After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine
After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine
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After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine
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Too bad. I used to love Popular Science. But as time has passed the articles have become far more speculative and fantastical. Same with Popular Mechanics, once a staple of DIY home creations to sucking the military’s dick with MIC dream weapons and UFOs.
Time for them to die.
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Let's not talk about Discovery channel either, it went from a history/national geographic channel to 24/7 reality TV.
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Same with the history channel. It's almost like the unrelenting pursuit of profit destroys interesting niches in the name of widespread appeal
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Network decay, a common pattern.
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Aka your classic enshitification model.
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Huh, that's just enshitification with TV
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Seems like there’s a word for this…..
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Too bad. I used to love Popular Science. But as time has passed the articles have become far more speculative and fantastical. Same with Popular Mechanics, once a staple of DIY home creations to sucking the military’s dick with MIC dream weapons and UFOs.
Both were staples in my house in the early 90s. I learned so god damned much from popsci and popular mechanics, but holy lord popsci and then popmech got bad.
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It was such a shame to watch it go downhill.
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