What I meant to say before I accidentally posted that was, back when everyone was going on about how much better streaming is than cable, I was like “well, give it time… they’ll get just as bad a cable”…
Little by little they are heading down the same road… Netflix has a few good shows, but most of their catalog is old or obscure crap not worth a price increase.
Cable still sucks, but streaming services are going down that same road finding new ways to nickel and dime you for everything.
Sooner than later they reach cable greed level money-grab status.
I used to be concerned about scammers ripping off people and selling dangerous products and shady cures…
But… I dunno about that concern anymore with this lot.
The MAGA crowd are so determined to drag everyone to hell with them, I kinda don’t really have ANY sympathy for them… they beg to be ripped off by their willful blindness and quadrupling down on stupidity… they revel in their stupidity and are proud of it.
I almost want to applaud the scammers because these fools are literally lining up to be fleeced, so why not give them what they want?
Isn’t that what they themselves keep crowing about?… a free market with NO rules and zero regulations or responsibility?
So… fuck em.
They are so aggressively stupid they are fighting to get infected with a highly transmissible virus, which has a readily available vaccine… but they want to only follow their MAGA celebrities advice and reject it… despite the fact that most if not all of these celebrities have been quietly vaccinated themselves regardless of their rhetoric.
I stopped being concerned when it involves the MAGA folks wellbeing… They are right up there with suicide bombers as far as I’m concerned… they want the world to burn if they can’t have it their way and they only care about winning not how much carnage they cause.
The whole conservative movement has been a complete and total scam from day one, a way of getting stupid people to hand over their money and rights so their “team” can win.
If I had far less ethnics and self respect I’d happily join the grift because it’s just super easy money they want to give you for telling them what they want to believe…
If someone wants to give you a $100 to tell them their shirt looks nice, would you turn it down?
I don’t honestly blame the scammers, it’s easy money from easy marks.
I know that all sounds cruel or heartless, but how much sympathy can you have for people who have no concern for anyone else and continually keep acting against their own self interests?
Nobody wants a game to have ads, nothing they are going to offer will compensate for the interruption.
Maybe in the beginning they will offer something vaguely interesting, yet useless, but I can guarantee that will evaporate once idiots accept ads in games, then you’ll get nothing in return and be paying to be interrupted by ads…
No.
Just say NO.
The most I’d accept would be in open world sandbox games where billboards or signs and posters would be for real life companies… that’s it, because just like in real life, you can ignore it if you chose, otherwise anything that I HAVE to pay attention to is a dealbreaker.
And you know it will all quickly devolve into a crap fest of stupid and repetitive ads.
Ad people don’t know when to quit or enough is enough.
No, just no thanks X10,000,000,000
Hapless character accidentally gets super powers, goes around saving people and thwarting crime but accidentally reveals secret identity and then receives multiple cease and desist orders and theft of intellectual property lawsuits from multiple mega corporations because the concept of being a super hero was their idea first and is confusing their customer base... character is sued into oblivion and retires a broken person... until a crisis arises... will they rise to the challenge?
Who cares, not my problem...
Also I fully expect someone to cite multiple stories and comics where that was the plot.
Conservatives- The spoiled annoying, smelly, whiny kid who throws tantrums over everything and can’t understand why nobody likes him or wants him around... only he’s not a kid anymore, he’s 70 and that’s been his entire life.
If it wasn’t so insipid and all encompassing, it would be comical, but it’s getting really tiresome now.
“12345”... You are assuming he can count that high... and in sequence.
trump: “1...” “3...?...5?...” “Ivanka... what comes after 5? Is it triangle or the sideways zeros?”
“Beautiful numbers... numbers like nobody has ever seen!”
Yes, please stop using the name “Mr. Juicy”...
It’s not appetizing and sounds like someone’s pet name for their wiener.
What’s their slogan... “Come on in and get a mouthful of Mr. Juicy”?
But if it’s a growing chain... Maybe that’s what Texas wants?
It could be gay burger bar or a male strip joint, in which case that name works fabulously.
Otherwise it’s just a comical bad name, right up there with LoveSac bean bag furniture...
“True to his word, President Trump has continued to honor America's cops...”
I dunno... more like “As usual, trump has continued to pander to America’s cops...”
The man “honors” one thing and one thing only... himself, and that’s it.
Everything else is a cheap carnival act designed to get people to buy tickets.
