GlassHalfHopeful

Please please successfully sue the hell out of them.

It really is confusing to me considering the amount of money they put into things like Lord of the Rings and Wheel of Time. They're obviously investing in the platform. But at the same time, it's designed in a way that makes it wildly painful to use.

Lovely. Absolutely 🤬ing lovely.

Prime is the most complicated and bloated streaming service. It's hard to know what's included, what's free, what you have to rent, and etc. I'll never understand how they can maintain any share of the market with how confusing their product is to the average person. If they allowed Amazon users to reduce their prime costs by cutting out the video service, hardly anyone would use the service.

At least Freevee was clear. If you can tolerate the ads, the content is free. Now that it's being absorbed, it's just going to make an already complicated service more complicated.

"Oh! We can watch this movie! Oh wait it's a 3.99 charge to rent. Don't I already pay for prime?" Etc etc etc.

And this was how I learned that Video Station is no longer supported by Synology. If you want the updates, you'll have to uninstall it.

Easy to monitor too. 😏

It's unfortunate to see all the poor dead sparrows underneath the hooves of the grotesquely obese horses. Don't Tread On Me has taken on a new meaning.

I mute them habitually and very regularly wish muting was kept as a metric so "they" could know just how much I truly loathe them.

But if they can't get the ten commandments in school, how then will trickle-down indoctrination work? 🤔

If anything, the cops should have been more on the ball in your case. I would have been grateful as a parent. Bring the kid home and let it end there. What happened in this article is describing something so very far on the other side of the pendulum. Good grief.

As for me, I managed to stay out of sight of the police. And I will admit that there are times when the police would have had very very good reason to take me downtown. 😬 I can't even count how many times the cops brought my older brother home. But in every case, it ended there.

I'm guessing the cops want to make sure kids are better controlled these days that way they can more effectively shoot other innocent kids with all that extra free time they have.

The Palestinian genocide seems assured by trajectory of the United States now. 😭

This is insane. When exactly is a permissible age for kids to be walking about on their own?

Things are absolutely different today than they were when I was a kid. My parents never had any idea where I was. They simply said "be home by dinner" and I was home by dinner. Did we get into trouble? Absolutely. But that's part of being kids.

Fast forward to today. My partner and I don't see eye to eye on this because of how things feel so unsafe now. I know how valuable that independence was for me though, so I tend towards permissiveness.

The thing is, kids still walk to school in all kinds of localities. I remember walking to school on a much busier road than the one described in this article. The worst I ever encountered was teenagers throwing eggs once. (Haha. They missed.) And yeah, drivers may hit you. I get it. The government can help mitigate that with better planning and sidewalks, if they actually cared.

But a tracking app too!? Where the government can know my kids location?! That presumes my children even have a phone with a mobile plan, which is a privilege the government isn't paying for. And if they did, @#$& you government! Seriously. WTF?!

I'm both flabbergasted and not. Because, these days, I pretty much only expect fuckery. I wish that weren't the case. I often hope it isn't. And I love being surprised when it's not the case. But 🤬!