bobs_monkey @ bobs_monkey @lemm.ee

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Hate to break it to you, but those are baseline minimums for being a decent human being, not a contingency plan to actively resist fascism.

Lol ok bud. Sounds more like a concept of a plan.

Ok, what are YOU going to about it? You've stomped your feet and pointed your finger at just about everyone else in this thread, what's your plan?

What pisses me off is the way they pass movies and shows amongst each other and arbitrarily drop them from their platforms to pull this artificial scarcity nonsense. Oh you want to watch this movie? We don't have it anymore, better sign up for that other service. Or, sorry this movie from the 60s is unavailable on any service, but you can "rent" it for $10/24hrs. Then there is the app causing grief for no good reason (cough Paramount), or two many people are watching the same thing and the CDN isn't scaled appropriately for a service you already pay too much for, or you can't watch Netflix in a browser on Linux because DRM, or we decided your HDMI cable is not up to our spec requirements, even though it was gone 5 minutes ago, because fuck you. And then on top of it all, the quality from every streaming provider is dog shit.

And do the companies care? Nope, not one bit. What are you gonna do about it, not watch TV? In 2025? Get with the program pleb, now bend over and shit benjamins to keep your wife and kids occupied.

You know which service doesn't have all these issues? My damn home server, and the quality is fantastic. And all it costs me is the electricity (but let's not talk about my power bill).

Look at the cost you're paying for Prime and consider how many orders you'd have to place to break even (using the Prime membership money just to pay for shipping when you need it faster, etc).

I exceed the hell out of that in probably a couple weeks for my business. I hate it, but I'm pinched to keep costs down and time is valuable, and unfortunately Amazon fills that requirement too well. I live in a small town, I don't have time to dedicate an entire day to driving to civilization and back, plus fuel costs. Plus, Amazon gets it to my mail depot faster than I can get it from other suppliers, without having to pay shipping.

Well, they were before we decided every scrap of data needs to be vacuumed up to the cloud for marketing reasons, in that no one in the 90s was wasting committing computing resources to scan them and the necessary storage/databasing to store them long term aside from an inbox. I can say with a good degree of likelihood that my IRC chats and maybe AIM/MSN convos are probably gone, and that's good thing.

Yup! I remember watching a documentary on I think Sudan or another north African country some years back, and there was a dude in the background with a 2017 Superbowl Atlanta championship tshirt (Pats won), and I was really confused.

Lol all good. I took French in high school and was pretty sure their wasn't an x on the end, but I looked it up and it technically is correct in old French as far as I can tell. Perhaps someone who speaks proper French can chime in.

Seriy. I swear, half of "journalism" now is basically "no shit, Sherlock." I'd rather read stories about what our politicians/leaders are doing to address it.

Nevermind that part time jobs after school for kids was always about learning how to work a job and earn some spending money, not fucking feed themselves because the system is broken.

$100 says he's against minimum wage, now where's my $100

TIL there's a plural of adieu

I'd imagine it's a little safer these days for women to drive with cameras and full GPS, but people are nuts so ¯(ツ)/¯

Stanislav Petrov, the man that saved the world from annihilation.

"Bonjour, i'm here to fuck shit up"

Realistically, the CCP is probably throwing a lot of money at developers to get something good going and available, and US companies are whining about how it's not fair. The fact of the matter is that a solid product is available for much cheaper, and US companies are now screaming foul. Guess what, a superior product made of good code (people) beats out just throwing money at hardware, who'd've gone an thunk it.

They're probably tuning the type of engagement the stockholders admins demand. Anyone who doesn't fit the bill of circlejerking the hive mind gets the boot.

If we get our asses kicked by the Danes I'm gonna laugh my ass off

Alternatives

Referring to it's proper name, the Gulf of Mexico

Y'all know why the US is freaking out about Chinese innovation? Because America decided stock prices were of the utmost importance and stopped innovating a long time ago. They really only pissed off because China is playing a different game (the game we originally stomped them at) and kicking our asses in the process. Maybe if we stopped playing the market and started making good shit again, we'd have less to complain about.