Ioper
14d ago
Google should just call their bluff, where are they going to monetize?
Presumably other internet advertising venues like Facebook?
Maybe google should just unlist their domains and advertising campaigns if they pull out of youtube.
That is how you get bent over and raped by regulators that are already annoyed with you.
Ioper
15d ago
It was not all fake. You might claim that the advertiser boycott was intended to censor political opposition but the boycott itself was real.
That started way earlier back in 2017 in response to among other things PewDiePie making thirdies do racist jokes on camera via fiver and a bit later calling an opponent a nigger during a stream.
This was not YouTube using these things as a pretext for demonitization. Major advertiser like Coca-Cola, Dr. Pepper, Johnson & Johnson, Pepsi, Adidas, HP, Deutsche Bank, etc. started pulling ads completely from YouTube which lead to a steep fall in ad revenue for the creators. YouTube's response came after, trying to get advertisers back.
It was absolutely advertiser driven. It could well be that advertisers don't care now but they did back then.
Ioper
16d ago
Apparently there's a secret third sector neither of us have found yet.
People in healthcare related professions (like nurses) can often get a lot of time off as compensation for overtime and night shifts as long as they don't spend it during the holidays. They are usually incentiviced to do this rather than taking cash compensation.
Ioper
21d ago
For young and older people I'm not sure women travel more than men but I've noticed a specific demographic of female travellers that doesn't really have a male counterpart. It's 25-40yo women who (usually) have some kind of higher education but are either unemployed or underemployed and spend a lot of time traveling, which is financed by their fathers, either directly through monthly stipends or indirectly by buying them a house/apartment with no strings attached.
This doesn't really have a corresponding demo for men because their families won't finance nominally successful men to have a layabout lifestyle, but they will do so for women and spending their time traveling is higher status than being a regular neet, so it isn't a black mark against the parents.
Ioper
21d ago
Not really. Most go directly for the rich countries and almost no-one anchors in the real EE shit holes. Some do "anchor" in Italy or Spain before heading north though.
Ioper
22d ago
He posted on Elon main account Sending codes on Elons main account that I would understand
This sounds like a textbook case of schizophrenia, no? How old is she?
Bots don't leave comments
They leave shit loads of comments. There seems to be some kind of system for limiting these though since they never seen to go beyond a certain percentage of the overall comments.
Ioper
22d ago
And yet, this fake image (and the countless others in the replies below) elicits much stronger emotions and sympathy from me than the real video
So, I don't agree here and I'm curious as to which of our perspectives is the more common one.
Please answer the poll on which of the options elicits stronger emotions:
https://strawpoll.com/NoZrzw9oBZ3
Then there is the question of which of the two garners more engagement and there I don't really think it's a question of which is more engaging but rather which is easier to consume while still being reasonably engaging. An image is much easier to consume than a video and it fits much better in a text feed than a video does. You can glance at an image and then scroll right by, while a video breaks your engagement flow with the feed.
Ioper
23d ago
Jedi fallen order is the biggest game that Disney star wars has produced by far and that was released in 2019. That should only have been 1.2 billion in revenue though.
Ioper
23d ago
I think we should probably be more specific, its social media and algo driven content serving (especially short form) that's the issue, not watching movies on your phone or w/e.
There are plenty of studies that show this, its not some kind of new and unknown subject. The issue isn't that we don't know what's harmful, it's that there are powerful commercial interests opposing regulation. It's the same thing with online casinos, it's not the internet that's the issue, it's specifically the gambling sites.
Ioper
25d ago
Now I'll never spend another cent not just because its bad right now (it is), not just because it hates me for demographic reasons (it does), but because it's associated in my mind with all the extremities and terrors of shitty social justice and all that did. I've seen too much fucked up stuff, lost friends, etc and Disney dropped their flag on that behavior.
They would have to do something really extreme, like declaring all the Disney content non-canon and hiring George Lucas to oversee a new sequel trilogy (while not directing). I'm honestly not sure even Andor should be part of the canon despite how good it is. Even Lego star wars is more tonally consistent with the overall property than Andor is.
I'm not saying Lucas is some kind of genius but there needs to be a clean break and delineation between Disney star wars and the property going forward, things are that broken. Alternatively the quality of the content needs to be close to Andor level but that is obviously unrealistic and if you could guarantee that you wouldn't need to buy IPs in the first place.
Not an anime but have you guys heard the Japanese VA for FFX? I thought the very inconsistent VA for the English version was a due language barrier during production but apparently not..
