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I want to comment on this because you are phrasing it as if people who got the vaccine are in denial and not wanting to talk about it. Topics like this are hard to discuss because they are immediately polarizing and everyone who has a strong opinion but very little understanding of the science feels the to get their quip in about how right they are and how wrong the other people are. You can especially since it in threads relating celebrity deaths with comments like "well we know what REALLY killed them wink wink"

For the people saying "this isn't affordable," decent thermal cameras range in the thousands of dollars.

There are many good and decent people, who are firmly rooted in reality and facts, that count themselves as part of the Republican base.

I'm sure that's true, but those people aren't being voted for. Those people aren't in power and as long as people are voting for literal Nazis there is no discussion to be had. Can't have a rational discussion with people who don't believe you should even exist.

It worked against Democrats because the Republican base does not care about facts and just need a reason, fact or fiction, to justify the outrage they are told to feel.

No this definitely feels real bad.

You can argue it is more confusing but it is by definition not more restricting. It gives everyone the chance to just use whatever name they want which is the opposite of how restricting unique usernames are. Also, you can already change your display name by server.

Watson had the unfortunate issue of being an IBM product and you couldn't pay me deal with IBM these days.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/s686/cosponsors along with I assume intelligence organizations.

They don't want to ban it. They want to be pass an Orwellian surveillance bill and Tiktok is being used as a boogeyman.

Saying we should have an off switch is different than saying there is tons of UX work going into making you watch these videos. Especially since there is no incentive on Youtube's part to do this because they don't get a content of sponsored revenue. You are moving goal post.

What UX work goes into making sure you watch sponsored content? Every content creator I know uses chapters to mark where sponsored content is, Youtube has a flag at the beginning of the video to note that this video contains sponsored content. I'd argue they do a lot of UX work to make sure you know this video has a sponsor in it.

Not only that, Youtube specifically notes that a video has sponsored content when you click the video.

This still requires you to pay which brings us back to step 1. You are also implying that the content creator does not use the product and would not mention it otherwise which is not always true.

They are an American business that does not deal with other countries outside North America. Why would they care about the world outside of "ol' Merica?"

What you are doing and what you are saying don't match. Let's be clear here, I think this project is great and I don't want this to come off as a criticism of the project. It's a really fun idea and novel use of machine learning. That being said, the sponsored Youtube content you are targeting avoids all of the issues you are talking about. There is no fingerprinting, shadow profiles, or tracking. Youtuber says "video sponsored by NordVPN use code xXx360NoScopexXx for 50 cents off" and then the sponsor spot is done.

I'm going to flip this question around. Would we be worse off if fewer people were unable to start businesses out of Youtube channels? I'd think so. A lot of novel art and education has come out of realizing Youtube could be a full-time job. You jump to MrBeast as the junk food of Youtube but I can honestly say I have never seen a MrBeast video but I frequently look at things like FreeCodeCamp or even the more educational end of entertainment like Tom Scott or extensive product review channels like Project Farm. I'm glad they exist and I'd happily watch a sponsor spot for them.

I like the idea but in a world of Hummers and lifted trucks I wouldn't feel safe no matter how indestructible they claim the body is.

You actually don't understand the level of dependence India has on WhatsApp.

And, that being able to compensate someone for their work is such a complex process that it requires either a bunch of unknown middlemen, or an overengineered ponzi scheme.

Being able to compensate someone for their work is a complex process. Most Youtubers and or media publications would not exist if they asked for a fee upfront.

Have you considered that most people can't afford to upgrade to first class? The choice is either deal with the shit seat or not go on vacation.

I prefer having the numbers as opposed to globally unique usernames. It destroys the incentive to steal high value usernames through scams and social engineering attacks. I don't get random friend request from people who aren't even in servers I am because they don't know the numbers to send a request. It also gave Discord a reason to sell Nitro because for a fee you could just change the numbers to 1234 or whatever. You will see an increase in scams as people aim to steal high value usernames to resell them as well as an increase in spam. We've seen this behavior on Twitter for years.

Or maybe there’s a warning that the item is low in stock. Those are dark patterns.

I don't agree this is a dark pattern. I understand why they say it is but as long as those items are actually in low stock I think this is fine.

Sega did Sonic Colors in Godot, Dome Keeper and Cassette Beasts as other people have mentioned.

Unreal and Godot seem to be doing a number on Unity from both ends. The higher end of the industry is going Unreal while the indie games and hobbyist are going Godot. I imagine this is also why Epic is a Godot donor.

Also, no DVORAK? Is this for hackers or not?

I can't imagine they would sell enough DVORAK layout to make it worth it.

Project Farm did a video comparing insulated water bottles and Yeti didn't perform so hot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6j1NJkNzwI

okay, but does mozilla have a good reason for not supporting that stuff other than "we have limited resources to implement these things"?

That depends on what you are referring to. No there is not a one size fits all answer. For example, Chrome has implemented Filesystem API that Mozilla is still debating on because they see it as a security issue. You can agree or disagree but there reason is still something other than "we don't have the resources to do it"

This is a thing that has just become a thing to say with no substance. I use FF everyday and have since the Quantum release and have few complaints.

In the same way your average person doesn't care about privacy, they don't care about Elon Musk's shenanigans.

They obviously do care about Elon's shenanigans. Celebrities are leaving Twitter, politicians are leaving Twitter, companies are leaving Twitter, news organizations are leaving Twitter. These are the people Twitter should be concerned about because they have the followers and people will go where they go and they are currently going to bluesky.

Nostr doesn't need to become the new Twitter and I think it fills a fun niche but I think bluesky will eventually be that new Twitter because your average Joe just wants to go to twitter.com/whatever and not have to mess around with other people's domains, private keys, and whatever. Again, I think Nostr is great and eventually I imagine you can just push to both platforms but the people I follow on Twitter are not technical by any means and Bluesky is probably where they will land.