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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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All of those still have an dd free service option.
True, but I'm not paying over $100 a month for different services. I might as well have cable.
Why subscribe to more than one service per month? Its not like you can watch two shows at the same moment. Even $15/month for a single ad-free service is far cheaper than the $100+/month that a cable subscription costs. Further, when you want to cancel the streaming service, its less than 10 clicks where canceling cable is more than an hour on hold fighting with the "retention" department trying to prevent you from canceling, and then having to drag cable boxes to a storefront somewhere before the bills stop.
Even with all streaming's faults, is far FAR better than cable.
Do you have other family members in your house? Do you watch sports?
I agree that cable sucks and is expensive.
Yes, and yes we have shows on services that each other don't watch. When one of us gets to the end of the content on the streaming service we're subscribed to, we let the other know. Many times the other person too has watched the "important" stuff and are fine with dropping it immediately. Other times, one person is still watching "important" stuff and we may sub to an additional service early, but thats pretty rare. Most of the time its "okay no problem, let me know when you're finished with 'important' shows and we can drop it. We then look at the list of streaming services and decide together which one we want to sub to next. Rinse. Repeat.
No.