• Ech@lemm.ee
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      I wasn’t a big fan myself, either. Still respect Jon, though, and Apple cancelling the show is pretty clearly about silencing “improper” voices and they deserve to be called out on it.

  • itsathursday@lemmy.world
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    China using the same weapon that made the west a superpower against them. Capitalism is by far more powerful than the constitution and religion combined.

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      Russia does the same, but it relies on freedom of speech. All of that disinformation is hard to stop, but turns out it can be quite powerful even when there is plenty sources where one can easily verify facts.

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    I wish Plex would provide some kind of system where I could buy content directly from the publisher, download it and watch it locally. Cut out the current middlemen for a pure delivery mechanism straight from the manufacturer.

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      If people could buy and get a drm free digital copy…

      It would cut down on a lot of piracy. But studios will never do it because they think it would increase piracy. Completely ignorant that all it takes is a single person to rip a movie and put it online. No matter how difficult it is to rip, someone will do it.

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        My pirating of media completely stopped when it became easy to watch stuff legally. Music is still very easy but lately I’ve been looking out longingly at the seas again

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          Keeping your skills fresh is never a bad thing and hard drives full of Linux distros helps out a lot of your internet connection is sketchy.

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      Cut out the current middlemen for a pure delivery mechanism straight from the manufacturer.

      Apple was the manufacturer…

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    Shouldn’t be too tough to explain. “We paid a lot of $ $ to bring John Stewart out of retirement, but nobody watched the first two seasons, so we didn’t make a third.”

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          Because they threw a bunch of money at him and said, “do what you want”. So he made a show that was a little more medicine and a little less comedy that he knew would get lower ratings.

          Have you ever seen the opening credits?

          He probably had this conversation with the staff as he hired them.