A reverse Robin Hood; a “Robbin’ the ‘hood” if you will…

It’s hard but not impossible, as even ‘retail displays’ run an OS in the background to control input switching, image settings etc.

Honestly the best thing to do is buy whatever TV you want (we have a couple of the LG OLEDs in our household), and don’t ever plug them into your network (or WiFi). Otherwise, with updates OS and apps become sluggish, with more ads crammed in.

Instead, use a seperate media player (e.g. Apple TV if you’re already on the iOS ecosystem, Nvidia Shield or similar for Android, HTPC if you’re so inclined etc.) - they’re more powerful, arguably more secure & private, and portable between displays if/when you upgrade.

It’s worse than you think; it’s $50/month!

Now part of the problem is we don’t know the average membership length, and it’s further complicated by the fact that the Tate brothers ran the ‘school’ like a pyramid scheme where enrolling another member earned you a kick-back (which is why so many random channels popped up a few years back sharing clips).

So pulling random numbers out of my arse, if the average membership period was ~6 months and they had ~30% operating expenses (servers, bandwidth, kickbacks etc.) they could have netted ~$168m from this scheme.

I too, share your self-loathing in my morals preventing me from exploiting these absolute morons.

Yup, was one of the first bits I thought of too…

I still paraphrase his “your stuff is shit, my shit is stuff” to this day… 😅

We really need someone to fill the massive shoes he left behind - an individual able to call out all the egregious bullshit.

800,000 people fell for that scam? Fuck me, that’s a lot of stupidity…

/uj Technically this is their new logo:

J a G U a r is just their new typeface (I think that’s the name?); and apparently/allegedly is to make the pronunciation closer to UK English, rather than American.

Either way, though - it’s still…

/j

…pReTtY fArKiN’ sToOoPiD.

In order: Soy, Coconut, Almond, Macadamia.

Almond uses way too much water to be environmentally sustainable, and macadamia just has a weird after-taste that I don’t like.

Soy has a bit of a bad reputation (unfairly so, due to bad ‘bro science’); but I quite like the taste and it has a pretty low emissions/water footprint comparatively.