Three Things for October 17
Netflix to release new user package with lower cost, Bakers create
life-size bread Han Solo and Liz Truss versus lettuce, who will last longer
— Here are the Three Things for today!
Netflix to release new user package with lower cost
In November, Netflix will release a plan with lower prices, after Netflix suffered a drop in subscribers due to the rise of other streaming platforms.
Enjoy your Netflix experience exactly as it is today? Great! Nothing about the way you watch Netflix is going to change.
— Netflix (@netflix) October 13, 2022
From November, Netflix will be available from $6.99 a month. Basic with Ads, Netflix’s new lower priced ad-supported plan. https://t.co/OjRfIkbXWs
The Basic with Ads plan will play 15-to-30-second advertisements showing before and during the videos, at $6.99 per month. The ads will last 4-5 minutes per hour, include a smaller selection of shows and movies due to licensing and users will not be able to download content.
The plan comes after a drop of roughly 200,000 users during the first quarter of 2022 causing the company to lay-off about 150 employees.
"We believe we will have a more valuable business in the long term by staying out of competing for ad revenue and instead entirely focusing on competing for viewer satisfaction," Netflix stated in a letter to shareholders in 2019.
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Bakers create life-size bread Han Solo
The co-owners of One House Bakery, who are huge Star Wars fans, worked for weeks to create an edible art piece of the iconic scene where Han Solo is frozen in carbonite in “The Empire Strikes Back.”
— San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) October 13, 2022
They’re calling it “Pan Solo.”https://t.co/uLL4jR9W19
Co-owners of One House Bakery in Benicia, California have spent weeks assembling a life-sized Han Solo made completely out of bread.
The “Star Wars” character, nicknamed “Pan Solo,” is modeled after Han Solo’s appearance in the movie “The Empire Strikes Back” encased in carbonite. The Associated Press reports the bakers are big “Star Wars” fans.
Hanalee Pervan and her mother, Catherine Pervan worked during the night after closing their shop to make the 6-ft bread creation. The “Pan Solo” statue now stands outside of the One House Bakery.
Pan Solo is the baker’s entry into the Downtown Benicia Main Street Scarecrow Contest.
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Liz Truss versus lettuce, who will last longer
On Friday, Oct. 14, a British newspaper put Prime Minister Liz Truss and lettuce against each other, asking their audience if Truss would lose her job before the vegetable decayed.
The Daily Star even made a livestream showing unrefrigerated iceberg lettuce side by side with a photo of Truss, taking to Twitter asking which will last longer and gaining over 50,000 likes in the first five hours.
By Friday, the Daily Star was offering its readers a live stream of a store-bought head of lettuce, positioned next to a framed photograph of British Prime Minister Liz Truss, accompanied by the question: “Day one: Which wet lettuce will last longer?” https://t.co/xHGwkZ9NIX
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 15, 2022
Truss has been under fire pushing for her team to reverse a tax decision which forced the Bank of England to intervene in the bond market. The tax cuts had proceeded much faster and gone further than expected, resulting in the Conservative Party to discuss if Truss and her finance minister, Kwasi Kwarteng, should be replaced.
Truss fired Kwarteng on Friday, Oct. 14.
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