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The price is right. See Price Discrimination: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/price_discrimination.asp
The price is right. See Price Discrimination: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/price_discrimination.asp
If you don’t find the humour funny, it’s not going to work for you. It’s half humour, half love letter to trek. Star Trek meets Futurama
To some extent, the characters have to be hyper and heightened because they have to fit a Star Trek episode in under half an hour
Latvia is wrong. Russia annexed a Latvian county in 1944, and the border dispute wasn’t settled de jure until 2007
Hype! Lower Decks; Lower Decks; Lower Decks!
You might not need exponential growth, but you do want a certain critical mass of activity for each of a variety of topics
A new challenge with open submissions would be low effort AI spam. Scifi magazines are buckling under the tidal wave of crud right now https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/25/23613752/ai-generated-short-stories-literary-magazines-clarkesworld-science-fiction
I left in November and deleted my account in December. Mastodon/the Fediverse is what I always wanted Twitter to be but it never was
Oh, I forgot about these. These songs are so lovely to catch up on
I’m sure I saw an interesting article about it many years ago, but this is the best I can find right now: https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/ql0bsd/what_time_signature_is_the_tng_theme/
The time signature (I had to Google) starts in the common 4/4 but then switches into 12/8 or 6/8 which has a lot of flavour
Not sure if you are trolling, but no
Meta is joining the Fediverse not because it needs the people currently on the Fediverse, but because it needs a regulatory figleaf to protect itself from monopoly charges. At Meta’s scale, there are 0 users on the Fediverse right now. There is no market benefit to getting Fediverse people to move to Meta
What Meta gets out Threads/Fediverse compat is that suddenly Instagram is not technically a walled garden with platform lock-in, so while the number of people who’ll migrate from Instagram Threads to the Fediverse is going to be tiny they suddenly look a lot less like a mean monopoly to regulators
At some point they might remove the Fediverse compat. The people currently screaming about embrace-extend-and-extinguish because Meta is joining will then scream about bait-and-switch even though they’ve had Threads defederated the whole time. The Fediverse will still be there. That’s the cycle of life