Always trying to force the user into a walled garden with more subscriptions.

I’ve watched a few things. Fantastic sets and production quality. Terrible acting and writing.

All these minimalist labels save .0005¢ every time they’re printed, probably even more on promo booths, banners, and the like.

And you would still need to pay extra to watch the newest or older titles even if you subscribed to every service, and there are plenty of movies that just aren’t available regardless of which service you subscribe to.

It’s all enshittified.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-reviews-plan-halt-us-military-aid-ukraine-unless-it-negotiates-peace-with-2024-06-25/

Trump’s plan is just to force Ukraine to hand whatever the Russians have taken over to the Russians, or whatever or they stop getting aid.

The Kremlin said any peace plan proposed by a possible future Trump administration would have to reflect the reality on the ground but that Russian President Vladimir Putin remained open to talks.

The Kremlin said any peace plan proposed by a possible future Trump administration would have to reflect the reality on the ground but that Russian President Vladimir Putin remained open to talks.

So Putin’s puppet will let them take what they have under control…and knowing Trump and Putin, probably more, like sanctions or stripping Ukraine of more autonomy.

It would be ideal if both sides held their members accountable equally. My point was that this isn’t the case.

I am equally impressed that the journey is over 1k miles, considering the entire island is about 600 miles top to bottom. An extra 400 miles of no straight roads.

They’re so overconfident in their win they’ve stopped showing up to do the job.

I think the pedantry was unnecessary. Nobody thinks you’re drinking a chunk of potato or carrot.

You’re right. I just don’t use it and deleted my account, so it wasn’t in my head. Added.

Wait for the power to come back on.

Think about opening the fridge and pointlessly looking to boredom eat, then remember I shouldn’t open the fridge and let the cold escape because the power is off. Repeat.

Think about how much of our lives revolve around and are entirely dependent on electricity, and how bad loss of power would be even for just a couple days, and disastrous it would be for a week or more.

Wish I’d remembered to recharge my phone power banks.

Where are all the books? I used to have books to read. They’re all on my phone now. Shit. Need to save battery.

Guess I’ll see if I can find some candles. Maybe the fam will want to play a board game.

So yet another government contractor with delays and cost overruns getting rich off the American tax dollar being feted by the Right.

Sounds normal.

Do we actually vote to benefit the rich?

Many vote for leaders that openly cater to the rich, but I don’t know that we actually consciously vote to deliberately help the rich.

Those elected people are the ones telling everyone that the rich are the job creators. They used to feed us the farce that trickle-down was viable, they don’t even bother with the lie anymore. The rich are just squatters on wealth. They get that wealth by consolidating businesses, hoarding assets like real estate, creating artificial scarcity, enshittifying everything, and squeezing labor for more productivity while expending massive effort to minimize overall compensation.

And they own the media. All of it. Even the “liberal” media is mealy at best about taxing wealth or anything critical of the uber-wealthy, anything right of center is openly against tax, particularly of anyone with wealth, making the wealthy the “victims” of the left’s ideas while the wealthy are just parasites victimizing us all.

All that aside, the real crux of the issue is identity politics. Being a sycophant of the rich is no longer any different than being a evangelical supply-side Jesus CINO, pro-gun, anti-government, anti-tax, anti-environmental regs, blah blah and all the rest of the mulish conservative BS.

They don’t actually care if we cater to the rich. They care that their team says we should bend over and give the rich everything. Just like their team says school shootings are an acceptable price for having your own personal arsenal, or spreading a potentially deadly disease is better than being inconvenienced by closed restaurants.

Obstinate tribalism has gleefully supplanted critical thought.

The ones that get their information from places like Fox, Threads, Facebook, Nextdoor, X, etc.

Ok.

Do it.

The overwhelming problem is that the Dems tend to hold their members accountable while the republicans absolutely DGAF and happily keep literal criminals in their ranks.

She’s basically acknowledging there’s plenty of dirt, but the only offenses they’ll care about is their opponents’.

You have got to be shitting me.

Turning America’s government into Richard Dawson, host of Running Man.

I find it hard to disagree with anything you said. Having lived in towns small enough to make someone say “There’s a town here?” That is definitely the case.

I really wouldn’t suggest making people like that annoyed in small ways like that, because they would **never** connect it to being a consequence of them acting that way and it would only make them more mad, probably making him more likely to harm others.

Very good point. Someone like this has a shitty day it isn’t because they’re a shitty person in their opinion. They take it out on others.

Well that’s too bad. I’ve been using them for years and they’ve been pretty consistent up until now. Might have to switch brands.

That’s true, and why I sorta carved out space for programs like Veritasium. They can be informational, but they’re also entertainment. The type of information they convey is different, too…concepts, history, whatever, vs a highly specific question.

Anyway, yeah. There’s definitely overlap and gray area.