If you too sign up for the TSA trusted traveller program, you can go through security without removing bags, you can leave your jacket and watch and belt and shoes on, and go through a metal detector instead of the pervy superman vision booth.
Totally worth it if you fly more than zero times per year.
Usually. Sometimes. Also, only if you're flying in the US, from an airport with PreCheck, in a terminal with PreCheck, and on an airline that has a a PreCheck line, during hours that it's open. For me that's 'usually' but certainly not always. It's extra annoying when you expect it and it's closed.
On the bright side, this combined with Clear means I rarely spend more than 5 minutes in a security line.
HAHAHA. You had me until you said you brought WATER through.
How will they justify selling $4 bottles of soda or water inside the 'secure' portion of the airport if they allowed you to bring your own? I call shenanigans!/s
You can sublet for a max of 30 day, with a max 10% surcharge only if the place is furnished (plus a 10% surcharge from landlord), must maintain that as your primary residence, and need your landlords consent (which can't be unreasonably refused).
So yes, technically a rent-stabilized apartment can be sublet... briefly. It cannot be perpetually used as a for-profit rental unit by the original tenant like many are doing. Also, that applies to rent-stabilized, NOT rent-controlled. Those cannot be sublet. Also, section 8 (subsidized housing) typically prohibits subletting.
You are entirely misinformed regarding the involvement of the police in tenant-landlord disputes.
Police only get involved in immediate life-safety (violence, fire, flood, etc.) or criminal (trespass, theft, violence, etc) situations. The Sheriff's department handles evictions, but only after a final court order directing them to do so. They have ZERO to do with reviewing evidence and determining anything.
If tenants stop paying rent, move in a few friends, AirBnB a couch or 5, and trash your apartment you have to take them to court. That's the ONLY legal means to evict them. Call the police all you want but there's basically nothing they can do unless they witness a crime or immediate life-safety issue.
The underlying (but of course they can't admit) reason behind this system is to make it much more difficult to illegally rent, sublet, or AirBnB apartments while also collecting evidence to prove the misuse in court should people persist. People are (generally) crying about privacy to protect and perpetuate their illegal activities.
Your right to privacy doesn't extend to breaking housing rules or laws. People seem to think privacy gives them this blanket right to hide illegal things and demand that everyone look the other way even when it's blatantly obvious what they're doing.
As someone living in NYC and dealing with the situation created by things like AirBnB and illegal rentals/illegal rents/rent stabilization or control/subsidies/and so on I'll share some insight:
First off, it's common for people to abuse low-income, subsidized, or stabilized rentals. Extremely common even. Some of that is borne of necessity - people living on a fixed income who simply cannot afford to live here and don't have any money (or ability for the elderly) to move. Much of it is greed though. NYC has 1/3 of the the entire countries low-income rental units. Many of those people AirBnB or sublet or similar to make substantial money (some low-income apartments literally go for under $100 a month vs. the $2-3000+ they'd rent for otherwise). Or you have planned communities of low-income people - not the city planning them, but whole communities who intentionally are low-income so and rig the system so they basically get all the apartments. Anyone who's gone through the jewish portion of williamsburg knows this. Amazing how their low-income apartment complexes are all jewish people (nothing against jewish people, but it's incredibly obvious they have taken over those buildings).
The system is heavily abused, flawed, and any kind of correction becomes a huge fight of 'but mah privasy' while landlords following rental rules are trying to not support someone's illegal rental business on their backs. That's not to say there aren't plenty of scumbag landlords of course.
But let's play along for a moment. There are many legitimate uses including... - Personal safety (and before you point out guns shoot more owners than criminals, that stat ignores the criminals it deters without shooting them) - Hunting - Pest control - Entertainment - Collecting
Now, let's be honest...entertainment and collecting accounts for a large percentage of purchases. But so what? When did an object need to have direct, broad, and pervasive utility to be allowable? People buy tons of stupid, useless shit all the time. Some of it's quite dangerous and is ONLY useful for entertainment.
Oh, analogies...you so silly. Let's just take a tiny piece of the situation from just the right perspective and apply it to something entirely unrelated while claiming to make such a profound point.
Sorry sir or ma'am, we don't feel that you're a good fit for our tuition program but you can still pay xyz unreasonable dollars if you want to go anyhow.
Basically this is a college program to further divide the rich and 'educated' from the poor and 'uneducated. I put educated in quotes since the income potential of an idiotic, but wealthy child averages much higher than a very smart child from a broken family living in poverty.
