There are two definitions:

S: (n) capitalist (a conservative advocate of capitalism)

S: (n) capitalist (a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business))

No. See Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and Tidal. They all contain something like 99% content overlap. You can subscribe to any of them and access almost all music. The difference is price, performance, UX, and features.

I’m a capitalist but even I think visual media needs a come to Jesus. If they had adopted the Spotify model everyone would be a lot happier. I would be paying for content still. Instead they broke up into a dozen different services with walled content. This is so stupid. I have no qualms keeping my own collection when this is the paid offering.

I hit my limit years ago when Netflix removed the (then) very good rating system in favour of their algorithmically gamed thumbs up/down. Then they started auto playing content when one hovered over it. Then they started cutting third party movies and shows in favour of their own… content. I was paying a lot for the privilege of an inferior experience. Now I have a Plex server with everything I like in one place, no ads, and real ratings on the content. Sonarr and Radarr are my favourite apps ever.

I think you’re right. I’ve been disappointed with how slowly hardware has been gaining AV1 support. Only this year’s Apple silicon supports it. The most current Apple TV does not. The current Nvidia Shield does not. I don’t think any smart TVs support it. Most Android phones do not. Chromecast 4K does not. I don’t remember HEVC support taking this long to proliferate.

“We should halt all aid to terrorists and terrorist states.” - very easy policy most people will agree on.

That and the sheer audacity to have a concert right next to Gaza was a recipe for disaster that Israel took advantage of for its own ambitions.

It’s not like the Israeli government intentionally set up a music festival next door to Hamas to get participants killed. Your implication is incredibly nefarious. This was a privately run festival full of people who were advocating for Palestinian rights, set up more than 3km away from the border. How much of a buffer zone between Gaza and Israel are you suggesting there should be? 5km? 10km? For context, the width of Gaza is as narrow as 4.5km.

They’ve been mostly locked in place since 8th October. There’s no way for them to regroup and refortify with Israel dropping bombs on anything which looks like a terrorist. A ceasefire would let them regroup in civilian buildings, which I think we all want to avoid. They have to qualms with using children as human shields, so we need to keep the terrorists pinned down and get away from those children.

Diversify homie.

It’s pretty bad. I doubt anyone downvoting you even knows what the Laffer curve is.

They’re an unequivocally biased source. They still have articles up claiming 500 people were killed in the hospital explosion, and “many are disinclined to believe Israel’s claim.” They immediately repeated Hamas propaganda without any verification, and wrote a score of articles ginning up hate.

Al Jazeera used to be somewhat reliable, but it hasn’t been for years. They’re not hiding it either.

The proposal makes a lot of sense but I can also understand why people feel it’s a shame to say goodbye to such an iconic district. Ultimately NIMBYs will always win. In this case I’m not convinced it’s a bad thing.

They integrate FASTER than others who came before them who were supposedly far closer to our “shared values and culture” (i.e. “not muslims”), and society didn’t collapse when THOSE came.

You are attacking straw men. I neither claimed the problem is “Muslims” nor that making Germany poorer will collapse society. Please re-read my comments. To repeat myself, this is what I wrote, and your source confirmed that:

Germany needs workers, not people who are illiterate and unlikely to ever work. Germany has accepted a LOT of people of the latter, and it is causing a lot of social unrest.

Did you know that in most European countries, Syrians have some of the lowest rates of employment out of any country of origin? Unfortunately I can’t find Germany’s demographic stats (I would appreciate a source for yours). Here are the stats for Denmark.

They don’t wonder. They know exactly why. They’re just too conceited to admit they might be wrong. They’d rather continue to allow innocent people to be murdered than admit their mistake.

Muslims have been killing “infidels” for any and no reason at all since the 8th century. They continue to this day. Some use flimsy excuses for gruesomely murdering innocents, but the one undeniable fact remains constant: Muhammad told them to. Islam is a violent, medieval ideology which has no place in modern society.

This is what I wrote:

Germany needs workers, not people who are illiterate and unlikely to ever work. Germany has accepted a LOT of people of the latter

I didn’t say “all”. I said “a lot.” According to your link, there are a lot of people who are not working.

Also, It’s a huge pain in the ass to get your degrees and titles recognised in Germany. Even Doctors returning from Switzerland have to wait several months up to a year to get their certificates recognised

This is a meme. Clearly most refugees are not doctors and engineers. I challenge you to provide a source.

According to an analysis, more than half of the refugees who came to Germany in 2015 were employed in 2021.

Did you read it? This is horrific. Six years later, and barely more than half are working.

Conversely, 45 percent of those who fled to Germany in 2015 have not yet entered the labor market.

I am not sure why you think this refutes my argument. It supports it. The employment rate is even worse for those who arrived after 2015, and is incredibly low for refugees of certain countries like Syria and Afghanistan.

For posterity, I am not claiming all refugees don’t work. I am claiming many do not work, and immigrants who do not work are making Germany’s social problems even worse.

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Germany needs workers, not people who are illiterate and unlikely to ever work. Germany has accepted a LOT of people of the latter, and it is causing a lot of social unrest. If the current ruling parties don’t get a handle on things soon, the far right AfD will take power. There are only a few years left to turn this around.