disney: we’re taking all of our movies off of streaming services and we’re going to charge you $10 a month to watch them on our own streaming app
me:
More like
Disney: “We’re going to take all our movies off of streaming sites INCLUDING THE ONE WE ALREADY OWN (Hulu) so we can put them on a separate one and milk even more money out of you.”
If you were to resort to piracy over being exhausted over the various streaming services recreating the nickling and diming of the cable television industry (and I’m not saying you should - just… if you happen to find yourself there), a full VPN is not required.
You can have your torrent activity go through a proxy (while the rest of your traffic isn’t shuttled through there) using services like BTGuard. All the torrent activity is run through the proxy:
If your ISP has bandwidth caps, you’ll still run into those. But they won’t know what you’re transferring.
Just… information out there that you might find useful, in the age of ten-thousand different streaming services that all want you to keep adding more paid subscriptions.
dam…….. that website “you feel like shit” (it’s like a questionnaire / troubleshooting guide for when you feel like shit) really works………………….. im not even all the way thru it and i even half-assed a lot of the suggestions and i already feel loads better
for some reason, with this website, i was able to complete small tasks ive been fruitlessly bugging myself to do for weeks??
anyway, i feel almost good now :^)
im glad this got some notes!!!! i hope it helps y’all find some measure of peace or comfort <3
Reblogging for my own reference later, and in case it benefits anyone else reading this.
I don’t know how to convey to people that yes we’re allowed to watch trash and have fun but the minute you start talking about Disney/marvel movies as if they’re actual pieces of art worth being critiqued instead of just CONTENT it’s done like Please Understand that these movies are just content created in test tubes for us to consume it literally doesn’t matter if it’s good or bad representation if it’s sexist or “feminist” if there’s a good witty line about misogyny or racism in it it doesn’t matter when they have a complete monopole on what’s getting produced and turn a 10+ billion profit every year like I need you to understand that when you pay for these garbage 2-hour long ads-slash-music videos you’re acting like a clown and when you’re seriously talking about their quality as movies or whether they’re politically good or positive representation or anything like that you’re acting like the master king of clowns premium
& to all the people who are like “oh but this one is different it doesn’t even feel like it’s a marvel show” “it doesn’t even seem like a marvel movie, it’s really well written and complex, the tone is so new” hm. Yeah it sure is curious that Disney is so clearly diversifying its offer after establishing its monopole on action movies and animated movies and getting their own streaming service. Oh we do wonder why that is. It might become clearer in 2027 when each month we get our mandatory Disney action movies, Disney documentaries, Disney cop shows, Disney art house films, Disney romcoms, Disney teen movies, Disney food shows and Disney slow cinema 7-hour features. But until then!
Omgggg that’s so empowering and revolutionary 😍😍😍 we’re all saved ❤️ women cheering and clapping in theaters everywhere
“A new viral term promoting slow living has taken China’s cyberspace by storm, and authorities are moving quickly to stamp it out.
Tangping (躺平), or “lying down flat” is a counter-culture philosophy championing minimalism and anti-consumerism.
The “lying down flatist” believes that people are more than mere extensions of capital. The “lying down flatist” is in open rebellion against the hard-working, credit-hungry, striving existence promoted from the top down in China.
The idea originated from a short post, “Lying down flat signifies justice”, published on a mainland Chinese forum, Baidu Tieba, in April.”
Given that China(the gov’t)’s Imperialism (and its relationship to US/EU Imperialism & Finance) is literally a huge driving factor in Capitalism and literally destroying many countries in Africa and other continents, lying down is, indeed, literally justice.
