My theory is Uncle Sam’s fingerprints are on high east coast gas prices. Giving it away for nothing has to put pressure on Russia’s LNG export income. The donkeys that head Origin, etc. are on board because they can gouge the home market as compensation, knowing (as part of the deal) that Canberra won’t contemplate a reservation policy.

TNG 3x03 The Survivors. Trek works just as well when introspective personal drama gets priority over the science fiction.

One of these days I’ll post my maiden TNG viewing notes…

During my TOS viewings I started to imagine him only using products with Scottish names.

The mod posted a Stalin-style ideological purge thread. Oh dear.

Activity in other communities is irrelevant. This is a shitty R_ddit habit I’d like to see everyone on Lemmy drop.

You need to formally complain to your bank, OP.

You’ll find that these professions have a vested interest in maintaining network effects, and as such will view Mast/Blue as threats to their networking infrastructure. They don’t want to dilute the importance of the platform their patronage systems rely on (let alone destroy it) - in fact its centrality is why they leverage it to advance their careers. Artists I can see understanding platform agnosticism to some extent, but for the other two groups, it’s simply not in their DNA. The gatekeeping is a feature for them.

‘The medium is the message’ as a Canadian theorist once said.

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It takes an odd set of political priorities to misunderstand what’s going on in Last Battlefield. The writers clearly lay out why they’re both to blame.