Think about how many ditch-diggers don't have jobs because of backhoes!

How about pick-and-place circuit card assembling robots? Think of all the people who could be soldering tiny parts onto tiny boards!

More taxes==more jobs!!!

Disney/ESPN jacked up their rates on DISH and Sling in 2022, caused DISH and Sling to go without for a while until they caved.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sportspro.com%2Fbroa...

"Dish accused Disney of walking away from the negotiating table after demanding a US$1 billion increase in the fee paid for the carrier.

Disney jacked up their rates on DirecTV in 2024, caused DirecTV to go without for a while.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2024%2F09%2F14...

DirecTV filed a complaint Saturday with the Federal Communications Commission alleging Disney did not negotiate in good faith as the two sides remain at an impasse on a distribution deal.

“Disney has violated the FCC’s good faith mandates by predicating any licensing agreement on DIRECTV’s waiving any legal claims on Disney’s past, current, or future anticompetitive actions, including its ongoing packaging and minimum penetration demands,” a DirecTV spokesperson told CNN on Sunday.

In the 10-page complaint, DirecTV claimed the negotiations stalled because, “Disney insists on bundling and penetration requirements that a federal district court judge in New York recently found in the context of the ‘Venu’ joint venture to be unlawful, anticompetitive, and ‘bad for consumers.’”

Disney jacked up their rates on both Spectrum and Charter in 2024, caused both Spectrum and Charter customers to go without for a while.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sportingnews.com%2Fu...

In the document, Charter listed out the following as reasons for the ongoing stalemate between the two sides, putting the blame on Disney:

* The multichannel video product is too expensive and packages don’t meet consumer needs
* Customers are leaving the traditional video ecosystem and losses have accelerated
* We still believe video is an important part of our connectivity offering, but the video product has been devalued and the ecosystem is broken
* Disney – so far – has insisted on a traditional long-term deal with higher rates and limited packaging flexibility
* Charter proposed a model that creates a better value for consumers and the industry

Disney owns Hulu and Fubo, and they WANT to force you onto their platforms.

And really enjoyed hearing a lot of the old music. One is the old gospel music, Goodbye, Babylon. And we also have the Fonotone Records collection.

"Governor Kathy Hochul said charging different prices depending on what people were willing to pay was "opaque," and prevented comparison-shopping."

Price haggling and negotiating deals *is* "charging different prices depending on what people were willing to pay", so I was strictly addressing the Gov.'s comment.

No haggling because I'm unwilling to pay more?

Or are they exempt from negotiated prices ("charging different prices depending on what people were willing to pay")?

And if so, should Soundgarden get some credit?

I wonder if the drones and force deployments and the big fines are used for other firework-prone holidays, like Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown district? I somehow doubt it.

It doesn't just apply to online platforms.

Wikipedia: Enshittification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is the term used to describe the pattern in which online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.

One memory I have from childhood was the local theater ran all 5 (at the time) Planet of the Apes movies back-to-back (POA, Beneath, Escape, Conquest, Battle). This was probably in '78 so I was maybe 12. Mom dropped me and friends off at theater with something like $10, hot-dogs and cokes for 25 cents each. I zonked out during that last movie...

The DVD/BluRay service had so many more titles available than the streaming service side provides. Was really sorry to see it go, and cancelled Netflix as a result. The only streaming service I use now is Amazon Prime, and that's pretty much only be default.

That movie producers keep excreting dreck that few people want to pay an arm and a leg see in a sticky-floored, over-priced venue that is likely to also have idiots yakking on their cellphones during the movie?

Horde, hoard, whored...a homophone triple.

"v-Fluence, which also had the former agrochemical firm Monsanto as a client, secured some funding from the US government as part of a contract with a third party. Public spending records show the US Agency for International Development (USAid) contracted with a separate non-governmental organization that manages a government initiative to promote GM crops in African and Asian countries."

A lot of them require them to be rolled. Both of my banks require bulk change to be rolled, one requires my account# to be written on the roll. I'm willing to forgo ~10% to NOT have to roll them.

Most grocery stores near me have a CoinStar machine that you can dump jars of loose change into. Sure, they charge a fee of 7.5% or 10% or 12% or whatever, but when dumping a jar of pennies do I really care if I'm getting $11 or $10 back? I'm still "ahead". Sometimes the fee is waived or reduced if you take a store credit instead of cash, so that works for me too. So once a year or so I try to remember to take my pennies to the store when I'm already going there. The 2 minutes spent dumping them and getting the ticket from the machine is barely an inconvenience.