He’d turn on the lot of them in a nanosecond, like an rabid orange badger if they displeased him.
He says nice things to them because he wants his army of followers to be carrying as many guns as possible, so when he he squeals for their help they come running to his aid.
It’s purely transactional.
Biden’s “cognitive decline” is nothing compared to trump’s best days at the peak of his youth...
trump’s cognitive decline began in fourth grade... for fuck sake, the dipshit said minutemen “stormed the airports and rammed the ramparts”... What the fuck does that even mean?
He’s so goddamn ignorant he can’t even string together a few words without it devolving into a shitty mess...
That’s not even senility... go back and listen to him on Howard Stern or interviews in the 90s or 80s... he was just as dumb then, the only difference was he didn’t get to be on TV constantly to blatantly display his stupidity for the world to see, so it was less obvious.
Regardless, anyone would have to be pretty fucking stupid, desperate and racist to re-elect a pathetic ignorant conman who does nothing but rage tweet all day while doing everything he can to stir up hatred and fear.
Give me a senile Biden any day over that goddamn hateful imbecile trump.
Isn’t something like 20% of the human genome already patented?
Give it a few more years and you’ll see people getting sued for having a particular eye color or nose shape.
I don’t even know if I’m being sarcastic anymore...
Half the ridiculous Simpsons grade shit I’ve joked about over the past few decades has come to pass in the last couple of years of this dystopian dumpster fire nightmare we are living through.
“ My feeling is beyond what I can express”
You could start with- “Duuuuuuh...”
“If I knew, I would run ten-thousand-million miles away from that guy.”
That’s not a real number, but would you have really?
“I didn’t do my research...″
Ya think?
“This is an experience that will teach me a lot for the future.”
No... You have learned nothing.
Did she really just except a proposal for a bill from a random guy on the street?
Is that really how we will be writing our laws now?
Would she have been equally fooled by someone in a nun, farmer or superhero costume?
I think there is more to this story, but at this point who cares, there are far more important things to worry about.
An opinion is just a conclusion one has reached after weighing the facts and carefully deciding between what to ignore and what one immediately forgot because they really weren’t paying attention in the first place.
Not having an opinion allows one to avoid choosing between the classic positions of “right” and “wrong”...
Who is to say what is wrong or what is right, or even what is left... for that matter, what is up or down...
We live on a planet floating in space, and there is no up or down in space... and left or right is just dependent on which shoe is on which foot...
Do we not all walk funny when the shoe is on the other foot... and what of those without feet?
Are any of us so bold as to judge those without feet such as the humble cephalopods?
If we all try to walk a mile in one another’s shoes only then can we truly appreciate how bad our feet will smell.
A true journalist knows those arguments and to avoid forming opinions because they can cloud one’s mind with judgmental thoughts that might make them seem biased or preachy...
They know it is best to leave judgement to historians who are judgie bitches anyway... always pointing out who massacred who and who committed genocide where.
Journalists need to be pure, they need to let history unfold without them calling out potential problems or facts that might lead to those problems being avoided and mankind not learning another important lesson that we’ll instantly forget.
After all, if we all listen to both sides, no matter how batshit insane and dangerously divisive the other side may sound and behave, and then carefully take into account all we have learned from them, only then can we all appreciate how insane they truly are, and then take steps to avoid labeling their insanity as right or wrong, and by doing so head down the path to true enlightenment, free of all judgmental opinions.
By giving both sides equal time and consideration, regardless of how much one side may be lying or trying to manipulate the situation by having it’s insane rhetoric aired, we give history a chance to unfold without sensible interference.
Some may say that’s irresponsible, but still others may say that’s just an opinion based on a presumption of a concept of right and wrong, facts or bullshit.
In the end, each of us must randomly choose for ourselves the wildest explanation and stick to it until something cooler or more popular comes along.
But ultimately that all just my opinion of which I have no opinion on.
This wasn’t supposed to be what happened... I was told by numerous people who obviously know everything, that streaming would not end up like this... they can’t be wrong...
It’s impossible I tell ya’... impossible.
Isn’t it illegal to sue Disney?
Besides, while that’s a cute Pegasus, its not a unicorn, so you gotta pick your fights with the omnipotent corporate masters of our legal system better... at least add in a horn and make it a Pegacorn or something and say it was there all along.
