It's almost certainly related. I wouldn't be surprised if the sleeper hit podcast of the same name[1] that was released last year played a role in resurfacing the issue, too.
For me, this pattern is just common sense. I’ve had no more than one subscription active at a time for over two years. I keep a list of things that sound interesting, and when it gets to be more than a couple for a single provider, I’ll re-up. Why keep paying for content you don’t care about?
Of course, if you have kids, I can understand keeping the subscription meter running.
'Whet' means to sharpen (whetstones are used to sharpen knives, for example), so whetting one's appetite means to sharpen appetite, or to make one hungrier (for knowledge, food, whatever).
Sitting on a call right now where a guy is going on about how excited he is to mock out the entirety of a large e-commerce vendor's platform. It's maddening.
And the people who are more muscular _know_ that BMI isn't going to be accurate for them. The complaints seem to be somewhat bad faith arguments from the population for whom it is accurate, but wishes it weren't.
Schwalbes are absolutely excellent (I've used the, regrettably discontinued, Marathon Supreme on my commuter for years), but they're still subject to pinch flats if you're using tubes.
You're generally correct about TNG, but I think that Worf's development and the machinations within the Klingon High Council roughly constitute a story arc that ran through the series.
I've used Capital One's virtual card service many times to close a card associated with a service that would've otherwise required me to chat or call someone to cancel. It's worked extremely well.
And _currently_ involves hiring consultants to force employees to sit through hours of anti-union fear mongering the second management smells a whiff of pro-union organizing sentiment.
The 'American Factory' documentary has a great example of what this looks like in real life. Hearing that Amazon or Google or whoever else worked to convince employees to vote against unionizing is one thing, seeing what that effort is like on the ground is altogether more eye-opening.
[0] https://imgur.com/we-should-improve-society-somewhat-T6abwxn