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Census complete. I ain't going to Lemmy Jail. Not again.

It's a good season!

Until there's something official in place, this is more of a c/Quarks topic (and has been under active discussion there since the news broke yesterday).

I'm sure it varies across jurisdictions, but I copied and pasted it from the MB website.

While the business has reckoned with more seismic deals in recent years, among them Disney-Fox and AT&T-Time Warner, this time the reality seems to be dawning that bigger is not always better. Streaming platforms swim in red ink and legacy media assets (mainly linear TV) are eroding. Yes, Zaslav has hinted at opportunities to be had, but WBD was not really considered a buyer given its oft-stated focus on reducing its enormous debt. It’s not clear how trying to swallow a company with hefty debt of its own solves any problems.

Sadly unsurprising that this sort of thing is not consistent across the country.

That's what they're saying in my province, at any rate:

Beginning in the fall of 2023 for those previously vaccinated against COVID-19, individuals aged 6 months and older are recommended to receive one dose of the new XBB.1.5 formulation of COVID-19 vaccine if it has been at least 6 months from the previous COVID-19 vaccine dose or known SARS-CoV-2 infection (which ever is later).

To be fair, it's kind of challenging when you're supposed to wait six months following your last COVID infection...

At least in MB, appointments were still required last time I checked.

The Hollywood Reporter seems to think that hope is misplaced:

Such a deal would likely attract less regulatory scrutiny than other potential mergers, with WBD lacking any domestic broadcast network, and with mostly synergistic businesses. The biggest source of friction would likely be combining the two legacy film and TV studios.

Even accepting this to be true, Spock sure wouldn't have any way of knowing, or any reason to care.

I mean, Disney was able to acquire 20th Century Fox without too much trouble...

Well that's the thing - something can't really "disappear from existence," unless we're talking about something that did exist and was destroyed.

But if it never existed at all...well, there's literally nothing lost.

The exception to this would be if Kirk and his crew remembered the Cerritos existing before the time travel shenanigans.

The interesting thing about cars like this, in which something is literally erased from reality, is that it's completely victimless.

One cannot destroy that which never existed to begin with. From that perspective, I'd say Spock made the right call.

Don't blame CBS Studios - they're still making the show, and never stopped after Paramount+ (the "network" in this case, even though they have the same parent company).

Money is possibly the biggest concern when it comes to running an instance - it can be difficult to sustain donations over time.

I know the Lemmy devs have, or at least did have, some grants that were helping keep them afloat, but they still rely on donations from users.

Of all the streamers, Netflix seems to have the best grasp on how to produce shows for younger audiences. I hope Prodigy thrives there.

The Verge has a story on this, too:

“Basically, we’re in the process of replacing our whole social back-end with ActivityPub,” says Flipboard CEO Mike McCue. “I think Flipboard is going to be the first mainstream consumer service that existed in a walled garden that switches over to ActivityPub.”

I'm honestly not too sure, but I would think joining the fediverse can only help.

Lemmy admins are worried that threads will become so integral to the fediverse that it’s removal will mean that users (who let’s be honest, don’t want to check more things than they need to) will go with threads.

My instinct is to shrug if off and say, "so what?" Most people looking for this sort of experience already go to Reddit. This space exists for people who'd rather not. If a bunch of users decide to go to Threads, and then Meta takes away interoperability...we'll still be here, doing what we do.