Ioper
26d ago
Have you tried any roguelikes/lites? Easier to just get one to couple of runs in when you feel like it and then do something else. You don't have to stay super engaged for extended periods of time.
He is a teen and he is having tantrums and meltdowns in school? That doesn't sound like a case of a school overreacting to normal male behaviour.
Whether something like this is "normal to him" doesn't really matter. This is unacceptable behaviour and he will have a really hard time if he doesn't learn to manage this.
Ioper
29d ago
Anything that fits the chest/shoulders has a waist big enough for putting away a 12pack a day.
There are v-shaped slim fits. They have not been hard for me to find.
I guess It could be an issue if you're specifically looking for a form fitted but loose shirt.
This hasn't been a problem for me (6'6) for the last decade or so at least, there are so many brands with long t-shirts. What I do is go to some online retailer and look specifically for extralong shirts and order a bunch. With the generous return policies this easy and without any real cost. For dress shirts I just have them tailored and always have, there has never been a brand that fit me well. Furthermore, if you buy in bulk they're more or less the same price as decent quality standard sizes. There is not really a reason to not get them tailored.
While I'm big, strong and have naturally wide shoulders, I've never done steroids so perhaps we're talking about different things?
Ioper
29d ago
I have some books that i read when I'm trying to sleep that I've read more times than I can count. The reason is that i find them to be cosy and get me in the right headspace to sleep. That I've read them before and know everything that happens is a plus not a minus in this case because what I'm trying to do is relax, not have novel experiences. I enjoy the characters, description and the language used itself.
Let me ask you this, do you ever relisten to music or do you just experience each piece the one time?
Ioper
30d ago
They're probably going to replace several data analysis teams whose jobs have been building Power BI dashboard for the past 10 years.
I consulted for a massive multinational a couple of years ago and they had this massive operation in India that produced those BI dashboards every week, that the regional and national executives immediately threw in the trash.
The issue was that while those dashboards looked good and contained a ton of data they didn't really say anything meaningful and it was too hard to both communicate with and change the workflow of the Indian BI teams so the output became useless.
What people defaulted to instead was just fairly simple KPIs that were relevant for whatever issue at hand and people showing things in excel. The dashboards were occasionally used for official reports and external communication but not for internal decision-making.
I'm not sure which bucket AI would fall into here. Would it enable people to quickly do the work themselves (or some kind of local resource) or will it just be a cheaper version to shit out even more useless graphs and dashboards than the Indians resources?
Secretaries have barely existed for like 25 years at least and call centers aren't pink collar work. Pink collar work is overwhelmingly face to face service work, like nursing, teaching, childcare and social work.
I can believe people using AI for different things are having very different experiences and each reporting their impressions accurately.
Partially, but there is also a honeymoon phase and a phenomenon where people feel more productive but have mostly just shifted what they do, not increased their actual productivity.
Perhaps this is something that will pass with increased experience with the tools but it has not been my experience with the people i manage nor for my friends in similar managerial roles. It could of course be a combination of the above as well. Maybe the models just need to get a bit better and people need experience with those models. Who knows?
To me it seems highly specific where AI actually is a meaningful productivity booster for programming. It should be clear though that for these things it is very valuable.
I would be more worried for areas where things don't actually have to be "correct" (for quality or legal reasons), like visual art generation. Even there I imagine things will mostly affect the things liable to be (or already has been) outsourced.
Ioper
1mo ago
There was not even a proposed vector for value with Blockchain most of the time. AI is very different.
Ioper
1mo ago
Why would it decrease pink collar work? Or do you mean the administrative overhang? But why would that hit pink collar stuff more than anything else?
Have you traveled for work to any great extent? If not, what you're yearning for likely isn't travel as much as vacation, lack of responsibility and limited adherence to social rules.
Most people who have to travel for work, even those who specifically sought it out for that reason, bounce off hard.
Isn't it just a case of a preference cascade? The vast majority's opinion on woke ranged from mildly annoyed to actively hating woke stuff but falsified their opinions publicly due various well known factors. Wokeness then suffered a number of setbacks, plenty of them self inflicted, that caused annoyance to both boil over and being able to be expressed, leading to a preference cascade.
The opinions "disappeared" quickly because >90% of people never held them in the first place.
This of course doesn't mean people are rightwing, if anything redistributive policies seem more popular than ever. It's just that woke specifically was never popular on a grassroots level (perhaps outside a brief period of post Floyd hysteria).
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