• zephorah@lemm.ee
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    16 days ago

    Free entertainment is a way to occupy and distract the festering masses. And yet they remain determined to scrub all capacity for such.

    If most people using free streaming could pay most would be already.

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        15 days ago

        Climate change is still nebulous. It’s like population decline. Few will face the impact of it with anything practical or human until the negative impact personally stares them in the face.

        George Floyd protests and riots happened, in large part, because people were bored, unoccupied, and angsty about the world. Human behavior points rarely happen under the influence of a single variable.

        If anything, people are more fed up with their daily world, now, than at the time of Floyd. I think that’s a piece of why people kept reporting a sense of impending doom all year.

        Now we’ve hit a point where one guy with everything to lose said “enough” and went after a health care CEO. And we have plenty of people in this nation with nothing to lose. I wouldn’t be surprised if stage 4 cancer people started throwing themselves at CEOs.

        The wall of inactivity and learned helplessness has broken with Luigi.

        They’re not seeing how this scrubbing of entertainment access will impact the masses going forward? Plenty of people will steer away from action if you just give them free distraction.

        But here we are, instead, working hard to scrub all free distraction.

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        16 days ago

        I work 40hrs a week. No kids in the house. If I can’t stream, then what? Reading news and Reddit, probably. That’s probably the least healthy option.

        Subbing everything isn’t sustainable for working class. It kills the monthly with bug bites.

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          16 days ago

          You could get a hobby. Maybe try to actually make something interesting out of your life instead of just consuming entertainment?