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Gen Z and their potential difficulties with reading and comprehending longer texts in books...

Average Annual Cost: The average annual cost ranges from about $12,000 to $15,000 per child. This includes expenses for housing, food, childcare, education, healthcare, transportation, and other necessities.

Total Cost Until Age 18: Over 18 years, this can amount to roughly $216,000 to $270,000 per child, not including college tuition.

Costs are higher in urban areas and for families with higher incomes, as they tend to spend more on education, childcare, and extracurricular activities. Conversely, families in rural areas or with lower incomes may spend less annually.

Criterion Channel does not have ads. The streaming service offers on-demand access to curated films from the Criterion Collection, as well as offline downloads on mobile devices. It also includes many video extras, such as interviews, features, and other commentary. No superhero bullshit.

Criterion Channel would disagree

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Eric Schmidt, ex-CEO and executive chairman at Google, walked back remarks in which he said his former company was losing the artificial intelligence race because of its remote-work policies.
“I misspoke about Google and their work hours,” Schmidt said in an email to The Wall Street Journal. “I regret my error.”

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What was the name of the documentary?
Trinidad (2008)?

I relisten to music and rewatch film regularly.
Especially world cinema with subtitles or important film that I may appreciate differently years later.
I can watch a film once for the plot, again with a director's audio, again for the mise-en-scène, again for background, again for nostalgia. etc
I also don't trust streaming services to not cut or edit films these days.

Blu-ray 1080p is fine enough for me for my eyes.
For me, diminishing returns after that point, like today's computers.
It does the job. I'm past chasing or owning the newest greatest.

I would add that resolution is less important than availability IMO.
If the only copy I can get my hands on is DVD, that DVD is better than an unavailable blu-ray.
I can enjoy the DVD.

It's not a binary choice. One can have both hard media and digital media. They can coexist.

I have a large Criterion collection (in addition to other blu-rays) that I'm not going to rip, label, organize all the added features in addition to the film. I have better things to do with my time. I can just drop it into a blu-ray player and go. Space isn't an issue with regard to my curated book, film or audio collections. I'm not trying to amass a collection of one-time only to flex (as I see folks do on social media).

I have other blu-rays that I rip and store in Plex as they have no extras or I'm less concerned about the fidelity of the film.

For hard media, playback is easier and more true especially with world cinema titles in my view.
I have no need to copy or modify so those arguments have no worth in my world.
Generally speaking, I prefer actual objects these days over than digital bits in a utilitarian world.
But again, both can coexist IMO.

I also believe its important to selectively support film makers and cinema that I enjoy and value. Sturgeon's law.

Question for you is what do you do with the hard media after you rip digital copies?
Sell it at a loss? Throw it away as you don't have space? Or did you never legally purchase it?

Finally, there's also the Zen Buddhist philosophy of the tea ceremony.
This is also seen in those who enjoy going through a collection, taking out an LP, and playing it on a hi-fi system versus pushing a button on Spotify.

Everyone is different with their own values and ethics.