vashti

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[–] vashti@feddit.uk 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wasn't the issue with this one that money was changing hands in exchange for a printed, physical book? Like, I know the team wasn't making money, but it's understood in fanfic circles that this is a Bad Idea and this was a very high profile (and, sadly, professional-looking) project.

The work is now on AO3 alongside countless other Star Trek fanfics that exist with no trouble. If they'd done that all along, I suspect there would never have been an issue.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Linehan being attached to something isn't a plus these days...

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 9 points 2 years ago

I feel bad for thinking this headline has everything.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago

No, no it isn't.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Populist really just means telling people what they want to hear. Bernie and Trump are both populists, they just have (largely) very different audiences.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 6 points 2 years ago

SMS was free on some networks initially. They only even realised they could charge for it later.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I promise you, we had massive generational debt all the time I was growing up in the seventies, eighties and nineties, and when my mother was growing up in the 50s and 60s. We had way better public services then than we have today. Whether or not the government is making debt repayments has no bearing on public services—that's all about the attitude of the government, and a government that wants to privatise everything and destroy the public trust will always find some pretext to do so, such as the triple lock being the biggest votewinner in the land.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Seems like only yesterday I was co-admining my first public server in 1996.

Fun times.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It depends on the period of time they're paid over, doesn't it? Generational debts like these are repaid over, well, generations. It's not going to be something we notice, and the UK aren't the only country involved.

Plus, if that's what you think, I don't think you can have seen the state of the UK's roads, hospitals and railways.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago

Just cook the chicken and eat it. You won't notice the feathers.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah. 7-bit ASCII goes back to what, the 60s? But computers still used different encodings and so different keyboards for A While.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I keep bookmarks whenever I get them, also picture postcards etc. I have some that I've bought, others I've made (e.g. knitted or embroidered). Mainly I use strips of thin white card that I razor off an A4 sheet.

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