Market consolidation. People will sit and watch your shit long before they turn the TV off and find a hobby that involves getting off the couch.

Were they wrong? I mean look at the last election results.

Don't worry Hegseth will make sure heads roll. He's just looking for one attached to a vagina or with a low testosterone level.

It's getting tiring hearing you call everyone a liar instead of reflecting on the fact that a significant portion of people are just idiots and will believe the lies that they are fed. Not everything is a conspiracy.

so if you like the reduced choice then find out what the main brands are and only look at those. also the stores are still around, maybe support one. it appoints like if you are going to be that specific then maybe you need to pay extra to go to a store, because no Amazon sellers are not going to specify this. Also I'm pretty sure you are way overthinking it.

Except still not. Major bankruptcies do not result in business resources disappearing into the aeather, they result in sell-offs of individual components of the business to companies who think are in the best position to profit from them and do so in a fair manner instead of consolidating the entire mass of two businesses into one superpower. That superpower has its own agenda resulting in a loss of significant content from consumers which would otherwise potentially be bought up by smaller or different media companies.

Even Paramount going bankrupt is better for consumers than this mega merger.

Errr I'm not talking about guns. I'm talking about the fact that there are an insane number of tiny rules that are extremely onerous. E.g. not just do pools need to be fenced, but in our house we were forced to move the fence 1m from the property because our balcony balustrading was horizontal. The law assumes that a child could climb over the balustrading fall 4m and then crawl his broken self into the pool and drown. In parts of Australia you can't buy alcohol after 10pm from a bottle shop. Australia is now the only country in the world where you need at a minimum a drivers license learners permit to ride an ebike, and while it sounds like that is to improve bicycle safety, that same state also passed a law saying a cyclist can legally turn right from the left lane of a roundabout, which seems to be a law that is uniquely written to kill as many cyclists as possible since it legalises cutting off a car.

Nany state shit.

There are many countries in the world that have strict gun control without being considered a nanny state by anyone other than hardline republicans.

ok well then he should use brick and mortar stores, where they don't do that.

Five Eyes is not home baked mass surveillance of citizens. It's a sharing program of specific surveillance between states. The UK does not give Australia or the USA access to it's 10s of thousands of cameras just because they are in Five Eyes. Australia is in Five Eyes and doesn't have a public mass surveillance program in the streets either, though does share data from specific ongoing investigations as part of it.

All Google phones and Samsung devices come with Google Authenticator on it. Virtually all work provided devices come with Microsoft Authenticator on them thanks to Microslop dependency. All iPhones are shipped with the Passwords app which does TOTP on Apple devices.

Also I can tell you've never actually used any of this. Literally 100% of services when you click a setup button will direct you to one of the three above right on the setup screen of the service itself. They are ubiquitous to the point where I question the sanity of anyone not using one of those three (and question the sanity of anyone using Microsoft's)

People used to have to go to several completely different stores and sift through all the aspects of every option. Now you are saying it's too hard to sit on your couch, select each option, and read them?

And people who are genuinely somewhere in between? we just exclude them from everything and ignore they exist? it happens in all species.

Actually it strikes a great balance. What is bad is the level free speech is applied in America actively hindering and making society worse. See the thing is, most of the western world doesn't have constitutional free speech, and they are all fantastic places to live in.

But I'm sorry you can't be a nazi cunt out in public. The place isn't for everyone,. *shrugs*

Hahahhahahaha. I love it!

There's no inconsistency here. Privacy is a protected right anywhere an expectation of privacy exists. A public space isn't that place. One would argue in the UK they've breached the point, but only in terms of government tracking. You have no right to simply not be recorded in public, but there is a genera expectation that the result of this recording shouldn't be a database with your specific movements that can be called up at a whim.

And as for photographing being something of ease, the fundamental principles that govern laws is the impact on a person. That's why if I take a photo of you and beat off to it in my home without your knowledge, you're not impacted. But if I photoshop it naked and post it online I can expect a lovely visit from the fuzz.