uphillbothways
They've been notifying users for a while now, when sending mobi files.
People keep having kids, but can't be fucking bothered to leave behind a world worth living in. It's hateful. Straight up.
Humans are burning down the wrong Amazon.
I hate musk and think he's an idiot, but people are apathetic enough to let everything go to shit without their plan.
They may have one, you're probably right, but it's still a dumb plan.
I'm not a lawyer, but that should be felony contempt for violating a direct court order.
There's the corporate side of it, which other comments have covered, but consumer mentality is a big piece, too. Seems like we're so awash in content there's a widespread jaded expert mentality that's taken hold. A lack of naive willingness to try new things, possibly paired with or caused by a feeling of being overtaxed financially from all sides and having too many things demanding our time.
A lack of willingness to spend time or money on something we don't already identify with as being good, on both the sides of consumers and producers.
Late stage capitalism has changed us all. Feels like there's a lot less room for experimentality in this huge carefully curated experience. We've all seen too much.
edit to add: Maybe the popularity of reboots are us yearning for simpler times. We can't reboot society so we reboot our movies, music, shows, etc. Meanwhile, constantly rehashing old plots prevents the renewal we really want.
everyone's faking it, no one knows what they're doing and for some reason they've all silently agreed to act like they like it that way.
had a boss tell me something similar ages ago.... for a while i was able to pretend i was ok with this, but honestly i'm sooo fucking tired.
it's not even a dance. it's chickens in a coop, trying to pretend they're hawks, but they're all fucking headless
Here's an empty bucket to yell into so you can hear your own voice. That'll be $12/month. Thanks.