More “not the onion” energy from this administration. I had to follow the link to make sure this was real.

Sounds like another lawsuit. You can’t just cancel contracted funding that’s already been budgeted by Congress.

And I doubt it will be sold in North America.

Headline conveniently leaves out the parts about subsidies and forced labor.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2021/05/19/china-made-solar-cheap-through-coal-subsidies--forced-labor-not-efficiency/

Good way for Apple to say “Don’t come crying to us for a refund.”

Because of course they did. Add it to the pile of stuff Nadella has canceled.

Don’t really want a new slayer. I just want Buffy as a housewife who tells her husband she’s going to the PTA meeting, when really she’s out killing vampires.

Oh, and maybe Faith returns as a Jessica Jones/Poker Face style PI.

I wonder if you could restore from back up to get this data back.

This is what they strike over?

Doesn’t Jason Statham still make movies?

What makes goldenrod great? Is it good for bees and butterflies?

Should we believe “The Hill”? (Newswire is a wire service, original claim comes from The Hill.)

No one is watching these ads. That’s the big bubble of modern TV. People just mute them or go to the kitchen. And the more ads and interruptions there are, the more likely people aren’t going to bother watching at all. There are too many other things competing for the viewer’s attention (multiple streaming channels, YouTube, TikTok, doomscrolling, video games, actual outdoor activities, etc.)

Another golden age was during the “rural purge” in the early 1970s. Shows like Mayberry RFD and Petticoat Junction were canceled and replaced with The Mary Tyler Moore show and All In The Family. This is when the reign of Norman Lear began.

It lasted a good long time until ABC introduced “Jiggle TV” with Charlie’s Angels and Threes Company.

Later we’d get the era of prime time soaps in the 1980s with Dallas, Dynasty, Falcon Crest, and many others.

There have been multiple “golden ages”. The last one I remember was when broadcast started trying to compete with cable. We got a slew of high production value and well acted shows like Lost, Desperate Housewives, Greys Anatomy, and Invasion around 2004/2005/2006.

Then the broadcast networks merged even further with streaming and cable conglomerates and became mostly a dumping ground for cheap reality programming and procedural spin offs.

Somehow CW still exists.

There was also a classic movie.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Jackal_(film)

I think Handmaid should have been a one season show. Trying to extend it beyond the original source material just didn’t work for me.

Surprisingly looking forward to Murderbot. I think Skarsgard is miscast, but the previews have looked great so maybe it will be good after all.

I have no idea what else is coming this year. There’s been no sign of Gilded Age or Strange New Worlds release dates, and Disney has already released all the Star Wars content I would be interested in for 2025.

I ‘d prefer to see state managed electrical first. After all, PG&E is the one that keeps burning down everything in the state.