Do you own a PlayStation? Did you "buy" content from Discovery? Sucks to be you!

Sony is about to remove programs that people 'bought' via their PS from the Discovery Channel, including Myth Busters and Naked and Afraid. All gone, bye bye. And I would say the odds of getting any money back would be similar to playing an XBox game disc in your PS, i.e. zero.

The issue is the merger between Discovery and Warner, apparently Sony got sliced out of the deal and now no longer has license to carry or resell their programming, which means all that Discovery content that people thought they purchased is going away. They bought a license to view it, and not in perpetuity.

This is why you buy physical media, peeps! I will on rare occasion rent a movie off my Apple TV, but I never buy programming through it for just this reason. You can get a standard Bluray player for less than a hundred bucks, no reason not to have one.

https://kotaku.com/sony-ps4-ps5-discovery-mythbusters-tv-1851066164

In other streaming television news, Apple TV+ and Paramount may be combining!

Now THIS I like! I currently pay for, and will maintain, my Apple TV subscription. Getting Paramount on it would be great so I could see Star Trek Below Decks and the entire Picard series! I can't say there's much else on Paramount that interests me, but that could change.

Currently, Disney+ is also streaming Hulu and ESPN in a similar bundle since they own both properties.

https://gizmodo.com/apple-tv-paramount-streaming-bundle-might-be-coming-1851065662

RIP: Shane MacGowan, lead singer of the Pogues, 65

*sigh*

He was diagnosed with viral encephalitis last year and went into hospital early November for help with an infection. Presumably this did him in.

He was lead singer with the Pogues until excessive drinking lead to them firing him. He did some indie projects, reunited with the Pogues, left them again, fell down some steps leaving a studio resulting in a pelvis fracture which led him to being wheelchair-bound for the rest of his life.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/shane-macgowan-pogues-dead-obit-1234809695/

RIP: Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, 93

Justice O'Connor, appointed by Reagan, was the first woman appointed to the SCOTUS, served for 24 years. She was a part of the decision of Bush v. Gore, among many others. An Arizona lass, her parent's ranch straddled the Arizona/New Mexico border. She was roping and riding as a kid, later earning a law degree and practicing for free just to get her foot in the door.

What a career!

She passed from complications from long-term dementia.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/justice-sandra-day-oconnor-obituary-dead-first-woman-supreme-court-1234907171/