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WHYYYYY is this so accurate 🤣😭😭

for all the people in the notes like OMG DONT RUB IT LIKE THAT:

yes, you can. it's perfectly fine. in fact you can grind many many MANY micro layers off and its fine. there are CD polishing machines that do exactly this to restore hella scratched discs to a playable state. that used to be part of my job many years ago!

the data is VERY protected, which is part of why CDs (all disc formats, tbh) are such a damn good method of physical storage. you really have to gouge the plastic to truly ruin it - and there's still a good chance a specialist could repair it well enough to recover. tbh all you'd need to do is fill in the scratch with an equally clear material and polish it - so long as it didn't go all the way down to the data layer, that is. but anyway.

it literally does not matter which direction you rub it in because you're putting microscratches on it regardless when you use anything other than a polishing cloth/pad. and any scratch that disrupts the laser's ability to pass through and read the data is going to cause problems, doesn't matter which direction. those of you thinking that you have to do it in a circular motion are thinking of vinyls, where the data is recorded straight onto the surface. in which case, yes, you clean those using a specialized pad in a circular motion. But data discs are not like that, their data hides under a very sturdy and thick layer of plastic. honestly, you risk damaging the data more by scratching the label side. Still a bit tough to do, since label prints are typically rather thick - but i lost way more CDs in the day to that than ever scratching the readable side.

the plastic is polycarbonate, which isn't like diamond strength or anything - but i dare you to go grab an old CD you don't care about and see how long it takes you to scratch deep enough to reach the metal layer with just an ordinary scratchy object. you'll be at it for a little while unless you're like taking a fucking chisel to it.

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I made this post a couple months ago, and I completely forgot that I made it

today has been one of the worst days of my entire life, and this post somehow made its way back to me, like a mental-health chef boyardee can.

it actually helped me a lot

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The old school lack of transparency on tumblr is amazing because you assume the people you follow must all be equivalent to you and then you see someone write “I brought my youngest to college today” and someone else write “my mom wouldn’t let me listen to Ariana Grande when I was a kid” and then your head explodes

and we need that! keeps us humble. 

Then I'm just like WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU’RE AN ADULT

It goes the other way, too, because WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE A CHILD?!!

I'm 16, that's like, barely a child

I'm in my 30s. You are baby

I'm older than both of you in a trenchcoat.

honestly one of the best things we can do for ourselves is realize that people of different ages than us can still be the same kind of person as us. it's humbling and it gives everyone involved a sense of continuity, and it busts those stupid generational stereotypes media is so fond of.

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