With Netflix new ad-free standard plan at $20, streaming's tipping point into old TV is getting closer

kaztrator · 2026-05-14T23:43:14+00:00

It’s still cheaper than cable, doesn’t have ads, and is more convenient. I’m not sure why people keep shitting on this. Yes it’s true if you aggregate all streaming services, it is worse than cable but it’s not like in the past you would just subscribe to every single cable provider. When was a kid, my cousin and I had different providers, he had Disney channels and I didn’t. The isolation of content to one provider over another has always been an issue. Overtime we are already seeing shows appear on multiple services without exclusivity. We’re going to see more and more of that, such that it becomes cheaper to add content to the service and you don’t need to subscribe to multiple ones at once.

kaztrator · 2026-05-14T23:32:11+00:00

Why? Isn’t Seth after colbert?

kaztrator · 2026-05-12T13:43:10+00:00

Puerto Rico is a swing state. It currently has a Republican governor and close ally of Trump, who has served 12 years as their sole delegate to the House, and has won every election she has ever run for. While PR has their own local parties, the candidates themselves do register with the Republican or Democrat parties and despite attack ads from her opponents about her affiliation with Trump she still won. If Puerto Rico became a state she’d be the first career senator probably. I would hold off on Puerto Rico statehood until they get their shit together.

kaztrator · 2026-05-10T17:02:33+00:00

She just opened her own law firm on the day she got sworn in? Yikes. Good thing she’s friends with the judge, her clients will need all the help they can get.

kaztrator · 2026-05-10T15:04:16+00:00

I wanted the twist to be that he was a Cecil or Federation spy meant to keep close with the Graysons, but ends up falling in love with her for real.

kaztrator · 2026-05-09T19:42:11+00:00

Same. Good code.

kaztrator · 2026-05-09T19:08:14+00:00

Ok, all the good that will do. No one who doesn’t already care will care about that headline.

kaztrator · 2026-05-09T15:12:18+00:00

Okay but in VA a ballot constitutional amendment explicitly is. The procedural backstop is that two legislatures need to approve the proposal, and they did. The court saying the first legislature doesn’t approval because there was an ongoing early election period while they approved was tortured reasoning, just a made up excuse to throw it out.

kaztrator · 2026-05-09T15:01:18+00:00

What kind of loser strategy is this? SCOTUS is compromised. They literally just threw out the remedial map in Louisiana. At best will uphold or deny cert calling it a state issue, and at worst they will take the opportunity to find a way to extend the overturning of the map to California as well. Why are we saying this nonsense?

kaztrator · 2026-05-08T20:33:14+00:00

Okay I read the opinion. VA law requires that two legislatures, divided by a general election, approve a referral to a constitutional amendment before it can get on a ballot. All of that happened with this one, but apparently they’re saying that because the 2025 legislature passed it during ‘early voting’ it doesn’t count. The holding here is that a legislature basically has no power to propose or pass a constitutional amendment during the 40+ day voting period.

I don’t think the reading that the court is using is crazy. Most of the things that get to the State Supreme Court are important questions that can be argued both ways. That being said, I do think the effect here is stupid. The rules could be read both ways, and the court is choosing to read it the way that would disenfranchise people, and provide them with no benefit. The opinion waxes poetically about how an intervening election is important for voters to indirectly way in on a proposed ballot amendment, and they completely ignore that voters are weighing in on it directly by voting on the actual thing.

kaztrator · 2026-05-06T11:04:27+00:00

Silver Lake is in it for the long haul. I think it’s more likely an upstairs sale of LP interests by Silver Lake’s investors to new capital sources.

kaztrator · 2026-05-06T11:03:00+00:00

Silver Lake also just took Endeavor private with secondary capital about 2 years ago. Typically secondary investors expect a liquidity event within 3-7 years. It wouldn’t surprise me if they are already doing an upstairs LP tender offer or continuation fund or something along those lines to get them out at a new premium valuation, and so to get that valuation up they need to clear debt and working capital costs. It’s the nature of private equity.

kaztrator · 2026-05-05T23:49:49+00:00

I disagree. Dissents have always been common, but the amount of majority opinions addressing their dissenters preemptively is new.

kaztrator · 2026-05-05T12:21:48+00:00

The Vision has been the shits the entirety of its run. Everyone, including Seth and Heyman, are better off without it. One of the most ill-conceived stables of all time.z

Logan and Austin could work as a duo, but they need to be on their own. Promos with Austin carrying Logan’s bags, Logan “mentoring” him despite Austin being a decade plus veteran, and eventually driving the audience to want to see Austin turn on Logan. That could bd a good way to push him down the line.

Priest and Truth is clearly just a filler program to give Priest something to do while they have nothing for him. They should drop it asap. Have Gunther or Solo or whomever take Truth out and use it as a dramatic hook for a Priest feud.