In NYC public schools, with a masters degree and 8 years teaching, you make $86k. This is public info from the teachers union negotiation/contracts.
Doesn't seem too bad, eh? Except a studio or 1 BR apartment in Manhattan will run you $2.5-3k a month and any commercial landlord is going to want 40x rent in minimum income (basically the 30% rule) while others want up to 60x. That's at LEAST $100k on the lower end of things.
Just to put it out there: a teacher with a MASTERS degree plus 8 years experience can't rent a studio apartment in Manhattan.
So if we're going to compare average income, let's do it for people with a masters degree ($63K) or that plus 8 years (86K) for apples-to-apples. Then let's consider that teachers spend more time raising and educating children than their own parents...and let me know what train of logic justifies paying them an 'average' income that's literally not livable in plenty of areas they teach.
Aaaaaaand this is the news article that should have been posted.
Instead, angry masses are going on about how NASA is discriminating against women based purely on a title and not even looking at the article. Can we reboot social media and start over please?
FB and google know more about you than your life-long best friend. They will 100% know which wallet(s) are yours if you used some sponsored crypto or similar...and hell, they could probably figure out which 'anonymous' crypto wallets belong to you too if they saw even semi-regular usage.
You think sharing this info with the IRS won't be a base requirement for the existence of 'FB Coin'?
You realize USD is the same scam writ large, right?
No, there won't be a 50:1 fluctuation in a week but the people with the money dictate the policy/use/availability/value of that same money. They're just doing it on a much bigger scale so the 49.99999:50 fluctuation still makes them oodles of money and Joe Q. Public never even sees it.
So Venmo. Or paypal (sorta, they're the worst combination of all possible things)
And then go to asia with things like GrabPay and more.
Last I checked none of these were crypto, yet they're wildly popular in use even if some reputations vary. The problem with crypto is it's very selling point - there's no central authority to manage things, build a platform for END USERS, and work on adoption or stability. People will adopt based on ease of use, trending, and utility over a pipe-dream political statement of 'fuck the man, burn dollars and use crypto'.
The difficulty in a fragmented system is being able to use the currency. Amazon gift cards, greendot gift cards, amazon GC etc. actually are a viable currency - just ask every scammer out there and 'the IRS who is going to suspend your SSN'. They just aren't easy to use outside of their intended website... but most people will value an amazon GC at 95% of it's face value vs. ~80% for most other places...and even less for some.
The potential is there. It's the adoption and, primarily, regulation that's stopping it. If the literal poor in Asia have adopted crypto, the barrier isn't too high for the US...we just have too many laws restricting it. Try to buy bitcoin and you'll see how difficult it is
Its entirely possible that the adult audience was harder to sell ads to, or far more enthusiastic in their use of adblockers. Total traffic should not and does not imply monetized traffic.
If adblockers were that effective then FB and google would cease to exist. And, without some citation to back your claim, I disagree that selling effective ads to people watching porn is particularly difficult. Quite the opposite if anything.
And while total traffic might not directly equal monetized traffic, it must be a pretty accurate indicator since virtually every. other. website. based on ad revenue tracks this way. Even direct sales websites track views and visits.
You either misunderstand the content they had to deal with or the viability and ability of ML.
As best I understand the issue, it wasn't (generally) people posting naked pictures of pre-pubescent children. It was often 14-17 year old children posting their own nudes. Forget machine learning, even actual humans have a difficult time telling the difference between someone who is 17 (illegal CP call the feds) and 18 (yawn, another dime-a-dozen crotch shot)... oh, and let's not forget the gray area of 'here's my toddler playing in the tub' or 'is that 3yo without a shirt a girl or boy'. Things society generally, broadly deem acceptable and harmless... unless someone has an agenda and enforces the laws strictly.
So no, this isn't a problem with an easy solution even for human beings. Tumblr got in the cross-hairs and realized there was no viable way to address the problem with the reliability that FOSTA/SOSTA require...and failing to do so puts the execs of the company at direct, personal, criminal liability. So the dropped the mic and walked off stage. Sorry folks, but you made these ridiculous laws and we ain't playin.
Just to be clear - I'm not endorsing their ability/need/business model that allowed or utilized child pornography. However, expecting a company to police nudity and determine, to effectively 100% accuracy, which pictures are legal adult content and which aren't is an impossible burden. Especially when much of that illegal content comes from 'bad actors'... i.e. children themselves uploading the content in direct violation of the laws and site rules.
