What do people hear when they cautiously pop that CD in? What's written on it?

I'm thinking something either seemingly benign like a season of Blowback, or an increasingly provocative mixtape interspersed with Parenti clips

  • Wheaties [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Blowback's Korean season, we memory-holed that war so hard

  • femicrat [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Nothing because nobody has a CD player. Anyone under 25 will not know what the thing is.

    I had to go buy an external DVD player for my laptop because I unearthed an old set of Record of Lodoss War VCDs I completely forgot about. Totally worth it.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    how many people even have CD players/CD-ROM drives nowadays

        • SerLava [he/him]M
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          1 year ago

          Haha yeah that's the same process cassette tapes went through in like the 2000's. "Hmm I guess we can listen to this old tape in the car?"

          oh ---

          :chomsky-yes-honey:

          • macabrett
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            1 year ago

            Excuse me, that was the slot that the aux cable led into.

        • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          i honestly don't even know if my car has one in addition to the USB drive and aux cable input, but i think it does

  • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    Nothing because who in their right mind does anything with a mystery CD?

    Although, I suppose the set of people who would actually do something with a mystery CD they found under their wipers is similar to the set of people who still have and use an optical drive.

    • dom [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I am honor bound to put any CD I find on the side of the road into my car stereo.

    • Blep [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Dont most old cars still have them?

        • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          New ones don't, quite old ones don't either. It's mostly 2000s cars and some early 2010s cars. In the 90s they were too skip-prone and expensive for most affordable cars, and by the mid to late 2010s they'd fallen out of favour and been largely replaced by Bluetooth. I've not been in a car with a cd player in about 5 years because everyone I know has a car that's either super old or brand new.

          Some 2010s cars even skipped the CD player. My last car literally only had a radio and a cable for 30 pin iPods. Thanks VW.

  • paavi [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    As if people tend to want to find out what random discs have on them.

  • Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    This is actually a great idea. I have an extensive library of audio and video clips of revolutionaries that I haven’t found much use for other than self-educational and archival purposes. I also have a massive amount of blank CDs… I’m gonna follow this thread for ideas.!

    Edit: and it was now, 40m after posting, that I realized this thread is 2mo old, and chances are it’s not gonna get many more comments… who knows, maybe my bump will make it active lol