I think a lot of people are struggling economically, and movie theaters are kind of expensive. If labor had a bigger slice of the pie, more of them would probably spend it on movies.

I used to go to a theater that served food and drink right to your seat, and enforced silence from the crowd. It was pretty good. But that’s also like $50 a go.

Right. And that probably leads to criticism of capitalism (the owners want to make more money more than anything else). Or at least the primacy of money (this small developer put ads in his app because he needs money or society will let him die)

I think a lot of people have internalized parts of our society and don’t really look hard at them anymore. Like, “if you don’t labor you’ll be allowed to die of exposure” is kind of fucked up. So is “you don’t have to labor if you have enough money. Then you don’t need to do anything at all, and you can live a nice life”

Zitron’s posts are generally pretty good.

He doesn’t really propose effective solutions, though, I don’t think. Like, yeah you can tell people that the internet sucks because some assholes made it that way. But if it wasn’t these assholes, it’d be some other assholes. And we’re not going to get most people to care about things.

The problems are structural.

The megacorps need to be broken up, at the very least.

The ultra rich need to not exist anymore. Either because they were taxed down to size, or they met the guillotine.

Without touching those parts of the problem, nothing’s going to get better.

Groundhog’s day if the day is pretty normal. Not like a day where I have the flu or AWS is down. There’s a lot of books to read, movies to watch, one night stands to have.

Also I think my friends would believe me that groundhog day was happening. Might be able to get a slightly better situation than the movie.

Windows sure is bad, though I haven’t seen an actual blue-screen in years. That’s some foul luck.