Heck, even some content from the adult industry has been from under 18 actors who used a fake ID and got caught later...and they DO have a pretty robust system for enforcing that.
There are several online places to get glasses for $10-$50 of varying (but overall good) quality.
Entering all the numbers and measurements can be a little daunting but it's totally worth it. Costco does eye exams pretty cheap and (IIRC) doesn't require membership to access their pharmacy or eyecare centers.
Vision does change over time generally and if yours already is/does/did it probably will more/again.
My eyes were good for about 15 years after I got LASIK (or whatever one it was at the time). I'm approaching the 20 year mark (i'm 40) and I need to get glasses or more surgery soon. But damn, it was and still is totally worth it. As someone who couldn't read a book at arms length or the alarm click from my bed (remember, 20 years ago? we needed those!) or tell faces apart across a conference room table...not needing glasses at all, even if signs are blurry now? Life. Changing.
They do say you should have a stable prescription for at least a year (maybe more?) before getting LASIK.
There's a fixed, per-eye cost they machine manufacturers charge the doctors (cute DCMA scam there but whatever) so there's a minimum cost no matter what.
That said, eye doctors often use higher prices to imply higher quality. 'You only get one pair of eyes, would you really want the bargain surgery? Ours may be more but you're eyes are worth it and we have great financing options!" (financing options they make even more $ off of mind you)
At $2-5k it's still reasonable and worthwhile if done correctly, especially if you have a particularly bad proscription as I can attest to.
They bought up all the big chains along with the people making the frames and lenses.
Then they systematically went through all the manufacturers (Oakley as an example) and blocked them from their stores and contracts if they wouldn't sell. How they got this far is kind of amazing but they've basically locked down the whole industry. Even the 'mom and pop' places are stuck buying from them to resell. Don't like it? No worries. We'll just blacklist you and refuse to sell you anything or list you with any of our insurance providers (yah, we own most of them too). Buh bye.
On the flip, you can buy glasses online for $20 bucks (+/- on quality) but you can't get any 'designer' frames. Boo hoo. I've directed quite a few people with limited funds to these sites and they've very pleased. Especially since they'd be forced to go without glasses otherwise.
Did we spend $700 for frames + lenses? Yes. Would it have cost $300 with more competition? Probably. They sure look nice, though.
They'd cost under $100 with realistic competition. There's no legit reason classes should cost > $100 (excluding designer crap but lol) except for a monopoly price fixing and making ridiculous amounts of money.
Oh, another fun fact is they own a large percent of the eyecare insurance providers too. Oddly they've missed the boat on LASIK.
So basically, amazon gets a $3b tax break that their middle-class employees fund. Brilliant! Let's think of other ways we can fuck the middle class a little harder and get people to run around justifying it! Oh wait, that's the whole scam they tried to play...
This mystical $27b in tax revenue! Who calculated it by what voodoo math? Amazon, (per their SEC filing) expected costs of $211mm in state taxes in 2017, and also had a $137mm fed tax credit/refund in 2017. This is for ALL their US operations. ALL the taxes paid in ALL states...$211mm.
Amazon hasn't paid $27b in US taxes in the entire history of the company so someone PLEASE clue me in on how anyone expects them to start paying $2.7b/yr in NYC?
They have less and less content on there, and yet they keep raising their prices?
Sure, but if their marketing improves even faster than their quality drops, why would they care. While there is a finite number of suckers on the planet, they aren't going to run out soon. Finding new ones, or persuading old ones to come back - that's what their marketing department is for.
They have plenty more new content...it's just not the content you want. Or that I want. I only keep my netflix sub because it keeps my GF happy and that's worth 10 bucks a month. If it was just myself I'd have dropped them a long while ago.
That's great, but I want to watch south park. Or older movies.
Or... so many things that have been, or soon will be, removed. Yah, they've made a ton of orig. content and kudos...but how about all the old content?
Netflix is trying to become a new studio ala HBO or something and that's fine. But I'm still looking for a practical solution to watching the movies and occasional series I like without having to subscribe to 15 different streaming providers and then hunt through their apps. Oh, and needing to pay just as much as cable TV because fuck that noise.
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If you too sign up for the TSA trusted traveller program, you can go through security without removing bags, you can leave your jacket and watch and belt and shoes on, and go through a metal detector instead of the pervy superman vision booth.
Totally worth it if you fly more than zero times per year.