Not to mention thats just about what every other late 70s van was painted up as anyway... that and Conan (the barbarian, not O’Brien), so the argument would easily be “its a common 70s theme”...
And of course Disney would have sued the crap out of her if the roles were reversed, they sued a school for $300 for showing a film at fundraiser, that’s what they do... it’s friggin’ Disney.
You are thinking small...
I’m claiming copyright on “2020”, “2021”, “2022” and “2023”...
Over those four years I’ll rake in enough troll income to afford enough evil lawyers to successfully defend my claim to “42”... which as we all know is the answer to “life, the universe and everything”.
Initially “red light” cameras were not a bad idea, at least “technically”...
someone who blew a red light well after it had changed got a ticket as they should.
But it quickly went downhill... poor maintenance, wrong people getting tickets, improperly timed photos... what should have gotten better and fairer as technology improved, just got more and more revenue driven and flat out corrupt.
Right nearby there are several intersections that previous only experienced an occasional accident here and there, but are high volume traffic areas now hosting “red light” cameras... but only a few blocks away are much lower volume intersections that experience a collision almost every week... the majority of tickets generated by the cameras are not for blowing through the light, but for cars that don’t come to a complete stop before making a right turn.
It’s clear from the lack of interest in the low volume, but more dangerous intersections, that the cameras are there solely for revenue purposes.
Not to mention these devices can pose a nuisance to innocent drivers... I’m sure many of us have seen these cameras flash randomly when nobody is breaking the law.
I’ve seen several near accidents when the strobe flashed for no reason causing someone approaching the light to brake hard and almost get rear ended... in one case a car almost drove up on the curb with pedestrians on it because it swerved.
From my own observations, even when I still thought they might be a good idea, it’s clear to me they are more of a nuisance, an exploitation and a problem then any good they might serve.
If our politicians are so concerned about generating income for their districts, let them donate their salaries and “campaign contributions”.
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What I meant to say before I accidentally posted that was, back when everyone was going on about how much better streaming is than cable, I was like “well, give it time… they’ll get just as bad a cable”…
Little by little they are heading down the same road… Netflix has a few good shows, but most of their catalog is old or obscure crap not worth a price increase.
Cable still sucks, but streaming services are going down that same road finding new ways to nickel and dime you for everything.
Sooner than later they reach cable greed level money-grab status.
Hmm… sounds familiar…
Good for them…
I used to be concerned about scammers ripping off people and selling dangerous products and shady cures…
But… I dunno about that concern anymore with this lot.
The MAGA crowd are so determined to drag everyone to hell with them, I kinda don’t really have ANY sympathy for them… they beg to be ripped off by their willful blindness and quadrupling down on stupidity… they revel in their stupidity and are proud of it.
I almost want to applaud the scammers because these fools are literally lining up to be fleeced, so why not give them what they want?
Isn’t that what they themselves keep crowing about?… a free market with NO rules and zero regulations or responsibility?
So… fuck em.
They are so aggressively stupid they are fighting to get infected with a highly transmissible virus, which has a readily available vaccine… but they want to only follow their MAGA celebrities advice and reject it… despite the fact that most if not all of these celebrities have been quietly vaccinated themselves regardless of their rhetoric.
I stopped being concerned when it involves the MAGA folks wellbeing… They are right up there with suicide bombers as far as I’m concerned… they want the world to burn if they can’t have it their way and they only care about winning not how much carnage they cause.
The whole conservative movement has been a complete and total scam from day one, a way of getting stupid people to hand over their money and rights so their “team” can win.
If I had far less ethnics and self respect I’d happily join the grift because it’s just super easy money they want to give you for telling them what they want to believe…
If someone wants to give you a $100 to tell them their shirt looks nice, would you turn it down?
I don’t honestly blame the scammers, it’s easy money from easy marks.
I know that all sounds cruel or heartless, but how much sympathy can you have for people who have no concern for anyone else and continually keep acting against their own self interests?
No thanks…
Nobody wants a game to have ads, nothing they are going to offer will compensate for the interruption.
Maybe in the beginning they will offer something vaguely interesting, yet useless, but I can guarantee that will evaporate once idiots accept ads in games, then you’ll get nothing in return and be paying to be interrupted by ads…
No.
Just say NO.
The most I’d accept would be in open world sandbox games where billboards or signs and posters would be for real life companies… that’s it, because just like in real life, you can ignore it if you chose, otherwise anything that I HAVE to pay attention to is a dealbreaker.
