PBS here has ads. They are short, but there are ads nonetheless. This is over and above the ads for their own shows that will be on the channel at a later date.

I heard tell from a Gen Xer who said cable TV used to not have ads.

I will take your word for it. I am not involved in any online dating, but am also not gay.

online dating is toxic

I’ve read some good evidence is that this is because women, especially zoomer and millennial women, are considerably more liberal than the men in their peer group. Historically, women have always been more liberal than men, but the difference between them has gotten extreme in the last 10 years. Being a Trump supporter is a deal-breaker for many single women.

Yes and it’s likely that they will not be allowed to any longer after Google lost their anti-trust case.

To be clear, he doesn’t want to marry his daughter. He wants to fuck her.

I made it through. My degree is actually in math. 15 years ago, I used to know what an abelian group is!

We were on quarters, so we had calc 1-4. Makes sense that Calc 2 was rough if you were on semesters.

Where I’m from Calc 2 is integrals. That wasn’t so terrible. It was Calc 3 (vectors and series) that was the hard one.

Someone who repackages/patches free software has different incentives than upstream. So generally speaking, derivative browsers are more privacy friendly, have better features, etc.

That’s not to say that upstream isn’t important. It absolutely is! It’s just that derivatives are generally better.

I have just recently heard of both after not knowing who either was like 2 months ago so this was just another instance of a long line of “man those people are constantly in the news.”

Until people are donating enough money to make maintaining an open source browser doable, this will continue to happen.

My recollection is that they advertised and got Important People™ to post there as part of their invite-only beta. Don’t quote me on this, but I believe they paid some of these people to create accounts and post there. Not sure if that was a rumor or not.

I agree, but there was also the problem of Mastodon has no marketing budget. Before Musk closed the sale on Twitter, they had 2 full time employees, IIRC.

FOMO. More celebrities are on Bluesky than Mastodon and people don’t care enough about open protocols and so forth to forego that. If Taylor Swift was only on some Fediverse-enabled platform and nothing else, people would come here in droves. Taylor Swift does not post on Mastodon so people don’t want an account here. Replace Taylor Swift for anyone of any sort of popularity and ask the same questions.

I do wonder who the most famous person in the world is that exclusively posts on a Fediverse-platform. It could very well be Eugen Rochko, who probably has about a 0.05% name recognition throughout the world.

The budget for Mastodon gGmbH is measured in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and Bluesky’s is much more than that.

Same with Trump!

I’m not trying to disparage anyone who likes Linkin Park, but my opinion is that, in general, alt rock from the late 90s through the early 00s has aged really poorly. I used to listen to that music a ton when I was in high school and college, but I don’t anymore.

I’ve found that the answer depends on what region of the US you’re from. The UK probably does it differently, but I’m with @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world. If it’s dark out, you’re definitely greeting with “good evening.”

No one says 10 pm or midnight is the evening.

See this is interesting because I use the words “evening” and “night” interchangeably. I’m from (broadly) northern Ohio.

If I’m greeting someone, “good morning” is from the time I wake up until noon, “good afternoon” from noon until the sun goes down or it’s 7pm or so, and “good evening” at any other time. It could be 3am, and if I’m meeting someone, I’d say “good evening.”

“Good night” is when you’re leaving. “Have a good night.” But night time is when it’s dark and evening is generally the same time.