I’ve watched Doctor Who in the wee hours of Sunday night on broadcast TV, on rented VHS tapes, animated on the BBC iPlayer, purchased as mp3s from Big Finish Audio, purchased from random providers in the early days of digital media, streamed through complicated VPNs from BBC iPlayer, and purchased or borrowed from the library on DVD.

But Disney’s shit-tier steaming (and streaming, sometimes) app for Android is what managed to kill my Doctor Who fandom.

I’ll catch up using my DVD player - which still works reliably - whenever I happen to catch a sale on the latest seasons at a used book store.

Long live Doctor Who.

And may Disney Plus rot in infamy.

Great points.

My family watches as a group all the time, and Doctor Who features prominently.

But my DVD purchases probably aren’t being accounted for in their stats.

Also, Disney almost certainly lied to the BBC about streaming popularity, to save on license fees or something.

I think I just read “we’re spending big on AI because it maximizes our profits. Now we aren’t as cost competitive. Let’s talks about what else we can cut to save money.” before I stopped reading.

Let me take a wild guess: It’ll be about using AI to deny claims to recoup the money spent on AI…

Whether the article goes there or not, that’s the playbook.

I’m pretty sure this is the real reason my taste for spicy food advanced so far after I became a parent.

It’s nice to have a snack that the kid won’t loot and empty.

“The Parlor Room” is everything I wished Tom Vassal’s “Dice Tower” and Wil Wheaton’s show had grown into.

I think the big difference is DropOut has such a deep bench of comedians.

Even so, The Parlor Room is my favorite effective and entertaining way to shop for board games and learn the rules.

I wish my second favorite, “Beer and Boardgames” would join DropOut so I could watch them ad free more easily.

Be sure to check ouy Hyper Team Mechatron Go.

It’s a delightful spoof of Power Rangers that has more heart than it has any right to.

Archie is an idiot, here.

Python versions can be installed and managed by a tool called “pyenv” if you want to go further down that road.

Calibre also often needs specific plugins for different kinds of DRM. May be worth a search based on the eBook origin, in case you’re missing a simple extension that could solve it.

I also find that searching the web for “book title DRM free” usually results in a link to download a free DRM-free copy of the file.

It’s almost as if the DRM was a complete waste of everyone’s time and resources.

Yes. And the awkward social situation is when they ask what I’m wearing, but I didn’t pay any attention to the brand of the urinal mat.

I don’t want that to happen again, so now I’m careful to take note of the urinal mat branding.

and even that is a bit generous.

True. AI is also laying the groundwork for data breaches, and unplanned downtime.

I always figured the ending was to get the episode to air at all during the era. Like it wasn’t obviously pro-tranistion, because no official protagonist transitioned or loved someone who did. :(

I’m thankful that Trek has managed stronger message with actual protagonists, since.

Of course, it must have also been to ensure the sacred expectations of television networks that episodes can air in any order because nothing meaningful changes.

Except there’s no non-wildcard Republican candidate.

They’ve cracked the formula for telling their voter base that this time will be different and anti-establishment.

While the Democrats have solved for how to exhaust their voter base patience. (Bombing innocent people in other countries.)

Approval based voting is the only way the Democratic party remains a player in American politics.

How does this compare to first past the post? Does it make any difference in outcomes?

Yes. It may be the only chance American Democrats have of winning any future elections.

The next wildcard candidate will attract a bunch of votes, while a Democrat who stands for shitty compeomises could still get a “better than the other asshole” approval vote.

Tagging is essentially the same as removing and not a compromise in my book.

Come check out Mastodon sometime, where we also tag movie spoilers, politics, mentions of any medical condition, and eye contact.

There’s nothing wrong with eye contact. It makes some people really uncomfortable. So we tag it so that they can filter it.

I wish I could upvote this twice! I’m actually on my way around to my second re-read of “Small Gods” during another full Discworld read-through.

Yea. Any religion that believes in a just interving diety runs into this.

If i really believe my god is perfect and all powerful, then why should I have compassion for all the unlucky people that god clearly despises?

It’s hard, because the idea of a perfect loving god is incredibly attractive.

It’s the evidence that sucks: if god is real and all powerful, then god is, at best ineffable, and at worst a terrible raging asshole who lovingly created a parasite that eats childrens eyes.

Now, if we’re willing to believe in a sort of weak impotent god, the theology gets more interesting.

why would I want this type of thing done at the community level?

I have an RSS feed for my unfiltered comics.

I read here for the community.

I’m happy to just skip the work of bigots, and have mostly blocked the users who routinely post that stuff.

That saif, if we’re going to remove credit with intent, i have a request:

let’s be clear and cedit “some random bigot”, so I’ll know i might not want to seek out the artist.

Even while aware of how little classic scifi or fsntasy covers usually have in common with the book contents… This is still surprisingly weird.

Lol.