I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. I WISH I COULD BUILD A GIANT MAZE IN A PARKING GARAGE OR PERHAPS AN ABANDONED FACTORY AND PUT YOU IN IT AND WATCH YOU SOLVE VARIOUS PUZZLES IN ORDER TO RECEIVE PEANUTS AND SEEDS!
yeah I remember when Netflix first started circa 2007,
IT COST $8 A MONTH
I was there for it. They would mail out DVDs and there were no due dates or overdue fees. You just drop it back in the mail when you’re done watching it and then you can rent more DVDs. The whole thing cost $8 a month.
that was the beginning of Blockbuster video going out of business. Blockbuster’s late fees and rewinding fees were an atrocity.
Here’s the thing. Even with inflation (which is exaggerated by companies when they jack up prices for consumers), they have less overhead now than they did when they started. They had to do all the DVD stuff by hand and now it’s all computers. So basically they just had a massive bump in their profit margins and just pocketed the difference.
Surprise surprise, better technology and automation replacing people doesn’t mean things become cheaper under capitalism, even when it fucking should.
Yeah as a programmer it seems that everyone around me underestimate by several magnitudes the amount of money and effort that goes into something like the Netflix infrastructure. It’s extremely frustrating because people always look at you with distrust when you say how much work it will take to develop a website. As a rule of thumb, the site’s apparent simplicity (for the end user) is correlated with the effort you put in.
That said, Netflix already had its infrastructure in place back when they had reasonable pricing. The recent greediness doesn’t reflect their costs suddenly going up, it’s just exponentially growing demand for profit and investors who want to cash in.
Disruptive technology doesn’t follow cost covering logic though. Covering costs is hardly interesting for investors. Netflix ran at loss to grow quickly and cement the market share.
Recent enshittification occurs because the market came to an understanding that the fight for the market share is over and now it’s time to satisfy investors.
But several things can be true at the same thing time. Infrastructure is expensive and investors want to maximize return of investment.
I must be bias because I grew up in peak ‘war on drugs’ times. Being young and impressionable I thought there was no way the government could possibly lose. Then they taught us about prohibtion. Then I found out everyone I knew smoked weed.
End of the day, anarchy already exists in the minds of anarchists. The government is inadequate when comes to policing individuals.
When it comes to changing societal norms, you always have to start at the social contract. Otherwise, all you have is a signed piece of paper.
all the research I can find indicates there is not sufficient evidence to conclude that non-human animals understand personal mortality, so given the choice, the pig would even understand.
I would think the cases of non-human animals committing suicide (mostly cetaceans) would be indicative that at least some of them can comprehend personal mortality on some level. It’s a bit different if an animal doesn’t eat due to stress or whatever and starves to death, I wouldn’t call that suicide. But whales occasionally just drown themselves, that’s pretty hard to rationalize any other way
Nothing concrete of course, because it’s very difficult to study at a stage where we cannot communicate or directly observe the emotional states of animals, nor ethically design a study where one attempts to cause animals enough distress to engage in self harm or bring about their deaths (and simultaneously prove that was their intent).
It’s in no way a concluded topic, but it doesn’t make sense to reject outright either - and I definitely think there is enough evidence around for animals understanding of their peers mortality, why start with the assumption that they have an inability to recognize their own mortality in the first place? It’s good to be skeptical, but unproven anthropomorphism is just as illogical as the opposite assumption.
i am open to evidence, but I do not have enough evidence now to support the belief that nonhuman animals understand personal mortality, so I do not believe that they do.
No, you clearly don’t know who you’re talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not in danger, Sandy. I am the danger. A guy opens his door and gets a bubble blown in his face, and you think that of me? No. I am the one who knocks!
I love my job, and I love seeing positive changes in my clients. And I can confirm that it’s ~90% dealing with people whose parents sucked. The others usually experienced some kind of adult trauma or just want to explore themselves more.
Everyone’s parents suck, and today’s kids will fuck up their kids also. It’s almost unavoidable as part of the separation process, where kids will try to be as different from their parents as possible.
This causes conflicts and parents reacting in “wrong” ways to their kids being morons. :)
There is such a thing as abuse. Not everyone’s parents suck. Some beat their children, some love them. Sure, everyone hates their parents at some point, and it’s all relative. You’re making it sound like abusive parents don’t exist.
You’re a child, that means I provide food, lodging and transportation in exchange for you taking care of my emotional needs. I’m a good parent because you haven’t starved to death.
Except they never consented to that deal, and you made them too young to make major life decisions. Fix that first, then ask them again when they’re in their 20 if they’d like to help you. But I think you might already know what position you put yourself in. Enjoy the daycare home in your old age
Let’s hope the next generation has learned what not to do
My wife was working at an assisted living facility when those conspiracies were at their peak. She had a coworker who believed in it and tried very hard to convince the residents of the conspiracy too
It’s not making fun of suicide. It’s not glorifying it or making it seem like a good thing. It’s poking fun at Guy Feieri, and how he loves flavor so much he’d season a bullet even in the depths of despair. Taking suicide seriously is a prerequisite to enjoying the joke.
Being exposed to triggering material sucks, and I’m sorry for your loss. I hope you can get to a place where you’re comfortable engaging with humor around this topic some day!
Understandable as the subject may be super sensitive to some, even triggering to others. Throughout the last year I was in your place due to a family case of it. It may help to block some communities and stay in super family friendly communities/websites. Stay safe and healthy.
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