“Just need an astrology girl to tell me what planet is making me sad”

“It’s earth”

It’s always been earth.

I’m old enough to maybe have known about this. But I didn’t. Had absolutely no clue. The other person’s responses indicate they are advocating for people like me. Ignorance of a travesty doesn’t mean we are endorsing those atrocities. But clearly you expect clairvoyant level view that only matches what you already know. That’s not reality. That’s an unacceptable worldview that brings absolutely zero progress to stopping stupid shit like that. Go ahead and block the other user. But block me too please. I have no time for people who refuse to see that there is nuance in the world. My feed would be better of not dealing with self righteous assholes like yourself.

I’ve got a friend working on this process right now. He openly admitted to me that the premise is fucked up and there are far more deserving populations that should be let in, but the simple fact is,he would be an absolute moron to pass up this opportunity for him and his family. It’s a fast track to the place he wants to be and provides better futures for his children. Why wouldn’t you take the free ticket?

Some of the people here on lemmy forget their humanity sometimes.

It’s ok bud. You misattributed the sunk cost fallacy. It happens. I’ve done it before too… No worries.

A sunk cost fallacy requires a continued investment in a lost cause. I financially have contributed no extra to Plex after my initial investment. I’ve nothing to lose now. No sunk cost. Is time or effort a sunk cost? Possibly? But I already invested that time and effort. My maintenance is also zero, same as my future financial investment. Switching to jellyfin increases my cost in time and effort that I already invested in Plex. Why bail unless necessary? It’s illogical.

The difference between unusable and inferior was never the cusp of this argument to begin with. The distinction of “unusable” vs “inferior” can clearly be acertained by the context of my first full reply. Interestingly enough, your reubuttle is a textbook use of the informal fallacy known as “moving the goalposts”

One again, it’s all good. Don’t worry. My point that Plex is still superior for my use case and I have the incentive to continue using it, still stands. Your use of the sunk cost falacy is disproven on the merit of, that’s not a real example of sunk cost, and also using additional fallacies to defend your position render your point invalid.

I rest my case.

That’s not a sunk cost fallacy at all. I’m not playing catch up, I’m already ahead.

I am thinking about it logically. Plex is the superior experience, and considering I’ve already gotten my money’s worth out of it, they are both free. So why would I use the service that works less well for my use case?

If the user experience continues to degrade, when it finally gets to jellyfin level, I’ll switch.

Perfectly logical, no fallacies here.

Same. Got it cheap. Untill they break lifetime. Why bail? I’m not compromising my own experience because someone else was too cheap, lazy or slow.

Is it messed up what they are doing? Yeah. But that’s not my fault. Nor is someone missing out on the very clear signposts about what was going to happen. I’m not sacrificing my user experience and investment to justify someone else’s missed opportunity or vendetta.

I already paid when it was cheap. I’ll stay and get my full dollars worth and then some. I paid for it, I’ll use it. When it is unusable I’ll bail. Anything else is stupid.

I mean I got the less shitty sheriff out of the deal. The judge I wanted lost. A few years ago I got the better justice of the peace. There hasn’t been a dem contender in years for any of those positions. I would say I’ve done the proper and right thing. I have no actually affiliation with the gop but it has allowed me effectively fulfill my civic duty by helping elect the most fit local officials. My situation is not rare or unique.

Bud, protest votes are a big thing in states with open primaries. Minimalizing the bullshittery and all that.

I myself am in Texas and have up until a few years ago been a “Registered Republican” on the official books. I haven’t actually voted for anything remotely red since well before Obama. But that’s how the system works. When your state is cooked, you find a way to oppose it, inside or outside the system. We are finally hitting the point where what’s on the books vs what the actual sentiment is, it’s starting to finally matter.

Its a good way to find out who wants an exorbitant payday for minimal effort.

Morality aside, it’s the same as the comedians that did the last tour. It is all about the money. They never agreed with the actions of these offensive regimes. Hell i don’t agree with the actions of my own. But I’m not getting paid ten million to look the other way so it’s easy to stand on the high road and judge.

