Submitted 5 months ago by zillionth@lemmy.world to [deleted]
“Herkermer Homolka. Formerly of Romania. Free now of the chains of Ceaucescu. Traveling the world, doing good!”
-Tim Curry in Congo
That movie was one of my favourite as a kid, and it made me look up who the heck Ceaucescu was and why he was disliked
Using “streaming” instead of “broadcasting” struck me as an odd choice for someone old enough to remember it.
It’s fine of course, it just stood out to me.
Agreed. Seems we’re losing the distinction between “one-to-many” (broadcast) and “one-to-one” (streaming) transmission models.
IPTV made it one to one long ago though.
Don’t forget multicast (live streaming)!
In Estonian we just created a local variant of “to stream”, “striimima”. Though I would also argue that it’s a distinction without a difference. When watching TV you’re also watching a stream.
60 yrs old
with the times
on the fediverse
doesnt have cable TV
most based person on here no doubt
Probably more something to do with when they learned English
Where can I get a hat like this?
The reason they didn’t stream the shooting was they had him and his wife lined up against the wall and shot before the camera crew could get out of the courtroom. Or so I’ve heard.
No, they recorded the execution. The footage is there to see. I think Op is just talking about the tv station not showing it
I’m not Romanian but I remember this very well. One of the very few times I was genuinely happy to see someone dead.
Our national broadcast company showed the execution live. I do not know why my parents allowed then 10 year old me watch it, but I remember it well.
I member. It was accompanied by images of romanian orphanages that still haunt me to this day.
I’m not very keen on Romanian history but I visited a museum in Bukarest once that kind of explained some of the things he did. IIRC he forced women to have lots of children, right? And that’s also related to the many “rural” kids on the street, isn’t it?
Romania was one of my favorite trips ever. Beautiful country. Bukarest was also super interesting with intense contrasts. Beautiful old but pretty beaten up “French” style buildings, brutal Soviet style building blocks, insane roads with a bazillion lanes but at the same time a beautiful center with some parks where you can walk a lot. Modern, old, rich and poor. All at the same time. I spent most of my time around Brasov though. Beautiful place.
KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Source for the meme is Gushing Over Magic Girls. Its a very wholesome anime.