Then you rewind to a part needing review and end up seeing the damn ads again. Same irrelevant ads that I cannot figure out why they insist on me seeing.

Companies break laws all the time. The punishment is frequently small compared to profits from the crime.

I’ve noticed a lot in my feed making that move also. I agree this may end poorly for a lot of good podcasts.

A lot of people are already sick of everything being a subscription based product. I know I pay for too many. There are so many ways to consume media you just move on to the next thing that looks interesting and is free with ads (for now). Podcasting loses listeners, podcasters move on or go free with ads again with a much smaller audience.

People want to support quality media creators, but there’s only so much in the budget. Kinda like you pay for Netflix as entertainment but podcasts are more like radio, something you listen to but could start listening to something else if need be.

I don’t know about every states gun laws or which laws you might be referring to but I feel it’s a safe bet to say that laws that pertain to crimes committed while using a firearm have not been weakened in very many places.

What may have been weakened are laws that restrict law abiding citizens from using firearms lawfully.

The laws are not “weakened” so much as pleaded down to less time or lesser charges. Prosecutors do this to get an easy “win” and clear cases from their dockets. There are a lot of gun laws that I agree with but more that I disagree that they solve any of the current problems. Again, enforce what is already law and leave the good people alone.

Don’t get me wrong, violence is horrible and should be stopped but as a realist I promise that it never will.

But the additional laws take away rights from the law abiding only. The simple solution is to enforce the laws already on the books to the full extent.

These laws only harm the lawful exercising their constitutional rights! Prosecutors will add these on but not to maximize a sentence rather to make it easier to get the bad guy to plead at the cost of not filing on some of the additional charges. Just fully enforce the laws on the books already.

There’s a podcast (Sad Oligarch) that outlines a lot of these “mysterious” deaths in Russia.