• You’re a TERF, or transphobic in any way (holy shit all radfems please fuck off i hate u 💖)
• You’re ableist
• You’re FATPHOBIC. I’m a fat woman. I don’t fuck with fatphobes. I wouldn’t even if I wasn’t fat.
• You’re conservative, especially if you agree with anything Trump or Musk is doing or condoning right now. Please, go fuck yourselves.
• You’re pro-israel (to add onto this: I have, and never will be, antisemitic. I will never have any hatred in my heart for anyone of Jewish faith because of their religion. I can’t support what Israel is doing, though. I know Israel does not represent the sentiments of most Jewish people. Israel has committed war crime after war crime. They’ve killed over 15,000 (more than 30,000 now, as of 12/31/23) Palestinians. The indiscriminate bombing of civilians is disgusting. Use of chemical warfare is disgusting. Wiping out entire families and invading their homes to stage pictures in their kitchens or living rooms, mocking them and their loss, is disgusting. I’m sad that this even has to be said, but I’ve been blocked by accounts that I loved for not supporting Netanyahu’s genocidal regime. Not supporting Israel and its war crimes does not equal antisemitism.)
Watching random TV movies for Easter and thinking about how not only Grandpa Rome talks freely with APH God, but he might’ve even been face to face with Jesus at some point lol No wonder they have a somewhat close relationship. Not that a Personification is required to have any opinion on such matters … But I assume he felt sorry for what happened back then, considering that not only at some point he was required to convert by one of his Emperors (which is not something he had real agency over), but he also apparently stayed on God’s good side once he disappeared.
Functionally, there’s very little difference between watching a movie on poob and watching a movie on basic cable. Yet, for some reason, the advertisements on poob offend me far more
ad breaks on poob always interrupt important scenes or make really jarring cuts.
when it’s on cable, they’ve timed the commercial breaks in a way that generally isn’t as disruptive. someone took the time to “reformat” the movie for tv.
ads on poob always KNOW that they’re on poob and want me to interact with them or click them. the number of QR codes or ads-in-separate-ad-framing/window are infuriating and jarring.
cable commercials are just stupid little skits i can mute to go use the bathroom.
ads on poob are less than 2 minutes–not enough time to do anything, but enough time to piss me off.
cable commercials are 2-5 minutes, which is enough time to go do something/bathroom or snack break, or talk to whoever you’re watching with.
ads on poob are the same 3-4 commercials over and over and over and over again, often cutting to them immediately with no warning, and poob struggles to like, catch up to the fact that it’s having to show a different progress bar, or a different timer.
cable commercials, esp during primetime, generally cycle through like 10-15 minimum, so you can go an ad break or two without seeing the same commercial. and they usually only pop up during quiet moments, at regular intervals, so you can see them coming–and there isn’t a weird lag/loading time.
in both cases i am being accosted by advertisements and treated like a consumer to manipulate and exploit. the volume changes on cable and poob, the brightness level is eye-searing in both cases.
but poob doesn’t respect that i’m here for the MOVIE. cable, thanks to preexisting, decades-old norms around broadcast television, still kind of does. kind of. it’s easier to ignore those commercials than the ones on poob.
basically i think poob follows ad norms established on the internet–pop-ups, invasive flashing bullshit, creating lag, taking up time and attention–and cable follows established cable norms of, “time for a few minutes of ads that are just stupid little skits instead of spam machines, and then back to your otherwise uninterrupted movie.”
I mean i know what you’re saying, but there’s about a dozen free ad-supported streaming services and i respect none of them to use any of their names. Meanwhile, Poob has fully entered the tumblr lexicon as a shorthand for stupidly-named tech products, especially streaming services.
I feel like a good shorthand for a lot of economics arguments is “if you want people to work minimum wage jobs in your city, you need to allow minimum wage apartments for them to live in.”
“These jobs are just for teenagers on the weekends.” Okay, so you’ll use minimum wage services only on the weekends and after school. No McDonald’s or Starbucks on your lunch break.
“They can get a roommate.” For a one bedroom? A roommate for a one bedroom? Or a studio? Do you have a roommate to get a middle-wage apartment for your middle-wage job? No? Why should they?
“They can live farther from city center and just commute.” Are there ways for them to commute that don’t equate to that rent? Living in an outer borough might work in NYC, where public transport is a flat rate, but a city in Texas requires a car. Does the money saved in rent equal the money spent on the car loan, the insurance, the gas? Remember, if you want people to take the bus or a bike, the bus needs to be reliable and the bike lanes survivable.
If you want minimum wage workers to be around for you to rely on, then those minimum wage workers need a place to stay.
You either raise the minimum wage, or you drop the rent. There’s only so long you can keep rents high and wages low before your workforce leaves for cheaper pastures.
“Nobody wants to work anymore” doesn’t hold water if the reason nobody applies is because the commute is impossible at the wage you provide.
elon musk is like if you distilled the essence of 2010 “you, sir, win the most epic of upvotes” reddit and put it into the body of a wealthy peanut factory owner from 1835 london who exclusively employed 5 year old orphans
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