
I pointed this out in a Discord server I’m in and thought Id share here:
Bob Iger announced that Disney is going to absorb Hulu, and Hulu will no longer exist next year. All shows will move to the Disney+ app.
Disney also announced they were going to remove shows and movies periodically from their streaming services.
I believe both of these moves are because of the Writers Strike.
Disney knows its going to lose the strike. There is too much public support. Specifically, the WGA is going to win writers getting more residuals from streaming.
So if Disney takes shows off of streaming, they dont have to pay the writers the residuals.
They are going to use excuses like “not enough funding for the server capacity” or “not enough views to warrent keeping the show”. These are BULLSHIT. Its all greed. Its only GREED.
Pay attention to what happens in the following weeks.
And keep supporting the writers’ strike.
This is similar to what happened with HBO - new owners merged two streaming services, and all of a sudden there wasn’t enough server capacity for all the shows somehow. A total lie.
Time to start downloading EVERY Hulu show. Hoist the colors high.
And yell at your congresscritters about antitrust laws.
Download everything that isn’t a major franchise. If its name isn’t Marvel, Star Wars or The Simpsons, assume it’s getting canned and get a copy in as high quality as you can store. Eventually your copy could be the only one.
This.
This is especially true for the weird stuff you’ve never heard anyone else mention. Lost media is a tragedy regardless of what it is.
But don’t take a random tumblr’s word for it, here’s a verified source
the urge to bite while feeling overwhelming affection is completely normal. sorry if you don’t experience that but it’s not my business. get help
love DOESN’T make you want to sink your teeth in? Okaaaaayyyy. weirdo
why do you watch eurovision i don’t understand it (sorry)
i’m gay
i grew up watching it
im extremely neurodivergent about it and it’s one of my special interests
i like geopolitical battles but only when they’re silly and not really political
i love europop!
it’s camp and fun! god forbid people have fun and be silly
i hate watch it
i don’t watch it / show results / OTHER
i need to know i’ve never understood it
In this world it’s meat or be meaten
On it boss
this tweet hasn’t left my mind once in the two years since it’s been posted
The fact that Microsoft Word has to be a subscription is upsetting. I already paid for it why do I have to pay again
Yes please be mad about it, genuinely- You used to be able to purchase a single disk to install it and use it forever after that initial purchase of one key. It sickens me to see all this stuff which used to be a one time purchase be shunted under a subscription now.
THIS
“Why is pirating going back up?!”
This. This is why. People don’t mind paying a high price for software if it’s only the once, or every 4-5 years.
But having to pay a high price regularly? Especially in the cases where you lose access to your own work if you don’t?
That’s why people are pirating software.
It’s possible to buy a non-subscription version of Word; Microsoft just intentionally makes it very difficult to find (and also expensive).
However, I know a guy who knows a
guywebsite: MS Office Pro for $50. If the link starts going to a Page Not Found, just search the site; they usually have some form of this sale available.Worth noting: while $50 is still more money than $yo-ho-ho, that money is a great way to make VERY clear to Microsoft that we DO want one-time-purchase products, not subscriptions.
Or just download libre office or one of the MANY open source word clones
OpenOffice is completely free, legal, virtually identical and all of their files are compatible with MS office. You can even save in MS office formats.
I would recommend LibreOffice to OpenOffice– OpenOffice was last updated in 2011 (over 12 years ago from the time I made this)– and while it still works, there are newer and more supported forks of it out there.
LibreOffice is updated super regularly and has support on a ton of devices (I can use it on a Chromebook if I’m so inclined).
There’s also Apache OpenOffice, another fork of OpenOffice that gets updated, less often than LibreOffice, but still exists. However, it can’t export into any Microsoft format post 2007, which LibreOffice can.
I have a Microsoft subscription through my university so I generally use that these days, but when I’m on a computer that doesn’t support that, I use the LibreOffice suite.