Your disposable income, such as it is, belongs to them. That’s why.

Draining working class with bug bites. Every sub is another swarm of insects in need of blood. You’re not supposed to notice.

Ok. Don’t eat the watches.

This lack of attention is simply a marker of how media is consumed. They sorta caught a smell and made up a story to source that smell without ever seeing what’s cooking. Half an idea with the blanks filled in by maybe and sounds right. A friend expresses an opinion that doesn’t disagree with any of it so that’s ran with like it’s fact. Headlines only, no actual reading to fact check. And here we are.

This is also how elections work.

He buys shit and he larps. That’s Elon.

The issue is his latest acquisition is Donald J. Trump

I never thought there was anything wrong with the first narrations. I hope those aren’t gone for good.

I’m curious enough to try this.

Audiobooks are made or broken by the quality of the narration. It’s not enough to simply narrate written word, the narrator has to “act” as well. Given the quality of other arts engaged by AI I’m going into this skeptical.

No, there’s nothing Skyrim about it in terms of game style. No open world, but it’s a very cool rpg space game.

Prey is worth your time.

I haunt estate auctions wherever I go. Physical media in the form of CDs and LPs is at a prime. Unless it’s old classical or country the prices skyrocket. The LP could be scratched to hell, they only ever show the sleeves in pics, but it doesn’t matter.

Physical media is at a premium. LPs used to be a dollar or so each 5 years ago. Sometimes even 4 for a dollar. Now, minimum $5 each to start. Unless it’s country or classical.

Or, go to a reaction vid like Asmongold or someone else.

Look at this. Only 307k views. Is that normal for something like this?

https://youtu.be/xJfUXVOoFBo

Trump specifically said fact checking was wrong and an infringement on free speech.

I’m starting to think that 1A speech Trump posted out via RFK on YT, the one with the giant green crayon subtitles, was a directive list for his oligarchs, not really intended for mass consumption, just them and the legislators who worship at his altar.

No one’s talking about it, not even here, but these guys are doing it.

It’s definitely not 2005 any more.

Idk that anyone working class is. Even the MAGA family members are of the opinion that Luigi is cool.

My closest genetic link, fiscal conservative of yore + 2A, is: I don’t care what they say, I only feel bad for his kids. And then I here about the math, and our mutual love of Star Trek where they say: “the needs of the many…”

Unifying us, through this or any other point, instead of having us rolling around in the mud arguing trans is not what corporate america wants.

They even manage to divide working class on unions and such. But not this.

You could also argue that it’s a very American roots level of civil disobedience that harkens back to the 1770s. So it’s hard for them on multiple levels.

Adobe being adobe.

Plus the republicans would lose their damn minds over this prospect. E-ID for elections? Never.

I have that, insomniac Lemmy ramblings aside. I’m making a point. There are many individuals out there without that capacity, financially or otherwise.

Art supplies, sewing supplies, woodworking supplies, metalworking supplies, stained glass supplies, even gardening supplies, and all the tools that go with these activities, these are all things that have become quite expensive across the last decade. More so in the last 5 years. That’s the point. It’s not free.

There’s a reason woodworking tools, art supplies, and sewing notions have been locked behind glass or mesh for a while now.

Writing is free. That said, an industry complaint of the last decade is the number of prospective writers is, proportionally, too large compared to active readers of late. And many of those prospective writers don’t read books to feed their craft. I’m sure you’ve noticed the quality decline in fiction, minus a couple notable exceptions.

The point is, what’s free for people to occupy themselves with?

Climate change is still nebulous. It’s like population decline. Few will face the impact of it with anything practical or human until the negative impact personally stares them in the face.

George Floyd protests and riots happened, in large part, because people were bored, unoccupied, and angsty about the world. Human behavior points rarely happen under the influence of a single variable.

If anything, people are more fed up with their daily world, now, than at the time of Floyd. I think that’s a piece of why people kept reporting a sense of impending doom all year.

Now we’ve hit a point where one guy with everything to lose said “enough” and went after a health care CEO. And we have plenty of people in this nation with nothing to lose. I wouldn’t be surprised if stage 4 cancer people started throwing themselves at CEOs.

The wall of inactivity and learned helplessness has broken with Luigi.

They’re not seeing how this scrubbing of entertainment access will impact the masses going forward? Plenty of people will steer away from action if you just give them free distraction.

But here we are, instead, working hard to scrub all free distraction.

I work 40hrs a week. No kids in the house. If I can’t stream, then what? Reading news and Reddit, probably. That’s probably the least healthy option.

Subbing everything isn’t sustainable for working class. It kills the monthly with bug bites.