Edgy McEdgerson is checking in!

who would have guessed streaming services are expensive and non-trivial to run. “We’ll just build our own, we’ll make much more than licensing it to Netflix!”

Right? Failed by who’s standards? For me, I’m pretty goddang happy here. I get enough content, I don’t feel constantly anxious or angry, the people are generally pretty nice. Is OP deciding it failed? Or are others?

Then getting mad when we call them out on their trolling

Congrats! Going from Texas to Portland, think about transit going into it. In the right mindset for less commute, but play your cards right and maybe you won’t even have to drive to work!

I love that you reversed it, when it should be “how terrible do Americans have it where we have to commute so far just to get to work”

Ironic. A movie exposing the horrors of war and their legal and marketing teams are worried about having “born to kill” on the cover. Don’t look too close, you might see what actual war is like .

That’s the hard thing there bud, fun is an extremely subjective term

Yeughh, I’m sorry, it’s the absolute worst. I begudgingly understand if you need to fly when you’re sick, after all - what if you get sick while on vacation? Most people can’t just not go to work for an additional 2 weeks while you recover, and buy a hotel room for that long. At the very least though get a mask and just keep it contained.

Sure I have an immune system, it doesn’t mean I want to use it when I’m going on vacation!

The all feed. They knew mods in communities were removing their spam posts, so they created communities they could post constantly to and all viewers would see them

people so easily triggered that a person wearing a mask makes them have to yell at someone

I always wear them in airports. Airplanes I have stopped caring, but airports have so. many. people.

My story is I was in Denver, sitting in a chair. This was long before covid. The only chair left was one by those moving walkways in the middle of their concourses. I was sitting there reading and some guy literally turned to his right and just sneezed directly in my face. Wet drips literally down my cheek. He just casually rolled away on it, never said anything. I was sick the next day.

Fuck that guy, fuck gross people. Mask won’t protect me against that, but ffs if your sick just wear one.

Same here, and I get weird dirty looks. I’ve heard of people getting verbally assaulted wearing them, my go-to line ready is “I’m sick, I didn’t want to get people like you sick, but if you don’t care…” starts to pull down mask

It was just a thought, I don’t have all the details worked out. But essentially yes, just like a co-op except since in a co-op you own, these would be options, where they unlock every year on renewal, giving you the option to own. There would have to be a whole new concept for it, a normalized thing similar to a corporation but specific to land ownership, because yes pretty much any rental property would be one, every building

My only point here would be I’d switch from actual ownership to more of an “option” ownership option. Similar to stock options, every time you pay rent you get more of the “options”. When a sale event happens, you can exercise your options and have a chance to buy the property there. Or, if they want to exercise now they can and they’d own shares of the building there. Once it tips to 50% then the shareholders own it.

Every year you receive more options, you are under no obligation to exercise them. However, every year you rent you receive more options. If you leave and you did exercise your options you get the value you put in back, but if you didn’t the options go back into the pool.

I think this is similar to co-ops in large cities, where there is a contract that the owners can start owning the building themselves over time.

Disables

30 ads all over the page start to appear, moving and shifting the article I was trying to read, flashing in my face and covering content. An auto playing video starts to play, and follows me down the page.

Why won’t anyone disable their ad blocker, we need ad revenue!

Vertical integration

As everything, a big “it depends”. Each viewer will eat more bandwidth, but you control the compression and qualities. For me, I have an unlimited fiber uplink, so it’s quite easy for me to self host. If someone were more bandwidth constrained, then hosting it on a cloud that then has much more egress may help - at a cost of course, but then your own personal internet would only have the one outgoing stream. Finding a provider that has super cheap egress traffic would probably help

If you have a data cap… well… not a lot you can do.

Thanks, I knew I was skirting the rule, but I’m on a constant strive to convince people to move to fediverse alternatives. Appreciate the exception, and won’t make a habit of it.

That’s so weird, the markdown processor got confused. I changed the link