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A chat on 4chan
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Back in 2003 right after we invaded Iraq, I worked at one of the big mid-Atlantic distribution and repair hubs for the salvation army. Now normally if you're trying to donate a broken microwave or cassette player to goodwill or the SA they wouldn’t even bother accepting that crap or just toss it after the fact if they realize it's something no one would want but the SA is active in over 130 countries and for some reason a lot of those countries had their own policies that said they aren’t allowed to refuse donations of any kind. This was probably an idea done out of pure bureaucracy since I’m sure they were losing money from it but upper management's solution was simply to have every damaged VHS tape or DVD player with a burnt disc reader shipped to the US so it could be repaired here then sold.
 
I was still in high school and wanted to spend the summer doing something that would look good on a college application when I volunteered and ended up spending my days in a warehouse sorting through most of the entertainment products to see what could reasonably be repaired. The place was filled with those old plastic box TVs and video CD players, which are basically a much lower quality DVD. We got a treasure trove of foreign releases from these, more of them than you would think ended up being bootlegs or pirated versions. In a lot of third world countries people buy movies from kids on the streets peddling video CDs and cigarettes. These could range from being VHS ports of the actual movies or versions of them that someone had gotten by sneaking a camera into the theater or animated clone movies on the level of those Dingo Picture cartoons if not of worse quality.
gpt
Very eerie anon. Almost sounds like you were coming across videos of gangstalkers or something, except that some of the videos sound more like AI-generated slideshows