But isn't it better to have a few years but then growth vs absolute death spiral due to low population which we would have to increase immigration for regardless

Yea and then you have a 50 year old like Trudeau and they all say he's too young

What I fears is that its a matter of time before entertainment industry figures out a way to stop those services. I've even begun to see discussions that open source may be struggling to remain relevant. Whose taking over for the power houses from early days. So much talent out there. But I really worry the community will shrink over time because we all raiser a generation on the concept of monetization rather than open collaboration. I look out on the internet and the loudest voices are artists and content creators. Both groups who push the fuck you pay me mentality that I believe was not what we all had originally on the internet and it makes me so worried to think how that will only grow if there is no push back.

Told people this years ago when pewdie pie became a millionaire selling ads. Like that was the time to wake up and hate every single one of these content creators for selling out and making the internet the hellscape this is. But no we Revere and emulate these people.

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If we steal IP from China does the American government give us a business loan?

Censoring books due to reasons like "these books provide a point of view I'm not comfortable exposing my kids too" is usually a bad reason to censor books.

Problem I see is its all a pendulum on these issues where the reaction swings wildly back and forth the more energy were putting into it rather than having it settle the fuck down.

For instance these books being removed aren't produced in spite of this issue. But for sure if we dig into censorship topic then pro censorship groups start bringing out books to be edgy cunts and prove a point.

Every issue has edge cases and we live in a time where people are so willing to be right they will make every edge case the center of an issue. Like in order to keep Maus on shelves we will now need to have a copy of Bomb making 101 or a book were one of these people wrote FUCK a million times just so they can get anti censorship people to say "hey that isn't cool guys" but also the problem is I often find people are so militant in our beliefs that we have a hard time saying "that isn't cool" when faced with something not cool but also that grinds against our moral beliefs

But why do they need to make a living creating content.

We should go back to hobbyist sharing videos of their hobby and interest for the love of it instead of a guy trying to make money by jumping into trendy hobbies and creating bland generic content until the algorithm picks them.

It would reduce so much noise online and the stuff we would be left with would be people who have the best content. It would eliminate the drama and toxic crap for views.

Sure, or accept that you participating in that industry will always lead to this stuff.

What do people want here. In what world do you think you can separate the two things. Monetizing content through ads and marketing and a world where ads and marketing are not capitalized on.

We all had to stop this decades ago when it was a tiny little part of the internet. You can't kill it once its tendrils are in every corner its grown into Fafnir

You all have to get better at listening to the crazy ranting of random strangers with hair triggers and obsess over things you don't care about. Otherwise the future is bleek

What's even crazier is kids today will never realize the freedom that the first few decades of the internet was when the topic of information scarcity was supposed to end.

We were all so against the idea that capitalist and opportunistic people could artificially create scarcity to make us all pay more. They did it through monopolies on industry's that choked out smaller competitors. The internet was a new frontier that was supposed to reject that. We could digitally copy and share everything. Hero's shot up and built all kinds of amazing tools and things. Then it got popular and we recreated the same scarcity issues within decades. Everything trapped behind walls and monetized. Instead of open courseware at Berkeley we favored monthly subscriptions to udemy.

This is the average 6 year olds dream right now. A life where they can emulate a NASCAR fender and live that twitch life just like their heroes Pewdie and Moist and whatever else. Those kids grow up with that mentality and end up shaping a new generation pulling away from what all this could have been.

Too fucking many. But replace him with any of them. Speed, H2, Moist, donkey something. We use to have to walk uphill both ways in the snow to see content.

I iron like a mother fucker. Its so satisfying smoothing everything out.

Fuck you wrinkles

Cover letters fucking make me hateful. I love generating AI cover letters and sending them. Fuck your cover letters in a market where you need to send 100 applications to get 10 bites

What about telling the difference between a wolf and grandmother?

Only if these books are inscribed on the side of a Glock

That's exactly what I'm saying with it too. All of this started out as a place to share and collaborate and to reject the stuff that made all other industries rotten.

We had something amazing and we let it rot on our watch and that's something we can't ever fix but I don't think we should forget how badly we fucked up. And how we fucked up should be remembered in case we ever get any new frontier.

YouTube never had ads. We all just shared videos. It was a big deal every time they brought it in. Pewdie pi made a fortune and it was all over from there.

Ill never support any of these content creators or buy any subscriptions. None of this should have been monetized. Advertising is out of control and it was already bad before the internet. Some of us are experiencing an ad 24/7 a day now.

If Netflix ads were just energy drinks and VPN then you're cool with them adding these tiers?

Honest to god question. How many hours a day are you OK being spent on being sold something. What is your ratio of content to ads.

That's your time by the way. My full belief is anyone trying to sell me anything needs to pay me. Not a content creator. That's my time I barely have any of it to give so when 1 hr out of 3 hrs I got to relax is spent being sold shit I'm pretty pissed.

