This might be unpopular but, I would have the same problem with the arrest of a Newsmax personality for interviewing people outside a vigil against ICE. We need freedom of the press…even the distasteful ones.

Drats!

I believe he was referring to hispanics being treated like feral animals by the fascist government.

Not that your comment is incorrect, just that the context was misunderstood.

Aww man… I did not get that reference.

Interesting comment. Interesting choice of comparison. Interesting lack of commentary on a similar post about Billie Eilish’s Grammy speech.

I want to give props to the crew member who stayed involved and interacted with the dialog the entire skit.

So are you moving to other subscriptions, based in another country, that are also at the whim of other corporations?

I think it’s time more people learn how to self-host what’s important to them. At least make sure to keep multiple backups of all of your media.

You can’t unfuck this chicken.

100% I am definitely not offering an easy fix, and I hope my comment didn’t read that way. This chicken is…

My point is that had companies and governments no opted to put all their eggs in one basket, it wouldn’t have mattered as much whether the US morphed into a fascist hellscape or not.

The entire point of the Internet’s infrastructure design was for it to be highly distributed. At some point, companies and governments decided to cramntheir entire critical IT infrastructure into monolithic services. In this case it was the US, but it could have been anyone anywhere. No matter who, it was a bad practice and everyone is now realizing why.

This isn’t a “US bad” problem. This is a “don’t be stupid, stupid” issue.

I really do need to buy a converter while I still can.

Officially, they were supposed to go bad years ago, but they seem fine. Same as with audio cassettes, they seem to hold up really well.

I still have a rewinder, a VCR, and a huge box of tapes in storage.

The cool thing is that in that box is the entirety of Star Trek: TNG recorded off the TV broadcasts, commercials and all. Those 1990’s local cable TV commercials are an absolute trip.

Laws stipulate the parameters of a civil contract between the population and the government. If that contract is repeatedly broken and manipulated, there is very little reason for the population to adhere to the stipulations of said contract.

Lawlessness happens when a significant enough percentage of the population feels that the laws are worthless. This country’s “leaders” (LOL), need to be very careful that they do not push things beyond a tipping point. This is a population with access to A LOT of very deadly things.

I get what you are saying, but I’ll take any W we can get. If a privileged older white lady (OWL) is what it takes to give ICE a very public black eye and get the cops more involved in hindering these nazi goons, then I’m onboard.

Everyone gets all judgy until they get rubbed off with warm SPAM, then suddenly it’s all “dark corners of the Internet” and raised pulse in the canned meat isle.

No. I paid money to be able to see crisp, high definition images of my waifu.