every time someone talks about how “capitalism breeds innovation”, i think about the fact that capitalism killed the streaming service in less than ten years
like…the entire point of netflix when it started was that you could log into one service and you could find thousands of different tv shows and movies in one place, for one price, AND you didn’t have to wait for several weeks to watch the conclusion of a tv show AND you didn’t have to worry about your favorite new show getting cancelled half-way through a season for lack of viewership.
and then every single other channel out there thought “hm. why are we using a third party site to do what WE could do ourselves?” except not a single one of them had enough material in their libraries to do what netflix was doing. but they still pulled all their content out of netflix anyway and tried to do what netflix was doing. and then disney decided to do it as well, which… essentially just killed netflix.
but not only did they kill netflix, they just restarted cable! the whole point of a streaming service was being able to watch one show in one go, over a weekend or something. but bc these services don’t have enough material to keep people invested on paying every month, they have… to…. release shows one episode at a time, so that by the time one show ends they can roll out a new one and keep the subscriptions. which just? defeats the point?
and now we’re all just. back to torrenting one episode at a time, because nobody is paying for “cable…but on the internet”. all because capitalism breeds innovation
People who complain about “vaccine passports” bc it takes away their right to exist in public without documentation are perfectly fine with that right being denied to immigrants
Kyrsten Sinema, the first openly bisexual Senator in U.S. history, has been sworn into office.
By anti-queer Mike Pence.
While placing her hand on a law book instead of a bible.
This is a fuck coworkers (and also kind of old, I thought about putting it in just now)
I went into work on December 23rd thinking all was well and good. Keep in mind, our office has five people including me, we’re a very small office. We had a small Christmas party, giving gifts and eating food and having fun. We ended up taking a picture together, and this is where things went wrong.
One of my coworkers, let’s call her Denise, was at that party. Even though her husband had come home with Covid, and she had been exposed, she went to that party. Now the whole office has covid.
As of today (March 1st when writing this) another one of our coworkers, let’s call her Jenny, is finally healthy enough to come back to work. Covid hit her like a train. She’s in her 70s, and we were all scared of what could happen because of how she handled the disease. She ended up with blood clots in her lungs and other kinds of scary shit like that.
Anyway, the point of this story is, DON’T COME INTO WORK IF YOU’VE BEEN EXPOSED TO COVID UNTIL YOU KNOW YOU DON’T HAVE IT!!! ALL FIVE OF US ENDED UP WITH COVID BECAUSE YOU JUST HAD TO BE AT OUR CHRISTMAS PARTY!!!
I like how he’s trying to imply such behavior is atrocious and pin it on the little girl instead of wondering just how much of a messed up experience this cute little girl must’ve had with a cop to ignite such a hostile response