This literally happened for me with the movie(s) Wicked. I didn't watch the first part just to have it end half way through the story and be told to wait until next year. Then the second half comes out, and after the opening weekend where a couple downtown theatres had busy double feature special events, Part 1 was playing in theatres literally nowhere in my city. And no way I'm signing my life away for Bezos BS just to watch this. (Does a stream even earn the movie studio anything significant? The theatres get nothing...)
I only bought a ticket to watch Part 2 because I viewed Part 1 by other means. The theatres missed out on an opportunity for me to watch the first one in succession with the second. And if I didn't watch the first, then I wouldn't have watched it at all and the theatres and publishers would have missed out on a sale.
If the copyright industry calls missed sales "stealing", the theatres and publishing licensors steal from themselves by making it difficult to view the full story.
Metaverse and AI, lmao
currently the pinned post in !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
The rules are pretty much anything (within reason) goes, but at least one person is fed up with seeing news and politics on shitpost, so is protesting by posting corn shitposts. Some others are joining in, a couple are posting more news out of spite.
In Canada: Vancouver, BC. Just don't go beyond the city limits.
Kingston, ON: if you can get past big box suburbia near the highway, the downtown is small and charming.
Montreal, QC is also very cool. Downtowns of major cities in Canada are generally very nice places to be, but outside there it depends on the city how sprawling the suburbs are.
I've never shopped at a Walmart in Japan. It's really fun to visit.
I'm pretty sure it's because Republicans are distracting Republican women from the party's misogyny by being extremely cruel to transgender and non-binary people.
ETA: Just take President LBJ's quote, replace white man for woman and colored man for any LGBTQ+ person, and you'll get the idea.
Any headline that appears in the news containing "Justin Trudeau" sets off loud sirens on Pierre Poilievre's phone.
Hello, and welcone to Lemmy. Glad you made it, here's my overall advice:
Enjoy your time here!
I've not ordered anything from Amazon since September last year... cancelled Prime in 2025 to boycott USA. !boycottus@lemmy.ca
Small electronic components, random plastic doodads, SD cards - Aliexpress, Amazon sells the same stuff at a markup, so all I need is a tiny bit of patience to replace my biggest Amazon spend category. In Vancouver there's no competition outside of Lee's, but in Toronto I go to Sayal Electronics.
Computer equipment - Memory Express (your local PC parts chain).
Big purchases - from manufacturers' website or brick and mortar retail.
Groceries - From the grocery store. Costco for local cucumbers, milk and cereal, and the local grocery store for BC grown other food
Books - Indigo, or the random roadside book shop on Vancouver Island or one of the many bookstores. Or, the public library. Digital books: the high seas. Audio books: plenty of digital storefronts online.
Are there categories I'm forgetting Amazon is used for?
Since the server went off of OVH, lemmy.ca has felt super snappy overall. Tonight I'm noticing lagspikes, and the status graph shows it too...
I'll check back in the morning, site's still usable so not an urgent matter. It'd be interesting for me to know what might be happening.
Morning edit: seems like a one off.
Here's a table I adapted from Louis Rossman's video on the levels of piracy, grey areas and his morals and ethics on it. (spreadsheet file)
I tried to condense each rank and make it less about a specific type of media like CD audio or DVD video, along with a table of simplified characteristics of each situation. Of course more levels can be added and there are many situations not covered. This hierarchy is simply the way Louis ordered it from more to less justifiable; he respects people can think about it differently and I do too. He suggests that he doesn't really care about people that pirate without giving a shit about creators, and that he only has a problem with people who aren't honest with themselves about their motivations.
Setting legality aside, what 'level of piracy' is morally or ethically acceptable to you?
Bye Trump, ¡Holá Presidenta!