“I haven’t been working for two years, I have just been hanging around and I don’t find it a problem. Pressure mainly comes from comparisons with your own peers and the conventional values of the older generation. These pressures keep popping up…Messages about “fertility” are pressed upon you by an “invisible organism”. But, we don’t have to abide by these (norms). I can live like Diogenes and sleep inside a wooden bucket, enjoying sunshine. I can live like Heraclitus in a cave, thinking about the “logos”. Since this piece of land had never had a school of thought that upholds human subjectivity, I can develop one on my own. Lying down flat is my philosophical movement. Only through lying down flat can humans stand at the center of the universe.“
Godspeed to ppl everywhere opting out of being used as tools of destruction by greedy assholes
i hope people read this and realize that chinese people arent just the helpless drones that western propaganda have made them out to be. unlike what people who so staunchly think that chinese people are just sheep who obey out of fear believe, chinese people are indeed politically aware and participate in activism by protesting against their capitalist government (emphasis on the capitalist, just in case anyone’s understanding of china is still stuck in the cold war era)
once again, the people all over the world have more in common with each other than they do to their governments. realizing this is an important step in building global solidarity in the fight against imperialism and capitalism. continuing to operate under the idea that asians are somehow less capable of critical thinking and political awareness will only undermine these efforts
The promise of plastic-free plant-based “vegan leather” is still just a promise, no matter how much the marketing makes it seem otherwise
and, yes, that includes the cactus-based material that’s been circulating in a post on here for a while:
More shockingly, the study found that some of the leather alternatives contained traces of explicitly banned chemicals, in particular Desserto, Appleskin, Vegea, and Piñatex, the group of plastic-coated textile leathers. One of the poorest scoring materials was actually the Desserto cactus leather, which contained five restricted substances including butanone oxime, toluene, free isocyanate, an organic pesticide called folpet, and traces of a phthalate plasticiser. In some of the other alternative leather samples, toluene and plasticisers, and the solvent DMF were detected. However, the article does not clarify the absolute levels in which these contaminants were detected.
The team also tested the physical properties of the materials and compared them to natural leather. Unsurprisingly, none of the materials really matched the purpose of leather. Some came closer than others, and particularly the non-coated or hybrid materials Muskin and Kombucha fell quite short in terms of strength. Of course, depending on the application, some brands may tolerate differing physical properties as they may wish to incorporate the unique properties of some of the materials into their product design. In essence, it is pretty tough to replicate the natural fibrous collagen network found in animal skins, so it is quite clear that the materials are substitutes or rough approximations of real leather.
In particular, the partnership between Stella McCartney and Bolt Threads with its Mylo leather alternative (a technology itself licensed from Ecovative Design, another US start-up) received a large amount of international media coverage. Despite the impression given by the media campaign, you need to read the small print to find out that this novel material is neither fully bio-based, nor biodegradable, nor plastic-free. Mylo itself tells us that it is finished with a bio-based polymer, most likely a partially-bio based polyurethane. Mylo was certified to be 50-85% bio-based, which would fit with the hypothesis of a natural material (mycelium) finished with a partially bio-based polyurethane (i.e, a plastic which is formed from both petroleum and bio-based feedstocks, but with similar properties to conventional petroleum-based polyurethanes). Otherwise, it is not clear what makes up the rest of the non bio-based composition.
A few months ago, Paula Lorenz and I posted an article titled ‘Marketing Hype or Reality: Why Plant and Plastic Hybrids are the Worst of Both Worlds’ here on The Circular Laboratory. Some brands and consumers are interested in purely biological processes: the idea of a material that can break down seamlessly into nature, returning its carbon to the natural carbon cycle. On the other hand, others want to focus on materials, typically various kinds of traditional petroleum-based or even bio-based plastics, which can be recycled again and again.
While it is possible to have a material that is recyclable as well as biodegradable and even compostable (able to be degraded under realistic composting conditions), the majority of “plant-based” leathers fall into a category which is neither – they are mixtures of plastics (typically polyurethanes) and natural materials. One particular example we highlighted was the example of Desserto, a material which we uncovered (based on its listing on a material database that has since promptly been deleted) was mostly polyurethane, with only a small amount of natural material mixed in.
Honestly, I will never deny that ace and Aro people aren’t gonna face difficulties for being Ace and Aro.
But it’s so dishonest to put Ace/Aro people on a platform parallel to LGBT people, because LGBT people suffer from *histórical, systemic, and consistent violence and oppression*. When imperial western forces began to dominate the world literally anything outside of Cishet norms was annihilated. The same forces that did this are still in power today and are the reason why LGBT persecution is so normalized in much of the world today.