And you know it will all quickly devolve into a crap fest of stupid and repetitive ads.
Ad people don’t know when to quit or enough is enough.
No, just no thanks X10,000,000,000
Free plot for your next indy flick...
Hapless character accidentally gets super powers, goes around saving people and thwarting crime but accidentally reveals secret identity and then receives multiple cease and desist orders and theft of intellectual property lawsuits from multiple mega corporations because the concept of being a super hero was their idea first and is confusing their customer base... character is sued into oblivion and retires a broken person... until a crisis arises... will they rise to the challenge?
Who cares, not my problem...
Also I fully expect someone to cite multiple stories and comics where that was the plot.
Corporate greed- Why we can’t have nice things.
Wahhh haaa ahhh wahhh... Everyone is mean to meeee...
Conservatives- The spoiled annoying, smelly, whiny kid who throws tantrums over everything and can’t understand why nobody likes him or wants him around... only he’s not a kid anymore, he’s 70 and that’s been his entire life.
If it wasn’t so insipid and all encompassing, it would be comical, but it’s getting really tiresome now.
Re:
“12345”... You are assuming he can count that high... and in sequence.
trump: “1...” “3...?...5?...” “Ivanka... what comes after 5? Is it triangle or the sideways zeros?”
“Beautiful numbers... numbers like nobody has ever seen!”
Yeech... “Mr. Juicy?”
Yes, please stop using the name “Mr. Juicy”...
It’s not appetizing and sounds like someone’s pet name for their wiener.
What’s their slogan... “Come on in and get a mouthful of Mr. Juicy”?
But if it’s a growing chain... Maybe that’s what Texas wants?
It could be gay burger bar or a male strip joint, in which case that name works fabulously.
Otherwise it’s just a comical bad name, right up there with LoveSac bean bag furniture...
Re: Re:
The be even fairer, most pets are much smarter than this president.
Not to nitpick, but...
“True to his word, President Trump has continued to honor America's cops...”
I dunno... more like “As usual, trump has continued to pander to America’s cops...”
The man “honors” one thing and one thing only... himself, and that’s it.
Everything else is a cheap carnival act designed to get people to buy tickets.
He’d turn on the lot of them in a nanosecond, like an rabid orange badger if they displeased him.
He says nice things to them because he wants his army of followers to be carrying as many guns as possible, so when he he squeals for their help they come running to his aid.
It’s purely transactional.
Re: Re: Re:
Biden’s “cognitive decline” is nothing compared to trump’s best days at the peak of his youth...
trump’s cognitive decline began in fourth grade... for fuck sake, the dipshit said minutemen “stormed the airports and rammed the ramparts”... What the fuck does that even mean?
He’s so goddamn ignorant he can’t even string together a few words without it devolving into a shitty mess...
That’s not even senility... go back and listen to him on Howard Stern or interviews in the 90s or 80s... he was just as dumb then, the only difference was he didn’t get to be on TV constantly to blatantly display his stupidity for the world to see, so it was less obvious.
Regardless, anyone would have to be pretty fucking stupid, desperate and racist to re-elect a pathetic ignorant conman who does nothing but rage tweet all day while doing everything he can to stir up hatred and fear.
Give me a senile Biden any day over that goddamn hateful imbecile trump.
Re: Why don't we try and copyright nature, not a picture, but na
Isn’t something like 20% of the human genome already patented?
Give it a few more years and you’ll see people getting sued for having a particular eye color or nose shape.
I don’t even know if I’m being sarcastic anymore...
Half the ridiculous Simpsons grade shit I’ve joked about over the past few decades has come to pass in the last couple of years of this dystopian dumpster fire nightmare we are living through.
Quick question...
Since you are talking about trump... don’t you mean “foistering” not “foisting”?
Wow, a 2D drawing...
Whatever you say...
“ My feeling is beyond what I can express”
You could start with- “Duuuuuuh...”
“If I knew, I would run ten-thousand-million miles away from that guy.”
That’s not a real number, but would you have really?
“I didn’t do my research...″
Ya think?
“This is an experience that will teach me a lot for the future.”
No... You have learned nothing.
Did she really just except a proposal for a bill from a random guy on the street?
Is that really how we will be writing our laws now?
Would she have been equally fooled by someone in a nun, farmer or superhero costume?
I think there is more to this story, but at this point who cares, there are far more important things to worry about.
