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I am not OP but let me give you some perspective. I know something about this as I am both a former columnist, editor (by the end I was on the editorial board, even) of the largest computer monthly in Hungary and a current one person company which I suspect Anthony is too. Basically, we were the same semi-pro magazine that Byte was internationally. We died only a few years later.

As you suspect, writing The Sizzle is not an eight hour a day job. (Even with the podcast.) However, running the business might be and it might be more. It's incredibly, incredibly hard to get paid subscribers and deal with their issues etc. You can't make enough to sustain a help desk, even a single person. Just can't be done. Tech is easier because tech-y people have fewer stupid issues in subscription, emails etc (fewer, not none!).

It seems there's a market for well written newsletters -- which I couldn't do because my style is very terse, my editor has famously accused one of my articles of being a hex dump of my brain, that's what happens when both the columnist and the editor are programmers on the side -- but it doesn't seem like this is enough to sustain entire companies.

At the time she was still identifying as male

Chelsea came out as trans the day when she was sentenced in 2013. The Army delayed her hormone treatment until 2015 and yet it was still the first for the Army. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/02/12/chelsea-manning-hormone-therapy/23311813/

The Bulletin believes that human beings can manage the dangers posed by the technology that humans create. Indeed, in the 1990s leaders in the United States and the Soviet Union took bold actions that made nuclear war markedly less likely—and as a result the Bulletin moved the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock the farthest it has been from midnight.

Were you going to college to have a carreer off Kickstarter? A business major and a film minor, damn.

miniatures

They invented the word "bigatures" because some of the minatures were so effin big. Some of them were several stories tall and I seem to remember the Khazad Dum set required a separate warehouse or was it a hangar?