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by abenga 4mo ago
This also involves a significantly larger number of people getting my payment details, actual proper name, etc. Even if I wanted to pay individual channels, I'd probably still do it through the YouTube channel membership feature.
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by abenga 4mo ago
I probably watch too many channels to pay them each outside youtube, it will become quickly logistically unmanageable, if not unaffordable. The maximum I can do is probably 5 channels or so.
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by abenga 4mo ago
If your wealth/income increases x1000, their spending will not increase a thousand-fold. It's not like you can eat a thousand burgers in a day. All this leads to is poorer people paying a larger proportion of their income as taxes
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by abenga 4mo ago
It's not created any cure or solved crime though. The times it's been applied to those problems, it's either regurgitated stuff that's already in the data or led to the arrest of innocent people. Also, re: music, if I wa
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by abenga 5mo ago
That one now should not exist (like in plain Gnome).
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by abenga 5mo ago
But the air travel system (airports/atc/etc) would not exist, because taxes were needed to bootstrap it.
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by abenga 5mo ago
Why do you need to control production? Why not over provision and store?
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by abenga 5mo ago
I use Google products. Between YouTube premium and uBlock origin, I don't really see any ads at all.
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by abenga 6mo ago
Why is it important that Google (or any of these large companies) only hire Americans for their jobs in the first place? They are global companies now, they make money from everywhere. Why is the insular "Americans only" idea wort
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by abenga 6mo ago
> a country that's never had to fight for relief from tyranny Do you have an example of such a country?
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by abenga 6mo ago
The billionaires will blanket the airwaves with bad-faith argument ads and you will lose.
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by abenga 6mo ago
Really? Having other cultures around you makes one unhappy now?
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by abenga 6mo ago
Articles about two countries cannot be more true than the lived experience of actual residents of Africa. I am Kenyan as well, that article describes something very specific to individual communities in some countries in West Africa, it is
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by abenga 6mo ago
Is that because of some heritable presence/lack of intelligence or because scientists feed their children well early in life, have books in the home, and take the time to follow up on their children's education?
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by abenga 6mo ago
Gnome 50 and its auxilliary services on my machine uses maybe 400MB. The culprit is browsers, mostly.
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by abenga 6mo ago
If you need to heat/cool your home, is that really mild?
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by abenga 6mo ago
They are experts in their products.
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by abenga 6mo ago
If a participant in a war, in good faith, wants to negotiate long-term cessation of hostilities, they wouldn't kill the leaders of the other side. Because who the fuck will you negotiate with after? Who surrenders? That's why hist
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by abenga 6mo ago
> Secure Iraq's oil fields and resources, "which belong to the Iraqi people" The cynical read of this statement (extract resources from the invaded countries in order to enrich the American capital class) is the primary ai
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by abenga 6mo ago
If the Covid shutdown didn't trigger this, what makes you think this time it's different?
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by abenga 6mo ago
You have 20 years after buying them to set up a local supply chain.
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by abenga 6mo ago
I remember the 2010 Olympics were aired on pre-enshittified Youtube (in a few countries). You could click on icons to go to a live stream of different events, zero ads, no cutting to studio announcers (stayed on the fields), zero fuss. It w
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by abenga 7mo ago
Is the fact that is a mistake a comfort to the kids' parents, siblings, or friends? Are they somehow less dead?
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by abenga 7mo ago
Sucks for you, but you can't then turn around and expect someone else to invest these for you when they don't want to.
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by abenga 7mo ago
I of course expect my lawyer and doctor to thoughtfully apply their knowledge to help me. Why should they be any different?
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by abenga 7mo ago
Is all this nonsense being pushed everywhere now because everyone's eyes are on the war?
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by abenga 7mo ago
Why would using Google maps cause brain damage?
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by abenga 7mo ago
Maybe that cost is meaningless for GP (right or not).
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by abenga 7mo ago
(Yes, I see your /s, just adding to your comment) It's weird that supposedly clever people cannot see beyond "this number goes down/up now" to "this is not immediately beneficial, but it keeps our company healt
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by abenga 7mo ago
It does. If you paste (to slack, email, whatever) after taking a screenshot on Gnome, you will attach your screenshot. It is also saved on ~/Pictures/Screenshots.

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