Look. I have enjoyed the last season. But the show has never escaped its fatal flaw of being in its own way. The finale of season 4 was great Trek, and this season has been good.

But it took how many months of retooling to give us the last season? And I appreciate finding a stride and having the show cancelled (as someone who will defend ENT constantly for this I’ll hear it all) but this isn’t the same case. They tried so many ways to make DIS work and it has hit and missed in different ways, but tying it to one story over the course of a whole season and making that the glue, and not allowing for other characters to be established, is still there. I still have no idea who the majority of the bridge crew are, and I feel there are characters that are overused and others that are criminally underused (can we just get a Reno spinoff please?)

This is a swan song, but personally I’m glad it gets to end on a high note. But let’s see it for what it has been.

New stories and new experiences! Thank yall for doing this :)

I have an aunt that died there once!

He has the most dialogue in the entire show.

Alexander gets one page and it’s actually just a perfume ad that’s removable.

Technically correct is the best kind of correct!!

They specifically used r/buyitforlife as an example of how to market on Reddit. Thing is that the trustworthiness came from users and this will dilute the trust in that sub rendering it useless. I hate what they have become.

Last Podcast on the Left did a series on this and it’s horrifying. I will never understand the capacity for humans to be so intolerably cruel to others.

I have a job where it takes up about 25% of my day to accomplish my work, and the other 75% of the time is spent doing whatever I like and watching my son.

It’s pretty goddamn fulfilling.

I mean, that’s kind of exactly what Hubspot is supposed to be used for? It’s a remarketing tool so at the most basic it’s good for advertising subs you may be interested in, at its worst it’s used by MBAs to justify destroying a platform to sell products to people with the guise of the information coming from fellow users, but is instead coming from bots and corporate accounts using your data to sell you products worse than the ones you wanted in the first place, eliminating the trusted environment to at Reddit once claimed to be all the while showing you subreddits you have absolutely no interest in.

Makes sense to me!

Is it possible to short an IPO? I would like to say that this is going to lose value almost immediately.

That’s not polyamory, friend. That’s called cheating.

So many times I saw a meme and I wanted to show it to someone else only to be sure it was lost forever to that useless excuse for a search.

American here, gotta love that “sophisticated British humour”

Keep up the good work.

This is an odd take.

I don’t mind paying for services that I use that give me information and fun, especially one that I used daily (I pay $10/mo for streaming services I use maybe once or twice weekly).

I DO mind when they decide to gouge and disrespect the user base. IMO, THAT’S the issue in today’s market - profits above all else, including your customers.

Services aren’t free. Servers cost money. I get it. If I am a heavy user, I don’t mind paying a reasonable price for it (that reasonable price being close to the 2-5 a month I was already giving to the developer at the time.)

I was a very heavy Apollo user. I was ALREADY paying monthly for it and if Reddit would have released a reasonable API charge structure and worked with devs, I’d have been happy to pay more for it because I used it every day.

They shot themselves in the foot trying to create a walled garden, now it’s just bots complementing each other in weirdly verbose comments back and forth.

I’m no business expert, but the thing is I was a heavy user. Had they made the API changes reasonable and worked with the devs, I would have been happy to pay for the service i used so much (I already paid for the app, what’s a few more bucks a month?)

But them to charge such exorbitant fees, be dicks to users and creators, then treat those who were upset like the bad guy? That’s a spectacularly bad approach to business.

I have an old iPad (not as old as yours but still at least 8-9 years old) that I use pretty much exclusively as a pdf reader. There are also some library apps that work with it but I don’t trust it too much on network so it’s mostly pdfs.