Re: OT

On 18/08/2026 18:24, John Ames wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:20:02 -0400
> "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>> What a peculiar thing to say. Data has no reality in meatspace
>>> outside of a contraption, unless you count printed matter. Weighing
>>> one con- traption against another, then, streaming has many more
>>> possible points of failure and its end result is exactly the same:
>>> moving pictures with accompanying audio.
>>
>> It does require having solid network signal, sure.
> 
> It also requires the server to be up (which requires the provider to be
> solvent and the infrastructure to be maintained) and the provider to
> have legal rights to the content you're looking for, be incentivized to
> offer it to you (be that through ad revenue, subacription, or commonly,
> both,) and to not be run by jackass media executives prone to playing
> games with one series's availability in hopes of boosting viewership
> numbers for another series they think it might be competing with.
> 
> But, y'know, other than *that...!*
> 
Lol. Joel's technical idealism collides with Johns cynical realism.

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(or environmental activism) is becoming a general ideology about humans, 
about their freedom, about the relationship between the individual and 
the state, and about the manipulation of people under the guise of a 
'noble' idea. It is not an honest pursuit of 'sustainable development,' 
a matter of elementary environmental protection, or a search for 
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