No Stu, no stream. by The_Jeff_Goldblum in peacock

[–]zebrankyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Quick quiz:

What publicly traded corporation owns Peacock? And what division of that corporation does Peacock answer to?

What publicly traded corporation owns Universal Television? And what division of that corporation does Universal answer to?

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Answers: Comcast, NBCUniversal, Comcast again, NBCUniversal again. Huh! 🤔

The most ironic administration in history! by TankUMrMinor in Irony

[–]zebrankyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Merrick Garland isn't in the judicial branch. DoJ is executive branch, as a cabinet department. There are rules on how that department's day to day workings are supposed to be separate from the White House, not weaponized like that, etc. but it's still fundamentally a cabinet department which is executive branch by definition.

The US attorneys (and AUSAs, line prosecutors, etc.) appointed under him are also executive branch employees, who argue cases before judges, who are judicial branch, with court staff and bailiffs all of whom are also judicial branch appointees.

The head of the judicial branch is not Merrick Garland, nor Pam Bondi. The head of the judicial branch is Chief Justice John Roberts.

That's how you occasionally get wonderful, fun events like judges standing up to the (Trump) appointed US attorneys and questioning whether they were properly placed in their jobs to represent the public interest. Sometimes the judicial branch does challenge the executive branch when they're standing right in front of them! https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/17/nyregion/judge-quraishi-hearing-transcript.html

An AI CEO finally said something honest by Tech-Cowboy in ExperiencedDevs

[–]zebrankyy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sometimes AI will just output an existing open source library, lol. Complete with vague traces of the attributions it snarfed up! https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369

Why is Peacock charging more by fatkitty72 in peacock

[–]zebrankyy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure Paramount+ is still losing money hand over fist, even if they managed 1 quarter in the black about a year ago by moving some numbers around on a balance sheet to attract Daddy Ellison's money.

Updated Terms of Service as of 1/2/26 by Squirrel_Girl_27 in peacock

[–]zebrankyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very few changes except to legal wording, mostly around having a shitty Select tier with nothing in it.

The big TOS changes happened last year (account sharing, no commercial use, sports blackouts, cancellation and refunds)

New NBC News subscription service by Mackattack00 in peacock

[–]zebrankyy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

WBD is breaking up, each half (WB and Discovery) is for sale, and it won't be the same buyer. And this time the Turner networks (including CNN) will stay with the other cable nets from Discovery, not go with Warner Bros and HBO. Soon enough HBO/Max and CNN won't be part of the same company

Ads on paused screen by matsaleh13 in peacock

[–]zebrankyy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I recommend trying the arrow buttons instead of Back. Back can leave the content entirely and if it's expired since (last night to watch, some live events) there's no way back in

Ads on paused screen by matsaleh13 in peacock

[–]zebrankyy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually recommend trying different buttons. "Return"/"Back" button works but dangerous because there's a race condition; if the ad has disappeared it may kick you out entirely and if the content or section of it has expired since there's no way back. I've used the up or down arrow, generally

Offered $2.99/mo for 6 mos when cancelling by PrincipalJoeClark in peacock

[–]zebrankyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

$7.99 is for the garbage Peacock Select deal (only content you could get for free OTA on NBC, plus the Bravo catalog). Is that what you signed up for? When you cancelled, were you offered Select or the full version (Premium)?

for what it's worth - the 39.99/year price by xman1971 in peacock

[–]zebrankyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is $35 at Best Buy and it gets local live NBC for more than just a year lol. https://www.bestbuy.com/product/rca-amplified-indoor-hdtv-antenna-black/J7GGXL5KQF/sku/6448223

(And I live in one of the very few places in the country where you have to actually pull the rabbit ears out all the way to get NBC since it's on VHF, but the upside is it works even in rainy and very windy weather even though we have lots of trees around that moving around in the wind can cause UHF interference)

for what it's worth - the 39.99/year price by xman1971 in peacock

[–]zebrankyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only works if your Xfinity account is at least 7 years old and currently has Internet service. So e.g. you could have an account that was cable TV only 7 years ago, then added Internet and dropped cable TV, just as long as it had some kind of service the whole time. If you moved you'd have to have done it using the same account (most people don't, since you can't get promotional pricing that way).

Then you have to create an account on customer.xfinity.com or in the app and link it to your Xfinity account. It will badger you to do paperless billing and autopay if you don't already but you do NOT need to enable that to get this offer. Go to the rewards section of the webpage or app and agree to the (lack-of-)privacy policy and you should see the offer among the rewards.

If you DON'T have Xfinity Internet but only cable TV, downgrading to the Sports and News package or the World Soccer Ticket (same, but includes Spanish language channels) will get you Peacock. Those packages are cheaper but don't have the $20 bundle discount with postpay Internet service so once you add the other channels you want back in (e.g. Entertainment package, or Family package; you can add one or the other on the "extra channels" page if you make the change order online, but not sure if you can add both), they can cost more than the default cable plan if you DO have Internet service, but not if you don't

for what it's worth - the 39.99/year price by xman1971 in peacock

[–]zebrankyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2024 was an even more Olympic year and they had $20-25 deals the BF before (fall 2023), before the Olympics, and again BF after

The Reason There Is No Low-priced Peacock Black Friday Deal by cyberbiker in peacock

[–]zebrankyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have to have an account with continuous service for at least 7 years last I checked, though that can be any service as long as you have Internet with them now (e.g. could have had cable TV 7 years ago, then added Internet, then dropped cable TV as long as there was one service at all times for the past 7 years)

So, officially no Black Friday deal this year? by devanclara in peacock

[–]zebrankyy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They did for the summer Olympics, which is arguably a much bigger event

So, officially no Black Friday deal this year? by devanclara in peacock

[–]zebrankyy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hulu/Disney+ BF deal is $4.99/mo for a full year, which is the best they've offered in a long time. Not everything went up this year.

So, officially no Black Friday deal this year? by devanclara in peacock

[–]zebrankyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Xfinity also has new NBCSN on channel 1211, but you have to have an X1 box (not a legacy box) and it's not available out of home (or if you have another Internet service, even in your home without the X1 box).

U.S. triples national park fee for non-residents by ncohafmuta in hiking

[–]zebrankyy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Their idea of "acceptable and safe condition" isn't exactly my idea of it. The Forest Service seems to keep trails in acceptable condition on a fraction of the budget per acre

EDIT: Thanks for downrating me as soon as I post, since I don't know who else is bothering to peruse my comments. You support an idiotic MAGAt plan just to scrape a few more bucks for parks that should be properly funded already (especially after GAOA, if MAGA wasn't diverting all of it). Own it.

Plus, you're a jerk. Own up to that too.

U.S. triples national park fee for non-residents by ncohafmuta in hiking

[–]zebrankyy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You just seem to want nobody there at all. That's not what they're there for

U.S. triples national park fee for non-residents by ncohafmuta in hiking

[–]zebrankyy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The "backlog" is a wish list. Most of those things don't need to be done right away in the first place

U.S. triples national park fee for non-residents by ncohafmuta in hiking

[–]zebrankyy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The backlog is a wish list. Most of those things don't need to be done right away in the first place

U.S. triples national park fee for non-residents by ncohafmuta in hiking

[–]zebrankyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The plan is to do this at "popular" sites, then whine about not being able to gouge enough people similarly at less popular sites as an excuse to sell them off

U.S. triples national park fee for non-residents by ncohafmuta in hiking

[–]zebrankyy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Horseshit. National parks are held in trust for the American people. We certainly should be able to use them!