There are numerous ways cancelling shows and removing them from the platform saves streaming services money, including not having to pay residuals and the ability to write off production costs as a loss on taxes. And, like others have pointed out, streaming services are historically driven by subscription fees instead of ads, and many viewers tend to binge watch shows rather than watch nightly throughout a full season. So all combined, the profit motive tends to push services toward many new short series suitable for binge watching that will keep people subscribed, but that can be quickly cut and taken as a loss.

This Marketplace article provides some other reasons, too.

The rest of the band isn't a whole lot better:

Then, Balzary and Smith jumped into the crowd. Balzary picked up the woman and began to spin her around on his shoulders, while Smith pulled her bathing suit to one side and began to slap her bottom, Grasso said. Officials said Balzary got on top of the woman, asked her to perform a sex act, then began to simulate the act.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/03/17/Two-members-of-Red-Hot-Chili-Peppers-arrested/7434637650000/

Several posts are saying this would be a good thing. Maybe, if implemented like the meme shows, but I worry ads in LLM chatbot output have the potential to be the most insidious and persuasive form of advertising we've ever seen. Chatbots are -- by their nature -- conversational and pushed in forms that are meant to eliminate any sort of thinking on the part of the user. And more and more, people are using them as their closest, most trusted confidants. Who's to say a (e.g.) political candidate won't pay to control the narrative of a chatbot, and have their propaganda ("ads") appear as a private conversation between an individual and their trusted "friend" or "partner"?

To add to this, the Phillips screw was designed to be self centering for use with motorized screw drivers on assembly lines, with an added benefit of easy cam out that prevented over tightening by said screw drivers. All that is kinda obsolete now and actually disadvantageous, so Phillips is probably the most entrenched and enduring corporate propaganda screw.

Why, as an American, do I have to navigate an internet full of pop ups designed to make sites GDPR compliant?

This graph makes the SAT drop look worse than it is

Yes, an example of why dual y-axis plots are problematic (when the variables are not direct mathematical transformations of each other).

And notably, many changes have been introduced to the SAT and SAT scoring over that time. It's unclear to me from the information here how those have been accounted for in the data.

I would consider them a type of dumpling.

I honestly don't know the full extent of the accusations against Gates. But more generally, even if the people involved were adults, how do we know it wasn't criminal? How do we know the women were involved consensually? And for those that did "consent", how do we know it wasn't due to coercion and the enormous wealth and power imbalances at play? The pictures of Gates released with one of the previous dumps sure don't make it look like everyone was happy to be there with him... obviously a lot of this is speculation, but I'm weary of using the logic of adult = not criminal activity.

For me, it was buying CA glue from hobby or woodworking shops instead of those tiny packs of "superglue". Comes in all different thicknesses and with activator usually for a lower cost per gram, and in bottles designed to last until the glue is gone.

The Ecotopia borders are not that different from Cascadia.

My thought would be to get flat PVC end caps. These could be attached to the wood with screws, and the pipe attached to the caps with PVC cement.

Atomic Frontier on YouTube trained a machine learning model on his prior emails, assignments, etc., and had it determine his personal worst keyboard layout. He posted the code on GitHub for others to do the same.

A good argument for the 4-point grading scale.

I agree, looks like a mulberry. Leaves on small trees and new branches are particularly likely to be lobed in mulberry, while older branches tend to produce leaves without lobes.

Most of my garden is devoted to native/natural gardens. My challenge is always figuring out how to have clean aesthetics and a welcoming, usable outdoor space while also creating authentic-looking, functional plant communities. One book that has changed how I think about this is Planting in a Post-Wild World by Rainer and West.

I agree with the other comment -- looks like maybe insect damage or (fungal?) infection, but I'm really not sure. You might try looking through Sue Bottom's Orchid Disease Guide (PDF), if you haven't already.

For a slightly different take, I was mesmerized watching New Yankee Workshop and the old This Old House seasons as a kid and often wonder how much they contributed to practical skills and hobbies I have as an adult.

In academia, promotion, tenure, funding, and pretty much everything someone needs to keep their job is tied to publishing in peer-reviewed journals. If I self publish I won't keep my job. If a university ran a website for publishing, they would have to reimplement the peer review process, and often there may be ~a dozen people worldwide qualified to review a particular paper so it's not just that others from within the university could review work. If a university is implementing all that, they have basically become a publisher and likely have costs they'll want to try and recoup and could foreseeably implement a fee to publish.

Don't get me wrong - the journals have a predatory and exclusive model that should be dismantled. But until we fix promotion, tenure, and funding pathways in academia that have enabled the publishers to become what they are there will always be these problems -- any other system that pops up will not get widely used because academics will be disincentivized from using it (as discussed in some other comments here).

We have vastly increased our ability to produce food.

And it has been largely the (petro)chemical industry responsible for this. The Haber-Bosch process transformed agriculture, but accounts for percent-level quantities of global energy consumption and carbon emissions. And it requires raw materials that are typically produced from hydrocarbons (although admittedly there are renewable options). And other nutrients typically come from mining (even organic options) - which displaces many species of all sorts. And this does not account for pesticides, etc., that others have mentioned.

Prior to the development of modern chemistry, our best sources of fertilizer were often animal manures - which require breeding, raising, and ultimately usually killing animals.

Sure, there is a lot we can do to minimize harm, and generally we should, and I try to myself as much as possible. But I'm not fooling myself into thinking that eating vegan or growing my food organically means nothing or no one suffered. Until we all go back to pre-agrarian societies, we will continue to cause large-scale destruction in some way. But of course this in itself would cause massive population decline and resultant suffering in humans.

I second looking at System Crafters' resources. One thing that helped me was their emacs from scratch video series.

And as a heavy Markdown user, I initially built my config around Markdown. But several years later I've found I now use org-mode almost exclusively instead. They both fill the same niche in my workflow, but org-mode can do a lot more.