TimLovesTech

And outside the US even, and had tens-to-hundreds of thousands of customers over just a 2 year span to boot!

50?! That’s nothing, I have windows with hundreds.

The issue is that some alternatives are worse than the thing they are replacing, and alternatives are also not as “mainstream” and often more expensive. And if you’re buying a drink you’re getting whatever is in the mass produced beverage, unless you’re going to spend the time to label shop and are prepared to leave empty handed.

The difference could be linked to a number of factors: Those with higher incomes often have more reliable access to safely drinkable tap water. They tend to work in indoor environments, where air-conditioning may mean there is less need to stay hydrated. And they may be more aware of the potential health consequences of high sugar consumption.

When you are the 99% and are sweating your ass off I think people are thinking more of a cold drink to cool down more than, “oh man I better stay hydrated”. And a lemonade tastes ace compared to another glass of water. And if you have enough money to have door to door AC it only makes more sense that like other food related things, if you have the means to have better your going to likely have better.

It boggles my mind that all these power companies aren’t building out solar and wind everywhere they can. The return on investment alone has to be better than constantly buying/obtaining fossil fuels. I would think maintenance overhead would also be less as well.

Your probability of remaining anonymous with Google is already slim, but trying to remain anonymous while also using their services has to be near impossible. They are one of the largest advertisers on the Internet, and they have the reach and tech to fingerprint almost everyone.

And it’s also hard for a company to protect profits (remember in the US – capitalism > civil liberties) and comply with all these new regulations if your users are all hiding their locations via VPN.

Social media platforms face huge fines under UK’s new digital safety laws

Also have the ruling of their antitrust case coming up:

Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL) Likely to Avoid Breakup, But Antitrust Remedies Could Hit Core Revenue

Yep, they’ll enforce rolling blackouts before they make the LLMs scale back anything.

In another (better) timeline governments would stop giving these people handouts and make them responsible for funding and maintaining their own power.

I wonder if all these new “protect the kids” age verification laws play a part in this. Not sure what YouTube’s/Google’s liability would be in allowing, for instance, UK users to just VPN around there “Online Safety Act” requirement(s). I’m sure they could play dumb for a bit, but eventually some jackass is going to hear about what people are doing and get Google to explain why VPN traffic is way UP and UK traffic is way DOWN, and “think of the children!”.

See you down in Arizona bay!

(Stolen from the Tool song Ænima, which is based on the Bill Hicks album.)

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is narrowing the capabilities and reducing the number of next-generation weather and climate satellites it plans to build and launch in the coming decades …

And just like that, the US bows out of another scientific segment we could have been leaders in. It also would be cool if an asshole with a 4 year term wasn’t able to screw us all for generations so easily.

Well the US is doing our share to speed us to the end game through deregulation of anything environmental, and “drill baby drill”.

It’s like a bad movie you already know how it’s going to end right from the beginning, and now you’re just stuck watching until the end hoping to be wrong.

Indeed. It is somewhat similar to when man messes up an ecosystem either by introducing an invasive species, or decimating a species in an area. It doesn’t affect everything, everywhere, but can severely change a local ecosystem in ways that may not be obvious.

A great example of this is how the wolves in Yellowstone changed the whole ecosystem of the park, both with the wolves removal, and again with their reintroduction.

Fair enough, I just can’t imagine for me anything Jay could have put in that video that I would need any commentary done on it. Jay is a Windows/hardware guy making a Linux video for fun, trying to make it something it isn’t is disingenuous, and if I even knew who this guy was I would avoid his content going forward as he clearly is scrapping the bottom of the barrel.

But I guess to each their own, a lot of people watch the slop which is why the bots/AI bros are flooding YouTube with videos. This is just one more video added to the mix.

Yep, this is a low effort video that had no real need to be made except to get clicks. It’s like when Linus does his random Linux videos every couple of years, there is absolutely no value in making a “reaction video” about them. Nothing he says in those videos could be worth the creator’s time, OR the viewers time.

Your agreement is we need these low effort, low value videos, and I strongly disagree. You might as well make “reaction videos” about whatever stupid shit Mr. Beast is doing, same amount of value. Garbage in -> garbage out.

Not at all what I’m saying. I’m saying low effort “reaction videos” based on a video that is outside of a content creator’s normal subject matter expertise is a waste of time and should not be given the amount of attention everyone seems to be.

If this was actually public commentary I would have no issue, my issue is this video is no better than the bot/AI slop videos flooding YouTube.

Your argument is solid, you are absolutely a connoisseur of low effort videos.

But who even cares that much about Jay doing a Linux video? Jay isn’t known as a Linux guru, or even a Linux novice. He makes Windows centric gaming videos around the latest PC hardware. Him doing a video on Linux is the same as Linus (LTT) doing a Linux challenge, if watching it knowing you’re not going to see anything of real value go ahead, but making a “reaction video” about it is just chasing clicks and should not be rewarded.

These “reaction videos” are just a step above the bot slop videos. They contribute nothing of value and watching them helps to hurt the platform and overall quality of videos for everyone. But sure, I’m the “L” for expecting a higher standard.

Ugh another “reaction video”. Downvote and make original material.

From a social-emotional perspective it might help a lot of kids at least understand that someone recognizes they are working hard, and maybe doesn’t discourage them from wanting to learn. I personally think I would have benefited more from someone saying “we know you are trying just as much, if not more than your peers, but unfortunately the system doesn’t fit the way you need to learn all the time”, instead of “Tim is a smart kid, he just isn’t working to his full potential”.

Would leave less kids with the shame of not doing as well as their peers, while they’re exerting more effort than they are. I would often just not do stuff, because then I knew I didn’t try and fail.

Edit - mobile typing kills me