I don’t mind Spotify increasing.

Inflation is real. And nobody wants to see the service turn into a Little Caesars “$5 Hot N Ready” pizza that erodes in quality, rather than gradually price increase with inflation.

The advantage we have with music streamers is that nearly ALL the content is on ALL the services. So, if one service goes bananas with pricing, we can jump ship to a cheaper one.

But TV is siloed into mini monopolies. The only source of capitalism competition they face is use choosing to do without. And frankly, if I’m gonna be forced-fed ads, I choose to do it on YouTube which costs me $0 and not $7.99 a month.

Netflix is gone. And as someone who leaves The Simpsons running 24/7 on Disney+, I’m frankly getting thiiiiiiiiiis close to dumping their asses, too!

I dream that one day there is a RiF for Lemmy. But alas, he’s building an app for tildes.

Connect for Lemmy has been really good so far, too.

I agree. There should be some sort of a la carte service where you can pay a couple of bucks and use it for like a day.

Long loans made sense to solve affordability when interest was 0-3‰ prime.

It makes affordability WORSE at 7+ percent prime, because the longer term exaggerates the interest rate more. That’s why legacy OEMs are offering 5% on 36 month loans.

When interest rates spike, the only solution is to offer a cheaper product (principle). Lengthening the term doesn’t work.

I know this is a piracy community, but honestly I don’t mind paying for newspapers.com. I use it a lot just to read up on old articles and stuff and they seem to be doing a pretty good job adding new newspapers to the archive all the time.

For me piracy is great when the product is just outright overpriced because some corporate tools in New York or Los Gatos are trying to make their VC people happy.

TIL you can cross between the border of Oklahoma and Colorado, technically…

That music video from the rooftop!

I guess you could say at least The World Trade Center went out with a bang!

^(I’ll show myself out now)^

A fool and his money are soon parted. From the same class of vehicles that tried to lock heated seats behind a monthly subscription.

You know what’s nice? Those cars can F right off. I won’t buy one new. And never will buy one used.

Always will be “budget” cars (Corolla, Civic, Versa, etc.) that won’t screw around with this crap because the buyers can’t afford to screw around with it.

TRY to paywall a heated seat in a Civic. I dare Honda. It won’t be more than 10 minutes before someone has it badly wired up like an aftermarket subwoofer.

Your flaw is assuming that a couple only produces one child. Many humans can share the same ancestor.

Left is loose, right is right. And orientation flips psychologically when the nut points toward the ground.

Not going to say how I learned that the hard way…

I hear there’s a lot of corn on the internet.

Are they planning a compact pickup? The Tacoma really is more a midsize nowadays.

Disney Plus. I can share it with my out-of-state parents with no trouble. And it’s such a great way to watch The Simpsons constantly in the background.

Since Netflix went bonkers and I had to cancel it, D+ is my go-to app. Hopefully they don’t go stupid like Netflix, too.

That was my reaction when Elon first bought twitter. It’s like he’s so stupid he thinks Twitter is the only possible platform that could ever be a twitter.

It turns out, we’re all pretty clever at figuring out places to talk. The talking is going to happen. Where we do the talking keeps changing.

Same here.

There is a very good Ex-Mormon community on reddit that is so stuck in their own bubble of problems, I can’t see themselves moving. And I enjoy checking in to see what shenanigans the LDS/Mormon church are up to.

But that’s it.

I feel like the past 3 weeks I’ve moved to a new city. And I’m discovering new communities here.

I feel like Aaron Swartz exiting and later dying played a role. There was no longer his voice to check bad business behavior.

Before the pandemic, the US wasn’t too bad. Large cities got expensive, but most places a movie ticket ran around $10.

Now, to make up for lost money, some chains are trying to charge extra for getting “a good seat” or other perks that used to be just part of the price of the ticket.

I think they overestimate demand. I haven’t been to a movie since 2019. I don’t think I’m missing out. Home TVs are just so big now.

That’s gorgeous! So happy to see it parked in the customer lot and not out in the yard.

The upside if we all use the term Google, is that over time Google will lose their ability to enforce their trademark.