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bitee1 t1_jefuycm wrote

Reply to comment by thefriendlyghost777 in My dollar store popcorn has a bible verse on it. by BurritoSanmartino

Some religious companies use their profits to oppress or to lobby for making their religious views into laws.

"Chick-fil-A has donated over five million dollars to organizations that depict gay people as pedophiles, want to make “gay behavior” illegal, and even say gay people should be “exported” out of America." "Hobby Lobby specifically fought against women’s healthcare and took it all the way to the Supreme Court." https://rampagewired.com/471235/op-ed/companies-under-fire-the-truth-about-businesses-like-chick-fil-aurban-outfitters-and-hobby-lobby/

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pogpole t1_jeftrr2 wrote

Reply to comment by VadersSprinkledTits in This old doll uses a vinyl like record to talk and sing by Eigenurin

I was going to mention this. I think it had six different grooves spiraled together, each one playing a different sound, and it was a matter of chance which one the needle fell into. Very clever.

EDIT: I misremembered. The buttons would turn the record to line up the appropriate groove. But I learned that you could get it to play a random sound by pushing the button only halfway down. That's probably what prompted me to take it apart and see how it worked in the first place.

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Oclure t1_jefsjix wrote

Reply to comment by buddboy in This old doll uses a vinyl like record to talk and sing by Eigenurin

They often do work without batteries, they are esentialy low quality plastic versions of the old school Victrola record players that rely on the record needle directly vibrating a diaphragm to make sound and thus need no power just somthing to spin the record which could be a pull string in a doll like this.

The same concept is used on those old animal sound spining toys, except those had multiple tracks arranged in concentric spirals on the record. When you pointed the arrow at the animal whose sound you wanted to hear you were actualy lining the record up so the needle would fall into the groove for the right track.

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