KinglyWeevil @ KinglyWeevil @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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They cancel shows that aren't binge watched in the first eight weeks because of payment agreements made with the production companies. They have to pay royalties for all views that occur outside of that defined period. Which is still profitable, it's just less so.

But they're not interested in making good, watchable content. They're only interested in profit, and producing a show which is watched immediately is what maximizes that profit.

A constitutional amendment will never occur again, because it is an incredibly high bar to overcome even when the legislative process in the country isn't as dysfunctional.

One party would need a super majority in both houses of Congress, where the bar is 2/3 but you're probably going to need at least ten more than that to prevent the amendment from being scrapped by a contingent of Joe Liebermans.

Then that same party will need a majority in the state legislatures of 38 states to ratify the amendment.

It's just not going to happen.

Can we just have a civil war already, I'd rather get it over with now than when I'm in my forties and in even more pain than I am now.

My cyberpunk solution is that once you cross the billion dollar net worth threshold, it becomes legal for a team of any size or an individual to register with the billionaire hunting office.

If a registered person or group is successful in killing the billionaire, all of their assets (including any managed by a trust on their behalf) are seized, liquidated, and distributed to the group.

Anyone paid to protect them, anyone affiliated with an organization paid to protect them, or anyone (regardless of affiliation or payment status) within a certain physical proximity to the billionaire is fair game.

It's an incredibly hard read. It's legitimately a graduate school philosophy class reading level. I would love to take that theoretical class and read along/discuss with a group but it's hard to go through alone.

A constitutional amendment will never occur again, because it is an incredibly high bar to overcome even when the legislative process in the country isn't as dysfunctional.

One party would need a super majority in both houses of Congress, where the bar is 2/3 but you're probably going to need at least ten more than that to prevent the amendment from being scrapped by a contingent of Joe Liebermans.

Then that same party will need a majority in the state legislatures of 38 states to ratify the amendment.

It's just not going to happen.

Give it time, forced advertising is inevitable.

I tried to replay GoldenEye on switch and just couldn't. The control scheme is just too dated and I can't get past it.

Slowly making progress in Dave the Diver, which is quite entertaining. Also working on Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader.

Also collaboratively playing The Sims 4 with my wife, and I'd forgotten how fun that could be.

The thirteenth was Mary Magdalene but we can't have a woman disciple.

New Year's Festival. Mandatory day off for everyone except emergency services

I'm convinced every "bigfoot" sighting is actually "bear with mange walking on its hind legs"

It isn't the cutting it that's the problem for me, it's the peeling

Yep, so they're all going to continue to merge until there's 1-3 mega streamers, then they'll all add advertising, and we'll have come full circle.

Then there will be some new service which streams content directly to your brain and we'll begin again and continue until we have advertisements in our dreams.

Just give me my porn, you fucks

Yeah I went from not having to really check prices when I shopped to having to be careful so I don't accidentally spend $200/week.

A bag of ruffles, which I swear is only a tiny bit bigger than the size that used to exist between the snack size bags and the regular bags, was something like $6.75. It's legitimately cheaper to get the gourmet kettle cooked chips.

Just stupid expensive for some things.

It always feels like a conservative saying something about "states rights."

Sure the economy is good. But good for whom?

It definitely sucks. The difference in quality between the pine boards my dad purchased at the hardware store for projects when I was a child, vs the pine boards available now when I get some for a project is NUTS. The number of rings visible on the end has dropped from a dozen or more to a mere handful, they're way less dense than they used to be.

I fucking HATE buying lumber because it's an all day ordeal to sort through the stack of boards to find a dozen that aren't warped, crooked, knotted, rough edged, or missing a corner because it came from the very edge of the log. I almost wish they'd leave an open space next to the stack so I could stick all the trash boards there as I go through them, because only one out of every ten to fifteen is actually usable for anything where precision or appearance matters.

Or you can choose to pay a premium over the already absurd (but appropriate, considering the factors you mentioned) for "Select" grade boards. It's legitimately difficult to build any kind of furniture type project under what it would cost to buy from a company producing the same thing using an economy-at-scale advantage.

I feel like that's a side effect, where it's being done because now he owns twitter and can.

Originally, I'm pretty sure the reasoning was less convoluted - it was just a pump and dump stock scheme. Which he has a history of doing. He bought a bunch of twitter stock, he posted memes about buying twitter, a bunch of his idiot supporters correspondingly bought twitter stock, which drove up the price.

Then he tried to back out of buying it, he got sued and the SEC got involved. Because he'd had an ongoing vendetta with the SEC they helped force him into buying it.

Then he was stuck being required to purchase an asset which was known to be nearly impossible to get a profit out of, with big loans from multiple parties.