This is interesting 🤔 admittedly I haven’t read the article yet but the excerpt seems to be stating that they have shared traits, but doesn’t say they’re exactly the same.

Basketballs share commonalities with footballs but it’s still a different story, just not sure I’d claim to have experienced both without having 100% experienced both.

Not insulting you or coming off with any malice that’s just my take, but I can see exactly where you’re coming from. TW orgasms are probably much, much more like CW orgasms than they are cis-man orgasms so I see where you’re coming from.

How do you know how they differ with such detail?

Oh I’m super happy to share if you’d like me to dm or comment, just cautious mainly bc I was banned or suspended from reddit subs for “sourcing” or something like that

Netflix and Hulu, etc. Have left a bad taste in my mouth as well. Was a member when Netflix began and was only a DVD rental service.

They had so much good content and if it wasn’t available for streaming you could almost always just rent the DVD, they had a pretty decent DVD rental program for a while.

Wow, that all changed rapidly. Took a hiatus from streaming and only came back a couple years ago. Subscribed to Netflix again like “yeah! Gonna be 100× more shit than before!”

No, much of the best content was gone. The entirety of Netflix only provided less than a handful of shows I was even “meh” about. No more DVD rental either.

I watched squid games and that was pretty much it. Let that trial expire and began to explore different services.

Sheesh, wtf. Just to catch up on some old stuff and watch a few new things I’d been hyped about I realized required me to basically subscribe to damned near everything. AMC+ for TWD, Hulu for iirc workaholics, Netflix again for don’t remember, Amazon prime solely for The Boys and Omniman or whatever it’s called HBO max for iirc mortal Kombat Paramount for old south park And I’m positive I got at least two more.

That’s 8 subscription services a MONTH I’d have to pay, just to watch the equivalent of what I used to get on cable.

Of every single one of those trials, I don’t think I watched any more than the one show/movie I’d initially signed up for. Forgot I even had a few just because they didn’t have anything else I liked anytime I checked.

Then discovered a great site that I’m not sure if I can name here. This isn’t an ad for it because I don’t want to see it shut down.

Was everything that those services should be. Just have EVERYTHING I can think of to watch including older movies. Anytime I remember a show I used to like I just type it in and it’s always there, never had a search that didn’t yield results.

All that and the interface is even better. No ads with a blocker ofc, no subscription reminder Bs, no promoting their own originals, no promoting what companies have paid them to… they just show the most watched stuff in the feed but you can easily find whatever you want.

Even Netflix last I checked couldn’t keep up with that. They have a search function but 99% of the time what you’re looking for isn’t available. Their categories are also just… horrible. It’s just a hodgepodge of stuff they want you to watch, they aren’t really categorized well.

I really wish that we could rewind 20 or so years to back when Netflix first became successful and instead of just creating umpteen streaming companies competing against each other maybe… just maybe we had one single streaming platform with everything people actually want to watch…

But that would likely mean $100+ monthly subscription fees… worse than the cable we ran from, and then ofc they’d just have ads anyway like Hulu unless you pay even more… it’s ridiculous. If they’d just consolidate and ask a reasonable price pirating wouldn’t be so prevalent at all. Problem is, it’s now so much easier to pirate and in my case I get even better service that way.

It’d be a monopoly ofc, but isn’t it basically just a big Monopoly anyway? A select few companies basically run the entire industry in the U.S. sure they’re technically different companies but they have made it almost impossible for smaller companies to start up. How can you compete with Disney, for example?

Exactly. Not sure why cars are the exception other than profit

Though in retrospect I do retract, or admit maybe my view on only allowing cars that go to 70 mph is flawed, can’t hate on people that want fast cars, it’s up to them if they want to upgrade and have something nice, I do too, but it is definitely excessive

Exactly, and tbh if we stopped making vehicles today people would still be driving many years from now, feel like we should really… stop mining the earth for resources to then use making things people don’t even need so we can be richer… just make vehicles repairable again and focus on that.

Maybe, instead of everyone buying brand new cars we can just upgrade our old ones, like a PC.

So you want the latest Dodge body to look cool? Okay, we’ll just pop that onto you’re already existing frame, no need in buying a new engine/chassis etc if you’re only seeking an aesthetic change anyway

Speaking of that… all this $ people pay for faster cars when they’ll only really drive them between 30-70mph is ridiculous. Why even make commercial cars faster than the speed limit? Just so dummies can drive drunk at 120mph and hit a family head on? Until we get an Autobahn there’s just no need for it.

No need for 16 year olds, anyone really to have a V8 with 900 horsepower just give them something that will go the speed limit and save the fucking resources

When I buy a vehicle, I touch it, if it’s solid metal hey awesome, if it’s plastic or fiber whatever I just nope out because I’ve seen what happens when they’re in the smallest of accident.

I can pull a ding out of metal, or even just stop by pull apart and pop a replacement door or whatever off something similar. Can’t do that when half the frame shatters in impact, might as well buy another car which is exactly what they want us to do

I feel like it would make a huge difference. They’re planning obsolescence for vehicles and equipment now too. I have a tractor from the 70’s that’s still running fine, why? Because they used to make them with the idea that the consumer can and should be able to perform their own maintenance and repair, for a farmer back then a tractor was a huge purchase and was expected to last many years. I

Meanwhile, the new ones require being brought to the shop for all kinds of things, many can only be fixed with software that most people don’t have, if available at all.

Instead of repairing what they have, companies want people to just buy new stuff every couple of years if not sooner.

It’s just sad when stuff from 50 years ago will still last longer than something you purchase today.

Regarding automotives and equipment, old machinery could last forever really, with the right replacement parts, but those are getting extremely hard to find as well with everyone just buying new instead of repairing what they have. It’s something else…

Maybe not with smart devices, but the automotive industry is headed the same way. I can repair a truck from the 70’s and keep it running forever with the right parts, and even with some not-so right ones.

Nowadays for example, a tractor or truck from 2020 can’t be repaired like that, they’re installing systems that we-the user and even our mechanics can’t access so you absolutely HAVE to take it back to them for repair. That’s just wrong, these trucks have absolutely no need for software like this, it’s only purpose is to prevent people from repairing things they’ve already paid for.