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  • The VCR was invented, marketed, and sold to do this very thing. When the VCR first came out (same for betamax) they didn’t sell pre-recorded tapes because the only way they had to make those was to manually record them individually in real-time which was prohibitively expensive. That’s also why movie rental places caught on: early VHS movies were too expensive for most to afford. But not too expensive for a business to rent hundreds of times.

    Suffice to say: if recording TV was piracy, it wasn’t illegal and the people bitching had no way to enforce their will.













  • Neato@ttrpg.networktoMemes@lemmy.mlAccidentally
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    7 months ago

    This will hurt countless cisgender women who will be abused for not being “feminine enough” to be in a “women’s bathroom.” There will be demands to show genitals, and fights, and so on. It’s fucking horrible.

    Yep. We saw this very thing parodied (right word maybe?) in 2004 in the Venture Bros. simply because Dr. Girlfriend had a deep voice. If it made its way into a cartoon then it would have been a common enough occurrence or worry in the real world. Putting more onus on gendered bathrooms will only exacerbate this very thing for everyone.