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- Comment on Attitudes 1 week ago:
I was able to pursue a career from my favorite hobby. It took a lot of hard work to get there without the usual academic qualifications (university/college degree), but once I finally got hired for a full-time position, it was a dream job for me. I would have done a lot of it for free if it didn’t cost money to live. I’m also very lucky that my hobby happens to pay well.
Since then, a bigger company acquired my employer. I still like my job (mostly), but I don’t love it yet. I’m required to delegate a lot of the work, which I used to love and take pride in, to AI. I’m gradually getting better at using AI effectively and efficiently, so maybe I can find joy in using, eventually.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 1 week ago:
No.
- Comment on THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short 1 week ago:
I got all 20, but I never used vinyl records until just a few years ago
- Comment on The problems Mothers have to deal with 1 week ago:
A blonde-haired baby from Bethlehem. He really was a miracle! 😆
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 1 week ago:
Ohh I didn’t know they abandoned the bananas deliberately. Yeah that’s an important detail
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 1 week ago:
If you leave a spoon in the jar the same way, is the opening too small for ants to get in?
In my area of the world, we have ants that are small enough to get in with either tool propping the lid open
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 2 weeks ago:
Sure, I understand the moral arguments, but it’s very common to have legal consequences when taking something that doesn’t belong to you — regardless of morals.
Of course it would be morally better to give everyone permission to take the bananas. It sounds like that hasn’t happened though, so it seems very simple to understand that there would be legal consequences for taking them.
How is this not obvious? Did I miss some critical detail?
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 2 weeks ago:
I never thought I’d ever defend UK laws, but if you take something that doesn’t belong to you, isn’t it generally frowned upon in most parts of the world? This seems pretty normal to me
- Comment on Apparently, all YouTube Rewinds have been unlisted as of today. 2 weeks ago:
I assumed it’s probably due to some creators becoming, or later being discovered as, “problematic” and/or some sort of brand risk. It would look more strange to unlist a few of them, so better to unlist all of them.
To be clear: This is speculation based on zero information 🙃. Just a total guess based on how things tend to go between internet culture and corporations. I’m probably wrong. It would be cool if YouTube would communicate things like this.
It’s unfortunate to see such cultural history hidden away. Though, tbh, this is probably the most that I’ve ever thought about YouTube Rewind, and I haven’t thought about it in many years.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 2 weeks ago:
Have you considered immunotherapy (“allergy shots”)? That was life-changing for me
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 2 weeks ago:
I can read some of it. The text on the front of his jacket says “tsingtao”. Hope this helps!
- Comment on My Religion 3 weeks ago:
🤔 I understand this more like “Don’t practice the religion as a way to show off. For example, don’t make a YouTube/TikTok/whatever video giving a homeless man $100. Just give the guy $100 and STFU about it. Also, stop posting prayers in comment sections on social media, you look silly.”
I’m not a bible guy though, so idk
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 3 weeks ago:
Ugh. Everything in this thread is totally feasible and probably reasonably accurate.
I miss the old days when I could love tech, and got excited about new tech. It has gotten so sleazy.
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 3 weeks ago:
Well yeah, it’s a fridge with a spacious screen and an Internet connection in the 2020s. Of course they’d capitalize on all that advertising real-estate. And of course they’d wait until after people have had them for a while. They’re unsurprisingly shameless.
I’d be curious to know what kind of data it’s collecting to optimize those ads.
- Comment on The President of the United States of America 3 weeks ago:
Maybe we’ll consider electing someone who isn’t a senior citizen, next time. Three terms of the two oldest presidents in US history seems like enough.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 4 weeks ago:
American tech companies created algorithms that happen to boost videos and news articles of fringe/extreme occurrences that take place here. The mainstream news networks also prioritize content like that, for the same reason: It’s very profitable. Boring news/content just doesn’t make much money.
People who have never visited the US seem to have a very distorted understanding of what everyday life is like here. We display a pretty embarrassing caricature of our country for the world to see.
And to make things even more embarrassing, we made our government ridiculous, and made our politics become pop culture (yet also very tribal) over the last ~15 years.
- Comment on Well, when you frame it like that it sounds absurd. But yes. 4 weeks ago:
He pays them?
- Comment on Feeling that groove 4 weeks ago:
It’s also interesting that it has made somewhat of a comeback after some newer technologies have faded away
- Comment on Someone should put the 63 actual humans who are still MAGA on suicide watch after this past several days. 5 weeks ago:
Ohhh I see. I suppose it’s all about the setting. For some reason I was imagining people wearing them like a fashion statement or something 🤦🏻♂️
- Comment on Someone should put the 63 actual humans who are still MAGA on suicide watch after this past several days. 5 weeks ago:
🤔 I don’t think I’ve seen a bandage on anyone’s ear in my area (at least not in any recent years), and there’s no shortage of MAGA people here. Where was this happening? It sounds like it would have been funny lol
- Comment on I hate it when people use pictures showing the condiments only on top of a hot dog. 1 month ago:
lmao
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 1 month ago:
🤔 I wouldn’t guess that “commies” are the demographic that would go to a Kid Rock show
- Comment on Bacon 1 month ago:
How did the pig use the dog?
- Comment on So sad to see a really old guy driving an expensive sports car 1 month ago:
Why sad?
- Comment on During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today? 1 month ago:
I’m genuinely curious: Why censor the word “Nazi”?
- Comment on During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today? 1 month ago:
No, but it has some of the same letters
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 1 month ago:
These guys right here, officer
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 1 month ago:
Welp, there’s my cursed upvote of the day.
- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 1 month ago:
Thanks for censoring the word “n•des” so it’s family friendly
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 1 month ago:
Ohhh a bread vending machine. That makes a lot more sense than what I was thinking lol