Yeah, I feel like the OP picture is more of a commentary about the overlap, or lack of overlap, between people who use ts, and people that use the service formerly known as Twitter.

Complex, maybe?

Two sides? Sure. There are the people getting killed by genocide, and the side committing genocide.

So they might be half right?

I got a rejection email from a job I applied to in November. It took them six months to say no.

I’m not sure what they expected? But I found a job less than a month after I applied, they never even called me for an interview.

Pro tip for time travelers, ask what year it is instead. So much easier. It’s weird to ask, or be asked, but it’s less weird tham giving spoilers.

I look at this and think, it’s almost right. If you reverse the direction, or simply see it flowing the other way (there’s really no directionality on the image except for what’s implied by the physics of light), trans kids go in… People who were born trans and trying to figure themselves out, push them through almost any system of oppression (schools, church, you name it), and out the other side comes “normal” (and deeply unhappy) kids.

IDK, it’s not a perfect metaphor.

I would argue that the opposite of love is not hate.

Both love and hate are powerful emotions, and both require that you give a shit.

The opposite of love and hate is indifference.

I am indifferent to pretty much everything. Do whatever you want, I don’t give a shit.

I DON’T THINK ANYONE IS FINDING IT VERY FUNNY.

Dumbly, I consider Disney+ to be the only worthwhile subscription to get. Not because they’re particularly good, but because they’ve eaten most of the “good” studios. They have the most content I’d actually be interested in watching.

But I still hoist my flag. Yarrr.

Their interface sucks though. I feel almost spoiled by the simplicity of the basic interface from Plex. It isn’t complicated at all, and there’s no algorithm to fight to try to find that show you like… On other platforms I sit there struggling to find the link to it and give up and search and search comes up with all kinds of random nonsense that doesn’t seem to have any bearing on the query… It’s a mess.

So I go poke my little sailing ship with the black flag and a VPN, to go find it, the Linux ISOs are dropped into Plex and I get sweet sweet relief from the struggles of dealing with garbage interfaces.

I just look at recently added content and there it is. Play it without issue and sail away.

Is this another safe situation?

I’m going to put my money in dirt. There’s dirt behind those stones.

According to my calculations, prices have roughly doubled since then. So a $70 package then, would be $140 or so now.

Amazon Prime does commercials too. You have to pay more to get rid of them.

Pretty sure that many never stopped. There’s certainly more than during the golden age of Netflix, when they were the only service doing it.

Yo ho ho.

But they’re the same execs at the same companies.

I’ll weigh in.

I saw the writing on the wall when Netflix was forced to remove shows due to licensing.

Like many of you, I was on the “Yay Netflix” bandwagon for a while. And I remember the moment I realized I had to fish my black tri-point hat and eye patch out of the bin. It was the early 2010’s and I was living in a single rental bedroom (student style). I had Netflix and I’m in Canada, but I was experimenting with ipv6, and I realized that Netflix’s ipv6 geolocation stuff was flawed. I wasn’t using a VPN, but my V6 address was a “US” address, so if I turned off IPv4, I could watch US Netflix. I was watching the show “Arrow”, which I got really into early on. After a while, poof, it vanished. A bit of research and the license was pulled. It didn’t take long for me to piece it together. They were going to make the show available on their own streaming platform.

Suddenly, I saw the whole picture. It was like cable, but worse. Each studio was going to have a streaming service and like cable packages, you’d have to subscribe to their streaming service to see their shows, while getting access to a bunch of crap you didn’t care about, then have to find some way to track what shows were on which platforms and stay informed as to when new episodes were released, etc… Same as with cable. I said to myself, hell no.

I got my hat and eye patch, hung my flag, and I’ve been sailing the seven seas since. Fuck that noise.

My main issue with it all (beyond the obvious cost) is managing, monitoring and using multiple services. I wanted a central dashboard of shows that will update with new episodes from shows I watch as they are released. I found Plex. I’ve been using it for something like 10 years or more, and I’m pretty happy about it.