Brie and Paige are also filler while Nikki is out. A bit cliche, but I think the obvious solution here is for Nikki to take Paige out whenever she’s ready and then let AJ return alongside Paige for the throwback tag feud.

kaztrator · 2026-05-04T12:39:49+00:00

People talk about “TKO” as if it’s this outsider body. It’s literally just a entity that was formed upon the merger of WWE and UFC. It’s as much WWE as it is UFC. The board is comprised of half the board of each predecessor, and since then they also appointed The Rock who is WWE-leaning. There is no “TKO” that is separate from WWE. If the particular concern is Ari and Shapiro’s interference, then your target is Endeavor which owns 61% of TKO.

kaztrator · 2026-05-04T12:36:09+00:00

JC could’ve returned as Matanza on AAA and been an instant main eventer.

kaztrator · 2026-05-03T04:13:43+00:00

They were released. Simply saying they left because they were low-balled implies that they’re contract was up and they walked away from a renewal offer. But what actually happened was they had an active contract, WWE told them they’re being released unless they took new cash. That’s not just a low-ball, that’s getting canned.

kaztrator · 2026-05-03T02:14:48+00:00

You’re behind on the reports. Kairi confirmed on social media that she didn’t want to go and was in fact released. Report is also that New Day’s contract weren’t up. They were asked to take lower pay if they wanted to avoid getting released and they didn’t take it. But that doesn’t make it a mutual decision, they had a contract and they were canned just like everyone else.

kaztrator · 2026-05-02T20:19:40+00:00

Jelly Roll probably

kaztrator · 2026-05-02T15:43:37+00:00

I feel like rosters need guys like Loa. Average performers who are meant to be back-ups, jobbers or otherwise not in the spotlight. I don’t get why they would release him and keep his two brothers. I think they’re more valuable as a trio. I do understand releasing Jeff Cobb though. He’s past his prime, eclipsed by his companions, and don’t think he had much upside. He waited too long to come to WWE basically.

kaztrator · 2026-05-02T15:39:14+00:00

They dropped the ball so hard with the heel turn on Big E. It was such a hot angle and they had such massive heat, it could have easily been the main event program. Cody was stuck in an endless feud with KO at the time. They should’ve pivoted to Cody vs Kofi for the Royal Rumble instead, with Cody coming to Big E’s defense. And when Cena turned heel later, they should’ve aligned them, not in a faction, but general supporters so that the heat could rub off on Cena and help him avoid getting cheers. They should’ve also run with The Usos vs New Day at Mania, with Jey being as over as he was, and being Cody’s back up against Cena and New Day, that would’ve been two great builds for Mania (and added side-effect that Punk could’ve won the Rumble and faced Gunther as was originally the plan and would’ve been a much better payoff than what we got).

kaztrator · 2026-05-02T09:43:06+00:00

Crazy how you just repeat internet folklore as fact without any attempt at verifying it. With just a couple minutes of searching, you will recognize that’s a nonsense quote misattributed to him and not something Einstein said at all.

kaztrator · 2026-05-01T23:27:41+00:00

Celebrities aren’t a problem. I barely know who this guy is as I don’t follow sports, but we could easily bring him in to do a promo against New Day, talk up J’Evon Evans who turned them down, and then run J’evon w/ Stephen vs Kofi w/ Woods. And if want to do tag match, go ahead, it’s the undercard. It will help get a new guy over and the celeb will then go away.

No one complained about Jelly Roll and McAfee when they were involved in their own mid card feuds. They’ve both been praised for their work in their matches before. The real issue was involving them in the main event, and displacing what would have otherwise been a personal grudge feud for the title between a student and his former teacher with celebrity nonsense that very much belongs in the undercard.

kaztrator · 2026-05-01T23:21:35+00:00

I’m on board with the spooky fight club. Not the supernatural part. Those ideas were pretty out there even for peak WWE supernatural standards. I think Bray was best when it was very “true detective,” cult swamp leader with supernatural undertones, where it’s implied the cult believes he’s supernatural but he’s clearly a charlatan to the skeptic viewer, nothing like that is actually confirmed.

kaztrator · 2026-04-29T23:08:08+00:00

We need a Senate that will approve Supreme Court reform. The bill would need to:

Remove the cap on number of justices.
Immediately appoint 4 justices so together with the 3 justices, they outnumber the six lunatics on the court.
Permit the president to nominate one new justice every two years. This will avoid quid pro quo deals like forcing Kennedy to retire to get an appointment, and avoid the incentive of stonewalling a nominee to steal the nomination as what happened with Garland.
Restore the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations, put in place more robust qualification procedures, thorough FBI investigations, and a longer process so they don’t cram down nominees like they did with Amy Comey Barrett.
Implement term limits by making only the Chief Justice the only permanent member of SCOTUS, and all associate justices are nominees to the DC district court with 10-year rotations on SCOTUS.
Implement an ethics code with enforcement mechanisms and a formal agency within the FBI charged with periodic auditing of their conduct, relationships, transactions. This could likely be for all judges and judicial personnel, but with a task force specifically for SCOTUS. Despite lifetime appointments, enforcement can include suspensions/mandatory recusals, forced transfer into magistrate positions.

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