Oh fuck off with this. Don’t victimize cable companies. They charged an insane amount and offered no innovation. $100+ a month for live TV that had more commercials than actual content is still a shit deal.
Streaming was great until everyone decided they wanted a piece of it. Fragmentation of the market drove enshitification.
I did use it, and the music service. They destroyed both in less than a year, so I cancelled it the same day they announced ads in video. They already had an ad tier, called FreeVee and it was insufferable.
As a bonus, I now don’t buy anything off Amazon, since I no longer get the delivery benefits. Fuck that company.
At least 20% of my orders end up being fucked up anyway. It’s either counterfeit products an entirely wrong product with the UPC of what I ordered taped onto the box.
I ordered a Spyder Color calibrator last year (about 200 bucks), and got an iPhone 4 screen protector with the barcide of a Spyder printed on the box.
I ordered a laptop and it arrived gutted.
Amazon died for me when they changed from a retailer to a drop-shipper.
I don’t even watch their stuff, it was just the principal of the thing. I’m not really missing prime even for shipping because it’s caused me to shop less and only buy if I really really need it.
I recommend also not shopping with a company that actively blocks unionization efforts and has a nightmarish track record with climate policy.
I stopped shopping with amazon in 2012 and, yes, it takes a bit of time to find what you’re looking for at a more local retailler, and it might cost a tiny bit more, but again… Jeff Bezos man
I was watching fallout when it released, and out of 8 episodes only 4 had ads, and the ads were 30 seconds long before the episode started, and then nothing after that.
I’m not excusing them injecting ads, but at least it’s not like YouTube where it’s completely random
People here seem brainwashed and only up vote whatever the community says they should agree with and downvote everything else, without even thinking about a different point of view.
Don’t bother pointing out stuff to them, but thanks for the reinforcement
No. I had prime. Then they raised the price. I was like ok… THEN they were like we need an extra 1.99 or you’ll have to watch ads on top of the prime price.
Won’t find many people shedding tears for the legacy cable companies or the legacy taxi industries. Two of the most hated industries before they got suspended disrupted.
I may be an outlier, but I liked old taxis you order by a phonecall more than drivers juggling five different apps and coming to your place with an according delay for they try to be a delivery guy and a taxist for many companies just to keep a positive balance; cable was great in Russia too, for one Discovery channel alone could completely capture the day of a young teen like me, unlike what it is now. YMMV.
There was nothing more anxiety inducing than waiting for a cab you scheduled when you have a flight to make, because about half the time they just wouldn’t show up.
It’s so baffling that even american cities often don’t make it feasible to get to and from the airport by public transport, that’s the one destination where no one in their right mind is ever going to drive themselves to.
In an even slightly sane world all american cities would at the very least have usable bus services for getting to and from the airport, if nothing else.
It’s worse where I live. Our (VERY major) airport was designed deliberately to prevent any public transit, and fought legislation to build public transit access for decades.
and this is why we should push for taxis to be replaced by public transport and carshare services.
If you can drive, carshares are just better than taxis in every single way unless you specifically need to not drive yourself for some reason, and good public transport is just always better.
Did your phone call taxis actually show up close to on time? Almost every person I’ve talked to about them had the same experience of them often being hours late if they came at all with no notification of the delay. Any time you called dispatch they’d say they’re on their way.
Yeah i remember tacos well. On hold, then a 40 minute Wait, no guarantee they’d call you when they arrive, so lots of waiting outside.
I did befriend a cabbie eventually who gave me her personal number to avoid that shit, but that’s just a personal story i included for no reason other than I’m high
This is absolutely true. But Uber and lime etc also directly undermine useful mass transit. Over the years I’ve found myself in situations where I’ve gone to a place thinking that I will easily be able to get back via Uber, and then found that there are no drivers, or no drivers that want my fare for the return trip. So far after some time I’ve been able to finally find someone, but it’s become more frequent and I’ve been concerned I wouldn’t be able to get home.
A more amusing anecdote: my brother was in a Midwestern small city for a conference. His flight out was at 8am, airport serving the town was about 20mins away by car. He woke up and tried to get an Uber, Lyft. No dice, no one out driving. Tried calling the one remaining cab company, but they didn’t have any drivers out. There was no airport shuttle, or mass transit. Freaking out a bit, he finally spotted one of those electric scooters, and sighing, he signed it out. He was dressed in his conference gear, and had his bag. The city was very hilly, and he found that with the extra weight of the bag, the scooter didn’t have the power to get up hills, so he had to kick push to augment it. An hour later he gets to the airport, soaked in sweat, to see multiple scooters discarded along the road, others had clearly used the same method recently. The cost for the scooter was close to 40 bucks, 2.5 times his Uber fare in from the airport. Anyhow, an isolated incident, but sort of funny depiction of how the transit landscape has degraded a bit over time, and how Uber etc is not as instant and reliable as it sells itself to be.
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