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Shifting goal posts. I'm just saying he communicates well. Hitler also communicated well. It doesn't mean we agree with trump (or Hitler) it's just an acknowledgement of charisma.

What makes you think it's made up? The dude has brainwashed 1/3 the country. Do you think he did that on accident? Unfortunately for you and I, trump is an expert communicator.

Is it extreme reach though? He's whipped up 1/3 the country into a frenzie. That's effective communication even if it is awful and hateful.

Gitlab won't take a webp as a profile picture.

Tim Apple is intentional. It's smart and effective. It communicates who he is talking about to people who have absolutely no clue who the CEO of Apple is. Simplified language like that is trump's specialty because it works with his base.

Edit, well, looks like this is just as bad as reddit. Not sure what I expected.

Sometimes when I'm alone I download myself.

The veil is gone. They have no plausible deniability. They have lost the moral high ground with the rest of the country.

Please check out c/moderate_politics for some high quality discussion!

I never thought about it like that wow that makes sense.

It's only a great experience for some. The vast majority of people, attention, eyeballs, and money go to things like tiktok and Instagram.

Your argument is clear. There's an opportunity cost to Green.

What you're missing is the momentum of green. A single solar panel in a sea of coal power plants is certainly dirtier than coal in the short term. For the exact reasons you outlined.

But you have 2 flaws in your logic.

1. we aren't in that situation right now and I'd like to understand why you think we are. As we become more green then green things result in less brown, so there's a snowball effect you're ignoring here. Furthermore that snowball effect has already begun!
2. Renewable energy, like panels, result in brown during manufacturing and installation. Once they're up they generate power for, on average, 25 years. The electricity-per-co2-ton is better than coal over 25 years.

Hey this is pretty level headed and what you're saying makes sense. Please check out lemmy.world/c/moderate_politics we'd love to have you!

Shameless plug, c/moderate_politics :)

I believe he admitted this to his biographer.

I curate my feed pretty often so I might be able to help.

The first, and easiest, thing to do is to tell Youtube you aren't interested in their recommendations. If you hover over the name of a video then three little dots will appear on the right side. Clicking them opens a menu that contains, among many, two options: Not Interested and Don't Recommend Channel. Don't Recommend Channel doesn't actually remove the channel from recommendations but it will discourage the algorithm from recommending it as often. Not Interested will also inform the algorithm that you're not interested, I think it discourages the entire topic but it's not clear to me.

You can also unsubscribe from channels that you don't want to see as often. Youtube will recommend you things that were watched by other people who are also subscribed to the same channels you're subscribed to. So if you subscribe to a channel that attracts viewers with unsavory video tastes then videos that are often watched by those viewers will get recommended to you. Unsubscribing will also reduce how often you get recommended videos by that content creator.

Finally, you should watch videos you want to watch. If you see something that you like then watch it! Give it a like and a comment and otherwise interact with the content. Youtube knows when you see a video and then go to the Channel's page and browse all their videos. They track that stuff. If you do things that Youtube likes then they will give you more videos like that because that's how Youtube monetizes you, the user.

To de-radicalize your mom's feed I would try to

1. Watch videos that you like on her feed. This introduces them to the algorithm.
2. Use Not Interested and Don't Recommend Channel to slowly phase out the old content.
3. Unsubscribe to some channels she doesn't watch a lot of so she won't notice.