libraries and piracy sites have always been a pillar of my identity.
I literally can’t read reputable news any more it’s all behind paywalls
Funny enough, when libs complain about people being taken in by "fake news," they never make the connection between that and their own favored sources being increasingly paywalled. Their attempts to understand the world are doomed to fail, divorced from the material and shackled by capitalist realism.
i get all my news from TruthTellerEagleFuck.net :passion:
The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free :very-intelligent:
it's getting harder and harder to afford good opinions
no one ever talks about this with the supposed "rise of misinformation"
Archive.is although I can tell you that the nytimes is not worth reading lol
You'll own nothing and be happy
I remember when that first blew up and rightoids frothed at the mouth about how "billionaires are threatening us with COMMUNISM!!!"
I want to own nothing and be happy
:I-was-saying: :gold-communist:
The key difference is “you’ll own nothing” and “we’ll own nothing, and yet everything”
:deeper-sadness:
Ah well, I’m looking forward to convincing them to reword this some day through a pleasant conversation :lenin-cat:
This would work if the services were all state run and the fee was like a one off controlled price.
This meme really misses by not making note of healthcare plans (which act as a subscription) and renting an apartment/house
It really feels like the American healthcare system is a few years away from a "a la carte" model (as if it's not that way in some places already) Super interesting because that type of model was heavily demonized back in the Ajit Pai/net neutrality days, now it's completely normalized.
Yep, that was the beginning of the normalization. Since then the propagandistic power of The Internet seems to have increased 10 fold. It's the most powerful totalitarian normalization tool we've ever seen and ironically the most fit to for actual democracy.
Absolutely bizarre. Remember when this picture was everywhere? It was on the front page of reddit for days and the topic if you spent any time on Instagram/Facebook/Twitter.
I remember that guy who kept using risque pictures of his gf as clickbait for his net neutrality/global warming videos
Blood from stone; profits must be found in every nook and cranny. Planned obsolescence isn't enough. In the race to the bottom, companies eventually have to either cannibalize each other or find more and more bullshit ways to monetize their products. When they can't, we get the bust part of the capitalist boom/bust cycle
Thankfully that Microsoft 365 crap was the last straw and now my work lets us use open office formats on work documents. It was that or give every employee 365 just so they could go in and type their names on lines in annual forms once a year
I’ve started buying used CDs again and mainly use Spotify as background noise while working. Not to sound like a boomer, but the experience of putting an CD on and looking at the album artwork and liner notes feels so good. I forget that before the internet broke my brain that listening to music was something I’d do in isolation of other activities. Making it intentional like that with physical media makes it so much easier to really focus on it.
Imma sound like a boomer too but i 100% vibe with this.
The ease of streaming has imo actually cheapened the music listening experience for me. Finding the time to actually sit and listen to music feel really good and not at all what those services are designed for