While Ace and Aro people do have difficulties, they aren’t suffering from systemic, historical, consistent oppression. The fact that the Catholic Church, a powerful organization responsible for much of the systemic persecution and oppression of LGBT people, will ideologically endorse Asexuality is very telling about how ace and Aro people aren’t targeted by the same systems that target LGBT people.
Yesterday (July 18th) settlers and IOF soldiers raided Al Aqsa mosque. They beat women, attacked worshippers and shot live bullets inside the mosque to make way for Israeli Jewish visitors
jesse we need to sell enough meth to donate to this tv show’s gofundme
“The whole thing was a scam, Walt! They were never gonna make a show about an outgoing asexual and introverted pansexual being roommates. They just took the money and ran! ‘All or Nothing’ will never be a real TV show!”
RIP to the funniest person to ever interact with one of my posts
Can you all make the leap from measures of intelligence being fake to intelligence being inherently a false concept please
Everyone wants there to be an innate level of smartness so they can say “well actually I’m the real kind of smart” fuck off no one’s smart. Have any of you talked to real scientists? I could name you five engineers I know that I know for sure don’t know how to hit a bong properly
i’m the real kind of smart because i know how to hit a bong
Whenever I publicly talk about Land Back, someone will inevitably ask me the same question: “What does Land Back really mean?”
More
often than not, I will answer with something short like, “it means give
the land back.” As to-the-point as that answer is, I know it isn’t the
answer they are necessarily looking for. The concept of Land Back,
particularly for many non-Indigenous folks, can seem confusing and
abstract. People want to know what is being done and what they can do to
help the movement.
While
it is only in the past couple of years that Land Back has entered
national dialogues, Indigenous people have always found ways to assert
their jurisdiction despite their displacement and forced alienation from
the land. What’s more, some non-Indigenous people have acted as
accomplices in the Land Back movement – finding ways to pay reparations
and subvert the systems of oppression that have often benefited them, in
the spirit of Land Back.
This piece explores four case studies to
show concrete ways that Land Back is taking place on the ground.
Hopefully these examples can provide some clarity about what Land Back
means and looks like, perhaps functioning as a starting point for
non-Indigenous people to join the Land Back movement and begin
reconciling their relationship to these lands.
Israeli forces assaulted Palestinian civilians while they running a marathon to protest their forced displacement and ethnic cleansing in occupied Jerusalem by Israel.
At the same this was happening, Israeli settlers were still happily celebrating Pride march in occupied Jerusalem while being protected by those same Israeli officers.
Netflix has been outspending any other would-be distributors — paying $30 million for the indie drama “Malcolm & Marie,” and over $400 million for sequels to “Knives Out”— though it is unclear whether these films actually can earn that much in returns. But what Netflix does get is one fewer competitor who could potentially profit from those movies or produce films that turn audiences away from Netflix, even for a night.
This power also lets Netflix dictate creative possibilities. Joshua Glick has charted how Netflix has upended the documentary market by pushing filmmakers toward a less political “story first” approach. Production teams are having to adjust to Netflix’s decision to ban the most popular digital cameras in Hollywood in its productions, which has led to many complaints of blurry cinematography. And perhaps most important is how Netflix has set up precarious labor dynamics, paying higher fees to creatives to run shows for two seasons before abruptly canceling them. Many individuals could work for other studios, but as streaming giants dictate more decisions, they have no choice but to fall in line.
The new dynamics of streaming have also introduced new complications into how Hollywood compensates its talent. Because of a lack of direct box-office revenue, top box-office talent rarely end up sharing in profits and residuals, and Netflix’s arbitrary viewership data — based on only two minutes of viewing — has created more confusion about which films really succeed. This uncertainty might scare away potential movie financers while forcing top talent to tie themselves to studios and tried-and-true franchises rather than choose their own projects.
Skeptics will say that independent filmmakers will just hustle, as they always have. But that becomes harder when digital distribution — and the need to access these primary platforms to make any profit — strangles the industry. Giants such as Netflix are positioned to control which films get made and how, without necessarily following the preferences of consumers.
