Thanks, that’s not too bad. I am used to spending 5-10 minutes at this point debloating/disabling junk on a new Plex install, I just hope it doesn’t keep getting much worse.

Thank you for installing and reporting back.

Those who use Plex to access personal media will find that their libraries are in a dedicated tab, while the Watchlist will take up prime real estate in the top navigation section. Plex says it also streamlined the user menu for quick access to things like your profile, friends and watch history.

Wait, does this mean that personal media is in a single “tab” that we now have to navigate from the main page, instead of currently where the main page and personal libraries are broken out? That would be a pretty awful change.

Also, who cares about the friends and watch history? Does anyone use that?

The watchlist (assuming this is your “bookmark to watch” section, not the recent content section) is in “prime real estate” now, even though I never use it?

It sounds like - as with the last few major updates - they’re building apps for the users they want, not the users they have.

Thanks, I definitely didn’t remember this, but reviewing it in the era we’re about to enter is pretty depressing:

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S6-C1-3-1/ALDE_00013300/

…They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.

As succinctly described by the Court, the Clause’s immunity from liability applies even though their conduct, if performed in other than legislative contexts, would in itself be unconstitutional or otherwise contrary to criminal or civil statutes. This general immunity principle forms the core of the protections afforded by the Clause.

Once it is determined that the Clause applies to a given action, the resulting protections from liability are absolute, and the action may not be made the basis for a civil or criminal judgment against a Member. In such a situation, the Clause acts as a jurisdictional bar to the legal claim

Basically, I assume GOP congressional members are going to be Trump’s attack dogs like we’ve never seen, since they can threaten outright criminal conduct without repercussion.

Something about this man tells me he’s trustworthy. Just look at that face.

It’s also probably illegal blackmail (threatening to release private information that is of a humiliating nature unless someone acts in a certain way seems to fit the bill), assuming she is threatening specific people. But as usual, it’s so shameless and the threat is done in full view of the public, so I guess everyone’s cool with that now.

Edit: Not illegal apparently/sadly, see below.

I’d prefer Pennywise - at least it’d be over more quickly.

Yeah, it’s so weird how short-sighted this is - clearly they aren’t going to be happy getting what they’re asking for.

But it makes more sense when you consider they don’t care about the “principle” such as it were - meaning their stated premise that somehow gender is immutable from the genitals you have at birth. That’s just the silently-agreed-upon pretext for bullying and hate to someone who makes them uncomfortable, which is the point of it all.

The reason I know justice is dead in the world is not just that Trump has evaded his many crimes, it’s that we are living a result beyond Putin’s wildest dreams.

Putin’s election interference in 2016 was meant to unleash a bull in America’s china shop - cause a mess, distract us while we kicked out the bull, and set us back as we repaired the damage. But he couldn’t have predicted that we wouldn’t even kick out the bull, would begin worshipping the bull and, in an effort to make sure the bull knew who was in charge, start smashing everything ourselves.

And Putin is doing this around the world, pumping right-wing autocrats with interference and election bot farms. Can someone think of a single autocratic leader in 2024 that isn’t ascendant, that isn’t increasing power? It’s amazing how effective he’s been at making the entire world miserable.

Hell if someone tried to murder you and you just gave up and went about your way, no one would trust you to do anything of substance. That is the problem with the Democratic party today.

I agree that the democrats needed a big bold message, but this is a strange metaphor. If someone tried to murder you and you just went about your way, people would… Vote for the murderer, I guess?

Don’t you dare speak that into existence.

Seeing as how the President is still a position that nominally serves the people, honestly we should be told as a nation whether he’s a security threat in our agencies’ assessments.

Yup, Gaetz and (if the GOP does the minimum of trying to protect this country) Gabbard are the sacrificial lambs to get through Hegseth, RFK and already too many others to count.

Yeah, republicans often find even a microscopic backbone once they no longer are running for reelection. In this case, it probably will be “I said no for a few weeks before I said yes.”

Just thinking back to how easy it would have been to never have Trump in our lives again, to get off this worst timeline, if just a handful of people had a tiny bit of courage at the impeachment trials.

Maybe they all thought he was cooked and they could once again forget about doing the right thing one more time, to endear themselves to his rabid supporters. It’s dizzying to think they could have protected the Constitution with a single word, and failed to do even that.

He wrote a chapter in Project 2025 (sensing a trend here?).

He made comments claiming the CBS interview of Kamala needed to be examined after Trump did his usual whiney nonsense about the media treating her better.

Basically he’s another dangerous sycophant.

I’m not giving up on America. But for now I’ve given up on Americans.

The reason is that we agree on all of the concerns, working class families should be getting attention and support and they’re not. The rich are eating us alive. Mainstream politics isn’t helping.

But it’s clearly substantially more the fault of the right, who are lying through their teeth to the working class while accelerating wealth disparities, anti-worker policies, and removing their upward-mobility as well as democratic, institutional and social protections they actually rely on.

And if Americans are so uninterested in facing reality that they’d rather be lied to than put in a little effort to actually check the candidates’ policies, if they’ll vote against their interests and give in to blatant propaganda and manipulation, when everyone is telling them what well happen… Well, what can we say but, “Ok, face-eating leopards it is. Enjoy. Let us know when you’re tired of that.”

I’m physically ill by this result, but this isn’t an option. You can’t save democracy by discarding democracy.

Trump could do it because he’s a fascist - he wants to discard democracy. A healthy system would have checked him not just then, but barred him from running again. We haven’t had a healthy system in a long time.

I hear your point, but I do think “Obama-Trump swing voters” is a defined group that is fun to talk about without any true diagnostic purpose. It captures too many different types of voters. They’re not all just those who change affiliation with the slightest breeze - many are probably people who went down alt-right rabbit holes between 2012 and 2016, or the cumulative effect of Fox News, or voters who more often vote against the incumbent party seeking “change,” and so on.

But also, even if the lowest rates of turnout is in red states, that doesn’t mean that in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, etc GOP voters will be more reliably good foot soldiers. Turnout naturally will trend lower where the votes in fact matter the least, I’m sure that’s true for both parties. The relevant metric is comparative voter turnout in swing states.

Call me a pessimist, not not likely. Trump’s narcissism is only dwarfed by his laziness. If he doesn’t win the nomination, he may still run to try to stay out of jail. But he will absolutely not run if he’s going to be pardoned and protected by a fascist leader of his choosing, and can relax into a kingmaker role with all of the prestige and none of the responsibilities.