It's easy for you to say when you (presumably) don't suffer from it. But for those that to, that cannot find the root cause but whose lives are literally paused, should they wait for ever? Or should they seek treatment to rejoin the world of the living? To get back to some sort of a baseline from which they can address a root cause?

Unless you've experienced something as daunting as a clinical depression or anxiety, perhaps you'd have empathy rather than judgment.

Right, Waymo will do that remotely, after you spend 4 minutes waiting for an operator, then another 2 minutes verifying your identity, then another 3 to explain wtf is happening.

Your (and mine, frankly) personal distaste for the theater is not really relevant. What I am talking about is simple economics. Regal Battery Park in Manhattan probably cost millions to construct. That's a hell of a lot of ticket stubs to pay for all that union labor and material and permits and monthly taxes. These are taxes and insurance that likely doubled in the past 5 years, not to mention minimum wage laws, cost of snacks, etc. I'd bet they have a razor thin margin on these ticket prices you think are so onerous.

A shot of liquor costs as much as half a 750ml bottle, yet people still go to bars, because they understand thereâ(TM)s more to that drink than just the retail price.

Maybe the real issue is that youâ(TM)re just cheap (or poor) so you arenâ(TM)t really a movie theaterâ(TM)s customer anyway. Why would they bare the costs of running a business, paying employee and benefit taxes, rising insurance rates and property tax, expose themselves to lawsuits every week, just to break even charging you $7 for a movie? You donâ(TM)t work for free, do you? Why do you expect them to?

AMC have to charge $18 for a movie because they are centrally located in high rent areas and donâ(TM)t require a 100 mile trip to some run down âoenext to a railroad track and behind the auto shopâ single story shack of a theater playing cheap old movies?

And are you sure the pedant here isnâ(TM)t you?

Keep reaching for those straws. Eventually you'll blame micro plastics and social media for that murder 44 years ago.

But you can have convenience with physical CDs. You just rip them. I don't know how streaming services control their media but I'd assume it isn't as simple as copying their mp3 around.

Happened to me with the Nintendo eShop. I lost my password or otherwise couldn't log in (don't remember) and Nintendo was of literally no help. So that was it, the games I bought there were gone. Go create a new account and buy the games over again, but they closed the eShop not to long after that anyway, so sucks to be you, Mr. Consumer.

Yeah no thanks.

Not really a horse buggy argument when anyone buying these CDs is ripping them to mp3.

Or being able to actually listen to them. Just read a story about the band Behemoth being banned in Turkey for "preaching satanism". Amazon has already edited or banned books on their Kindle store.

That's some girl math right there. "This handbag is $2,000, but if you wear it every day for 30 years, that's only 18 cents per day!"

One, you'd have to listen to a large part of the library to get the calculated economical value (including stuff you don't want to hear), and two, you'd have to force yourself to keep listening to it day in day out to keep extracting that value. That one song you bought, you could listen to at your leisure, the way entertainment should be: not forced, no anxiety about its economics.

Admittedly I don't really buy digital music but I would assume they have great control in what you can do with your music (depending on the company).

And there are constant stories of digital media either being altered/edited, or pulled outright, and removed from your library. That's the main reason behind the physical media movement.

Also, only the most simpleminded among us would actually believe Trump would have a military incursion into Greenland.

Those, and people like you that WANT to believe it for their own purposes of having more reason to hate their opposition.

When did the mainstream media call Biden old, or call into question his mental capacities?

Oh, that's right, immediately after that June debate with Trump (conveniently pushed for by the Democrats, a June debate that has never happened before), called into question Biden's aptitude conveniently when it was expedient for the Democrats to push him out with enough time to run Kamala through the circus, pretend she legitimately got her billion in donations from "stomping the grounds", right?

You mean that same unbiased and independent MSM like CNN, MSNBC, WaPo, etc?

And the big social media lie is evidenced by the moderation here, there's no doubt about the clear leftist lean on the internet.

They have it because shorts are addictive for our short attention spans. They'd be stupid to ignore that revenue stream.

Go stand on a NYC subway where 90% of people are looking at their phone, check what they're looking at. It's literally 90% all vertical shorts, some mobile games, and the rare person has a downloaded anime or tv show.