Not_Alec_Baldwin @ Not_Alec_Baldwin @lemmy.world

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I too am an Adam Something fan. 😂

Edit: the reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHnYod32PCk

Also wait for sales.

$404 divided over 10 years is different than as a lump. But getting the whole bundle for 80% off because it's been successfully developed for 10 years is value.

Star Citizen only feels like it's been in alpha for 65 years.

Yeah people don't seem to be understanding that this is a technical and pragmatic issue, not a business decision.

It's the "new and improved" problem. If it's new, it's not improved. And if it's improved, it's not new.

If you want a new, cutting edge game, you aren't just improving the old game. So the old stuff likely won't be compatible.

If you want an improvement/extension of the old game, you won't be getting a shiny new game.

They made the choice to make a shiny new game but they need to try to prevent the inevitable backlash from people being upset that they're favorite X/Y/Z is missing.

It's a memorial urn. My mother bought a few for family that wanted something to remember her by, but her ashes aren't in it. They've been scattered.

So it's really just sentimental clutter.

Some people are really attached to physical representations of things. They want a grave site to visit, or an urn to have. It's probably just a mental thing, but it seems to be really common.

Talking out of my ass here, but I've heard that stabbing is a more personal crime. You need to get closer so it's more likely to be someone that feels deeply threatened or personally hurt.

That might be why we see these antisemitic attacks being stabbings, because the extremists feel deeply terrified and hurt.

I'm not justifying the crime - it's evil and they need to be locked up. But we need to understand where this extremism is coming from if we want to stop it.

I'd happily pay for YouTube if they hadn't done bullshit free shenanigans to kill their competition while expanding their reach.

I'll never pay for YouTube now.

This is his approach to IP broadly speaking, I believe.

Edit for clarity:

If you can't effectively try something without paying, pirate it and pay if you want to and can support it.

It's a goodwill model.

NewPipe works too

I have some organic cyanide you might be interested in...

I wonder if advertisers will wake up and realize it too.

I would love this

You literally just proved my point.

It wasn't profitable. And it was free. It killed competition by losing money.

And now, by your concession, they are turning it into a business.

That's a fundamental change in the service. Fuck that. Either it was always their intent, in which case they were lying scum the whole time. Or it wasn't their intent and they've just decided spontaneously to prioritize profit, in which case it's greed and betrayal.

Either way, fuck 'em.

Me considers moving to EU after Twitter withdrawl.

YouTube defended their monopoly by running for free. They murdered the growth of legitimate competitions like Vimeo that had healthier business models... Because they didn't try to run for free.

And now that they've saturated the market and killed off all of the serious competition it's time to profit

Well, frankly, go fuck yourself.

So long YouTube, and thanks for all the fish. 🐬

Your search data and history.

Listening profiles: what tastes do you have, and what other things do you like? If you like Ray Lamontagne and Taylor Swift what else might keep you on the platform?

What % of people like X? What sorts of trends are happening in music? Chord preferences, rhythms, bpm, etc

All of this aggregate data can be sold to different companies, record labels, etc.

... Except they gather your data and use it to try and make profit.

Say least radio required them to give genuine value to you. Radio had to give away shit and run contests to get caller info to figure out how many listeners they had, to get advertisers etc. It was a real business.

Spotify just buys the music catalogue and then forces you into their ecosystem.

It's funny, Rogan lost me as a listener right around the time he made the Spotify deal.

At the time I actually had Spotify premium too, I just wasn't interested in the conspiracy right wing shit.

Then I pretty quickly got fed up with Spotify and dropped my sub altogether.

YARRRRR.

But you can oh, so easily criticize the movie without mentioning the message. Because they are awful.

Yes.

This is the thing people don't understand about a ubi.

I had a coworker who's wife was a... Case manager? For welfare. Her whole job was determining whether or not people were lying/exaggerating about various elements of their claim.

First of all, government union paper pushers make decent money. There was an entire office full of people that covered cases in their region only.

Second, it's a soul sucking job. Her primary assumption was that everyone was cheating and lying and she needed to minimize everyone's payout.

UBI solves both of those things and by plugging it directly into the tax system people can be free to try to earn a better living, which studies have shown most people want when they are given a UBI.

Increased productivity, increased employment, increased entrepreneurship, increased mental health outcomes, there is literally no downside except for needing to tax the rich.