For me it was a requirement for at least a few years.

Hmm. Makes me think of that episode of Malcolm in the Middle when Reese joins the army.

Isn’t it common for enterprise level paid services to have credits (or refunds) backing published SLAs?

Kind of funny how you said that to no Google, then posted a YouTube link.

Probably a line about how they’re not liable if you record in a place where recording isn’t allowed.

If you get annoyed at captchas, try this game: https://neal.fun/not-a-robot/

In a similar vein if you apply to a job, do you prefer being ghosted or a rejection email?

As a serious question: would you rather no email when no updates or an email saying no updates?

I guess I’d rather the email to not wonder if something got lost or some other issue.

Now the multiple in one day: I can’t really defend. That seems nutty. Maybe they should let you choose how often to get the given update.

It’s weird to me. As long as the people speaking to each other understand each other that’s what should matter. We shouldn’t limit folks.

I once was in a meeting and was told they’ll speak Polish instead of English since I was the only non Polish speaker.

I no longer had to attend that daily meeting so that was nice.

Another time I was forwarded an email at work. I opened it but couldn’t understand the thread. The two people in the thread were speaking Portuguese and forgot that I didn’t.

They then happily translated and we had a good laugh about it.

The only time it’s uncomfortable for me is if people are talking about me, but like I have no reason to think they’re doing that so no problem.

I doubt they’ll call it a failure regardless of how it does.

If anything it’s a great money maker for WWE. How’s it a failure for them by any means? They’re making more for giving less. They can sell the library elsewhere to make more. Unless you’re speculating it’s a failure for ESPN in which case it remains to be seen.

WWE could care less if people buy the PLEs since they have a guaranteed payment from the deal.

They’re also towards the (seemingly) tail end of a hot period that lasted around the same, if not, longer than the attitude era. It was also even more profitable even accounting for inflation.

WWE has no reason to worry until the last year or so of the new deal. Nothing matters until then. They will make a ton of money and be immensely profitable.

Edit: Content and the cost being worth it is continually debated and yet sports continually pay more in rights fees while everything else seemingly gets less. This falls close enough to sports to fall in the loss-leader category of wanting to have the programming for prestige to build the brand as opposed to directly making money.

Think about sports rights and events like that. Millions of dollars in rights fees that don’t get made back even in advertising, etc. It means a lot for station X to have something like the NBA, how much it means to have WWE PLEs remain to be seen for ESPN.

There used to be a scary logo animation for National Amusements that used to scare me as a child. It gives me the creeps now still.

It was all neon and then there would be a creepy screen to show you where the exits were.

https://youtu.be/xkuWSpljM5g And https://youtu.be/TK3rSOrE6L0

(Not directly related but this reminded me of it.)

I actually like the ability for a local AI to help with this in theory. I don’t think it’s an excuse for unintuitive UIs though.

For some reason a collective of cats sounds like some sort of organized crime group that wears suits.

My cat doesn’t wear a suit, though probably partakes in organized crime. 🤔

I figure maybe towards the end of my lifetime laws will catch up to allow some form of real digital ownership. Until then: you lose it when they go out.

99/100 people will not care. I’m one of them.

For that 1/100: sure it’s infuriating but probably more than mildly.

If I ever watch one Mr. Bean YouTube video, all my suggestions become Mr. Bean. I mean he’s ok but they literally have the same video uploaded to multiple channels with slightly different names.

Give me more different Mr. Bean. Stop repeating the Bean.

I think the same about basically every new smartphone at this point. Since when have we had real innovation there?

How is signal considered part of the fediverse?

It’s one of those things that are pretty annoying. Especially because you often need to login before starting the chat. The login should have authenticated me already.

Also in case anyone wonders they didn’t reply after 20 minutes so I gave up.

Some people are hard of hearing. It annoys me but I know people who turn on speakerphone immediately since they say they can’t otherwise hear.