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.

“mildly”

Yeah thats why it feels so visceral. Just mild.

Microsoft edge. Or Brave. Or chrome on android. Regular pihole.

Every video i click on basically. If i use a front end like newpipe or duckplayer it works but no other way to watch any videos without logging in.

I dont know if anyone has noticed but…
Can we no longer watch youtube without being logged in? Every embedded video i see doesnt work. Every time i try to click on a video it tells me to sign in.
If i have an ad block running it basically blocks the website.

I really think its the auto plays and the untracked accounts.

Youtube would rather be able to track every user and make more profit per person than go big tent all audiences.

Oh, you havent seen the videos where someone literally includes random other videos on the screen at the same time cause they got bored editing?

Do they enjoy it? Probably not but hey they got bored.

You know whats infuriating?

How many cameras there were supposed to be active in this high security prison that for some reason had an outage and left us with only 1 angle that doesnt even actually show the door, entrance, or cell block Epstein was in.

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.

Little Shop of Horrors.

You can see the name of the store is Mushniks

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.

Yeah, this isnt AI, its just able to detect and help re-arrange what we already have but it doesnt do anything new.
And we have a lot of info but we dont know everything actually.

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.