Yeah, not only that, people who pirate wouldn't have consumed the product, if pirating weren't available as an option. They've priced cost of living so high, and reduced access to content availability. When Netflix first came out, especially the streaming version, I bet there was a noticible drop in piracy, now they've made content access to hard, more piracy. They control the levels of piracy. It's not a choice to pay for everything we want to watch, or pirate. It's pirate or don't watch. And they created that situation, and then try and brainwash / gaslight us into feeling guilty and feeling like it's our fault. And then add in the moral clause, these companies are committing or contributing to atrocities. Some piracy is an attempt to avoid supporting companies that cause harm to people. If "wrong" is condemned, what about the wrongs that have caused them to be listed on boycott lists. Underpaying employees and writers, who should own the content. I think writers should be as famous, and focused on as the actors. The content being created currently has a heaping of "conform, don't think" built in, too, I could rant about that, annoyingly, for a bit, too! So many things.
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I think they're just setting up a defense for all the illegal activity, so when they investigate, they've got a get out of jail free, card. Not that he would go to jail with the amount of money he has.
This whole Gen vs Gen bullcrap is a bourgeois distraction attempt. Don't buy into any of it. There is no Gen vs Gen, it's bourgeois vs proletariat.
I'm having a really rough time, currently. Too many neurodivergent needs, not enough hands, BUT! I'm excited to turn around what seems like a super tricky situation, into a super fun place of joy.
Life is gunna throw stuff at you, you can't change that, and sometimes it's disproportionately heavy handed in throwing the stuff. But you can be super proud of how powerful you are when you make the most of your situation. Proud of how clever and inventive and unstoppable, you are. This seems like I've been backed into an impossible corner, but I'm excited to show my kids how anything is possible, you just gotta get creative. I'll find joy and I'll fill our home with it and I'll remind them how truly lucky we are. And then I will have handled this like the true boss I am. It seems impossible to get time to meet everyone's needs let alone make time for self care, but I will turn that around. I've done more with worse situations than this. I absolutely have got this.
I've also been gifted a really good quality bike! (thanks Dad!) That I'm super excited to ride and improve my health (just got a fun times diagnosis of fibromyalgia, after asking for the last 9 years why I'm in so much pain all the time) but now I know, I also know how to battle it!
I miss riding a bike, I loved riding my bike as a kid. I'm so looking forward to connecting with my child self, wind in my hair (well the wispy bits around the helmet, anyway, lol)
I bet Zelensky actually got some sense into trump at the funeral. It's been since that conversation he's flipped his usual script.
All that 50's "advertising" that was essentially social conditioning and oppression, hear me out, because all the women had to do all the jobs while the men were gone. They got a taste of freedom, their own money and skills. They were all like, how hard can it be, boys do it. But when the men came back they had to shove them back in the box, they had to effectively put the cat back in the bag, it required a huge effort of bullying from the government and all. Like they hit hard with this kinda pervasive stuff, everywhere. That's when women were forced into the "get in the kitchen" role. Now we get to have both! Work AND be predominantly responsible for the majority of the house labor and child raising, yay!
Yeah even the addresses were identical. Love the show. I get it, he acts like an asshole but it's usually for some super chess move. Plus those were different times, when it was written, it was OK to be an asshole for greater means. He risked his own life to save others, too.
I think he'd be written differently in this day and time, though, he'd be less asshole more stoic or something. Hugh Laurie is brilliant.
I didn't think about all the spiders that'd be in flood waters...
Sorry for some reason my rely appeared here rather than where I aimed it.
I want the artist to make tshirts and I can buy them. Is that a thing?
You're taking the sentence way too literally, you need to chill a little, dude. They mean the ship she was due to travel on. It's longer to say it that way, so they say "her ship". Similarly, if you were going to fly on an airplane, people would say what time does your plane land? They don't think you own the plane. You had a misunderstanding.