I pay for a single netflix sub, crunchyroll, and a vpn service.

After netflix announced ads i’ve been more and more considering dumping them and just focusing on that vpn service. I have paid for years and years of streaming services but I can’t possibly comprehend how prices need to go up again and again, almost always by double digit percentage points. The cost of storage and bandwidth goes down over time, servers get cheaper over time… there’s hardly any first party new media that is worth watching so i’m struggling to understand why i’m paying more.

The most bizarre thing to me though are people who pay for live TV… why in the world would you ever do that in 2024 with all the better options out there?

They already had the stolen car. https://www.firstalert4.com/2023/05/26/carjacking-suspects-bail-out-dodge-charger-before-it-crashes-into-police-car-north-county-during-chase-officers-say/

The article implies the swat team was sent due to an armed carjacking that morning. Someone got a warrant for search and seizure based on geolocation results from the airpods and they assumed the carjackers would be hanging out at this address.

It’s a rental home. Nothing is mentioned about the identity of the owner of the home. After looking up the house on zillow though it’s about 113k. It’s a dead end street surrounded by homes that are valued under 100k. I didn’t realize that federal minimum wage would be enough to pay a mortgage in 2024, but apparently it is possible. This isn’t super relevant other than the fact i’m looking at buying a house near Boston and I did a double take that a home exists in this price range and isn’t in a trailer park. 113k here won’t even buy you a parking spot.

After looking up the address it looks like a group of juveniles were involved with the carjacking so names are impossible to find. The most bizzare thing though is that a couple hours after the carjacking the car was picked up 3.5 miles / an 8 minute drive from the house in wylin court with the suspects bailing from the car and the cops arresting them… I wonder when the swatting happened at 630pm who they thought they would find?

Fun fact, the murder rate in St Louis per capita is the 7th highest in the world, after six cities in Mexico. #1 in the US. 87.83 per 100k. https://www.statista.com/statistics/243797/ranking-of-the-most-dangerous-cities-in-the-world-by-murder-rate-per-capita/

I’m not justifying anything. I learned a lot that I never knew about St Louis MO and holy fuck is it rough.

Ubereats lets you set the tip after the delivery. afaik the others don’t.

Should be illegal to prompt a tip before services are rendered, including at those POS machines that ask you up front to tip even a small amount.

Even if your drives are all SSD you’re never going to have so many writes that it dies unless you download a full catalog of 8k content daily then nuke it and start over… for a few years

Already cancelled my prime account when this was announced months and months and months ago.

You’re already getting recurring subscription fees from me, so you’re getting paid even if I don’t use your services for any period of time. Stop fucking around and playing games, adding ads is double dipping. I’ll just stop the recurring transactions and find services elsewhere.

The owners of the company that runs the prison should be personally liable for this. The workers and management responsible for running the prison should be personally responsible for this.

The people who assaulted him should also be personally responsible for this.

We have to get rid of this zero liability bullshit. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

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Gonna go out on a limb and say it’s probably from the “Zombieland” mod, given that it has a filter talking about zombies specifically.

100%. Kept a criminal conviction on a guy who did no wrong. Violating ethics should be punished far harsher than it is.

For over a year it’s been fairly trivial to play unauthorized copies of games online with normal players. Should be no surprise they are pulling the plug after their copy protection is broken.

Should get about 6 more years out of the Nintendo Switch’s online service before they pull the plug too if this is any indication.

Ah yes, the global mental health stigma that is very real and will not go away.

The people who don’t like it will leave but a not insignificant proportion will stay despite things changing.

Can only hope the quality people bail and the dredges lower the quality enough that it slowly dies out.