Why doesn’t he just put the game up for free as an option then?

Does it count as tracking though? What private or personal data is it? I’d also say that it’s at the very least grey area since all they’re doing is trying to prevent people from using their service in unintended ways, ie without ads.

Their obvious solution to this is make you consent to it or you can’t use YouTube.

Are you talking about on mobile? I don’t think people are hosting kodi and their content on their phones.

You don’t need to have local copies of all your media with kodi. A NAS works just fine.

I bet the staff wouldn’t be struggling so much if he paid them more in the first place

People struggle when they don’t get paid due to not working. This shouldn’t be surprising. “Just pay them more” doesn’t work here unless you want everyone to be getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for every job, at which point inflation goes to 100% a year and you end up paying $5000 for an apple.

Writers, the ones complaining, get paid a shitload for their work. They get paid $100k for about 7 weeks work…and they want more… and they’ve somehow convinced the public who earn significantly less than them to stand up for them and fight to make them more money lol. One of the best grifts of all time tbh.

Dementia is the worst. I would take dying of cancer or getting hit by a bus over Alzheimer’s or Aphasia or other forms of dementia. Truly the worst way to live your remaining years, which often is decades.

it’s trying to provide a Reddit-like experience for people who miss it.

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Are there still people denying that twitter/facebook/etc weren’t instructed to censor certain stories leading up to the last US election (hunter laptop), while leaving and even promoting actual misinformation (russia)?

Missed it by this much.

The point was that the government literally used social media sites to censor information that they didn’t like. These sites (and news networks) were made to report that it was made up, misinformation, didn’t exist, a far right conspiracy theory. Turns out it was very real.

Fuck Musk but governments in general are probably happy he’s giving them an excuse to ban what was once a powerful platform for activism and organization.

On the flip side, government officials are also now very unhappy that Twitter won’t do their bidding like it did previously, censoring things like the Hunter Biden laptop and spreading the “Russian election collusion” conspiracy theory.

Musk forgot to pay off the corrupt Indonesian officials I guess.

Jesus what a stupid take, to actually believe that liberals are “experimenting on children”.

What would you call it? It’s using drugs for reasons they’re not approved for, to do surgeries that have massive lists of complications and even without complications will require literal daily care for the rest of their life, when there are no long term studies done on either of these things. The long term effects of “puberty blockers” are unknown. It’s literal experimentation at this stage because there have been no long term studies. How is it not experimenting? We do know however that they’re not 100% reversible - you just need to look at many transgender people that took them to see that. Boys that were “girls” that are now sterile thanks to taking puberty blockers and HRT, etc.

Surgeries, gender altering surgeries, are usually held off until 18, and if they’re not I really don’t understand why the government needs to have a say in something that a parent and child decide on.

“Usually” doesn’t cut it. You don’t understand why life altering elective surgeries shouldn’t be government regulated? A child cannot consent to these surgeries or treatments. They do not have the mental capacity to do so. Let me ask you this - would you let a 10 year old get a tattoo? What if they really want it, and their parents are ok with it? You think they should be able to go and get a nice big dragon tattoo on the side of their head?

puberty blockers have no long term effects

This has been disproven time and time again. You can’t just “pause” puberty and then have it pick up right where it left off, it doesn’t work that way, physically or mentally. The NHS for example changed their literature from “The effects of treatment with GnRH analogues are considered to be fully reversible” to “Little is known about the long-term side effects of hormone or puberty blockers in children with gender dysphoria. Although the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) advises this is a physically reversible treatment if stopped, it is not known what the psychological effects may be. It’s also not known whether hormone blockers affect the development of the teenage brain or children’s bones. Side effects may also include hot flushes, fatigue and mood alterations.”. Other countries have now started doing the same. Why would they be doing this if “the science is settled”?

To not have big government tell them that if they feel more comfortable wearing jeans and a tshirt over a dress that they should be allowed to. That if a child says “I don’t like playing with monster trucks, can I play with a doll instead?” that we can say yes, absolutely you can.

The problem is that no one is telling kids that if they’re a boy they have to play with a monster truck, but one side are saying “if you play with a monster truck you must be a boy, so if you’re a girl we should start you on puberty blockers right away!”. The “liberals” are the ones using stereotypes of “if you are comfortable wearing jeans and a tshirt over a dress then you must be a boy”, not the other way around.

I really don’t understand why people think they need to have a say in how other people raise children.

Really? So you would be ok with parents teaching their kids that black people should be slaves, that it’s ok for adults to have sex with them, and that they can go and murder the next door neighbours cat if they want to? No one should have a say in that or be against it?

Please, tell me how you want big federal government to tell us what to do.

So you’re just anti-government? Do you object to murder being illegal? That’s letting the “big federal government to tell us what to do” isn’t it?

I think the other thing that maybe people need to remember is that there’s pretty much always someone further left than you, and there’s a good chance they consider you a conservative.

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This could not be more true:

I’m “liberal” and “progressive”. I’ve never voted for my countries “conservatives”, in fact I’ve voted for independants that many would call “far left” more than I’ve voted for our regular “left” recently. I voted YES in our referendum for gay marriage. I’m all for “gender identity” in adults if that’s what makes you happy.

I do not, however, think children should be given “gender affirming care”, so that makes me a “bigot”, “far right”, a “nazi”, a “trumper”, and a “conservative” according to those too far gone on the left. If you won’t let a kid get a tattoo then you shouldn’t let a kid cut any perfectly good body parts off, or stunt their body and minds growth with “puberty blockers” aka chemical castration. If you won’t trust a kids opinion enough to let them vote, don’t let them make decisions that are life altering.

Unless they suddenly start accepting people for who they are

Ironic considering the people that won’t accept themselves for who they are.

Adults can be trans all they want, call yourself whatever gender you want - just stop experimenting on children with surgeries and drugs.

You can think whatever you want about him, that’s not the point. The point was that the actual movie was basically him giving “experts” enough rope to hang themselves with, and hang themselves they did. It was about pointing out the absurdity of the situation, a situation where not even the people spouting the views could give answers.

Not to mention the “progressives” reaction to Matt Walsh’s movie “what is a woman?”

And the shows only exist to introduce a new character for the next movies, meaning if you only watch the movies it’s just a bunch of characters appearing and everyone acting like they’ve been around forever and you’re supposed to know who they are.

Another death that was so “final” that has always stuck out to me was in the terminator show, “the Sarah Connor chronicles” when Reese, one of the 3 main characters, just gets shot in the back as the characters are all making their escape from a regular terminator situation. The other characters look back but have to keep running because otherwise they will get shot too, and ……that’s it. He’s dead. No speech, no drawn out death scene, no elaborate over the top death with foreshadowing - he just gets shot and he’s dead.

Yeh the multiverse completely ruined the marvel cinematic universe. I get why they did it, but I think it was a terrible decision. It’s not really a coincidence that almost every movie since they introduced it has flopped.

As you said, it just takes away any and all shock and drama. Oh spider man got turned to dust and died? Strange because we know he has a solo movie set after endgame coming out a few months after it, so I guess he isn’t dead.

Not to mention that the movies are all now just basically filmed entirely on a green screen, while having worse and worse CGI.