It’s exactly what Twitter did too. Start off all open and friendly, here is our simple API, have fun, and people did. Then one day Twitter decided the API was too open and started to restrict it, limit tokens and users, charge out the ass. (And that was all long before Muskrat took over.)

In fact that’s true for a lot of tech companies.

One of the things that gives me hope for Lemmy is the speed at which it got great apps using that open API.

You know what’s a funny one? Flag pins. Every politician in America, take a look, they will ALL be wearing a little American Flag pin, always.

I have to assume other politicians in other countries don’t always wear a pin of their country.

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I just found it interesting that the thing you were looking for, most Americans wouldn’t have heard of. It makes me wonder why America has at least 3 milks.

If we ignore the 3.5% v 4% distinction and assume what we call Whole Milk, you just call Milk; what do you call Skim Milk? Or 2% Milk? And if you don’t have them, why do we?

As for the money question, I was curious to see if other non-Americans felt the same. I agree that there is a subset of people who believe that. That subset may be quite large, but I’m not sure how it’s perceived from an outsiders perspective. If you ask me, I don’t think it’s common, but I imagine some loud folks may make it appear that way. But I also acknowledge I’m an American in America, so maybe I don’t notice it.

it turns out, I wanted “4% milk”

As a lifelong American, I don’t think we have 4% milk (reliably). Growing up we had Skim, 2% and Whole. Looking it up Whole is defined as 3.5%

I did look up a local store online and I was able to find it, but not universally at every store.

I don’t mind the fewer episodes, assuming the story still works.

As for waiting, I don’t wanna to wait, but I’d rather have higher quality content, so I’ll wait if I have to.

However the split seasons are the most annoying.

As an example, Invincible. Season 1 came out, I think 10 episodes, one a week, great. Then season 2 was 5 episodes in the fall. Then a break for a few months, then 5 more episodes. That wasn’t great. The show had already taken ~2 years between season 1 & 2, then to just get part of a season, then a few months away, then the rest. That sucked.

On the one hand I agree, but also just because it can be fixed over the air doesn’t mean it’s not a major problem.

Plus imagine if a car manufacturer put VERY shitty software into their cars. If a manufacturer has 100 recalls a year, I want to know why. If they have 1, I want to know why.

Just because they are more easily fixed, doesn’t mean the recall isn’t important.

I had no idea he had a YouTube channel! I’ve got a year of content to catch up on. I’m so excited.

https://youtube.com/@edgreenwoodofficial

Exactly correct!

Gotta love motherly advice.

That episode was far too short.

I have lots of positive things to say, but really I just want more.

And what a party! Correct!