• veroxii@aussie.zone
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          4 days ago

          I think a big chunk of us are gen X. We used BBS forums, Usenet, then slashdot. Then it went mainstream. Move to digg. Move to Reddit. It keeps getting ruined. Now we’re here but I guess at some point we’ll migrate again. Nothing is permanent.

          • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
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            1 day ago

            gen X. We used BBS forums, Usenet, then slashdot.

            Yeah it’s weird but I get that exact feeling here sometimes. Some shit I get away with here would fly in the 90’s maybe early 00’s but def not on the mainstream socials. I find myself both pleasantly and worriedly surprised.

            It keeps getting ruined. Now we’re here but I guess at some point we’ll migrate again. Nothing is permanent.

            We are the trailblazing swarm of locusts.

          • bajabound@lemmy.world
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            4 days ago

            I’m glad to find out I’m not the only one. I took pretty much the same path. Can’t forget many thousands of hours spent on IRC.

          • fartographer@lemmy.world
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            3 days ago

            Oof. That movie was a hard watch when I was a kid. I added it to my collection recently, thinking that I was too young to appreciate it, but I still haven’t been able to finish watching it.

            • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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              3 days ago

              i went with friends to watch it in the second run theater back in the day. we did bad movie nights all the time and would make fun of them like mst3k and it was great. no one else was in the theater so we got to play mystery science theater in a real theater! it was great! we even brought a pizza and had ditched school, it was wonderful.

              the movie was so bad we ran out of stuff to make fun of (like, we had to start repeating stuff to make fun of) after 45 minutes so we started playing tag. we had another hour of that theater being ours and we were going to use it.

              • fartographer@lemmy.world
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                3 days ago

                Did you know that you can rent a theater? Back when I did it, it was relatively affordable: about $200 for 2.5 hours. I went with a small group of friends and we played Halo

    • Furbag@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      She still has a heavy Russian Slovenian accent/intonation despite many years living in America, and her voice is reminiscent of Natasha, one of the villains from Rocky and Bullwinkle who along with Boris were stereotypical Russian caricatures created for a cartoon that aired during the cold war.

      • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Ah, thank you, comrade! Now I understand infectious disease of American imperialist culture better, spasiba.

      • gramie@lemmy.ca
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        3 days ago

        I’m actually rather astonished that her accent is so heavy and her diction is so stilted, after living in the US for 30 years. It’s as if she doesn’t have to speak to anyone in English. She also seems to have trouble pronouncing words correctly, even when they are written for her.

        • Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz
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          3 days ago

          Hey? If you don’t have any friends or you don’t have anything to say, how do you get to know how to speak foreign language?

          • gramie@lemmy.ca
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            11 hours ago

            I already speak English, French, German, Sesotho and Japanese. Do they count? I have also taught ESL and married a Japanese woman. I know something about accents and fluency.

        • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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          3 days ago

          For years, her and Barron spent most of their time with her parents, also illegal immigrants, and they all spoke Serbian. Word was that when Barron started school, he could barely speak English, and he spoke it with a Slavic accent.

              • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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                3 days ago

                It’s not because she’s foreign, we like foreigners. She’s getting shit because she’s a goldigging MAGA whore, at best. At worst, shes a pedophile Russian intelligence agent, working with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

                All of that is fair game for vicious, relentless bullying, and anyone supporting her deserves the same treatment.