So I know the writing was already on the wall when Scott Backula declined to join the production, and the new cast included no white men (except the trans mtf), and of course the smartest person in the room is invariably a trans.
Well, call me stupid but I loved the original and the new one came on a few weeks ago while I was staying at a hotel, so I actually got somewhat into it.
Started watching the entire season, which isn't finished yet, and the latest episode I finally get to watch is chock full of trans everything.
The guy leaps into the dad/coach of a trans kid on a girls' basketball team, one of the suspects in present day is a trans poet, there are multiple drawn out scenes where the main trans character has a heart-to-heart about how everybody who is trans tries to commit suicide, despite the obvious knowledge that before the trans trend, very few kids were committing suicide, and that the child suicide rate actually increased as trans became more popular.
And the biggest part that made me turn it off, is that they framed the episode as though the parents are bigots for wanting a biological male off the court of a girls' basketball team, even after it's made clear that bringing him into the game completely changed how it was going and they quickly won the game because of him.
They're not even pretending not to preach anymore. New television is a f'n struggle session now.
I can't even watch tv.
As a side note, has anybody noticed that most trans on tv are mtf. I don't think I recall seeing a ftm on television.
Digital books are already being edited,
https://archive.vn/KAJlT
Expect the same to happen to any other media anywhere near a web connection.
It already happened with Disney+ censoring Back to the Future and painting hair over butts in Splash.
Decades ago I started maintaining my own file server with ripped TV and movies. Netflix was just spinning up it's streaming service and most people who knew what I was doing told me I was straight up dumb. I might have jumped the gun by quite a few years but I don't regret it at all.
They did WHAT to Back to the Future?!
One of the reasons I so love those movies is because they don't lie about the prejudices of 1955.
"A colored mayor? That'll be the day..."
They censored out racism in 1955?
But that fit for 1955. And he ended up being mayor.
I know, I was quoting the movie.
I wanted to learn what censorship was done to my favorite movie trilogy ever.
Yeah this is why you need to have physical media whenever possible, or save electronic media locally unencrypted on devices. That way they can't take it away from you or alter it.
VHS has a relatively short shelf life. Strongly recommend ripping them to discs of some kind.
Take control of your ebook collection.
https://calibre-ebook.com/
Even allows for circumventing of Amazon DRM.
I have calibre but could never get the DRM bypass to work. Have you gotten it to work?
The way I have it set up works using two plugins and the Kindle's serial number.
Need to install DeDRM plugin: https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools/releases/tag/v7.2.1
Configure that with your Kindle's serial number and install the plugin KFX Input, which you can install from inside Calibre itself for the automatic processing of the ebook DRM.
Then I usually convert the azw3 file to a EPUB automatically with KFX. Just go into your amazon digital content section and under 'more actions' select 'download and transfer via USB.' Drag and drop the file into Calibre, or from the Add Books screen, and it should automatically process the book into whatever file format you want with KFX Input.
In the process of writing up the instructions for you I noticed that Amazon recently change their 'download and transfer via USB' function to not work for Kindle Unlimited, which was a big reason I used that subscription service. It still works for content you have purchased it seems. A bit annoying but I have downloaded almost 500 books from the Kindle Unlimited for only about $60 total.
If you don't have a Kindle you can do the same using the Kindle reader for PC, but you need to download the specific version 1.17 from other sources as the newer versions don't give you the awz3 files directly. Then just drop in the ebook file to Calibre like above.
Hope that helps.
Thank you!