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  • Humorous four-panel graphics

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  • A jeweler friend of mine banned from /r/somethingimade because he recreate a ring found in a viking burial site with inscription "for allah" citing it promotes terrorism.

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  • Yeah, "Allah" is what Lebanese, Syrian, and other Arab Christians have called their Christian God as well.

  • ‘The Rehearsal’ May Have Actually Helped Find A Solution To Pilot’s Mental Health Issues, After All

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  • I can imagine no legislation that could move forward from this.

    It's hard to explain without watching the whole thing, but the second season explores several themes, including whether Nathan Fielder has undiagnosed autism. Autism is a disqualifying condition for a commercial pilot's license, so instead of opening an envelope that includes the doctor's opinion about potential neurodivergence (after a bunch of psychological tests), he goes and gets the flight hours to qualify for a commercial license. And he triumphantly announces that there's nothing wrong with him, because the FAA doesn't license people with mental health issues.

    It's a brilliant demonstration of how the incentives relating to pilot mental health (a recurring theme all season) actively discourage pilots from seeking out mental health treatment, for risk of losing their licenses. It's willful blindness because they'd rather not know than run the risk of knowing something they'd be required to disclose to the FAA.

    The proposed legislation would provide the FAA the resources and a mandate to better design rules around mental health treatment so that pilots don't purposefully avoid mental health treatment or diagnoses.

    Also please remind me where I know Nathan Fielder from?

    Nathan For You was a popular comedy show where he would persuade local LA-area businesses to implement all sorts of ridiculous business ideas. It was popular and ran about 10 years ago, but the clips became very popular on social media especially after 2014 (when the "Dumb Starbucks" project went viral). So even if you haven't seen the show, you've probably seen gifs and videos from the show all over the internet.

  • Apple TV Plus is getting more expensive and will cost $12.99 per month

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  • So, that all means that the price is too high. They should lower it, not raise it. That’s the logic here? Or do you think the previous price was optimal for the long haul?

    Well with these products that cost the producer effectively zero for each additional sold, the optimum price for the producer, if they're forced to charge everyone the same price (ignoring the strategy of price discrimination for now), is whatever price maximizes subscribers x price. It is probable that $5/month will get more people to subscribe, especially the type of person who tends to subscribe for a few months at a time and cancels once they've exhausted what they want to watch. Whether that would be enough to make up for the lower price is less clear, but they should probably model that for each price they're considering.

    Also, with price discrimination as a pricing strategy, the higher base price gives more maneuverability to try to maximize subscribers with discounts while still charging the most of the less price sensitive. And that's what I think is going on here: using bundles and discounts (like free months of subscription with each physical Apple device you buy, or certain credit card perks where cardholders get credit from their bank for those subscriptions), and a higher base price to make those perks seem more valuable.

  • Apple TV Plus is getting more expensive and will cost $12.99 per month

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  • Is it so mysterious?

    People like to spend less money rather than more money.

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  • First one to the kitchen

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  • You're right, it needs something like each gram/ounce of remaining food is worth subtracting a certain amount from the time.

  • First one to the kitchen

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  • I bought the hardcover collection for my coffee table. It's a ton of fun to see guests react to it.

  • YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection

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  • The topography is basically not significant.

    The elevation of the highest point on Mt. Everest is 8,848 meters. Compared to the radius of the Earth itself (averaging 6,371,000 meters and varying about 10,000 meters from that average), that 0.139% difference in radius at that mountain not going to be noticeable.

    If you shrunk the entire earth down to the size of a 2 meter diameter ball (1 meter radius), Mt. Everest would rise about 1.39 millimeters from the surface.

    Simple imperfections in polishing a representative globe would represent larger variations in altitude than exist on the Earth itself.

  • Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom

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  • Do you apply a similar rule to California Rolls, Texas Toast, Key Lime Pie, New York Cheesecake, or Philly Cheesesteaks?

  • Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom

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  • All I know is that my genitals say "maybe"

  • ‘Alien: Earth’ Star Timothy Olyphant Wants Everybody to Relax About Reboots

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  • really really hope this Alien movie is gonna be good.

    It's a TV series, made by the same guy who adapted the world built in Fargo into several seasons of a TV series, each of them very good.

  • Are the Jurassic Park sequels the biggest collection of dogshit of any movie franchise? (Jurassic World Rebirth spoilers)

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  • Terminator was great, and is harder to properly gauge in the modern context where self fulfilling time loops and robots that look like people are common tropes. At the time, it was a groundbreaking film.

  • Paramount Needs 'South Park' — Despite the Ridicule and $1.5 Billion Price Tag

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  • Might be a mixup from some of the rights history. Paramount held the distribution rights to the first 5 MCU movies (aka "phase 1" up to Avengers) but Disney got back those rights in 2013.

  • It's the dream

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  • Close, but I spell my name with a "ph" so it's Phteven, or Phteve for short.

  • It's the dream

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  • It's not social media if your accounts aren't doxxable in either direction. People who know me in person and know I'm on Lemmy wouldn't be able to figure out which account is mine, and people who encounter my account on Lemmy wouldn't be able to figure out who I am out in the real world.

  • As Spotify moves to video, the environmental footprint of music streaming hits the high notes

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  • That's one of my pet peeves, when people use relative comparisons to overstate things that have very small absolute differences.

    55g of CO2 is basically nothing. A gallon of gasoline represents about 2400g of CO2 emissions when burned. So for a typical vehicle that gets 30 miles per gallon, 55g of CO2 is basically the equivalent of driving 0.6875 miles (1.1km).

    It's less than the carbon footprint of a cup of coffee (60g).

    Or, alternatively, eating a single quarter pound hamburger would be about 3 kg of CO2, or 55 hours of video viewing at this rate.

  • RFK Jr wants bright artificial dyes out of food. Are Americans ready to let go?

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  • Fun fact, though, Kraft Mac and Cheese removed artificial dyes in 2013, didn't tell anyone at first, and waited to see if consumers would complain. Nobody did, so they announced that they were able to replace the artificial yellow colors with really colorful spices like annatto and turmeric.

    So you're still gonna get staining. Turmeric gets in everything.

  • ‘Wolfenstein’ TV Series in Development at Amazon From ‘Fallout’ Producer Kilter Films, Patrick Somerville

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  • as long as they keep the core of the game intact (shooting Nazis in the fucking face).

    From the article:

    Exact plot details are being kept under wraps, but the (incredible) official logline of the series simply states, “The story of killing Nazis is evergreen.”

  • Moderator banned from their own community for practicing harassment

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  • I disagree with you. I'd never want to go back to the old defaults in forums, of un-threaded conversations where every comment is equal (and generally sorted by timestamp). Some comments are just better than others, and a user interface should prioritize the better comments.

    Comments that are interesting, funny, or informative can be read by more people when they're shown earlier in the page.

    Comments that are rude, factually incorrect, off topic, etc., can be de-emphasized in the user interface, even if they don't technically break any rules. I'd rather it be a community driven decision than a mod-driven decision of the harsh consequences of comment removal or user ban.

    The key is to find a community whose collective opinions you respect. Crowds may not be perfect, but they're generally better than individual mods.

    And a naive "newest first" sort algorithm just prioritizes frequent posters and incentivizes "bumping" threads, which also detracts from the overall quality of a forum.