I think its more that, if that’s where your mind went after seeing a meme with a beautiful woman it the culture war is rooted a little too deeply in your mind

Fair enough, but dont whine when Youtube circumvents adblockers and starts injecting ads directly into video streams. You did this.

I mean

How do you expect Youtube to make money

Didn’t have to be a company tattoo at least accordong to the apology. Still a kinda disturbing power play.

At least in my market all national games are simulcast OTA for local teams. I think. Definitely Monday night football.

NFL isn’t bad, at least if you just want to follow your home team. The games are still broadcast free over the air, just got to buy a $20 antenna and you’re set for life.

…are we sure Charlize Theron isn’t Calypso

That’s just inflation though, at a normal 3% a year you should expect a dollar increase every 3 years. And inflation has been running higher than that.

For what it’s worth Apple Music has much higher payouts than other platforms like Spotify, Pandora or YouTube Music. Like 4x higher. I dont know if 0.8 cents is a fair price for compensation, but it doesn’t seem terrible… if you listen to an hour of music per day that’s maybe 15 cents to artists per day? That doesn’t sound like a ton but that’s about $4.50 per month to artists. Meanwhile according to the BBC artists get like 13% of CD sales so at $20 that would be a $2.60 cut. Meaning unless you were buying 2+ albums a month streaming on apple music gives as much money to artists as buying physical media.

I think thats my takeaway from the streaming era - its a lot less money per listen, but people are listening a lot more.

That’s a fair point but its also unclear how that would actually affect the rope. The rotor blades spin faster on the outside of their sweep, so they are driving the air downwards more powerfully there, although the rope is farther below the blades.

Its worth remembering this point, cause a lot of what people call enshittification (previously free and ad-free products starting to charge for features and showing ads) is just companies pivoting from losing money to capture market share to actually turning a profit on their product. Its not so much a betrayal as a necessary step in their business model.

Keep dreaming m8

I read a LinkedIn post on Lemmy today.

The style was concise. Painfully concise. Sentences filed down to icepicks that stabbed at my sanity. And yet, somehow completely superfluous - how is this possible?

The answer separates ordinary workers from real paradigm-shifters in the modern economy: AI.

You dont have to like it. But when I get an application, I dont even read the resume. Skills and hard work don’t matter anymore. That’s what AI is for.

What matters is the cover letter. I look for jargon. Short, meaningless catchphrases. Humblebrags.

I dont want the next great engineer. I want the next great LinkedIn poster.

Welcome to the vaporware job market. Get on board or get left behind.

Pretty sure this is just a self-aware joke that a lot of scientific and philosophical breakthroughs seem obvious after the fact.

You should check out chessboxing it’s actually very entertaining

They dont actually fight and play chess at rhe same time, they alternate, but the whiplash is wild. And you’ve got high-level players completely shook making blunders cause they were fighting 30 seconds ago

There are multiple actual mercedes-benz commercials featuring the song “Mercedes Benz” by Janis Joplin, which is not-at-all-subtly mocking consumerism and purchasing status symbols

I think that occasional social drinking is probably a good thing for society. It encourages people to socialize, open up and trust each other. Yeah you low-key are poisoning yourself, but your liver can handle a couple drinks a week. Id say I average about 1-2 drinks a week, and as such I have like no alcohol tolerance. The upside of which is that im a pretty big guy and I can get pleasantly buzzed off a single drink on an empty stomach.

The first time I had alcohol I hated it. The feeling, kinda like what you said, that my brains processing power has gotten throttled down. But once I learned to relax, its actually quite pleasant. I dont judge anyone for not wanting to drink, though, it’s not for everyone. But if youre gonna alter your mental state with drugs I think its a decent choice. There are safer drugs, like cannabis probably, but I think in today’s world alcohol is more the energy that society needs. I dont think that its a coincidence that the decline in alcohol consumption among young people is closely correlated with an increase in loneliness.

Not only is it outrageous… its also completely unfair!

True, I did think of Long, although the etymology of that one isn’t always clear. For Irish people apparently “Long” is derived from the Gaelic word for seafarer.

Funny timing I just saw a trailer for Wildwood and it looks SICK