I paid for a lifetime pass like six years ago or more. It was definitely before Jellyfin was well known or well developed.

I’m probably keep using it until they do the whole “lifetime is over” crap these kind of companies usually do.

I’ll at least have gotten my moneys worth.

Got a specific video you could suggest from them?

They already took out the option to watch playlists together like six months ago.

because of blatant racism.

Don’t forget ableism, homophobia, transphobia and misogyny.

a DEI

A diversity, equity and inclusion?

I’ll not mince words here, using the acronym like this is purposeful with the intent to undermine the entire point of diversity, equity,and inclusion initiatives.

If that is not your intent, Don Dickle, then consider rephrasing and never using such a phrasing again.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

-Margaret Mead

Glad it was indeed the latter. Don’t need vegan bashing here.

I can’t decide if this comment is a vegan crying about being bamboozled into veganism or a vegan crying about others being bamboozled into hating veganism. Hoping it’s the latter.

Right, but so far, those who change are strictly in the minority group of these people.

Nope. That’s not it. “You were supposed to know” because it was fucking obvious to anyone who paid even a little attention. Be embarrassed about that.

They don’t know enough about anything to even be able to be embarrassed, and that’s the whole fucking problem.

As a US citizen this is deeply relevant.

Our government has been swinging its dick around worldwide for decades absolutely fucking shit up while American citizens blithely move along in ignorance while it’s all happening and claiming we spread “freedom” and “democracy” when we have never done any such thing. We, through our government, have used Economic Shock Treatment to dominate and control.

It’s literally not the rest of the world’s job to separate us into “good Americans” versus “bad Americans.” The Ugly American never left.

Everything happening here will have knock-on effects for the rest of the world. It’s up to us to clean up our own damn mess.

I am waiting for US refugees to be shocked at how few countries will want to take us in. They don’t have the time, money, or willingness to sort through the refugees only looking for the good ones.

Especially because the first people to demand to be helped in this country are always the ones who voted to not get help to begin with. They vote against their own needs endlessly and nobody wants to risk bringing in such selfish unstable people. Easier to just say “No American refugees accepted” since the Trumpers will literally be the first to run away because they can’t face reality or accept their own responsibility in the current reality. They are always the first to run from the consequences of their own actions. Facing what they’ve done would make them reckon with the idea that they’re not a good person, and that kind of self-reflection would cause Ego Death in them, so they avoid it at all costs.

US hates poor people. I’m poor, I know from experience. They hold homelessness over us as a threat to keep in line.

We went from during the pandemic, treating “essential workers” as “heroes” while not increasing their pay for risking their lives, to now, straight back to how it used to be, screaming at overworked underpaid people “You’re lucky to have a job!” as they break our bodies and then discard us once our bodies are broken. I know caregivers who have broken backs because they have to lift 350lb people without the proper equipment and they don’t get paid enough to afford to live in an apartment alone.

The number of people trapped in outright dangerous relationships just to afford a place to live is too damn high. It’s a massive human rights issue, and the US will never address it under current leadership. They treat poverty as something that happens to bad people. They believe that their wealth proves that they are good people. They are myopic fools.

They fucking hate us. Anything to make us feel low, they will do.

Sagan wrote a lot of stuff that was right on and makes me sad, too.

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

Firefox in Linux.

they just never lived in a world where Doctors and Hospitals cared about public health.

Tons of doctors care about public health. Perhaps hospital administrations don’t and are only concerned with money, but they are not doctors.

Pharmaceutical companies may be suspect, but it’s the same thing: The suits in charge, not the people working to find solutions for people in need.

Ascribing these attitudes towards the people who are actual stewards of public health who are are constantly blocked by an administrative class that is more worried about profits has everything to do with being in a brutal capitalist society and almost nothing to do with “doctors who don’t care about public health.”

The people who come to conclusions that they can’t trust those in the medical field at all are throwing the baby out with the bathwater and have no ability to parse the nuance of such a situation.

I’m not saying all doctors are perfect, I have had some shitty doctors in my life. But by and large I’ve had more who were concerned with my health enough to help me than I have had those who simply don’t care what happens to me.

Yes, they do believe it.

In my country which is a third world country no one believe shit like that even my Grand mother who is illiterate and religious don’t believe thing like that and knows the benefit of vaccine

That is because your country has recent, relevant experience with the efficacy of vaccines.

US citizens have been so coddled for so long by being an economic superpower and having access to medications and medical procedures that others do not that those who remember are beginning to pass from old age. This means an entirely new, always coddled generation literally does not know from experience how bad things can get without it. Due to that, and due to American obsession with “free speech” lies and misinformation have flourished, and made people believe that these things are dangerous instead of lifesaving.

Further, it’s tied in with how US citizens feel about being “different.” We live in a wild cult of individuality where everyone knows that if you’re actually really different that things can go sideways for you fast. They’d rather not risk a child being “different” and having autism, and they genuinely don’t understand that they’re choosing to risk death of their child instead. You can be different, just so long as you’re exactly like everybody else!

Our education system is so broken, and our people are so fucking coddled, that they have the opportunity to pretend that these things don’t matter. It’s literally children tearing down things they don’t like because they don’t understand.

These are those “weak mean that create hard times.” Which is infuriating because anti-vaxxers and their ilk are the people who peddle that kind of bullshit ass saying the most, erroneously thinking they’re the “strong men” because they’re “willing to stand up to the man.” In this case, “the man,” being anyone with an education. Notice they don’t hate a rich idiot like Trump who does not care for them, but they hate intellectuals “in their ivory towers” (cough academia).

Yes, a society can be so coddled that the stupid resent the intelligent and educated to the point where they reject everything they say. They think they are fighting tyranny because they have convinced themselves we are lying to them to “get one over on them.” It’s absurd because the very people who put those ideas in their heads are the ones trying to get one over on them. Of course, this has been going on in America for long time.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’

-Isaac Asimov, 1980

It’s actually incredibly common in US apartments for laundry to be a common area.

Having a unit in your apartment means you’re at least well-to-do. Poor people can mostly go fuck themselves.

Probably because it wasn’t super well received by audiences and kind of got forgotten by a lot of folks.

It only holds a 64% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. It’s definitely not hated but it’s not a deeply well liked film.

I certainly had forgotten about Jude Law as Gigolo Joe.

I’ll believe that when they shut down their encrypted services in the US, where we know they were compromised by NSA’s PRISM since Snowden.

You say this like governments mandating backdoors is a new thing that hasn’t been happening.

The SolarWinds hack literally exploited the backdoors that were required by the US government.

I shut down my Immich server two months ago and moved it halfway across the state and did not have this issue.

All my files are on an internal disk.