How do I make the internet think I’m in California?
You guys watch ads?
I loce how this was made illegal on broadcast TV ages ago but then they just started doing it again on streaming.
All streaming services are straight up ignoring FCC broadcast standards. The last sentence in the article shows the totals. Audio levels aside, they show ads for gambling, unlawful “stuff” ads, ads for ICE recruitment, and mixing G-rated kids content with PG content. Whatever excuse they are giving to not paying FCC fines may continue forward with the adage-- “hey, you can’t do business in California… unless users want it by staying with the service”, and possibly expect a new checkmark box notification in the future again.
streaming isn’t broadcast, ergo they don’t have to follow broadcast standards, so of course they’d ignore them.
another thing that frustrates me in FCC discourse is people claiming equal time used to be enforced for cable—Cable isn’t broadcast either!
Why are you still streaming? People keep voting with their dollars.
What do you propose as an alternative?
Anything that gets you out of a chair, presuming you are able bodied. Gardening, woodworking, tinkering, sewing, painting, writing, welding. Granted a couple of those are chair bound tasks. Day hiking. Good odds there are trails near your domicile that you don’t even know about.
Or get the discs. Or shop the megathread. Libby. Podcasts.
Most libraries can be a pick up point for books anywhere in the state library system. It’s a website, not something that can happen through Libby. In addition, the hard copy inventory in libraries is often quite different from the Libby fare.
These are wonderful suggestions, I wholeheartedly agree and would like to add something else: nothing! I genuinely recommend dedicating some time for de-stimulating your mind.
If you’re accustomed to the taste of sugary snacks and drinks, you become desensitized to how cloyingly sweet they are. Go without for a day, a week, a month and they start to become unpalatable.
The same thing happens with mental stimulation in our world. It’s empowering to be content to sit and observe your surroundings, even for just a minute or two at a time. It’s like taking back control over your brain. Being bored is good for you!
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The American mind cannot comprehend the outside or the book
Hurr durr murica fat an dum. Very creative and original thought you just had.
vile missed rhyming opportunity
Uh oh, they’re waking up…
Remember to visit your local library!
The rich are rich enough to not need/care of our “streaming dollars”.
The bottom 50% have 2.5% of the wealth. You cannot move the needle with only 2.5% of the wealth as leverage.
It will be blood or servitude. Take your pick.
You’re saying the people who own and manage Netflix have no care for whether or not people pay for Netflix subscriptions? Bold assertion.
Sure, voting with your streaming dollars isn’t going to overthrow the government, but that’s not what anyone was talking about. We’re talking about voting with your streaming dollars for a better streaming service.
And yet the Kimmel protest via streaming worked.
Hey! No kink shaming. If I want to sub while on my period, that’s up to me.
This is meant to piss off me in particular. Something being obnoxiously loud is mostly a side effect of other stuff that is way too quiet requiring you to turn up the volume to hear it at a normal level. Unless you’re mastering specifically for theaters your dynamic range should not be ’ barely audible’ to ‘hearing loss’ it should be ‘softer’ to ‘louder’.
If compressors were as ubiquitous as volume controls instead of being a moderate pain in the ass to get working on most things this wouldn’t be a problem that needs a bandaid solution.
Slap a p65 warning label on the Samsung Plus Tv service app. I’d enjoy that.
