To be honest Real Engineering was risking too much trying to make content to a nation of 1.3B.

sorry this is a problem too american for the rest of us to sympathize about.

“private sector corruption” wonders what that is about “insider trading, cartels, price-fixing, and conflicts of interest”… sounds like capitalism?

of course they will never come out and say it. Are you incredibly naive?

you’re dumb if you think American companies won’t find excuses to fuck with American consumers for profit. America is a land where morons blame regulation for things while corporations have been controlling the policy for decades and laugh as people play diversion for them often for free.

what your original argument was suggesting was to buy the expensive first class tickets and pitch a tent in the middle of a quarry and hunt squirrels for food at your dream destination. Might as well not book the flight in that case.

What sort of parent will say no to popcorn at the movies? Especially if their kids ask and its supposed to be a fun night out?

You don’t seem to understand that you can’t always say no or you might ruin the day for somebody else and in extension… yourself

they can be dumb greedy… lose customers due to absurd coupling of hardware products

That just tells me you’re single. There’s never any scenario in which you spend 0 at the theatre if you have family, even more so if you have kids.

those who voted blue are also kind of assholes. You guys should get real democracy going: Ranked Choice Voting. Burn the current senate, congress and Supreme court down. Build them back properly.

self hosting is anti-capitalist, so is being against urban brutalism.

the people who suggest this always excuse themselves out of doing it.

Are you suggesting that you’re not good at being a slave but you can be a slave master?

the Democrats refused to get anything done that could actually stop Trump. You remember how Biden fumbled his presidential run but wouldn’t let go of the race to Harris? Do you also remember Harris courting evil right wingers in an attempt to “reach across the aile”?

Do you also remember how they snubbed Sanders with fucking Hillary?

how do you know people voted red? I for one see many comments critizing democrats say that they voted Harris.

Edit: Not to mention the third party voters couldn’t have won it for Harris either. The gap was too huge. You’re kind of imagining a majority of progressives suddenly losing their heads and voting trump… which i find unlikely unless there is expert analysis of the vote count.

as opposed to the party demanding what THEY want?

suddenly all those “vote blue no matter who” morons who were trying to belittle palestine supporters for Harris’ loss look real dumb

you deleted your comment saying “you’re saying exactly what i am saying with different words”

I want you to think about it like this. Some folk don’t throw out their old stuff even if they could afford a new one. It’s called “not being wasteful”.

Your definition of abuse and neglect is not universal. let each parent decide.

better follow a trend than crash and burn trying to change things up. I think we all have had enough trilogies ruined by the 3rd film.

hey the definition of criminal is set by fallible people so don’t pretend it’s the be all end all!

“criminal” is such an encompassing term that seems to put murderers, rapists, drug peddlers who sell to children vs. some weed smokers, falsely accused people, white collar criminals, petty criminals including shoplifters, jaywalkers, etc.

You can’t seriously think someone who steals an apple from a shop needs the same treatment as a violent unrepentant murderer?