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“I hate my Honda Accord”

“Have you ever considered walking?”

Also see: “I haven’t watch TV in 20 years. Do people still watch TV?”




“I hate my Honda Accord”

“Have you ever considered walking?”

If the suggested alternative was stealing another Honda Accord, that would be a reasonable question.


In this case it's as if you can only drive on certain roads if you have a Honda Accord, and maybe in the country you're in the Honda Accord isn't even available to buy legally but there are still roads you can only use if you have one.


I just don’t get it. You (collectively) hate the TV industry but love TV shows and can’t live without them? Is that the basic idea?

Do you think you can still get the TV shows you love if you evade the TV industries monetization mechanisms? Or is the plan that everyone else will continue to pay and so it’ll all be okay? Something else? What’s the end game here?

FWIW I don’t watch TV. Not because I hate the industry or out of principle but because it’s just not very entertaining to me.


Wow there's a lot of assumptions about the people you're replying to in this post.


Well that’s not the case, I can get all of the content I want on either my AppleTV, Roku, iPhone, etc.

People want the government to step in because it’s inconvenient for them to pay for the content they want.


More like, leave the original Honda Accord there but make an exact replica for free and drive it around.


The alternative the commenter gave was “reading books” instead of “watching TV”.




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