I would love to say I myself am above that sort of influence, but I’m probably not. I could internally justify far less to be honest.

Two entities you hate are about to duke it out…

I don’t know who will win, but I do know one thing. You don’t fuck with the mouse. Steamboat Willie is a dirty fighter.

Good point. Look at JD Vance!

Live nation entertainment is the company formed after Ticketmaster merged with live nation. Concert promotion and ticket sales. So they have a long rap sheet of alleged but obvious price fixing and anti competitive lawsuits and allegations.

As for not knowing who kanye west is… Let’s just say he is a mentally unstable black hiphop artist and self confessed nazi, as per his last unmedicated manic episode and subsequent album. And media interviews. And vocal trump support. Its a roller coaster of a ride. Also he married Kim Kardashian and that’s not even the top ten of questionable decisions he’s made in the past decade.

For small an medium sized businesses, especially in agriculture, it has a real utility. Hedging commodities I need to buy to feed my animals has made the difference between break even and deep in the whole some years.

Yes there is market manipulation for some of these buyers, but I would say for the vast majority it is an asset in a very tight margin game. But I’m here producing a product and feeding into the whole economy, not just extracting resources and capital as some useless day trader.

As a farmer who warned my friends and neighbors about this fact during and after the election, the déjà vu of all of this is absolutely not worth the wait. We’ve literally been here before. And it was bad bad.

I’ve never wanted to say “I fucking told you so”

I still don’t.

But here we are. And they still somehow have no idea. Its fucking wild.

The worst part is knowing and being powerless despite it all. The most frustrating ones are the people that see the signs and are preparing. Hell they will probably survive it too. Lick their wounds and trudge on again. But they never once hit the point where they realize their actions are the reason this is happening.

I’m hitting the point where I don’t dread the collapse anymore. In the most nhiallistic of senses, Im starting welcome it. And I’m so damn disappointed that it’s gotten to this point.

As someone who uses H2A labor and has for years. Let me just say that the damage this administration has done to the legal migrant worker channels is absolutely insane. Ignoring the illegal immigrant abuses happening, methods to bring in legal workers were clogged, inefficient, and burdensome before these fucksticks were in charge. Now it’s broken so badly that I have multiple persons in multiple countries that have every bit of paperwork approved, but the gov still will not put that final signature on their visa. For three god damn months! I had to send three of my employees back to their countries of origin because the gov broke the seasonal rollover program. I have two more that couldn’t get their passports stamped at the border to prove they left on time, and therefore cannot prove they abided by the rules of their visa. And another two who’s spouse visas are not being processed because that’s not something that’s essentially automatic anymore for some fucking reason.

I’ve busted my ass to take care of my people and this fucking administration finds new and creative ways to break down an already shitty system. Its fucking disgusting. I have valid visa holders scared to go to the god damn grocery store because ice does not give a flying fuck anymore. Ghhaaaa!

Tal has a big up against crockett that will play big come the general election here in Texas.

Talerico is a white male. Crockett isn’t. This is Texas we are talking about and, as disappointing it is to say, it will play a massive role in an already uphill battle. He’s just more electable at face value for that fact alone.

I like both candidates, tal gets the edge for his funding methods to be sure, but the electability argument is a big one when you are talking about a Senate seat that hasn’t been held by a dem since LBJ.

Don’t need to decrypt anything if someone gets caught with an easy phone unlock or flips. End to end means end to end. With the size of some of the groups and potential to infiltrate, I would assume that the comms are already compromised to one degree or another. If you get one of the ends, encryption means nothing. I bet kash’s FBI just doesn’t know who has it yet.

My room temperature has central air conditioning and I like it cooold.

No one was wondering. In the USA we have intelligence quotients that are high enough to convert, even at room temp. Its surprising I know, but room temperature I.Q.'s don’t operate on metric here. It takes a little more effort you see… Very smart.