Piracy doesn’t take money from artists, just ask Cory Doctorow, a person making their living as a writer while uploading the torrents of his novels himself.
Corporate consolidation is what kills the artists. The studios make less movies per year, so the a list actors go to television and take the roles Rob Morrow used to get.
I have a family member who got into mobile flipping. What they would do is target retirement communities. When a person died, my family member would put in an offer, generally no more than $10,000 to the family. Enough to cover the funeral.
This person would then put about $10,000 into renovation (almost only ever cosmetic) and then turn around and sell it for $60k, not realizing that if he was selling 50 year old mobile homes for that Mich, everybody else in the area was doing the same.
After 5 years, this family member was selling 40 year old mobile homes for $120,000 but purchasing them for $85,000, and eventually, he was making maybe $10,000 in profit for a 3 month process.
Greed is good until it prices you out of the market you yourself created, but they never see their own actions as being the cause of any of this.
You made an offer likely knowing what content your mother consumed.
Also, doing this for her means those charlatans aren’t actually getting her money.
Something to consider in favor of doing your mom a solid.
Just make sure you out satanic films in the folder and rename them to Christian themed titles.
I am a member of a co-op. I strongly believe in the mission, however, it is not affordable for families. Maybe if we prioritized less speciality foods and had more members we could bring costs down, but it is truly a struggle in balancing supporting the community and staying open.
My co-op tries to balance this by incentivizing donating to the local food banks, both in product and monetary donations, but it is a real struggle.
All that being said, since the price fixing began, health food is no longer that much more expensive.
Besides NPR (which itself does not do international on the ground reporting) which of your sources are state funded? Specifically which of them are funded by a right wing theocracy?
None. That is the difference. Fox News might overtly hate gay people, but are they funded by people who have courts which prosecute homosexuality?
We should prevent that sort of stuff at home and disavow it abroad. Especially if we are leftists, no?
Well I notice Fox is a common denominator in both stories, and I do believe people who get their news from that source are generally guillable at best and uneducated at worst.
But I also think all sides are equally capable of getting things wrong, which is why we need independent journalists (such as those aligned with Bellingcat, for instance) to have reporters on the ground.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_controversies_and_criticism
There is an entire Wikipedia page if you are truly interested. I don’t believe you are.
That isn’t what the ship of Theseus is, and I would also point out that staking money from the funder and shelterers of a terrorist organization, even if just 30%, creates a conflict of interest that can’t be ignored or brushed aside.
We are living in mirror world when leftists are getting their news from right wing theocracies.
2 gigs is not a lot.