> The show dropped on Disney+ right at the start of the pandemic.

15 minutes is a pretty damn short attention span. (I despair for this young generation.) I’ll give nearly anything a full episode, maybe two, to make its case.

I don’t recognize most of them, but one of the stories might be “The Father-Thing”, which is a great and really horrifying story (at least, it really horrified me when I first read it at age 11 or so.)

It was a polyfidelitous triad, not a Mormon harem. Completely different things. I thought polyamory had enough visibility by now that people wouldn’t keep confusing these concepts.

Ugh — sounds like they’re doing the usual type of PKD “adaptation”, which involves hearing an elevator pitch of the source story and then making up a new story sort of like it.

Why would iTunes stop supporting a format that is now free to use, and which is required for playing back music in nearly everyone’s music library? If anything this development makes it *more* likely for software to support MP3.

Um... the iTunes music store and Apple Music have always used AAC. And iTunes’ default encoding format has been AAC since about 2002, so tons or peoples’ music libraries have AAC in them.

Near the India/Bangladesh border there are apparently enclaves nested several layers deep within each other.

“Old country” doesn’t imply “stable borders”. Several European borders got redrawn between 1989-96, a whole bunch got redrawn in the 1940s, another whole bunch in the 19-teens, and so on every couple of decades for thousands of years. Basically every time certain privileged white people (kings, mostly) got greedy for…