This has already kind of happened aswell. Apple competing making google improve their service. Google never had street view in Germany, because when they first tried it there were many protests. Only when they noticed apple had gotten full street view coverage of Germany, did google realise there wasn't much opposition anymore, and they went and covered Germany.
If you look at the actual stats it isn’t really closed nuclear plants being replaced by coal, they got replaced by other renewables, while coal still kept going at about the same rate as while the nuclear plants were active.
I mean if you trace it back far enough, the engines used are in fact forks of the quake engine (IdTech 2). I’m sure there’s some simple system somewhere that’s still the same in all engines all these years later
There has been tons of successful books since the change. Star wars fans are still there and a lot of books have actually been good. The benefit of the books is that the writers often actually get some freedom to focus on writing a good story
I think what you’re describing is just the individual disciplines world cups. Having them all at diferent times would tank viewership for the less well known sports. Some smaller sports only get broadcast time on bug channels because they are in the olympics.
Nowhere in the article it says it can’t just be a standard kiosk design. I agree with the commenter above that having a touchscreen on a normal homepod like that is strange.
This post in !conlangs@mander.xyz was a really cool and indepth showcase of a linguistic technique!