It's always insane to me how incredibly bold streaming services/subscription apps are when it comes to increasing their prices. "Man, we're a billion dollar company and everyone is struggling to survive and put food on the table rn. You know what we should do? Raise the prices."
Some of the reactions to this are odd to me. I know it’s an unpopular opinion on here but this is a very young person just starting out and entering the world where there’s no hope of stability or even a half decent standard of living and all the pathways to that have been foreclosed due to an undemocratic government that has eroded everyone’s quality of life consistently for 50+ years, while wreaking havoc globally. This undemocratic government is starting wars nobody wants and making her life even harder all for the sake of drenching the world in blood so a few people at the top can profit.
The way to help people like her understand why things are the way they are isn’t to blame her for the actions of a government over which she has no control, it’s to empathize and then show her that she needs to organize against it to change things. When I was her age I was so poor and immiserated and always on the brink of homelessness that I had no time to even think about politics, I was just trying to survive. Poverty is hell and made me contemplate suicide many times. I wish people realized that young people like this are ripe for radicalization because they feel the effects of a government that does not care about them, but you can’t intervene by laughing at their struggles, which are real even if they are nothing compared to the struggles of those whom this satanic government is bombing. It’s all connected and making those connections is how you bring people in to eventually change things.
I think it’s very understandable for someone who has been the victim of our imperialism to not make distinctions but for us here we should realize that the people who “deserve it” are the ones who are totally unaffected by what this country does. The rest of us pay while those destroying the world profit.
i don't think i'll ever agree with the "its inevitable just accept it"stance on ai. it's killing our planet. it's poisoning water. it's raising electricity bills for people who don't even use it. it's proven that people are getting less smart because of their reliance on it. it's actually quite avoidable and easy to not use. furthermore it steals and profits from actual people's hard word. hearing an ARTIST advocate that people should just roll over and accept ai is really disheartening.
Children are being slaughtered and oil is raining from the sky while the official White House account makes shitty meme videos. Most dystopian thing I’ve ever seen.
i hope clikkies learn that “i love this band, they saved my life and helped me assign words to what i was feeling when i couldnt” and “theyre being complete idiots rn” are two sentences that arent mutually exclusive
just spent 60 dollars on @PlayOverwatch to get the hello kitty bundle and the coins are not in my account. I've restarted the game like 3 times and played a match, they're just not showing but the transaction is in my bank app so uhhhh????
I grew up on this franchise. Scream was my first horror movie. I was 5. I even have a Ghostface tattoo.
Listen to me when I say this: Yes, it does. Stand for something for once in your life.