Usually. Sometimes. Also, only if you're flying in the US, from an airport with PreCheck, in a terminal with PreCheck, and on an airline that has a a PreCheck line, during hours that it's open. For me that's 'usually' but certainly not always. It's extra annoying when you expect it and it's closed.
On the bright side, this combined with Clear means I rarely spend more than 5 minutes in a security line.
HAHAHA. You had me until you said you brought WATER through.
How will they justify selling $4 bottles of soda or water inside the 'secure' portion of the airport if they allowed you to bring your own? I call shenanigans! /s
Did you read what you linked or just the title?
You can sublet for a max of 30 day, with a max 10% surcharge only if the place is furnished (plus a 10% surcharge from landlord), must maintain that as your primary residence, and need your landlords consent (which can't be unreasonably refused).
So yes, technically a rent-stabilized apartment can be sublet ... briefly. It cannot be perpetually used as a for-profit rental unit by the original tenant like many are doing. Also, that applies to rent-stabilized, NOT rent-controlled. Those cannot be sublet. Also, section 8 (subsidized housing) typically prohibits subletting.
Yup, but protections enacted to prevent abusive landlords went so far that it's nearly impossible to prevent abusive tenants.
You are entirely misinformed regarding the involvement of the police in tenant-landlord disputes.
Police only get involved in immediate life-safety (violence, fire, flood, etc.) or criminal (trespass, theft, violence, etc) situations. The Sheriff's department handles evictions, but only after a final court order directing them to do so. They have ZERO to do with reviewing evidence and determining anything.
If tenants stop paying rent, move in a few friends, AirBnB a couch or 5, and trash your apartment you have to take them to court. That's the ONLY legal means to evict them. Call the police all you want but there's basically nothing they can do unless they witness a crime or immediate life-safety issue.
The underlying (but of course they can't admit) reason behind this system is to make it much more difficult to illegally rent, sublet, or AirBnB apartments while also collecting evidence to prove the misuse in court should people persist. People are (generally) crying about privacy to protect and perpetuate their illegal activities.
Your right to privacy doesn't extend to breaking housing rules or laws. People seem to think privacy gives them this blanket right to hide illegal things and demand that everyone look the other way even when it's blatantly obvious what they're doing.
As someone living in NYC and dealing with the situation created by things like AirBnB and illegal rentals/illegal rents/rent stabilization or control/subsidies/and so on I'll share some insight:
First off, it's common for people to abuse low-income, subsidized, or stabilized rentals. Extremely common even. Some of that is borne of necessity - people living on a fixed income who simply cannot afford to live here and don't have any money (or ability for the elderly) to move. Much of it is greed though. NYC has 1/3 of the the entire countries low-income rental units. Many of those people AirBnB or sublet or similar to make substantial money (some low-income apartments literally go for under $100 a month vs. the $2-3000+ they'd rent for otherwise). Or you have planned communities of low-income people - not the city planning them, but whole communities who intentionally are low-income so and rig the system so they basically get all the apartments. Anyone who's gone through the jewish portion of williamsburg knows this. Amazing how their low-income apartment complexes are all jewish people (nothing against jewish people, but it's incredibly obvious they have taken over those buildings).
The system is heavily abused, flawed, and any kind of correction becomes a huge fight of 'but mah privasy' while landlords following rental rules are trying to not support someone's illegal rental business on their backs. That's not to say there aren't plenty of scumbag landlords of course.
What is the purpose of a gun?
Oh, back to this game yay. *eyeroll*
But let's play along for a moment. There are many legitimate uses including...
- Personal safety (and before you point out guns shoot more owners than criminals, that stat ignores the criminals it deters without shooting them)
- Hunting
- Pest control
- Entertainment
- Collecting
Now, let's be honest...entertainment and collecting accounts for a large percentage of purchases. But so what? When did an object need to have direct, broad, and pervasive utility to be allowable? People buy tons of stupid, useless shit all the time. Some of it's quite dangerous and is ONLY useful for entertainment.
TL;DR your question isn't relevant.
Oh, analogies...you so silly. Let's just take a tiny piece of the situation from just the right perspective and apply it to something entirely unrelated while claiming to make such a profound point.
Sorry sir or ma'am, we don't feel that you're a good fit for our tuition program but you can still pay xyz unreasonable dollars if you want to go anyhow.
Basically this is a college program to further divide the rich and 'educated' from the poor and 'uneducated. I put educated in quotes since the income potential of an idiotic, but wealthy child averages much higher than a very smart child from a broken family living in poverty.
