Don't mean to turn this thread into a mirrored version of the other one, since that's not its purpose, but do at least want to clarify my point.
In the context of the single-issue voting behavior I was trying to argue against with my comments on the thread (to further compound the fact that voting for Trump only worsened the one issue that mattered to them), voting for Trump would still be a "protest vote", given that their sole goal was to remove the democrats from office for not taking an anti-Israeli stance from the get go.
I agree wholeheartedly that such people supported Trump's extremist policies in the process, given that—aside from not being pragmatic in recognizing that things would have been worse for Palestine had Trump been elected in 2020, and will still get worse, ceasefire or not—doing so disregards the millions that will suffer in the US and abroad more under a Trump presidency than would have under a Harris one.
Ultimately, I didn't mind disagreeing with the moderator in the slightest (albeit not knowing they were the moderator at the time, only seeing an OP tag on their comments in the thread in Arctic), but think that being banned for doing so somewhat defeats the point of having a discussion thread in the first place.
Counting deaths alone in Gaza and the West Bank ignores all the Palestinian refugees that have been forced to leave Palestine altogether; in either case, Israel wants to settle the rest of Palestine to cement their claim to it and control over it.
They complain about jobs being industrial decline due to the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs, but then blame inflation on efforts to increase the minimum wage to a living wage, rather than corporate profit-gouging.
While many of them might not mind living in a country with a class of underpaid manufacturing workers—presumedly the undocumented immigrants they simultaneously want to deport—the better option is to invest in economic development that bolsters the country's modern service economy, or specialized manufacturing facilities that can compete without needing ineffective tariffs.
And when Trump implements those tariffs, rather than recognizing their role in inevitable price increases, those same people will instead blame underpaid workers, inevitable counter-tariffs, or anyone else but Trump.
They also won't recognize that any economic growth in the next four years won't benefit them in the slightest, but rather go straight into the pockets of those responsible for outsourcing jobs in the first place. All the while supporting them, with anyone else just needing to 'pull themselves up' with imaginary bootstraps.
But do you pronounce everything as you speak it? /s
stay in islands
"With wall-to-wall flatscreen displays and surround sound, our luxury bunkers let you have the scenic beachfront property you've always dreamed of!" /s
Isn't it only source available, and not open source, due to a restriction on reusing the code?
As with corporate mediators though, wouldn't such investigation companies have a financial incentive to favor their clients, so as to improve the odds of being rehired?
It's unreasonable in the context that while streaming services were intended to be an affordable alternative to cable without sacrificing content variety, having the same level of variety now requires four or five subscriptions. Not an issue unique to Disney, but they and other movie studios have hiked movie rental costs, along with maintaining unreasonable pricing for BluRay releases, as a means of inflating the valuation of their IP catalog.
The fact that — in contrast to having four or five subscriptions over the span of two years— it's economical to run one's own 16TB or 32TB capacity media server (and even subsequently pay for replacement hard drives as needed) demonstrates that the subscription platforms, able to run such servers far more economically per user than anyone can do themselves, are retaining excessively high profit margins in contrast to the compensation paid to the people actually involved in producing content.
Definitely true; while it would have been more fun setting up something like a Pi4 with Plasma Bigscreen to avoid content ecosystems, it seems that choosing between a Google TV or Fire TV stick or a USB-supporting BluRay player will be a more economical option. Haven't delved much into custom launchers before, but it seems that might be a good solution for the sort of minimalistic UI I'm looking for.
Good point; something I'll have to try before I decide on buying anything. Problem with some media players could be the lack of support for changing between audio and subtitle tracks on the fly for multilingual support, so in both the case of the TV itself and anything I plan on buying I'll have to do more research first I guess, since unfortunately Amazon listings are often bereft of non surface-level technical specs.
While I certainly have a budget, the problem with the lowest-end Google TV / Android TV devices is that while they work fine for their intended purpose of streaming, they're less likely to flawlessly support the most demanding of video codecs while processing video output locally via VLC or another media player.