No… it’s like picking up those apples, shipping them across the country, and then charging customers a delivery fee. Which is perfectly reasonable because time and fuel cost money.

Plex helps you (and others) stream from your library pretty brainlessly. Sure there are other options, but all of them are more complicated.

How do you think used cars exist if there aren’t people that buy new ones?

And… owning a home? Huh?

There are 4 models of minivan being sold currently. Anyone trying to fit 3 car seats or 7 people into a vehicle and looking for a new car pretty much gets those 4 options and that’s it.

Generally you’re right but Logic 101 and Obi wan Kenobi should’ve taught us by now that absolute statements like yours are bogus.

In addition to the curtain being torn away “cultural events” like GoT would require people to feel connected and everyone in charge seems to be doing their level best to tear us all apart.

I’ve switched to a lot of foreign media tbh. Irish television is killing it right now for example.

That sucks bro, sorry they did that lol.

If it’s direct then why the 10GB limit?

… and exactly 2 weeks later modders will have figured out how to get their hands on the yummy free unlimited data inside it.

lol how much have you been paying them?

Ah, you’re right. Don’t know how I missed that part but it at least means my statements were a bit myopic compared to the point he was trying to make.

Garbage in, garbage out. COVID and screens were just accelerators that could’ve been managed and incorporated if we hadn’t been cutting the education budget to the bone for the last half dozen decades.

Teachers are worse quality, infrastructure is worse, and now the products of that steady decline are sending their kids (or their kids) back into a degraded system to show its “value” once again.

Anyone with sense saw this coming when they did the same thing in Australia and the UK but I otherwise agree with your point. I think this is a very calculated move.

When the deadline gets here in a month, 80% of the group that would’ve migrated out of disgust won’t be affected because they just use Discord for group voice chats anyway, and the competition isn’t ready. The rest have been trained to put their personal info out there to anyone who asks for it. And, when (not if) they eventually roll out “IDs for Everyone”, the outrage won’t be nearly as detrimental to their bottom line because it’s already happened before.