I have no opinion...
An opinion is just a conclusion one has reached after weighing the facts and carefully deciding between what to ignore and what one immediately forgot because they really weren’t paying attention in the first place.
Not having an opinion allows one to avoid choosing between the classic positions of “right” and “wrong”...
Who is to say what is wrong or what is right, or even what is left... for that matter, what is up or down...
We live on a planet floating in space, and there is no up or down in space... and left or right is just dependent on which shoe is on which foot...
Do we not all walk funny when the shoe is on the other foot... and what of those without feet?
Are any of us so bold as to judge those without feet such as the humble cephalopods?
If we all try to walk a mile in one another’s shoes only then can we truly appreciate how bad our feet will smell.
A true journalist knows those arguments and to avoid forming opinions because they can cloud one’s mind with judgmental thoughts that might make them seem biased or preachy...
They know it is best to leave judgement to historians who are judgie bitches anyway... always pointing out who massacred who and who committed genocide where.
Journalists need to be pure, they need to let history unfold without them calling out potential problems or facts that might lead to those problems being avoided and mankind not learning another important lesson that we’ll instantly forget.
After all, if we all listen to both sides, no matter how batshit insane and dangerously divisive the other side may sound and behave, and then carefully take into account all we have learned from them, only then can we all appreciate how insane they truly are, and then take steps to avoid labeling their insanity as right or wrong, and by doing so head down the path to true enlightenment, free of all judgmental opinions.
By giving both sides equal time and consideration, regardless of how much one side may be lying or trying to manipulate the situation by having it’s insane rhetoric aired, we give history a chance to unfold without sensible interference.
Some may say that’s irresponsible, but still others may say that’s just an opinion based on a presumption of a concept of right and wrong, facts or bullshit.
In the end, each of us must randomly choose for ourselves the wildest explanation and stick to it until something cooler or more popular comes along.
But ultimately that all just my opinion of which I have no opinion on.
But... but... but...
This wasn’t supposed to be what happened... I was told by numerous people who obviously know everything, that streaming would not end up like this... they can’t be wrong...
It’s impossible I tell ya’... impossible.
You can’t sue Disney
Isn’t it illegal to sue Disney?
Besides, while that’s a cute Pegasus, its not a unicorn, so you gotta pick your fights with the omnipotent corporate masters of our legal system better... at least add in a horn and make it a Pegacorn or something and say it was there all along.
Not to mention thats just about what every other late 70s van was painted up as anyway... that and Conan (the barbarian, not O’Brien), so the argument would easily be “its a common 70s theme”...
And of course Disney would have sued the crap out of her if the roles were reversed, they sued a school for $300 for showing a film at fundraiser, that’s what they do... it’s friggin’ Disney.
Re: Today is the 24th......
You are thinking small...
I’m claiming copyright on “2020”, “2021”, “2022” and “2023”...
Over those four years I’ll rake in enough troll income to afford enough evil lawyers to successfully defend my claim to “42”... which as we all know is the answer to “life, the universe and everything”.
Get rid of them all
Initially “red light” cameras were not a bad idea, at least “technically”...
someone who blew a red light well after it had changed got a ticket as they should.
But it quickly went downhill... poor maintenance, wrong people getting tickets, improperly timed photos... what should have gotten better and fairer as technology improved, just got more and more revenue driven and flat out corrupt.
Right nearby there are several intersections that previous only experienced an occasional accident here and there, but are high volume traffic areas now hosting “red light” cameras... but only a few blocks away are much lower volume intersections that experience a collision almost every week... the majority of tickets generated by the cameras are not for blowing through the light, but for cars that don’t come to a complete stop before making a right turn.
It’s clear from the lack of interest in the low volume, but more dangerous intersections, that the cameras are there solely for revenue purposes.
Not to mention these devices can pose a nuisance to innocent drivers... I’m sure many of us have seen these cameras flash randomly when nobody is breaking the law.
I’ve seen several near accidents when the strobe flashed for no reason causing someone approaching the light to brake hard and almost get rear ended... in one case a car almost drove up on the curb with pedestrians on it because it swerved.
From my own observations, even when I still thought they might be a good idea, it’s clear to me they are more of a nuisance, an exploitation and a problem then any good they might serve.
If our politicians are so concerned about generating income for their districts, let them donate their salaries and “campaign contributions”.
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