Cable had the merit of channel flipping. You could easily flip from one studios station to another without barriers. Now, you have to go to a completely different app/website/whatever, to change. You probably have to log in, etc. It’s a whole thing. What was a simple push of a button is now an entire ordeal. No thanks.

I knew this would be the eventual outcome and I was entirely right. My friends, if you haven’t already, it may be time to dust off your own hats and eye patches and set sail once again.

Agreed. I won’t get into it, since the trolley problem has taught me that there’s a lot of opinions on it, which makes it seem relevant, but there’s nearly zero consensus on what the correct analysis of the situation is. At the end of the day, the dilemma is a near impossibility.

The courts have made up their mind on it and that’s all I’m going to concern myself with for the moment.

Thanks for replying to this. I’m not in Lemmy nearly as much as I would like.

I just want to note that the comment you replied to is wrong. Call it a quirk of my personality, but I like to ask the opposite of what’s expected. The example I gave in another reply was walking in to a room where people are watching sports, instead of asking “who is winning?” As most would, I instead ask “who is losing?”. The information is the same either way, provided you know who is playing, stating the loser implies who the winner is.

I don’t mean to imply all marriages are unhappy, I just simply flipped the script, so to speak, and instead of saying they have the same right to a happy marriage, I say the opposite, not because I think they’re doomed to be unhappy in marriage, but because people usually expect an implication of everyone being happy in marriage.

I think the reason I do this is because it makes people think about their response more than if they’re asked what people expect them to ask. But IDK, I’m no psychiatrist.

Either way, I appreciate your comments here, and I wanted to leave you a note to say so, and provide a bit of information. I hope you have a great day.

While there definitely is a trope about “wife bad”, and it’s fairly common, people complaining about their spouse is nothing new. Men were able to insert it into pop culture far more frequently in the boomer days before there was even a facade of equality (both for gender and for race).

Now at least, there’s a facade of equality if not genuine equality and as others have indicated, a lot of the spouse demeaning comedy has fallen out of favour.

So from the etymology of the trend, it could only be “wife bad” boomer humor to achieve the meme-like status that it has, when equality became a more important issue, those jokes fell out of favour.

To be perfectly clear, my statements are largely genderless, and that is very much on purpose. Since a husband may not have a wife, and a wife may not have a husband. Equally a spouse may not have a husband or wife.

I have done a lot to ensure that the language I use isn’t gendered because there are people who don’t identify as a gender or don’t identify as a single gender. To which, my comments are largely taking about people, not men and women, so genderless terms are more correct to what I mean by my comments.

Yes, it’s a little cringe to imply that all marriages are unhappy marriages. I tell this joke because it falls in the arena known as “dad” jokes, which I personally enjoy. Additionally, it subverts expectations by implying the negative of what would be normally expected, which is the bread and butter of my preferred humor.

This is emphasized by the fact of who I am and how my personality works. I like to give people something unexpected; I’ll give you one easy example of not being funny but also not doing what’s normally expected. If I walk into a room where a group of people are watching a sports game, I’ll ask “who is losing?” Since most people would ask “who is winning?”. It’s weird, I’m weird, and I’m okay with that.

Do with that information as you will. The fact is I like going with the opposite of whatever most people would expect when it has no bearing on the information, it only inverts it. So rather than saying “the same right to be happily married as everyone else” I simply went for the opposite as I do with everything else. It’s a quirk of my personality.

Nail on the head my friend. That’s exactly why I used that identifier. Not sure what the other person is trying to say here.

The pain was that you had no idea what the image really contained until it was downloading. Sure, thumbnails existed, but they were like 20x20. So you didn’t know if you were getting someone naked, or someone wearing a beige body suit or some other nonsense.

About halfway through you could usually make a judgement call on whether you wanted to finish the download or try a different picture.

It was a gigantic time sink.