Today in reading the headlines...
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@Arantor said in Today in reading the headlines...:
unlike the streaming market that is fundamentally unviable.
The streaming market is: they provide stuff I may want to watch, I pay for it.
The advertising-funded market is: They provide lowest tier garbage filled to the brim with ever more ads, so I can get stuff "for free", while they try to brainwash me into buying stuff I don't need, which is more expensive than it should be because 50% of the money went into marketing and ads. So instead of paying for what I want, I have to watch the ads and pay for the ads too.
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@topspin the problem with the streaming market is that it doesn’t pay for the content to be produced sufficiently. It only works if there’s already a library of content to be leveraged, at which point the library holders all go “wait, we could make more money out of this”.
In other words, the market only worked while Netflix was the biggest player and the content producers weren’t trying to make more money off their own content.
Notice that Netflix is looking to introduce ads because it can’t service the debt of producing new content solely off subscriptions. Disney+ is removing content as a tax write off.
And who do you think funded production of all that content for the streamers in the first place? Because it sure as shit wasn’t the streamers.
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@topspin said in Today in reading the headlines...:
The streaming market is: they provide stuff I may want to watch, I pay for it.
It's not quite that simple. For years, streaming platforms paid way too much for content so that they could dominate the industry and become the platform that all content providers would beg for, hence bringing costs down.
It didn't happen as there were too many players. So the streaming platforms started paying way too much to create their own content.
Now most of them operate in the red. At the same time, most subscribers don't stick with one platform because the content is too scattered, and individual costs are nearing the price we used to complain about before streaming.
The only place cost reduction is actually happening in at the talent level. If you do a show for Netflix, they pay you and that's it (usually). If you are small and hope to hit it big, your first hit will get you small money and no residuals for the success of the program. You hope to be in a position to make better money in the future.
In other words, we are enjoying a transitionary time that benefits us, but the current model will eat itself and leave nothing but the big players producing the same old content with the same old stars... just like the movie, TV, and cable industries that they are replacing.
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@Arantor said in Today in reading the headlines...:
Notice that Netflix is looking to introduce ads because it can’t service the debt of producing new content solely off subscriptions.
And I'll stop watching if they do.
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Not sure how to take this. Are our child abduction quotas not been met?
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I suppose there’s an unusual change in career when my eyes clap out.
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@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
I suppose there’s an unusual change in career when my eyes clap out.
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@izzion said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
I suppose there’s an unusual change in career when my eyes clap out.
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I don’t think my creditability would survive another avocado on toast debacle.
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The weebs are seizing the moon!
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@DogsB In a couple of days, I'll add another message to the
craters on the moon
thread.
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@topspin said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@Zerosquare said in Today in reading the headlines...:
*glances at @Jaime's post*
Oh, it's that OSI layers nonsense again, isn't it?
A pussy so tight no dick penetrates.
Now what was that useful for again?
🤔 is bash.org down for everyone or just me?
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@Tsaukpaetra :andnothingofvaluewaslost.txt:
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@topspin said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@Zerosquare said in Today in reading the headlines...:
*glances at @Jaime's post*
Oh, it's that OSI layers nonsense again, isn't it?
A pussy so tight no dick penetrates.
Now what was that useful for again?
🤔 is bash.org down for everyone or just me?
You were this close.
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@DogsB I don't believe that. It would be much more practical to do such excavation efforts with ex-army entrenching tools, which are about the same size as those nasty plastic shovels, but far far more robust.
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@dkf said in Today in reading the headlines...:
It would be much more practical to
Maybe, but these people are Irish
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It’s a good thing I don’t have kids.
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@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
It’s a good thing I don’t have kids.
Though the 64,000 question is, are poor learning kids caused by parents drinking diet, or did parents start drinking diet around the time some other mysterious societal movement started causing kids to learn poorly.
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@izzion anyway, a double win for the companies selling that sweet .
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@izzion said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
It’s a good thing I don’t have kids.
Though the 64,000 question is, are poor learning kids caused by parents drinking diet, or did parents start drinking diet around the time some other mysterious societal movement started causing kids to learn poorly.
the study was on mice.
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I wonder how many I can get away with.
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@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
What? They're still debating that? I've just finished reading articles by Terry Pratchett on exactly that subject. 'Nuff sed.
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You’ll never take our !
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@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
You’ll never take our !
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* falls to 2 mbps per user when two or more on the network.
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@DogsB 2mbps is exactly what I got out of my 16mbps line back when I still had to use Vodafone.
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We need to stop letting something that java cs students could easily do from the late naughties as a feature.
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@DogsB we need more required reading like The New Old Thing.
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If Raymond Chen's blog was required reading at Microsoft, things would already be significantly better.
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Do you doodle during meetings? Well, have I got news for you. You’re bored.
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@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
Do you doodle during meetings?
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@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
Do you doodle during meetings? Well, have I got news for you. You’re bored.
I usually clean guns during meetings
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Are you really getting the full super yacht experience if you’re not convincing a city to dismantle a bridge to get it to the sea?
Should probably actually do some work today. Between shitposting here and watching bad halloween themed lets plays I haven’t even opened intellij or dbeaver today.
*edit dbeaver starts on boot.
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@MrL said in Today in reading the headlines...:
I usually clean guns during meetings
Why, do you have meetings with your daughter's dates?
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@MrL said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
Do you doodle during meetings? Well, have I got news for you. You’re bored.
I usually clean guns during meetings
Welcome, fellow 'merkin!
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@MrL said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
Do you doodle during meetings? Well, have I got news for you. You’re bored.
I usually clean guns during meetings
Since noone else has done it.
P.S. If you do it on video I’ll buy a small statue of you and drag it with me everywhere I go.
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I’d settle for finding it on this planet to be honest.
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@DogsB that’s why they’re looking outward because they already know there’s none down here
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@DogsB I know Munster's an area of Ireland but...
Also that seems pretty cheap. Stop expensing nonsense and buy it.
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@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
I’d settle for finding it on this planet to be honest.
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sculpted His Majesty's head from Rice Krispies and marshmallows
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@DogsB Seems to me it's a perfect replica, because that's all that appears to be in his head as far as any of us from the outside can tell.
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@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
sculpted His Majesty's head from Rice Krispies and marshmallows
It would seem like if she was going to go to that much trouble, at least she could have made it out of something British, like Bubble and Squeak.
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*edit: headline from site.
UFO hunter who has studied 'alien' mummy for over a decade claims remains are an ancient species of tiny, cave-dwelling human