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  1. Comment on I'm curious how people on here stay politically engaged and aware while maintaining mental health? in ~life

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    hmmm, interesting. the one worry I have is whether the recommendations in that thread cater towards news that is more pressing to America than other countries but will check it out.

    hmmm, interesting. the one worry I have is whether the recommendations in that thread cater towards news that is more pressing to America than other countries but will check it out.

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  2. I'm curious how people on here stay politically engaged and aware while maintaining mental health?

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    the Israel-Palestine war has not been good to my mental health and the coverage and the treatment of the campus protests oddly is what did me in. Now one approach could be to just not watch the...

    the Israel-Palestine war has not been good to my mental health and the coverage and the treatment of the campus protests oddly is what did me in.

    Now one approach could be to just not watch the coverage but I have come around to the point of view that not watching meaning not knowing what's happening and you need to know what is happening if only for the hope to be more informed about the politics of the government you live in.

    So I guess I am trying to understand what is a responsible way to digest news about something that enrages you? Or is there no such thing? Cause I don't do social media (aside from occasional reddit and just the frontpage when I do that once in a while) and I refuse to watch any 24/7 news networks. I only do an hour of CBC and like 1-3 daily news podcasts which each do like 10-20 min daily updates.

    Cause the Israel-Palestine war doubled with the terrible way the campus protests are being treated has really shaken my faith and trust in institutions and I won't go into how cause I don't want to invite infighting on tildes and potential Islamophobia and antisemitism after what happened in that macklemore thread.

    27 votes

  3. Comment on In streaming milestone, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery team on bundle featuring Disney+, Hulu and Max in ~tv

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    Slight disagreement there. streaming eliminated one of the middle-men, not all of them; as I consider both the TV stations and your cable provider to be middlemen. unless you are able to stream...

    Streaming just eliminated the middle men. We're getting the bundle deals that they would have tried to force on cable companies. In that sense it is like cable.

    Slight disagreement there. streaming eliminated one of the middle-men, not all of them; as I consider both the TV stations and your cable provider to be middlemen.

    unless you are able to stream without an ISP :-P

  4. Comment on In streaming milestone, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery team on bundle featuring Disney+, Hulu and Max in ~tv

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    Be grateful you don't live in Canada (assuming you don't). one of our major ISPs (Bell) has a deal with HBO so only Bell's streaming service (crave) is allowed to have HBO content north of the...

    I’d say my chief complaint with streaming is bad apps in the cases of a few services.

    Be grateful you don't live in Canada (assuming you don't). one of our major ISPs (Bell) has a deal with HBO so only Bell's streaming service (crave) is allowed to have HBO content north of the border. It's both the most expensive streaming service up here and also the one with the worst UX/UI and buggy af.

    I am going through the process of getting an american credit card to get Max in part cause last year Bell and HBo signed a new contract and I broke a little inside (I thought Warner Bros would want to have their service up here rather than going through a middleman, but then again Zaslav wasn't around when I was predicting that).

    But the one thing that makes me nervous about "cable being back" is the ad-free and lower tier ad plans. Granted we are not there yet but they keep hiking those prices higher so that they can artificially claim "growth"....

    10 votes

  5. Comment on ProtonMail discloses user data leading to arrest in Spain in ~tech

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    as with the previous arrest, I blame this more on the user than protonmail. they have no choice but to comply with a legal request for information they have and never claimed that they wouldn't.

    as with the previous arrest, I blame this more on the user than protonmail. they have no choice but to comply with a legal request for information they have and never claimed that they wouldn't.

    30 votes

  6. Comment on In streaming milestone, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery team on bundle featuring Disney+, Hulu and Max in ~tv

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    i don't mean to be antagonistic as this is tildes and not reddit but how so? I either had a different experience with cable or different expectations of streaming services but my only 2 problems...

    i don't mean to be antagonistic as this is tildes and not reddit but how so?

    I either had a different experience with cable or different expectations of streaming services but my only 2 problems with cable was

    1. if you want a specific channel, you are stuck with a whole bundle and have to pay for that whole bundle and
    2. you are stuck with that bundle for like 2-3 years

    every time streaming services raise their prices people complain about how we "are back to cable" and I am just like, "you know you can get a subscription for a month, watch your show and then cancel? that in no ways was possible on cable"

    now granted, this is news about a bundle but unless they also plan to prevent you from signing up for just disney+ or hulu or max, I don't see a cause for concern. and if the bundle is not forced with a 2-3 year contract then it's still not as bad as cable.

    24 votes

  7. Is there a documentary from a reputable source that documents the relationship between the Jews and Israel/Palestine?

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    Ever since the Hamas attack, I think I have understood the position of the Palestinians, that they were there first and then Britain unfairly divided up the landed and gave some of it to Jews so...

    Ever since the Hamas attack, I think I have understood the position of the Palestinians, that they were there first and then Britain unfairly divided up the landed and gave some of it to Jews so they could have a homeland where they wouldn't have to deal with Anti-semitism after what they went through during WWII.

    But Jews/Zionists claim that they have some ancestral right to that land and I have not found it easy to come across anything from a reputable source that explains what backs up their claim (wikipedia and random YouTube videos don't count).

    16 votes