Our News Team @ 11 with host Snot Flickerman

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  • It reminds me of something only semi-related.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20200727091104/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/business/media/04hulu.html

    Dec 3, 2009

    As she prepared her daughter for college, Anne Sweeney insisted that a television be among the dorm room accessories.

    “Mom, you don’t understand. I don’t need it,” her 19-year-old responded, saying she could watch whatever she wanted on her computer, at no charge.

    That flustered Ms. Sweeney, who happens to be the president of the Disney-ABC Television Group.

    You’re going to have a television if I have to nail it to your wall,” she told her daughter, according to comments she made at a Reuters event this week. “You have to have one.”

    Like Disney-ABC in 2009, these fucking dinosaurs of companies plan to just use institutional dominance and money to force themselves into the position they want to be in. I suspect it will work about as well as Sweeney’s efforts to nail a TV to her daughters wall. (You want to use screws for that anyway, you fucking dipshit, Sweeney) Sweeney was so confident in this approach that she related this story and what she said at a press event. This is how fucking stupid these people are, they’re willing to relate a story like that as though it shows strength and not shortsightedness and ignorance.

    In other words, I don’t expect it to work out very well at all.




  • runaway, uncontrolled, corrupt capitalist

    I would actually argue that the only word I disagree with here is “uncontrolled” because it was very tightly controlled for a long time, which allowed the relative stability that let America be a big bully on the world stage, force the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, and lead trading partners to believe we were bullies but mostly trustworthy and would follow through on international deals we made.

    Now we are truly entering the “uncontrolled” territory, and that’s why faith from other countries in the US being a reliable partner is faltering.





  • I’m a millennial, I’ve been on the verge of homelessness myself my entire adulthood. In my adult life a full time job at minimum wage has never been enough to rent a studio apartment nearly anywhere in the country. Not once in my life have I have enough to really live on my own, have a choice about where I live, or didn’t have raising rents pushing me to move elsewhere. I doubt I’m the only one who has had such deep lack of stability that the idea of hosting refugees (or anyone else for that matter) has been purely a fucking pipe dream.

    That being said, I have dreamed of being able to take care of those I know who are struggling, but I have been denied every opportunity due to struggling myself.