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withak posted:Bats aren't bugs! Okay Calvin, see me after class.
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Professor Beetus posted:I once posted a joke "fact" that "did you know that hummingbirds aren't actually birds? They are actually nature's largest bee." And I got a few people Birds aren't real, so if you see a 'hummingbird' you know it's actually a bee.
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Boris Galerkin posted:A lot of the budget prolly goes towards making sure missiles get delivered to the right places. But even then they tend to hit harmless wedding parties so who can say if it’s a budgeting issue. The wedding party was within the error ratio so they meant to hit it 
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This argument is crazy, everyone knows that birds don't hum.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:To air-dry your clothes, you have to be at home for an hour or so during the day time. If everybody in the household works, being able to throw the laundry in the dryer in the evening is a lifesaver. in california we'd just line dry clothes under a tree and forget about it until next day
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Amphigory posted:How many spiders the average person eats a year in their sleep is another good one I can't believe how much the "joke" fact underestimated the actual number. I guess people really don't like to think of the literal parades of spiders that go into our mouths at night.
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“Thanks for the gently caress shack” -8 legged Mike and the boys.
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Professor Beetus posted:I once posted a joke "fact" that "did you know that hummingbirds aren't actually birds? They are actually nature's largest bee." And I got a few people So many animals are deceptively named I'd believe this. Apparently there's a hummingbird moth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiyZmQhuM4w Celexi posted:in california we'd just line dry clothes under a tree and forget about it until next day Australian summer, your clothes are dry by the time you finish hanging them out.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:To air-dry your clothes, you have to be at home for an hour or so during the day time. If everybody in the household works, being able to throw the laundry in the dryer in the evening is a lifesaver. Why does someone have to be home? Will someone steal your clothes?
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His Divine Shadow posted:Why does someone have to be home? Will someone steal your clothes?
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TACD posted:sharks are smooth sharks have feet
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The worst thing about the sharks are smooth thing is that it's become a meme now so even people who know it's false will loudly insist that it's true for the bit.
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Freakazoid_ posted:sharks have feet Sharks are made of feet. It's why they're so smooth.
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I like to show foreigners videos of Emus going crazy over something like a beachball or a water sprinkler, then as I got them all softened up, drop 'Emus are so dumb they drown when it rains cos they just look up into the sky mouth open wondering whats going on.'
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Remember when Netflix started cracking down on password sharing and everyone on Reddit and Twitter and prolly SA was loudly screaming about how this was going to kill Netflix and how they were going to cancel their accounts and never give Netflix another cent? Let’s see how that’s working out: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66240390 quote:A burst of people signed up for Netflix this spring, after the streaming giant cracked down on password sharing. All those loud people who were prolly using someone else’s account (and thus not paying) deleting the app sure showed the MBAs at Netflix.
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It probably didn't help, but I imagine it's a drop in the bucket compared to people getting fed up with streaming service fragmentation and all the shows they liked getting cancelled.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It probably didn't help, but I imagine it's a drop in the bucket compared to people getting fed up with streaming service fragmentation and all the shows they liked getting cancelled. Yeah because everything was running on the same channel and never got cancelled during the age of cable
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It probably didn't help, but I imagine it's a drop in the bucket compared to people getting fed up with streaming service fragmentation and all the shows they liked getting cancelled. The article says it gained 5.9 million subscribers net. Do you mean that people were so man that other streaming companies were doing it that they all rushed out to resubscribe to Netflix?
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Boris Galerkin posted:Remember when Netflix started cracking down on password sharing and everyone on Reddit and Twitter and prolly SA was loudly screaming about how this was going to kill Netflix and how they were going to cancel their accounts and never give Netflix another cent? No I don't remember people saying that OP.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It probably didn't help, but I imagine it's a drop in the bucket compared to people getting fed up with streaming service fragmentation and all the shows they liked getting cancelled. Streaming fragmentation is, at best, a minor annoyance, and the experience is so superior from the customer's POV to what came before that I have a hard time taking complaints about it seriously. Sure, depending on the streaming device, you might have to individually search apps or use a third party tool like justwatch in order to see what is available, and that's kind of bothersome. But compared to my cable bill a decade ago, I spend roughly the same amount on streaming services (actually about 20% less if you factor in inflation) while getting the ability to watch on any device, access a huge backlog of shows and movies at any time, never get interrupted by commercials, and stream films often within weeks of their theatrical release. The production and compensation component of the switch to streaming is clearly a poo poo show, as evidenced by the strikes, but for viewers I think it's tough to argue that we're getting a raw deal.
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The uptick of people wanting access to my plex and willing to pay for the privlidge is fun.
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You aren't required to have all the services. I sign up for a month, cancel, sign up for a different one. I always have a ton of shows and pay at most 20 bucks a month.
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Jesus III posted:You aren't required to have all the services. I sign up for a month, cancel, sign up for a different one. I always have a ton of shows and pay at most 20 bucks a month. Oh, absolutely. I could probably save a third to a half of what I pay if I was more strategic about what I wanted to watch that month. I just typically don't bother for a bunch of dumb reasons. My point is more that even when I'm paying for more services than I ought to be, it's still a better option than what it replaced, even if it means that I need to switch apps between watching The Office and Friends.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Remember when Netflix started cracking down on password sharing and everyone on Reddit and Twitter and prolly SA was loudly screaming about how this was going to kill Netflix and how they were going to cancel their accounts and never give Netflix another cent? Oh, it's the boycott modern warfare 2 steam group but for netflix
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Maybe Netflix could also take this opportunity to not completely and permanently delete a person's account if they're inactive for 6 months. Because boy it sure is gently caress as hell to resuscribe after a year only to not be able to watch new seasons of shows or pick up others where you left off because you need to dig around and find the shows you remember and rebuild your watchlist from scratch.
