• SoJB@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I genuinely don’t understand why people still use Hulu when you can watch the same shit in better bitrate with no ads and no subscription

    We’re not even talking about a Plex server or anything just freakin stream it off the 1000 trusted sources

    The liberal mind is full of mysteries

    • Cyanogenmon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      So uh. Just wanna get your input here.

      What single detail stands out to you as “liberal” here?

      I’m sure I’ll be fascinated by your answer.

      • nomy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        5 months ago

        It’s an .ml user if you don’t jump through their hoops then you’re not a real leftist and they’ll call you a “liberal” like they’re a fucking MAGAt.

  • Spiritsong@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Somebody better tell Sony about this. I’m sure they want to cash in from their patent being infringed.

    :p /s

    The dreaded future of advertising is here. Next step, in your face as you do your daily stuffs.

  • SplashJackson@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Is this fucking real? Get fucked, mainstream media, if this is the case. Plenty of books and old games to keep me occupied until Alzheimers hits, and then occupied again afterwards

    • towerful@programming.devEnglish
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      5 months ago

      This isn’t mainstream media.
      This is capitalism.

      This is a company making a product, selling it for a given price, then making additional money from embedded ads.
      Whether that ad revenue is additional profit, or to offset the actual cost of the item - because the sold it at a loss to beat their competitors - doesn’t really matter.
      This is the consumer paying for something, and not getting a full and complete product

        • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Mainstream media is just media consumed by the majority of people.

          It has nothing to do with money.

          But capitalism tends to rot anything it touches.

        • towerful@programming.devEnglish
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          5 months ago

          No, mainstream media is part of capitalism.
          Specifically shitty mainstream media (I’m sure there are some mainstream media providers that aren’t shitty).

          This is a shitty product.
          This is a shitty product that is part of capitalism.
          This is a shitty product that is part of capitalism which happens to show mainstream media.

          But this isn’t mainstream media.

          Mainstream media would want in on the ad revenue. Mainstream media would facilitate & encourage this.

          This is just a shitty product from a shitty company capitalising on shitty practices.

          Edit:
          I guess “part of the same bullshit” is correct.
          But it’s placing the blame on the wrong thing

          • SplashJackson@lemmy.caEnglish
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            5 months ago

            Yeah, I had to really masticate on my phrasing for a while and never really settled on a statement that reflected properly my true meaning. Glad you could see where I was coming from

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Man, I’m so mad I want to upvote this, even though I think it’s a lot more complicated than that.

      • SoftTeeth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        It’s just a historical fact

        “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

        JFK

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Yeah, but just to pick one example, elites are entirely capable of being scared for their lives and being evil. That pretty much describes most historical systems. If you were serious about making change (which, let’s be honest, is pretty rare), you’d need a much better, more detailed plan.

          • irmoz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            5 months ago

            And you’re expecting them to lay out their entire plan when clearly all they wanted to do here was just express how they feel?

          • SoftTeeth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            5 months ago

            Every movement is demonized by the billionaire media, whether or not people agree with it. Consent is effectively manufactured for our government to crush dissent on behalf of their donors.

            If you come up with something let me know, but in the mean time we will probably see more vigilanties.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      5 months ago

      checks news for Luigi fallout

      I’m not sure even that even sways them. They think it won’t happen to them.

      • KeenFlame@feddit.nuEnglish
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        5 months ago

        I just think it’s missing the real culprit twice. We are not being punished and harvested by other people, but by giant entities that are soulless, with global access to replacement humans when one of their crop dies. It will just regrow its pilot instantly. It’s much more concerned about focusing efforts on its legal team to ensure it gets any profit and power the event might have left on the table.

        Similarly, when a zealot notices the slaying of one of their own, they do not think it could be them, they think about the vacant spot and the entailing power vacuum in the ranks of this entity. Humanity is a weakness and disease to them because, unsurprisingly, it is how you rise in favour with any of these odious entities.

        In society, the states have collectively chosen to worship and dedicate their life to the psychopathic entities, have elevated them first to being “legally human” whatever that means, and then beyond that, by giving them control over law and enforcement so they can punish anyone dissenting their overlords.

        Instead of resorting to clandestine conspiracies or infiltration that you might expect, people in these states are out in the open proudly celebrating the progression of the insane dark entities elevation to absolute power and esteem. “They are more human than us”, they proclaim, “they should have more rights than us. We owe it to them to collectively increase our efficiency and meet the demands so they can lead us to salvation.”

        Viciously the weak are considered insufficient, and it hurts me to the bones. Whenever any societal issue appears that clearly asks “is humanity more important, or the overlords that provides for it?” the choice is not even a question for the followers any longer, but straight up considered an insult. “Why should it not be allowed to use indiscriminately any resource that are not part of the church? It is able to, and it has all its legal rights in order. It provides for us. Look what the entity has given us. Repent, bow and work, or you will not be a sacrifice, but a casualty.”

        Some time ago, the knowledge that the entities are summoning some demonic ice age and that the last chance to survive as a species is nearing, most people chose to deny the research, for the chance to climb socially in the ranks of their respective churches by proving their loyalty. The current human leader destroying the research openly, poised to imprison any dissenters. No significant amount of people seemed upset in the states that the entities have now claimed as their sovereign.

        Every country on earth cowers before the dark entities and the fervent zealousry of their worshippers. They wear masks of defeated ideologies. The world’s most powerful military force continually wage excessive one-sided wars in the name of democracy, the face of its sword arm an obscene twist of the idea that people should vote and choose laws via representation, not by force or persuasion. It wears the skin of anything it has eaten and impersonate it not as a disguise but as a means to rally its zealots for battle.

        Luckily, if you have concerns about the irreversible damage these things are doing, a dismissive jeer the most common response, but the collective immune system of the entities is now very close to making it punishable to speak out on concerns of humanity and our species survival.

        It is of no concern of the zealots of course, that can enjoy up to 3 free hours a day that the churches generally allows for sleep. Vying for relative power in the ranks of the church is occupying their thoughts day in and day out as they climb over each other like crabs in a bucket. It’s more fun right now and they might get a better death when the doom comes. It’s ironic that the gluttony and greed are parts of humanity it did not take from us. It causes a deadlock. It’s hard not to believe it is pure malice engineering the end of our species, but that’s what most people believe. That we are killing ourselves. That we are inherently incapable of greatness due to our egoism. That degrading defeatism is hard to believe when we spend our entire day doing altruism for the entities. We have food money and resources enough for every human several times over. We have chosen to give it for safekeeping in the belly of the beast. But I love you anyway good night

      • Iheartcheese@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Because right now they think he was a lone nut job. It couldn’t possibly happen again. We need to prove them wrong.

  • leadore@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    If you answer wrong, what does it do? Refuse to show you any more of the program you are paying them to provide?

    Oh wait, I know. It shows another ad, right? That’s gotta be it. We’ll keep showing you ads until you fucking pay attention!

  • collapse_already@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 months ago

    All I know is that Lexus Texas (that is what TX means to me) sounds like the name of a porn star. Is that the message Lexus wanted me to take away from their advertising and branding?