And it isn't like I can. Just opt to enjoy ad free content creators. They no longer exist because the ones that monetized it. That's the part I hate most.

Mind explains what is far fetched about it?

There was an opioid crisis where drug makers sold pills to the public that the public did not need and they used doctors to sell them.

There is an advertising epidemic where industry is working to push ads into every space we listen, look or experience and they are using content creators to justify it

Both have a large well funded industry. Both require an interface between public and the industry to sell their product. Both push products to people who don't need them by using these interfaces to bullshit, lie and leverage their authority to sell the product. And in one case we blame the interface in the other we say " they aren't responsible they are just making money" so why?

Would you put blame on doctors for contributing to the opioid?

I see it the same. Every one bares responsibility. And even though a big chunk is on the pharma and media companies. There is still the pusher

Anyone want to start a company. Work from home. We'll split profits among ourselves. We can. Build blackjack lottery machines and webhookers

I've started l to realize that actual information worth reading is not available. Like I cant access in depth medical course or text book in engineering. Lots of beginner tutorials marketed as 7 minute abs.

Information is valuable and nobody gives it away for free. We have access to a worlds worth of crappy, unvetted trash information. But the vast majority of the good stuff is still locked away as it always was.

That's good. The internet is for advertiser's and businesses. Its not for archives of information

So his audience now has a decent conspiracy they can dig into. Where did Alex hide his assets

Im of the opinion we should reject all advertising and change the dynamic

If someone wants to sell me something they have to pay for my time.

Instead of paying Jake Paul $10,000,000 to sell me something. They just have to pay me the bandwidth or time their commercial just ate up of my free time.

I work all fucking day and barely get 6 hours before bed. 3 of those hours is running into ads fuck that.

I drive home and have to look at fifteen rusted ass giant metal billboards barely holding together instead of cool ass trees and birds.

I turn on the radio to get a song, 3 minute DJ giving me gossip about celebrities I should purchase from, 2 minute commercials and another song.

I turn on Spotify i pay for and get ad reads all podcast long along with the host sneakily promoting their new chewing tobacco or liquor.

I get home and kids are watching prime, with commercials. Shit doesn't stop. It keeps encroaching into our free time. Its like an Edgar Alan Poe story but written by Edward Louis Bernays

I hate advertisements

MBA's do not get enough shit for being a root cause of the deterioration for modern life.

It really is a bullshit career. Companies should be run by people who came up in the industry and learned all the pitfalls rather than college kids who learned how to not pay contracts until they're legally forced to.

Literally came here to say this. A few of you are keeping the place alive

Its crazier going back to reddit and asking if each post is really just an advertising for someone's product. Its surprising how often a post is a commercial vs real content.

I saw one yesterday for a water bouncing scooter thing where a guy rides across a river and delivers a beer. Water scooter gets placed perfectly to showcase the name. Multiple comment chains of "cool this looks fun what is it how does it work" along with explanations and hype threads like its a ginsu knife at a Florida flea market.

Reddit is a commercial that we can comment on

Was that specifically said somewhere or are you just filling in the blanks

Can someone explain why they're not able to protect against this? Couldn't they put request limits or monitor for spikes and banning these attempts?

How about sec investigate GME manipulation

And the name of that axe was ...

Albert AxEinstein

I'm gonna ask you some questions and we'll need you to assign either a happy face or a sad face in order to asses if you are burger king material.

First question

Palestine.?!

I noticed that too. Like a lot of people are upset that users would mess with a company. r/JoeRogan is much more toxic than usual like a flood gate opened

That's because according to Valve law, when he dies the whole company cannot be passed along to his successor

That's true but what I meant was that when I went to school it opened my eyes to how there is internet information and then there's this other academic information. My own opinion is that I see a distinction between what I can learn online vs what I can learn with a text book. The internet is good at making me think I'm getting this massive access to knowledge when its really more superficial factoids rather than actually knowledge. And that's because knowledge is sold like anything else

Democrats use "fair and by the rules" as an excuse for failing at playing politics. It was clear what was going to happen. Nobody did anything except the Republicans who capitalized everything everywhere for a decade. Democrats and liberals are still unaware what happened

I don't care about seeing your content. I'm sure its good. I just believed that the internet was a tool to end data scarcity and instead we've moved much further back and now with all this stuff we're just putting nails in that coffin. I still hold out for a world were data is shared and people collaborate to produce new content.

As gross as it is, 38 year old celebrity millionaire isn't the same as 38 year old Ted in shipping and receiving.

Awesome job man. Keep at it and I'm subbing. I'll sub over and over and over and and over and over and over and over and over and and over and over and over and over and over and and over and over and over and over and over and and over and over and over

She's from one of the provinces, there's so many you wouldn't know it