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I heard about that happening, but I'm still sharing my account with my sister and neither of us ever get any messages about it or anything? I use the service less and less so I probably was going to bail if they followed through, but 
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Professor Beetus posted:Oh, it's the boycott modern warfare 2 steam group but for netflix Lmao
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Davedave24 posted:I heard about that happening, but I'm still sharing my account with my sister and neither of us ever get any messages about it or anything? I use the service less and less so I probably was going to bail if they followed through, but Netflix hasn't actually forced people to do it yet in the U.S. Just other countries. In the U.S., they just sent an email saying people can share with the $7.99 sharing account and that a more direct crackdown would come soon. Once they do, they will ask you to pick a primary location for your account and anybody who tries to log in from outside that location will get a warning asking them to pay for a sharing account or get their own account.. If you don't pick a primary location and everyone logs in at least once a month/nobody else logs in outside of your wifi network, then they won't be able to tell what your primary location is and won't pick for you. They just designate one location your "home" location if nobody else has logged in somewhere else for X time. So, the current loophole is to ignore the request to set a primary location, have Netflix permanently logged in on devices in two different places, and boot up the app/website at least once every 30 days in both places.
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Professor Beetus posted:Oh, it's the boycott modern warfare 2 steam group but for netflix Seems easily possible that most of the people who said they were going to cancel did just that while still being a minority among account sharers, so not really like that steam group at all.
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susan b buffering posted:Seems easily possible that most of the people who said they were going to cancel did just that while still being a minority among account sharers, so not really like that steam group at all. If they were a minority among account sharers then yes, it is exactly like the steam boycott MW2 group, where there was a minority of people not playing mw2
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Netflix hasn't actually forced people to do it yet in the U.S. Just other countries. One of my Streamboxes still has an ex for over 5 years agos account on it. It's valid, I don't use it for :files: reasons but it's funny that the device session is still valid.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Maybe Netflix could also take this opportunity to not completely and permanently delete a person's account if they're inactive for 6 months. Because boy it sure is gently caress as hell to resuscribe after a year only to not be able to watch new seasons of shows or pick up others where you left off because you need to dig around and find the shows you remember and rebuild your watchlist from scratch. Sounds like Netflix's message is, "Don't even bother re-subscribing, ever"
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Works for me, their monthly price is a loving joke.
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Baronash posted:Streaming fragmentation is, at best, a minor annoyance, and the experience is so superior from the customer's POV to what came before that I have a hard time taking complaints about it seriously. Sure, depending on the streaming device, you might have to individually search apps or use a third party tool like justwatch in order to see what is available, and that's kind of bothersome. But compared to my cable bill a decade ago, I spend roughly the same amount on streaming services (actually about 20% less if you factor in inflation) while getting the ability to watch on any device, access a huge backlog of shows and movies at any time, never get interrupted by commercials, and stream films often within weeks of their theatrical release. Fragmentaition and removing stuff sucks though. I'm on Nordic region, so every streaming platform has way smaller selection of movies and series. And it is not just the streaming platforms like Netflix. Even the online sites that rent / or sell streams of the movies and series have way smaller selection that Americans get. For example I can't legally stream Babylon 5 series anywhere. Lot of early 00:s sci-fi is just gone, since the Netflix removed them from their selection. No one is selling/renting.
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Cheesus posted:That sure seems like a lot of work on the viewer. Pretty much, yeah. Online games have known this since the days of UO (and even before it with commercialized MUDs) and it's why MMOs pretty much never deleted inactive players and instead would send them reactivation offers.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Pretty much, yeah. Online games have known this since the days of UO (and even before it with commercialized MUDs) and it's why MMOs pretty much never deleted inactive players and instead would send them reactivation offers. Imagine if Netflix offered free weekend campaigns to former subscribers like final fantasy 14 does.Guarantee they would regain at least a few folks every time.
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Oh those free weekends are insidious, they grab a bunch of lapsed players every time for at least a month. Imagine if Netflix was like "come back to Netflix, we've got new Stranger Things since you last subscribed!" Gangbusters.
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Issaries posted:For example I can't legally stream Babylon 5 series anywhere. Lot of early 00:s sci-fi is just gone, since the Netflix removed them from their selection. No one is selling/renting.
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Issaries posted:For example I can't legally stream Babylon 5 series anywhere. Lot of early 00:s sci-fi is just gone, since the Netflix removed them from their selection. No one is selling/renting. There's a Bluray remaster coming out soon: https://www.tor.com/2023/07/18/babylon-5-the-complete-series-is-coming-to-blu-ray-for-the-first-time/ Some kind of rights re-negotiation probably needs to happen to allow use of the new masters on streaming, in this case.
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SCheeseman posted:There's a Bluray remaster coming out soon: https://www.tor.com/2023/07/18/babylon-5-the-complete-series-is-coming-to-blu-ray-for-the-first-time/ But will it be in widescreen
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