One of my favorite movies that my wife refuses to watch with me because it always makes her cry.

I mean, me too, but it's good to cry every now and then.

OUR PRICES HAVE NEVER BEEN LOWER!

Imagine the government actually doing something that appeals to millennials.

Them: Be there or be square!

Me:

jk, nobody invites me to things

A lovely test of one's faith is whether they'll stab and burn their child on command.

By the way, if someone is constantly testing you, that's abusive. Run. Away.

I present a similar picture of my Thorin.

He got brushed, and I put the hair on his head.

Elastic deformation is for peasants.

TIL Dick Van Dyke is still kicking. Good for Dick.

God, have I ever fucking been there. The worst feeling is when you think you're getting things done...then it hits you that the last two hours of your life were a complete waste, and you weren't even having fun while doing it.

DVDs are dirt cheap, plentiful as fuck, don't have DRM bullshit to have to deal with, last for decades when stored properly, and still look pretty damn good with deinterlacing. Plus, they don't run any of the risks associated with piracy. Am I allowed to copy my DVDs onto my hard drive? That may be a legal gray area. But can they see that I copied my DVDs to my hard drive? Of course not. And I'm not making my ISOs and MKVs available to the world for download.

Spend 4 bucks on a used DVD. Give her the ol'

dd if=sr0 of=~/Videos/Movies/Title.iso

And keep the disc for basically forever. Copy it again if something happens to your file. EZPZ. Plus, it's cool to own a physical thing imo.

One last thing: DVDs come with subtitles. I have a hard time understanding spoken words. I like to read my movies as I watch them. Makes it easier to know what's going on without cranking the volume to 11. Speaking of which, the menu for the Spinal Tap DVD is excellent.

This is a heck of a post to come across for me right now.

That's not an apples to apples comparison. I am buying a single thing at a pump: fuel. I boop my card. I stick nozzle in hole. I pull lever until it stops. Vending machines? Second verse same as the first. I boop card. I push button. I take chippies, I walk away. Vending machines specifically are purpose-built for self-service.

I spend maybe 30 seconds to 3 minutes at these things. The only work I do is tapping my payment and pressing a button or two. Groceries are a whole different animal. It's scanning, weighing, coding, bagging, loading, and paying. It's a fuckton more involvement by the customer. I don't think you can in good faith compare self-checkout to a vending machine.

The business is incentivized to trick you into performing labor for them. Part of the cost of my groceries is for someone to have a job doing that. If I'm gonna do that labor for the store, I should get an employee discount, at least.