amniotic druid

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I guess now that I have a Shield versus a PS5 in my living room, I should give it another try, but I really have never cared much about all the features I don’t use as long as the ones I do are still there, and they are.

    I pay for the monthly subscription and still feel like it’s a good value. I cringe at the people who say stuff like “I bought a lifetime pass in 2014 for $60 but don’t like all the new features!” like that kind of unsustainable consumption isn’t exactly what pushes them towards more monetization and Plex is still the only company I can think of to have ever actually honored that purchase. No shame though, it was a great deal for early adopters.

    And PlexAmp alone justifies putting up with some of the BS, at least for now.

    Just my thoughts





  • Yeah I haven’t bought this argument since day one of the whole thing. Trump didn’t go to war to distract from Epstein or ICE, at least not as directly as you make it.

    Pre-war polling saw that Trump’s popularity was pretty much unchanged with likely R voters even through last summer, the December vote, and Bondi’s firing. He’s made it very clear he doesn’t feel like he needs to win over new supporters, either, and with both houses still R at least through November, there wasn’t much reason for him to care about Epstein. It was already out of the news and voters were buying the Bondi-scapegoat story.

    The idea that Trump was actually super upset that people were mad about ICE and wanted a distraction is just funny. The show of force, shock, confusion, and coverage was the point, Stephen Miller said as much from day 1, and to reiterate: Trump wasn’t losing any R votes over these policies.

    Right wing media had both of these under control with a good spin on them. There was literally no reason to do something so obviously doomed and tank the one thing every American (apparently) cares about, gas prices, to distract from either of these stories that were already on their way out.

    Trump started a war with Iran because 1) it’s the thing Israel has been begging anyone to back them up on for fifty years and 2) he felt bullet proof (militarily and petrologically) after Venezuela.

    /rant. I had a much better version of this typed up and then refreshed the page and lost it all :-)