Yeah, I don’t understand why this is downvoted either… do people not think women’s rights are in jeopardy? I mean, if they don’t live in the US maybe nothing has changed in their world so this doesn’t impact them. Being American, Roe v Wade being overturned is terrifying to me.

Ikr! Like everything is 10x more expensive nowadays

Should higher! We need this to survive!

Yep. In china, everything you do once you set foot out of ur home is recorded.

Affordable home is a myth.

I am severely asthmatic and if I have to walk through some employee's cigarette smoke to enter a business, I turn around and take my business elsewhere. Not worth it.

YES PLEASE!

a 'stupid tax' if ever there was one.

Just stayed in this thing, - hotel they are calling it. Didn't have to take the garbage out, strip the room, pay a "cleaning" fee or feed anyone's cat. Hope they catch on.

Say that again... I got distracted at "Att..."

I disagree. I come on boardpanda on a regular basis and I find my faith in humanity restored regularly

Let me guess, this is in the US?

I still buy DVDs/BluRays. I like actually owning the thing and being able to reliably access it for the next 20-50 years. Only series and movies I've rewatched at least once and want to watch again though.

My disk library is growing. They've become so inexpensive and I don't have to subscribe to a dozen streaming services.

New cars don't come with a CD player at all. Mine has a USB port. The problem is that I listen to audio books and the overly helpful player tries to organize the books into artists / albums / songs. I have to rip the CDs and put them on a stick one CD at a time and hope they play in order. It would be nice if they still offered a CD option.

You can get a bunch at places like thrift and dollar stores now.

I still have and buy dvds. I don't trust the digital copy to not disappear.

I never owned one. I went straight from VHS to streaming.

I'd rather own a hard copy than a cloud copy as at any time, anywhere at anyone's leisure... your whole collection that you paid good money for could just go poof! And not a damned thing you can do about it.

I hate the cost of streaming

When the inevitable downfall of society occurs and we no longer have the internet, I will be down in my basement watching my Blu-ray’s/ DVDs. It is also nice when they are cheaper than the streaming version, but you get a streaming code with the purchase. 2 for 1!

I don't have internet (other than data on my smart phone) it costs too much. All we have is over the air and dvds. A friend of mine still has a functioning VHS 🤯

I wouldn't speak too soon on this. I consider them gone already. But they might make a come back. After all vinyls are becoming popular again

I don't have access to stable LTE for streaming. No fibre, ADSL or 4G where I live. Do my DVDs get a lot of use

Yeah, just like hard drives, every thing is in a cloud now. We don't even have hard copies of anything anymore. Even things we pay for.

i'm old school.....i love my dvds and always bought them discounted too.....

Since your digital copy can be deleted for any reason, this won't happen for a while more. You don't actually own digital copies, this will keep dvd's for a while more

You mean 2012..

I still love my dvds, and since their popularity has declined, there is a much bigger range of them at op shops, where I pay $5 at most for them. I hope they don't phase out completely. I like owning something I can come back to many times, even when the wifi is down, and I only pay a once off fee for.

Physical media is the only way you actually own it...

I have DVD box sets. I'm in limbo. I don't own a DVD player, but I love my Buffy, Angel, Chuck and Warehouse 13 box sets and don't want to get rid of them. I can of course buy a DVD player. But it would serve a purpose only of allowing me to watch the few DVDs I do have.

Like have a video cassette collection.

I'd rather not keep DVDs in this day and age. I have a handful at best now only because there's some stuff that I really love. This is why I like having everything on a hard drive and I can just stream it directly to my phone. Thanks Plex

my PC doesn't even have a disc reader

I stopped buying DVDs about 10 years ago once streaming became a thing.

Without cash our society would be far worse off

My local op shop has two buildings, one is the usual cheap things and cheap clothes and the other is the higher end stuff like vintage clothes or collectibles. It works well.

I've heard they've installed a revolving door at #10 Downing 😉

And the amount in savings accounts

Unless absolutely required, coming to office should be optional.

I live in a 24hr city, and I feel for those who work nights and struggle to do their shopping now.

Yup, Sitcoms are fading in general. Or are already completely gone. At least good ones. Maybe because you can't have dark-humored, sarcastic content anymore. Imagine "Married with Children" going on air nowadays. My favorite Sitcom...

Yup, with the new law in 2024 these are a thing of the past in the EU. USB-C for any brand. Not just Apple.

not in africa, we have too many unemployed people. We need job creation.

Nope, I think real menus are a hill many will choose to die on.