In NYC public schools, with a masters degree and 8 years teaching, you make $86k. This is public info from the teachers union negotiation/contracts.
Doesn't seem too bad, eh? Except a studio or 1 BR apartment in Manhattan will run you $2.5-3k a month and any commercial landlord is going to want 40x rent in minimum income (basically the 30% rule) while others want up to 60x. That's at LEAST $100k on the lower end of things.
Just to put it out there: a teacher with a MASTERS degree plus 8 years experience can't rent a studio apartment in Manhattan.
So if we're going to compare average income, let's do it for people with a masters degree ($63K) or that plus 8 years (86K) for apples-to-apples. Then let's consider that teachers spend more time raising and educating children than their own parents...and let me know what train of logic justifies paying them an 'average' income that's literally not livable in plenty of areas they teach.
Aaaaaaand this is the news article that should have been posted.
Instead, angry masses are going on about how NASA is discriminating against women based purely on a title and not even looking at the article. Can we reboot social media and start over please?
FB and google know more about you than your life-long best friend. They will 100% know which wallet(s) are yours if you used some sponsored crypto or similar...and hell, they could probably figure out which 'anonymous' crypto wallets belong to you too if they saw even semi-regular usage.
You think sharing this info with the IRS won't be a base requirement for the existence of 'FB Coin'?
You realize USD is the same scam writ large, right?
No, there won't be a 50:1 fluctuation in a week but the people with the money dictate the policy/use/availability/value of that same money. They're just doing it on a much bigger scale so the 49.99999:50 fluctuation still makes them oodles of money and Joe Q. Public never even sees it.
So Venmo. Or paypal (sorta, they're the worst combination of all possible things)
And then go to asia with things like GrabPay and more.
Last I checked none of these were crypto, yet they're wildly popular in use even if some reputations vary. The problem with crypto is it's very selling point - there's no central authority to manage things, build a platform for END USERS, and work on adoption or stability. People will adopt based on ease of use, trending, and utility over a pipe-dream political statement of 'fuck the man, burn dollars and use crypto'.
The difficulty in a fragmented system is being able to use the currency. Amazon gift cards, greendot gift cards, amazon GC etc. actually are a viable currency - just ask every scammer out there and 'the IRS who is going to suspend your SSN'. They just aren't easy to use outside of their intended website ... but most people will value an amazon GC at 95% of it's face value vs. ~80% for most other places...and even less for some.
The potential is there. It's the adoption and, primarily, regulation that's stopping it. If the literal poor in Asia have adopted crypto, the barrier isn't too high for the US...we just have too many laws restricting it. Try to buy bitcoin and you'll see how difficult it is
Its entirely possible that the adult audience was harder to sell ads to, or far more enthusiastic in their use of adblockers. Total traffic should not and does not imply monetized traffic.
If adblockers were that effective then FB and google would cease to exist. And, without some citation to back your claim, I disagree that selling effective ads to people watching porn is particularly difficult. Quite the opposite if anything.
And while total traffic might not directly equal monetized traffic, it must be a pretty accurate indicator since virtually every. other. website. based on ad revenue tracks this way. Even direct sales websites track views and visits.
You either misunderstand the content they had to deal with or the viability and ability of ML.
As best I understand the issue, it wasn't (generally) people posting naked pictures of pre-pubescent children. It was often 14-17 year old children posting their own nudes. Forget machine learning, even actual humans have a difficult time telling the difference between someone who is 17 (illegal CP call the feds) and 18 (yawn, another dime-a-dozen crotch shot) ... oh, and let's not forget the gray area of 'here's my toddler playing in the tub' or 'is that 3yo without a shirt a girl or boy'. Things society generally, broadly deem acceptable and harmless ... unless someone has an agenda and enforces the laws strictly.
So no, this isn't a problem with an easy solution even for human beings. Tumblr got in the cross-hairs and realized there was no viable way to address the problem with the reliability that FOSTA/SOSTA require...and failing to do so puts the execs of the company at direct, personal, criminal liability. So the dropped the mic and walked off stage. Sorry folks, but you made these ridiculous laws and we ain't playin.
Just to be clear - I'm not endorsing their ability/need/business model that allowed or utilized child pornography. However, expecting a company to police nudity and determine, to effectively 100% accuracy, which pictures are legal adult content and which aren't is an impossible burden. Especially when much of that illegal content comes from 'bad actors' ... i.e. children themselves uploading the content in direct violation of the laws and site rules.
