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Can the world just STOP with it's bullshit already??? Stop with everyday needing to obsess over trump in the news. Stop with finding new, and bizzare uses for AI when it offers no benefit, stop with companies scheming together to collectively cause inflation, stop with corporations buying houses to artificially increase rent, stop with 48% of the nation actively supporting political facism.
JUST STOP WITH THE BULLSHIT!!! WHY ARE WE DOING ANY OF THIS???
That might be the most appropriate username possible for this rant.
When I saw this in my notifications, without context I thought you were replying to my comment about 18 foot tall ants in the Jurassic period building stonehedge.
Well that also would be appropriate.
Aha. Found it. This is amazing. You fucking animal. https://lemmy.world/comment/10848070
I think you already know the reason is money. Exploiting others isn't demonized, it's celebrated as "innovative" and "clever" and "entrepreneurial spirit." That is the system, held up, and propagandized by, the exploiters. We're taught that violent protest is "uncivil" or "barbaric," because it's the only thing that truly threatens the system, which otherwise holds a monopoly on violence, to prop up that system.
It's the new toy everyone is playing with.
That's the only way I can rationalize it. It's not money, cuz everything being done with in a product blows.
It's about money, because the people making the shit products want to make money, not good products.
Capitalism always leads to "how shitty of a product will people still buy"
I agreed until you ranted on capitalism. That's such a a tired old thing on Lemmy it just looks like you're using catch phrases and eyes roll. It's money, not capitalism. Every type of society that uses money will lead to wanting more money.
You're more than welcome to give an example of a successful economy that ran on money where people didn't hoard it. I'm all ears.
So people share and promote their coverage, so NBC can sell ad spots.
If you’re commenting on the story, you’re boosting the story, and that’s exactly what NBC wants.
Who is they and who is us?
I'm in! What do you have in mind?
Sounds like he just wants to walk up to a general, and strike him. It's bold. But I'm not sure how it would change anything.
Were you going to even watch the Olympics on NBC anyhow? Last time it played I tried to watch a few events and it was nothing but ads and profiles of people I don't care about.
Like I get you are upset but I don't know why. For me it's like hearing some Austrian version of Ticketmaster are being assholes. Ok, I don't live in Austria and if I did I still probably wouldn't use whatever version of Ticketmaster they might have there.
Why is it so important to hear Al Micheals tell you about what you just saw? Do you even have a cable TV subscription?
You don't need a cable subscription to watch NBC. Just a regular old bunny ears antenna. You could even use one from the 1940s if you want!
I know not many do, but I even have a lifetime paid subscription to TIVO. So I can just record things whenever, and watch them whenever, without the ads. I never watch live tv.....but I watch tv that was recorded as it was live.
Assuming your tuner was manufactured later than around 2005 and supports ATSC digital broadcasts. Also makes me wonder when you got your TiVo. I thought they were dead long before everything went digital.
The antenna type doesn't matter. If you don't have a 1940s antenna, technically you can use a paperclip. It may not be strong enough to recieve the channel depending on local interference, but it might pick up the station with a strong enough signal. And anyone still using a tv with a tuner made before 2005 already has a tunerbox. Back in 2010 my dad even got one for free from the government.
Tivo never died. They're still alive. I got mine in 2012. I estimated it takes 3 1/3rd years for it to become worth it to do lifetime service.
That was 12 years ago. Although I did have to spend $100 on a new hard drive.
Huh. Didn’t know TiVo was still around.
We use a Tabo at home. Like TiVo, but primarily for network access from phones/media streamers. Has a similar lifetime subscription too.
Everyone switched to digital. You need a digital antenna. One from the 40s does not work today. A paperclip would absolutely not receive and decode a digital signal either.
You're conflating the tuner with the antenna. The person you replied to, however, is correct including the comment about the digital tuner boxes (which convert to an analog signal for old TV's) being available for free during the analog to digital changeover back when.
Any piece of metal will work as an antenna, even for receiving digital broadcasts. It might not work well, but there is no magical difference between a "digital" antenna and an "analog" one, and since digital television is transmitted over pretty much the same original frequencies as analog was, old analog antennae are already quite well tuned in size and shape to pick up modern digital signals.
You just have to plug your 1940's antenna into a 2009+ or so television. The antenna itself doesn't "decode" anything. It just catches radio waves and passes the waveform along to the TV or tuner box. I still use the old 60's era rooftop antenna that cane with my house, but plugged into my modern TV and it receives digital channels just fine.
Interesting. Well, I'll defer to your experience then since you seem to know more than me. Thank you.
I read a headline a few weeks ago that he fell asleep in court, and farted. Literally all he did was take a mid day nap, and fart in his sleep. Just like any person of that age does on a daily basis. The only reason it's news, is because people click the stories, and read the articles, and drive ad revenue for the media companies.
An old man sleeping and farting in court is now news.....but anything is news if you MAKE it news.
All news is, is a business to sell ad dollars. Just like any entertainment show on traditional TV. The difference is, if you watch Seinfeld, the media doesn't stalk Jerry in real life, and try to sell "news" stories that Jerry ate at a certain resteraunt, and ordered a certain sandwich. The tabloids and papparazi may do that, but you won't find out that Jerry Seinfeld ate a ruben sandwich at Joe's Deli on the 11pm news. Because it's not news.....but if you try to MAKE it news, you could try to sell some controversy that Joes Deli supports neonazis, and Jerry is supposed to be Jewish. Nevermind the fact that the media behind the scenes is basically creating a false narrative by tying Joes Deli to a wholesale meats distributor that also distributes meat to the Neo Nazis. But if they spin the other way, they can make news out of anything.
And just for the record, that was a hypothetical example. Completely fictional for the sake of explaining the concept.
Most of what Trump says/does is NOT news....but if you MAKE it news, now the news can make money off of it, and will continue to shovel this crap down your throat. The media did the same thing in the 90s with Clinton. Yes, he got a blowjob. No it wasn't his wife. That should have been like a quick news story on a slow day. Instead that went on for like 4 years. Clinton should have just said "Yeah, I got laid! You wanna get laid too? Get on up here, Janet Reno! You like doggy style? Because I don't want to see your face...."
I assume EVERY president, basically since Washington, has gotten laid in the oval/oral office. But it's not news. Hell, Obama was a good looking man. I assume he basically used the white house as the new playboy mansion. What woman would have turned that down? And if they DID turn him down, that's fine. There's a line, honey. NEXT! Unlike Trump, who I ALSO assume got laid in the white house many times......usually with the exchange of money.
When did The Onion go from being an absurdist insider joke about ACTUAL fake news, to making news gags that would be considered on the sensible side of lifes absurditys?
I think its more indictive of his age.
I can't foresee a plausible set of events Biden would be in court, but if he were, I could imagine him falling asleep, and farting. Thats just called being old. It's the reason I don't think people 80+ should be allowed to drive.
Or have access to nuclear codes.
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