Sanyanov @ Sanyanov @lemmy.world

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Looks like they refer to adding their Science wing into the streaming, too.

In this crazy capitalist world peiple started forgetting that public services can be free, like, for real :D

Info appears to be varying wildly, but I acknowledge your point, thanks.

Still, tea can be used as an alternative source of caffeine, and it would certainly be better for your health than going all energy drinks.

Drink green tea, it has more caffeine than coffee.

Energy drinks are not basically soda, they contain, well, a ton of taurine and, well, caffeine, and are even more terrible (in fact, order of magnitude so) for your health, especially cardiovascular system.

World of Warcraft is good.

Terrible that Blizzard decided not to continue Warcraft the RTS along with it.

It's a big loss, and I understand you. But WoW fans formed a culture that is no inferior to that of Warcraft fans. If anything, we should celebrate the history of the Warcraft world still rolling, and calling for Warcraft IV. There's a lot to update.

Great work and a little creativity :)

Respect for that!

Why "both are wrong" is such a complicated concept to understand?

Hamas is super wrong to start this ugly war, for keeping civilians hostage.

Israeli army is super wrong for mass shellings and complete disregard for civilian casualties.

Commanders on both sides of the conflict should be brought to justice.

But telling rights from wrongs isn't the top priority right now. Civilians are dying, and this has to be stopped right now. And right now, this is in the hands of Israel.

There is a difference, though, and I know why those pitchforks are raised. YouTube is a video service behemoth, and it is owned by Google, a Big Tech company that has little respect for its users. It is one of the last things most Lemmy users (known on average for their hate of Big Tech, hence why we don't have this discussion on Reddit) would want to support.

Many of them would, and some do, support alternatives. But there is just nothing to the scale of YouTube, which exacerbates the problem as users often have nowhere else to go. And so they will do their best to use YouTube in a way that gives 0 benefits to Google, and will only be happy to see this giant fall and replaced by something more user-centric, free from corporate control, and privacy-friendly.

People valuing the content and the platform.

For now our best chance for free platform is Odysee/Lbry - at least crypto bros can keep tue platform running for the sake of it. Or PeerTube, but less likepy since it's more enthusiasm-driven, and enthusiasm only gets you so far.

Also, Nebula, CuriosityStream and other similar subscription services are good - and people pay for them.

Depending on how you look at it. It's not perfect, but it is something, and it allows creators profits to scale up with the platform. I'd like if they'd get a choice between that and traditional payouts, though, and recognize Odysee/Lbry is not the final holy grail for hosting video content.

It's not a non-existing problem.

For example, I live in Russia, and the only way for me to support creators I like is sending them crypto. All traditional channels were blocked by sanctions; crypto can't be. Besides, it's irreplaceable for political activists and many other people who can be cut off funding on a whim.

I'm not a crypto maximalist saying Bitcoin should replace national currencies, but I understand the value and power of crypto. It does have its place in the world.

As for mining, primary reason for GPU market shitstorm (which affected me personally as a non-miner and gamer) was mining Ethereum, which has now changed its validation model and does not need any GPUs anymore.

Cryptocurrency scams and NFT bubbles are real, and I urge people to he aware of them. But it doesn't mean crypto should die.

Good reason to invite some of the Left, too!

Odysee is based on Lbry, so content creators can get crypto that is openly tradeable for regular money. So yes.

So what was the way to ultimately crush YouTube ads?

Not a penny to those bastards. Should YouTube and Google along with it rot to hell, I don't care. Maybe we'd finally get better alternatives running at full capacity.

The capitalist rise has been associated with exploitation, mass executions, imperialist wars, banana republics, extension of international slavery, human trafficking, and inhumane living and working conditions for workers (not only for slaves, mind you). Lots of unchecked power and lack of historical precendents have a tendency to build flawed societies, that's no secret.

But, just as with the history of capitalism, now we can learn from the mistakes made and correct the course. We have positive examples (early USSR driven internally by worker's councils, i.e., well, Soviets; Chile with democratically elected socialist leadership; Yugoslavia with League of Communists being elected by the people and republical committees; et cetera et cetera), and we have negative ones (Stalin's USSR, Mao's China etc.). We know what to do, and we are not doomed to repeat this in whole, just as we don't have to come back to slavery despite it being present in capitalist societies before.

On the economic side, a lot of it stems from the original disparity in the amount of capital, so just tracing who got more at the end isn't fair; what is fair is to compare economic dynamics, and on that part socialism wins hands down, especially in times of an industrial revolution. Socialism allows for a rapid change, it is the system that produced some of the highest GDP growths ever recorded, it is the system that took people out of the poverty loop and dustributed the new gains fairly.

But what we're left with if we continue our course under capitalism? Continued concentration of wealth and unchecked power of certain people over our economy. Those people were not elected, they are not responsible to us, they can do what they please with the capital they have accumulated. And they always get more and more, not just in absolute numbers, but percentage-wise too. This goes in full accordance with an economic theory, and this trend will not change any time in the future.

So essentially we're left to three choices:

-Continue with status quo and end up under the control of unelected people with unchecked power (see the first paragraph)

-"Starting again", forcefully redistributing wealth back to an equal state, only to come to this point again later on

-Building a functioning socialist society and finally moving on to the new chapter in the development of humanity.

What do you pick?

Nothing to downvote, that's spot on

Good bot

This is a complex thought, but if you refer particularly to socialism and technology, here are some off the top of my head.

General academic overview: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10455750600704638

Video essays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRepEvmCCIg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WwHvNDrGV0

I'm gonna say what the author - as well as many here - don't dare to.

We all know modern capitalism is bad, many know capitalism in general is bad and its modern form is inevitable, but that's magically where people stop.

I'm gonna say it. We need to revisit socialism. This is the only way.

What ultimately helped to solve the issue luddites have raised is the rise of socialist agenda, the idea of secure workplace, fair pay, and technology bringing equal prosperity for everyone.

You can relate to socialism whichever way you want, but through the previous industrial revolution the socialist rise was the thing that finally delivered that prosperity, even in capitalist countries, and allowed people to actually benefit from progress. When first states turned socialist, we suddenly got fairer working conditions, free education and healthcare (except for redscared America), and yes - a giant boost in prosperity and equality.

Now, on the brink of the next technological revolution, we either allow those on the top to reap everything they can, or we fight back again to reclaim technology for the benefit of everyone. And socialism is the structure allowing us to do the latter.

We should return to that discourse, no matter how much red scare we face to this day. Saying capitalism is bad is not gonna hurt them. Saying "capitalism is bad, and here's an alternative" will.