Heck, even some content from the adult industry has been from under 18 actors who used a fake ID and got caught later...and they DO have a pretty robust system for enforcing that.
There are several online places to get glasses for $10-$50 of varying (but overall good) quality.
Entering all the numbers and measurements can be a little daunting but it's totally worth it. Costco does eye exams pretty cheap and (IIRC) doesn't require membership to access their pharmacy or eyecare centers.
Vision does change over time generally and if yours already is/does/did it probably will more/again.
My eyes were good for about 15 years after I got LASIK (or whatever one it was at the time). I'm approaching the 20 year mark (i'm 40) and I need to get glasses or more surgery soon. But damn, it was and still is totally worth it. As someone who couldn't read a book at arms length or the alarm click from my bed (remember, 20 years ago? we needed those!) or tell faces apart across a conference room table...not needing glasses at all, even if signs are blurry now? Life. Changing.
They do say you should have a stable prescription for at least a year (maybe more?) before getting LASIK.
There's a fixed, per-eye cost they machine manufacturers charge the doctors (cute DCMA scam there but whatever) so there's a minimum cost no matter what.
That said, eye doctors often use higher prices to imply higher quality. 'You only get one pair of eyes, would you really want the bargain surgery? Ours may be more but you're eyes are worth it and we have great financing options!" (financing options they make even more $ off of mind you)
At $2-5k it's still reasonable and worthwhile if done correctly, especially if you have a particularly bad proscription as I can attest to.
That's pretty much what they did.
They bought up all the big chains along with the people making the frames and lenses.
Then they systematically went through all the manufacturers (Oakley as an example) and blocked them from their stores and contracts if they wouldn't sell. How they got this far is kind of amazing but they've basically locked down the whole industry. Even the 'mom and pop' places are stuck buying from them to resell. Don't like it? No worries. We'll just blacklist you and refuse to sell you anything or list you with any of our insurance providers (yah, we own most of them too). Buh bye.
On the flip, you can buy glasses online for $20 bucks (+/- on quality) but you can't get any 'designer' frames. Boo hoo. I've directed quite a few people with limited funds to these sites and they've very pleased. Especially since they'd be forced to go without glasses otherwise.
Did we spend $700 for frames + lenses? Yes. Would it have cost $300 with more competition? Probably. They sure look nice, though.
They'd cost under $100 with realistic competition. There's no legit reason classes should cost > $100 (excluding designer crap but lol) except for a monopoly price fixing and making ridiculous amounts of money.
Oh, another fun fact is they own a large percent of the eyecare insurance providers too. Oddly they've missed the boat on LASIK.
So basically, amazon gets a $3b tax break that their middle-class employees fund. Brilliant! Let's think of other ways we can fuck the middle class a little harder and get people to run around justifying it! Oh wait, that's the whole scam they tried to play...
This mystical $27b in tax revenue! Who calculated it by what voodoo math? Amazon, (per their SEC filing) expected costs of $211mm in state taxes in 2017, and also had a $137mm fed tax credit/refund in 2017. This is for ALL their US operations. ALL the taxes paid in ALL states...$211mm.
Amazon hasn't paid $27b in US taxes in the entire history of the company so someone PLEASE clue me in on how anyone expects them to start paying $2.7b/yr in NYC?
....they're gonna start really losing people.
They have less and less content on there, and yet they keep raising their prices?
Sure, but if their marketing improves even faster than their quality drops, why would they care. While there is a finite number of suckers on the planet, they aren't going to run out soon. Finding new ones, or persuading old ones to come back - that's what their marketing department is for.
They have plenty more new content...it's just not the content you want. Or that I want. I only keep my netflix sub because it keeps my GF happy and that's worth 10 bucks a month. If it was just myself I'd have dropped them a long while ago.
That's great, but I want to watch south park. Or older movies.
Or ... so many things that have been, or soon will be, removed. Yah, they've made a ton of orig. content and kudos...but how about all the old content?
Netflix is trying to become a new studio ala HBO or something and that's fine. But I'm still looking for a practical solution to watching the movies and occasional series I like without having to subscribe to 15 different streaming providers and then hunt through their apps. Oh, and needing to pay just as much as cable TV because fuck that noise.
Exactly this. 5G is not a replacement for 4G, it's complimentary to it and we'll have both for a long while.
5G: Oh, hey there 4G
4G: Hi 5G! You're looking swole today. Been working out?
5G (blushing): Oh 4G, you so silly. Want to get dinner tonight?