That’s exactly my point. Cable didn’t start off costing $100-$200. In the beginning it was a few bucks as an ad-free alternative to antenna TV. Then they raised prices, just a little at a time, over many years, as well as introduced ads. Sound familiar?

I promise you, some day streaming will cost $100-$200, too. And people will pay it, just like your grandparents do today.

I say again: streaming is here to REPLACE cable. You’re living in the golden age of low-cost entertainment and you don’t even know it.

How is this a surprise to anyone? They came to replace cable.

No, you still don’t get it.

THEY CAME TO REPLACE CABLE.

Pro: All the world’s knowledge and information in the palm of your hand.

Con: Set up like a disorganized library, requiring a basic foundation of intelligence, education, wisdom, and skepticism to know how to find and then parse good info from bad.

Pro: Has facilitated sharing of vital knowledge between experts and laymen.

Con: Has allowed idiots, statistically few and far between scattered across the world, to unionize.

To be fair, who’s to say this hasn’t happened? Obviously not to the extent it should, but. If there are any conscientious objectors in the military would we even hear about them? The brigs may be crowded even now.

TIL humans are technically lichens.

Thank you for the acknowledgement, always nice to meet a fan.

Often literally!

Ah, I see. I didn’t realize the water was squirted out of a plastic flower on the attacker’s lapel.

But joking aside, no court would ever interpret the act “on the face of it.” Rotten fruit, pie in the face, fake blood, you’re right, those have lots of historical precedent as symbolic acts of protest. “Mystery fluid flung at someone’s face” has historical precedent too, but not so symbolic.

I understand what you’re trying to say, but you’re not thinking like a judge. If you were a judge, would you really want an article in a law book to describe you as the one who thought it was a good idea to greenlight the throwing of mysterious fluids at politicians’ faces as an act of protest?

Wouldn’t work. Bring a fake bomb strapped to your chest to a town hall and you don’t get a lighter sentence just because it wasn’t a real bomb. Pretend terrorism is treated the same as real terrorism.

Terrible, terrible suggestion, to the point of arousing suspicion that you may be from one of those bot farms made to antagonize and sow discord.

The kind of people who voted the Trump administration into power (regular voters, I mean, not the propagandists and billionaire class) are not travellers. Travel and bigotry are mutually exclusive (generally speaking, of course exceptions do exist). People who have curiosity about the wider world and interest in other cultures are overwhelmingly leftist. Even to suggest attacking them is extremely counter productive and would only cause more Americans to stay home and devolve into conservatives. Americans abroad already know their country is a shitshow and deserve sympathy, not aggression.

Okay, here’s what’s actually happening since nobody seems to get the picture.

The Arctic has been melting in recent years, opening up areas that were never accessible before for resource extraction (oil, minerals). This is also why nobody is doing shit about global warming, because the opportunity for profit is too huge.

Canada has claimed ownership over the Arctic and its resources. Greenland/Denmark has claimed ownership as well. America has claimed these areas are in international waters and not ownable by anybody, so it’s a free for all. But they know that’s a weak position.

If USA takes Greenland, they take the Arctic. That’s it, that’s all.

Bonus: it’s a distraction from Trump’s name being all over the Epstein files. Although I’m not sure why he cares so much; his supporters certainly don’t. Like he said, he could rape a child in the middle of 5th avenue and he wouldn’t lose any votes.

Will always be funny to me that lobsters are such an expensive delicacy at fine dining restaurants when they started out as food for extremely poor people in coastal communities. In the old days the general public viewed eating them as you would view eating a rat today.

Nah, they don’t release a toxin, at least not in the sense of “self-defense” that is usually meant with that phrase. After death they rot very quickly, so they do become toxic, I guess that’s similar enough. My dad cooked lobsters often and he always stuck a paring knife in a very specific spot in the head right before boiling, I assume this information is about to become much more widespread to comply with these new laws.

Um, correct me if I misunderstood, but wasn’t your point that drones WILL pilot themselves? 🤔

Have just been researching this while looking for stocking stuffers. One alternative I’ve seen is to smash an old sparkplug, the pieces of ceramic are oddly effective at smashing out car windows.

Same. Kubuntu for its familiar Windows-like interface.

I remember first hearing these anecdotes during The Apprentice years, long before he entered politics. But with what we know now about Trump, it’s pretty safe to assume they were completely made up. What we know for sure for sure is that there is exactly zero evidence to support those claims. So urban legends at best.

I’d walk that for pleasure, but not for work. Time for you to get a bike.

It’s definitely because of Anne of Green Gables, not necessarily the island itself. Anne is HUGE in Japan, visiting her hometown is like meeting your favourite celebrity.

Problem with Bandcamp is they got bought out, first by Epic Games and then by Songtradr, and each time it’s gone through enshittification. Bandcamp Fridays used to be a weekly thing but got changed to (EDIT: semi-monthly) with little announcement, and then half their staff got laid off to pad the bottom line. Even with all that they’re better than the alternatives, but they’re still on a decaying trajectory.