Comment on NASA Plus Streaming: "our new ad-free, no cost, family-friendly streaming service unlocks our Emmy award-winning live coverage, embeds you into our missions through new original video series"

obinice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• ChewTiger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t think everyone sat down and agreed to that being what plus means. It’s like labeling food as organic, it means nothing. It’s just a name. Odd thing to obsess over, you’ll get nowhere trying to understand marketing people, just let it go.

  What they are adding is a more condensed experience accessing NASA content and making it easier for casual viewers to access. The more people paying attention to science the better. I think this is a fantastic move from NASA

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  • iceonfire1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why do you think the organic label for food means nothing?

    usda.gov/…/organic-101-what-usda-organic-label-me…

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    • Rodeo@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Compared to the standards for organic in civilized countries, that’s basically nothing.

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    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You realize I can slap the word organic on anything, and it isn’t using the certified organic label… right? Want some “organic ATX motherboards?” I gotchu.

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      • iceonfire1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If you’re not afraid of the legal system why not slap a Disney logo on there too?

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    • thereisalamp@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Do you know how many companies use just organic, and not “usda certified organic”

      Most

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      • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I like how confident you are about your answer.

        However, perusing the USDA website one comes across this set of “strongly” worded guidelines:

        “Can a product be labeled “organic” without being certified? If you make a product and want to claim that it or its ingredients are organic, your final product probably needs to be certified.”

        “If you are not certified, you must not make any organic claim on the principal display panel or use the USDA organic seal anywhere on the package. (see exemption below)”

        “You may only, on the information panel, identify the certified organic ingredients as organic and the percentage of organic ingredients.”

        Apparently, if a company does mislabel its products, it is liable to be prosecuted by the Federal trade commission.

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• Sanyanov@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Looks like they refer to adding their Science wing into the streaming, too.

  In this crazy capitalist world peiple started forgetting that public services can be free, like, for real :D

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  • DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    *Paid for with taxes, not free.

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    • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That goes without saying.

      It’s free for the end consumer and everyone knows that’s paid with taxes. So saying free is just easier.

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      • shinratdr@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        But the Libertarians always have to say it. Nevermind that anything free from a corporation is paid for though advertising, or selling your data, or folded into the item cost, or future purchases, so by this strict definition that “someone is paying for it” means literally nothing is ever free.

        It has to be said EVERY TIME someone mentions that public services are offered at no charge.

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    • csolisr@communities.azkware.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If I need to pay taxes anyway, at least I prefer to have the investment returned back to me in some way, and this seems like a nice way to do so.

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    • Patch@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Miles Jokes on you, I’m not an American so it really is free for me!

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    • AlexisFR@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well it’s free for me!

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    • flerp@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Everyone knows that… that’s what they mean by free, free to use. Why do you think people don’t know this? Did you just figure it out or something? Are you seriously that slow?

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• dbilitated@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  plus just means more I think, they’re adding to their service so it’s “plus”

  just because that’s usually a hook to get you to pay more doesn’t mean that’s now the definition of the word

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  • gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    sure. However “plus” means that something is additional to something else. And the question here is what is the basic product that makes this one be the additional

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    • 0xD@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re really trying to make this more complicated than it is.

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      • gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        ok, so the word “plus” is used to indicate that it is a streaming service. Got it

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• dutchkimble@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re selling our usage data to aliens to pay for server costs

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  • flerp@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What do you expect? “We’re not hosting an intergalactic kegger down here!”

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• MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What other “plus” apps have a non plus version though? Stone Disney+ it’s just become “the thing” that streaming services go by now

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  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Disney had a several tv channels and an app that was free for subscribers when they launched Disney+ but I don’t know if they still have the old app.

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    • jayandp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The “free” apps require a cable subscription, so they aren’t really free.

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      • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Sure, maybe “included for subscribers” is probably a better description.

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• Strobelt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mauve for this you’ll need to have an account? This would already help nasa market products towards you and this is a good value they can get without you paying anything.

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  • MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mauve you’re right, mauve you’re not, mauve I’ll see for myself.

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    • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      *mauvself *mauvou’re

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      • Emerald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        suddenly neopronouns

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