Wild that "product might fail if nobody buys it" is news now

It's wild how much it varies from person to person, too — a good post will get me literally hundreds of times as much engagement on mastodon as here, for less than twice as many followers. If you're not a Big Internet Person you really do roll a completely new character sheet for each network

what

I don't see the problem. The Nobel Committee telling you they can't revoke a Nobel Prize because the Nobel Rules say so is surely the same as when the phone support rep tells you they can't refund you because it's store policy — sure, but the store could simply change the policy if they wanted?

They might not have any left.

"I'll have the lasagne."
"I'm sorry, the lasagne's off today."
*silently folds menu while maintaining eye contact*
"It wasn't a question."

Sure.

But what's your plan for all the services the BBC provides that *aren't* its news output? Is some other government department going to pick up the slack, or are we just going to stop doing them and hope everything works out?

Yes it does!

I just don't think turning it into a subscription-based slur provider is a reasonable fix

Yeah, the current funding model is ridiculous. It's absurd to have a public service funded by a tax on watching live television in particular. Not disagreeing there at all. But "the BBC is a subscription service" isn't true. News is free. Revision guides are free. Recipes are free. Radio is free…

You can argue about whether we can fix the BBC or just need to shut it down, that's a valid and important discussion, but turning it into a subscription service would be like trying to run public transport at a profit, it just doesn't make sense except as a palatable first step towards scrapping it

I think the problem with this is, the BBC is a public service — the NHS are really shitty to trans people as well, but nobody's out here calling for that to be turned into a subscription service, because it's much more obvious why that would be a horrible idea

Does it look less absurd if it's centred? I had a look around this kind of thing while trying to make www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2355 look halfway normal

A young pirate had signed up so that
He'd be able to pet the ship's cat.
He'd fly into a rage
If they questioned his age
Or asked when he'd grow into his hat

Yeah, I found reduced-transparency really helped with the awful control centre redesign, but it made the peripheral battery meters sidebar widget completely unreadable because it didn't change the transparency at all but _did_ stop it blurring the background.

What are you talking about, of course there are levels of racism, obviously one person can be more racist than another without either of them being exactly zero racist

This is true but I feel like lawsuit payouts should probably be cash rather than store credit. Doesn't feel right that compensation is effectively conditional on keeping patronising the pizza place that wronged you enough to warrant a lawsuit

If I'd heard someone had actually done this I would absolutely have assumed it was you