You can turn off the scan, which by the way is that it takes a screenshot every so often and checks if it matches known content so as to make you watch through their platform. Really recommend changing that setting.

Secondly, block *.logs.roku.com with a pihole was my solution. That TV is the single most banned traffic on my network still.

Yeah, we find a way around or say fuck it cause its not worth the interaction with a company so messed up.

Life is a lot of making the best options you can based in your morals and hopefully someone gave you some good ones.

Ha ha. I got your mass produced shit and i didnt pay for it, and then shared it with people so they dont waste their money.

And

Oh hey wanna buy that bluray for Toxic Avenger cause its a great movie?

Are 2 thoughts im completely fine with holding in my head.

Yeah i mean that seems likely with how things are going but also things rarely go exactly to plan.

Im a realist so, i accept that it is entirely possible its gonna keep getting worse. I’m just also a sucker for optimism and maybe someday it will be better.

Probably not tomorrow or next year… Probably gonna be a lot more of this for a while.

Yeah. Agreed but chicken or the egg right?

It’s easy to say we just need the unions and groups but we need to build them by people just starting.

We definitely need to pick people to lead us better and not lazily accept people saying they are the right person to lead simply because they are.
It helps when we have a shared idea of what better is.

Im actually fine with “just do something” mentality.

Cause if every person did to the limit of what they are capable of things would still change.

For Rossman the limit of what he is capable of might be changing laws via his followers so he can keep his repair shop running. For others it might be legal efforts. For some it could be talking directly to their parents who are the wealthy overlords, and for some it might mean running themselves. And for some its just beinf oart of a chorus that shouts what they believe in.
It has worked for religion for so long.

We are a numbers species. We arent as clever as we think and individuals actually rarely get anything singularly done themselves. But we cant stop at whats easy but what is within our reach.
If everyone “did what they can” to make the world a better place, we just might have a shot at it.

I do really think that one of the things we have to do as collective, is something somewhat impossible but,
We need to pick the things we really care about. Limit ourselves from the everything that we have been offered for so long and find what brings us joy specifically and start following and protecting that and doing it off the Internet, or at least the at large big players.
Find artists in our spaces locally that make the comedy, or comics, or stories, the developers that make their own games and movies that dont outsource their work to others so that it no longer feels like art.

We can still have globalised sharing and our spaces can support that by raising up the best of the best naturally through communication and sharing but not just by being told it’s gonna be big or given to us easily.

The only way out feels like we as a collective need to start putting work into cultivating and tending to our fandoms and we cant be as greedy as it will take more work. Im fine with us being an insatiable species craving for more cause its how we don’t stop, and i want new artists and new creators and new spaces. But i think we cant be lazy about it anymore. And i think doubly so we cant think we can do all of it.

It’s absurd that anyone making less than $50k a year is saving more money than someone making $200k.

If they arent buying assets they arent actually saving, they are just building a buffer against drowning.

Also to simplify your percentages there of people living paycheck to paychecks.

• 75% under 50k a year
• 48% of people making 100k a year (only 21% of people are above this line)
• 33% of people making 200k+ a year

Seems like increasing pay does reduce that issue even if there is an issue of spending to your max budget in america but I’d actually rather have currency in circulation than sitting in accounts for the sake of collecting.

Yeah but the tokyo metro area is an insanely large sprawl only rivaled by the tristate area of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut.
I kinda meant just the dense city lines of both which is still an insane amount.
That entire tristate area is also 20 million people so its more people than that that are wealthy enough to think the empire as a truly good thing.

Yeah, close to 6% of the population is making unfathomable amounts of money and the crazy thing is that just 6% of the population is still 20 Million people. You could replace the entire population of Tokyo with American millionaires and still have more to spare to claim New York too.

I swear the biggest lie is that America is somehow a better country because it has houses that are expensive and fast food so that it can import what essentially accounts to slave labor when they finally come over excited to work for lower wages and live in cramped housing without their social networks other than the other slave laborers.

Its probably how we make it how people not climbing financially can still feel superior. No one has to pay the debt if you can keep getting new people on a lower rung.

If only any of the crypto bros actually wanted it to be a functional payment and economic system instead of a just “line goes up to further enrich myself” mlm scheme.

It cant be both.

You clearly don’t remember him bragging about being the tallest building in New York as the twin towers fell.
Or him being pissy at Obama all the time.
Or him having a huge hit show.
Or him poisoning people with shitty steaks.

He was constantly in the news because he as always been desperate for attention and praise. Now he has that and the president seat of the collapsing empire.

Yeah it’s fine to not have the answers. Honestly I don’t think there are any just actions you can take and consequences to figure out after.

I do agree we could probably do more to separate distracting news from useful news since there is a lot of it. And I think that’s a pretty interesting suggestion. And I think that kind of creative consideration is exactly what we need to make actions that we think might work, since it’s smaller than the huge goal all at once.

There seems to be this concept that humans do their best when under pressure and I really think that is wrong, heck science literally agrees with me and so does history.

When people are uncomfortable and struggling they really just suck. Short fuse, anxiety, and uncreative. But during extremely peaceful and well funded times people prosper and contribute better. Look at how much we got out of the post world war 2 era of just funding and building more that gave us new genres of music and art and it’s from free time and comfort that people can get creative. Humans love to be lazy but get bored quick. It’s the center of all our innovation.

So, I agree that a better world would give us better everything but not really actionable advice for the moment in here though right?

If you want something great for being funny wholesome and weird while tripping I can’t recommend a sub but I always really like this Jacob Wysocki video and just sketch comedy channels like Door Monster and Chris and Jack, etc…

Otherwise on here I like the comic communities. They have been pretty good.

I’ve noticed that people seem to agree with the person they “think” is winning the argument and turns it into a game of butting heads, when I don’t think that is how social media should be treated anyways.

The whole point is people don’t know what you do and these spaces are supposed to be for coming together and communicating in a digital space instead of a physical space and then you share. But because it’s all practically to an audience people treat the conversation like a gladiator combat where someone needs to speak more confidently and belittle the other as to show their strength and get the upvotes. Or their humor to show they don’t care and are more funny than the other. It’s so competitive.

Honestly the best interactions come from the people who don’t use the platform as much and just talk like a person asking what other people think and responding reasonably. No assumptions of using the platform as a stage, no attempts to “win”, shouldn’t even be thinking you will get the other person to agree with you just that you both leave with more than what you came in with.
And that needs to be especially true for the fact that new younger people will come in and having no expectations of what they should already know or be but welcoming them in anyways is how it will have to continue.

The default drink used to be fizzy fermented grain or fruit.
It’s honestly not anything new to not be drinking water just the people doing it are less drunk now.

Agreed and the recruiters are really only for specific jobs.

Oh 2003? Nah $20 stretched hard back then, especially if it was a thrift store. Man even as a kid I could get so much stuff with $5 at a thrift store, I think I literally got a PC and a DVD player for like $10. Nobody was trying to maximize profit on every thing cause more was on the way.

Hasbrown at McDonald’s were .80¢, they are now $2.70. That $20 was more like $67.50 in actual purchase power.