Zoolander

Give me a fucking break. You have to point to some random website to even try to defend this and even that says that it’s not really a word but language is fluid?

You’re only proving the point more.

The difference is that you made that word up on purpose…

I dunno… someone that doesn’t make up words like “goodest”?

I mean, he’s dead so you’ll never know if you have the same tastes as him…

He looks great but that suit looks terrible.

Except I’m not. The last time this discussion came up, I was downvoted to hell and no one said anything of the sort.

Even in these comments… most of the replies are that it’s not only about piracy. There’s one person that has said “Yeah, I agree… I pirate.”

This is the wrong crowd for that, mate. I’ve gone through this rodeo on Lemmy too many times and you’re just going to get dishonest people pretending that what they’re doing isn’t stealing. It’ll be everything from “preservation of games” to “it’s just like renting from a library” and all the extremes of dishonesty.

No one here’s going to be honest about it.

It’s crazy to me that these countries cut funding, even after they fired those people. UNRWA is providing much needed help, from what I’ve heard of the reporting so far, and this disrupts those efforts a lot.

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You quoted it and then claimed I said something I didn’t. It is dishonest. Get outta here with that dumb “bet” shit. Use your words.

Ok. You must be shill for Sam’s Club! Why else would someone be posting on here‽ /s

Because they don’t offer one. They are a membership-based business. You have no point anymore.

That is semantics. The only difference between a movie ticket and the membership is the term. Both movie theatres and Costco have areas that cannot be accessed or used unless you do whatever they deem to require for entrance. A movie theatre does not have to allow you to use their concessions or bathrooms or any other part of the facility unless you pay for something. If they wanted that to be a membership, they could do that. As I already mentioned, AMC has a membership program. If they wanted to, they could cancel all individual ticket sales and only sell memberships. The rules for access would be the same - you can’t buy a hotdog. You can’t buy one movie ticket and have 2 people use it. If you could, there would be no point in buying tickets and I would make the same argument if someone came in here saying that “verification of a ticket purchase” is an inconvenience and worth stopping support for.

It wasn’t wrong. You’re just misconstruing what I said.

I said this in another comment too but the fact that you think the only way someone can disagree with you is that they work for Costco is a conspiratorial hot mess. I neither work for Costco nor “have a cult-like love for them”. You just have a persecution complex.

I’m not sure what you’re arguing against. You’re just making my point for me that the membership is paying for benefits that normal non-members don’t get.

I don’t see how what I said and what you claim are at odds or how anyone is gaslighting you. No one is gaslighting anyone. You’re just being dishonest.

If it’s worthwhile for even a single person, then your initial statement was wrong. I never said anything about a family of 2, you did.

I never said you did. Again, you’re arguing semantics rather than the point.

I never said it was wrong for a family of 2 to do anything. You’re just being dishonest now. You said that this is akin to Amazon adding ads or some other nonsense or Netflix backtracking on account sharing. I’m just pointing out that that is incorrect. Costco has never allowed you to share a membership outside of the household and the membership provides benefits that people are paying for. That’s it. That’s the whole thing.

Also, the fact that you think the only way someone would disagree with you is that they literally work for Costco is telling. Says a lot about how you view the world.

I feel like you’re projecting. I never said it was your job or mine to police who shops at Costco. It’s their job and they’re doing it. I’m not worried about what everyone else is doing. I just think it’s weird that you’re willing to pay for an exclusivity that you feel should be unenforced.

I’m sorry that you can’t consider other people’s viewpoints without distorting them to be some kind of victim. That must be exhausting.

And the feeling is mutual on not continuing. You’re assuming so many things so maliciously and distorting my point that I have to wonder why…

Because they offer free trials for their memberships. Again, you’re just arguing semantics because your argument has no standing.