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There is another option: buy used media. People are dumping DVDs and Blu-rays for nothing, so it costs very little to build up a library legitimately and withou
by javajosh 5y ago
There is another option: buy used media. People are dumping DVDs and Blu-rays for nothing, so it costs very little to build up a library legitimately and without any ambiguity about ownership, with the upside you can watch without internet or a smart tv! Public libraries, good will, even pawn shops will sell you dvds for $1 and blu rays for $3.
Or, perhaps even better, stop watching mass media lowest common denominator crap and read a good novel. Strongly recommend Paulo Baucalupi's Windup Girl, or Martha Wells' Murderbot Diaries. Or for something political and uplifting, Meachem's "The Soul of America".
- ethbr0 5y agoWindup Girl isn't uplifting? (I kid. Somewhat. I should read more solarpunk)
- javajosh 5y ago> Windup Girl isn't uplifting? Well, given the degree to which humanity fucked up the world in the story, I'd say its not uplifting. It is uplifting compared to The Road, or On The Beach - but what isn't? (The energy storage breakthrough subplot has real utopian potential, actually.)
- ethbr0 5y agoI took the entire energy storage subplot as a metaphor for labor-powered capitalism vs post-scarcity capitalism. Although I guess in the years since it's been written it more modernly opines on planet-death-be-damned-hydrocarbon-burning transitioning to renewable energy.