• Obinice@lemmy.world
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    If it’s called NASA Plus, how is it free? The “plus” means it goes a step beyond their free content and into a paid tier.

    Don’t get me wrong this is absolutely fantastic I adore NASA and space, but they’re just be some hidden cost? Otherwise it wouldn’t be a streaming service called NASA Plus, right?

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      The “plus” means it goes a step beyond their free content and into a paid tier.

      Notepad++ enters the chat

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      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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          That goes without saying.

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

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

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

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            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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              If you make a product and want to claim that it or its ingredients are organic, your final product probably needs to be certified.

              That word probably exists in the same article you originally linked.

              But many actually don’t do it which is why they don’t use the USDA certified

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          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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      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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        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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          You’re really trying to make this more complicated than it is. Should they just call it NASA? NASA Streaming? NASA VOD?

          It’s just a catchy name.

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                From their generic FAQ:

                What is Disney+?

                Disney+ is the streaming home for entertainment from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic.

                from my limited perspective, the word “plus” is to indicate the rest studios/companies that are included in the Disney (parent) company

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              That’s actually what it has kinda came to mean. Lots of Streaming services are called “Plus”, even if they don’t have a separate non-free version.

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

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      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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      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.