’s talked about, I don’t know if that really counts.

          You could say that people who watch Angela corrolate with people who do pay attention, but then I’d say that people who watch Angela corrolate with people who own books.

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    5 days ago

    My last three books read have been on a Kindle. I am considering dumping all my books because I can fit a whole library on the Kindle and saves so much space in the (very small) house. Have I become unfuckable?