Why would people buy it on disk when it was released onto Disney+? It has other metrics of success - it was one of the most streamed programs in March 2022.
I guess for some kids it's easier to pop a dvd in the player than navigating menus. Also, kids tend to watch the same movie again for ever, maybe it's safer for some parents to buy the actual thing, even more during the streaming war where parents switch from service to another.
> I guess for some kids it's easier to pop a dvd in the player than navigating menus
I can't speak for all kids, but for mine it's the opposite—the main TV remote they use controls our Fire TV Stick, and has a button for Disney+ built in. Plus, our iPads have Disney+ apps. Whereas our optical drive is a PS4, so they'd need to use the TV remote to switch to a different input, plus the PS4 controller. I'm not saying they couldn't figure it out if they wanted to, but for them, navigating menus to Disney+ is much easier.
Last month I read an article saying they were still hiring big in R&D. I don't know what their financials are like but it still seemed odd for them to bucking the trend.
Are you saying that you think all these girls, at 50-60 schools across the entire country, who are displaying these symptoms, all at the same time, are suffering from... hysteria?
Psychosomatic illnesses spread very easily, through the same means other memetic changes spread.
Unfortunately many people mistakenly believe a psychosomatic illness isn't "real" - when professionals tell them "These people have a psychosomatic illness" what they hear is "These people are lying" which is not what was said, and so when the same professionals tell them, "You have a psychosomatic illness" they hear "You are lying" and they're angry - how dare these professionals accuse them of lying! They know it's real!
That honestly sounds way more plausible than Islamist hardliners poisoning 50-60 girls' schools without leaving any trace. Poisonings usually leave some biological marker and if it is people from the same group poisoning the schools it is odd that no one has been caught.
And in the australian outback, there are plenty of other small poisenous things avaiable to kill you, if you are unlucky, so rather bring tall boots and not a geiger counter if you happen to visit and are concerned for your safety.
Bug bounty people (myself included, though mine's quite aged) have written scrapers on all the main popular CI/CD platforms, to automagically scrape tokens from logs & submit bug reports to get paid. Unsurprising if malicious actors have done the same.
Just like a fire is part of a forest's ecosystem it's possible that a mass extinction is part of the Earth's natural lifecycle and is beneficial in the very very long term
Are we happy, however, with anything that's beneficial to Earth's long term natural cycle if it happens to come with our own potential / likely extinction? (or at least a very heavy hit to the lifestyle to which we've become accustomed).
I care about the environment insomuch as it's upon what our very lives depend as opposed to the environment in and of itself. It's my enjoyment of the environment and the wonder of its variation that is something valuable to lose, but it's loss is also an existential threat to, basically, me and all those I care about in the universe.
Life on Earth probably has one (~maybe two) very very long terms left before Sun vapes it all. Also, since all under-your-feet fossils and minerals are basically depleted, the chance for another technological civilization after ours is vanishingly small.
I don't really care about the other later phases of Earth's natural lifecycle - I kinda like this one. So much so, that I'm going to be investing in the other ones at all.
Now if only that was the kind of short term thinking humans were afflicted with.
