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Can anyone explain in simple language exactly how the upcoming changes to Reddit will affect the users?
I read that some things may change…maybe Old Reddit will disappear completely,maybe you won’t be able to use Reddit on the phone without using the official app,etc.etc.
At the beginning of the F1 season the company that holds the rights to it and a lot of other sports in Finland and several other countries upped their price to 40€/month, which was too much for me as F1TV is just 10€/month. So I switched over. And it seems like many others have switched over too, Viaplay released their updated forecast for Q2 and it doesn’t look good. Their stock price fell over 60% yesterday in the Stockholm exhange. From 225 SEK to almost 80 SEK per share. 😬 Yikes. They’re saying it’s because of rising cost of living in the Nordics, but mate, your service is just too expensive. You are the rising cost.
I don’t really understand their business model, as they’re predicting an operating loss of about 25 million € in Q2. Have they bid on the rights to all these sports at a way too high price, or what’s going on? I’m actually pretty keen to read their Q2 report when it comes out later this summer. Like, what are even their operating costs.
Other thing I don’t understand is recent modern civil wars. The Finnish civil war was fought with automatic machine guns in the modern era, but not over a century ago. Two factions beefing sbout politics and some meddling from foreign big powers in the area. Pretty easy to understand. Then you look at a place like Syria, where there is a million factions and every foreign power from neighbouring countries to far away superpowers have their spoons dipped deep in the soup. There is so much going on, and everybody’s motives are so complicated.
I guess it’s down to natural resources or and location. There is no oil and gold here like in Syria or Sudan, and we’re not near the Suez or Bosporus or any of those important choke points for shipping routes. Maybe as the North-East passage melts and rises in importance and fresh water becomes a more scarce resource the hypothetical future Finnish civil war pt. II will be like those in the Middle-East and Africa.