• @bblkargonaut
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      Can we do radio shack from the 80s early 90s over the cellphone retailer they turned into before death.

      • @[email protected]
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        Just before they flatlined, they started stocking more modern hobbyist stuff. Arduinos, shields, Parallax Propeller, and Vex, but stupid expensive.

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      I mean…it kinda makes the most sense to bring Jesus back.

      • Still none of us would leave the house to rent movies if blockbuster came back.

      • None of us have shopped at toys r us since were had our own money to spend, so toys r us wold exist to us all the same way it does now: a fond memory.

      • RadioShack…I mean, would anyone not buy their shit online if that happened? Nah. Also, not to mention, fuck corporations and chain stores and consumerism.

      And if you bring Jesus back…he’s a socialist pacifist Jew that might have a chance of setting the worst America has to offer right on their misguided opinions. We need more powerful anarcho-socialists, especially powerful ones—and I mean, literally powerful. He is purportedly magic. Boom. Goodbye capitalism.

      No question. Bring Jesus back. And Conan.

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        I mean, if we’re bringing like Bible Jesus back, I’d agree. But if we were to bring back the actual Jesus, he’d probably just be some religious lefty with a podcast and no one would care.

        I’m not sure how a socialist jew half way around the world from me is going to help me find a specific value capacitor that I need immediately to fix an AV reciever I just picked up from goodwill.

        • @[email protected]
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          He does make a good point. As much as I like online ordering, being able to go to a store and get what I need the same day is something else

          • @Confused_Emus
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            I love living just a short drive from a MicroCenter.

          • @Polydextrous
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            11 year ago

            I mean…you could still do that. There are just more advanced electronics stores. Just because they’re not called RadioShack doesn’t mean you can’t still got to a store.

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          [Incoming text message] Cast your eyes to the other side of the car, my child. That discarded television contains the capacitor you need at the end of the spotted blue and white cable.

      • Gormadt
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        Not to mention the absolute melt down that would happen with the worst of Americans if he came back the same race he was when he died.

        Oh man the amount of evangelical Christians in America who think Jesus was white is way too damn high.

        • @Polydextrous
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          The amount of evangelical Christian’s in America who think Jesus was white is way too damn high.

          You mean…100%?

      • @MasterBlaster
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        81 year ago

        You didn’t read revelations, did you? When he comes back… Let’s just say it’s going to be a rough ride.

        • @new_acct_who_dis
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          We’re already in for a rough ride. Seeing “Christians” get what’s coming to them would be so worth it

          • @MasterBlaster
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            While the irony of the distraction of most of them along with the rest of us would be briefly enjoyable, I wouldn’t wish it on anybody.

            I am irked by the fact that some of them are actively seeking to trigger a real Armageddon, though. That group should be handled with extreme prejudice.

        • @PunnyName
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          Like we aren’t prepped for that…

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      The same old 555 timers, opamps, and LED PCB xmas trees they’ve been selling for 30 years are nice but…there’s much more interesting shit now and they didnt seem to catch on to that until the very end when they suddenly rushed out all the Arduino shit.

      Around here, Micro Center replaced Radio Shack for my component impulse buy needs, and they even have Adafruit and Sparkfun stuff, and several aisles of a variety of other hobby electronics stuff. It’s RadioShack x100.