I’m going to use your car analogy, but tweak it.

People are looking to sell their car and buy a new one. One car acts like their old car; it has automatic transmission and there is a network of mechanics to take the car to in case something breaks.

The other car has a manual transmission. The car requires regular maintenance to do done by the owner like weekly tuning of the timing belt. There aren’t mechanics, but car clubs where people will give you advice on how to fix your car.

If you look at how RSS fell from use, there were two major issues. On the user side, users had to go out to find content as there wasn’t an inherent way to search for content within the system. On the creator side, creators had to deal with advertising themselves to users and they had to handle the monetization by themselves.

Social media created the algorithm to find content and developed some revenue sharing with creators.

If federated media takes off, it will probably look like Threads or Truth Social, where control of a front end monetizes development of the platform.

There would be no merit at all.

I’m sure Zelenskyy would be more than happy to host NATO troops in Ukraine; it is a decision of NATO nations to not deploy to Ukraine.

If NATO troops were not invited, that would likely trigger a wider war. It would also mean that the Ukrainian government becomes a NATO problem; NATO isn’t as interested in nation building since Afghanistan.

Yes. Democrats voted for Obama in 2008 and he presented himself as more progressive than Hilary.

Yeah, I’m not happy about that.

Magic: the Gathering.

It churns out a ton of unique settings and ideas for worlds.

Let people consensually fuck others winningly.

Get work to implement it.

I didn’t, but it comes off as preachy for a question asked in a community called “No Stupid Questions”. A dumb question was asked about AI and the response was “actually, these are the things we need to be worried about because I’m very smart to worry about it”.

Yep. That’s a lot of words to try to seem superior to other people. Did you use ChatGPT to help you write it?

I know The Simpsons sends the grunt work to East Asia, but I thought that South Park is so simple that a US team can bang out production with the writing staff within a week.

I’m putting enough money away that I see myself retiring. At minimum, I would transition to a less stressful job about 10 years away from retirement and ride that out as I go to work less and less.

That said, I know I’ll kill myself if my health degrades too much. I haven’t decided what would happen if I run out of money.

Probably not, but it doesn’t have the issues that Reddit has regarding moderation. Facebook communities are a lot more isolated than Reddit’s are and are generally filled with older people going to the groups for more targeted reasons.

You’re probably now experiencing a thing of Facebook that makes it really valuable to others.

6 is minimum. I usually expect 10.

It has gone to shit.

In some cases like McDonald’s, the ingredients have been on par while the cooking quality has tanked.

For a lot of other places, both the cooking and ingredient quality tanked.

Taco Bell is probably one of the few major chains I still eat at because their ingredients are hard to fuck up cooking and putting it together isn’t that difficult.

I would have a 1 on 1 conversation with one of the psychologists running the group about what you’re going through. Maybe this something you can work through or maybe this kind of group therapy isn’t for you. In any case, it is better to talk about what you’re experiencing.

It is possible to price because studios are playing the odds. They might make money on one show but lose money on three others. Uncertainty gets baked into a lot of the initial decisions.

And we are seeing that production budgets are getting slashed on television shows compared to a decade ago because the streaming money doesn’t compare to cable money.

Full price is being able to guarantee that you make your money back on the average release.

I didn’t take the photos.

I know, but my response sparked further discussion so it’s cool.