172 points

RadioShack, and it’s not even close.

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77 points

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

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30 points

Just before they flatlined, they started stocking more modern hobbyist stuff. Arduinos, shields, Parallax Propeller, and Vex, but stupid expensive.

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16 points

As someone who tinkers with electronics, hard agree

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1 point

I was born in 2001, what is RadioShack?

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As a kid, it was where you got all the coolest remote controlled cars and helicopters (pre drones). As an electronics tinkerer, they had drawers full of components and other parts for all electronic needs.

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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.

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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.

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8 points

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

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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.

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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.

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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%?

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8 points

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

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5 points

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

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1 point

Like we aren’t prepped for that…

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12 points

Toys R Us, easy.

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You guys accepting American defectors? A land without Toys R Us is a land that I don’t want to be in.

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39 points

Either RadioShack or Toys R Us. The other two, one is useless in this day and age, and the other is Blockbuster

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Toys R Us

I have too much nostalgia in my veins for Toys R Us, but I want to say that when I was under 12, there was nothing like it.

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We still have Toys R Us in Canada. As an adult there’s really not much to get excited about in there anymore. At least Radio Shack could bring out some middle aged tinkering in me.

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theres one or two blockbusters

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Y’all really need to step up the meme game. What does this even mean. “I’m old ha ha ha?”

Also, Jesus. I don’t need more cheap crap, I need to get drunk on a friday without spending my whole paycheck and Josh can hook that up.

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