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The man behind the original tweet has also made a post effectively implying that a school affirming a child’s wish to socially transition before telling their parents was the direct cause of them getting raped.

He puts the blame for this kid being raped on the kid, not on the people doing the sexual assault. While also repeatedly misgendering the kid in question.

But sure, child prostitution? Totally fine. No issues there! Makes total sense. /s

You will eat here, and you will be happy about it! 😡

This is exactly what they should have done, and one of the main reasons I got annoyed with them. There was one single public RPC endpoint for the LBRY blockchain that was publicly available. one. (and then it went down shortly after I found it)

Compared to other blockchain-based systems, with tons of free public RPCs (click on the arrow below Ethereum Mainnet), LBRY was absolutely terrible.

It meant there was almost no tooling or resources for any developers to start their own site, and essentially killed the very idea of doing so.

Compare that to something like Lemmy or Mastodon, where I’ve personally seen numerous different moderation policies on different instances, and Odysee just stopped feeling like a good alternative to YouTube.

I just wish more software would support webp files. I remember Reddit converting every image to webp to save on space and bandwidth (smart, imo) but not allowing you to directly upload webp files in posts because it wasn’t a supported file format.

If webp was just more standardized, I’d love to use it more. It would certainly save me a ton of storage space.

The difference between Odysee and YouTube is that YouTube doesn’t claim to be a free speech platform that allows any possible statements on, and does often take down a lot of the harmful content. You only see the remainder, not the whole.

Odysee is quite small, and as such, could relatively easily moderate much more of the content on its platform, if they actually cared about doing so.

Odysee explicitly tries to allow as much speech as possible, claiming that they totally won’t allow any bad content, while in reality, platforming LGBTQ+ misinformation, white nationalist rhetoric, anti-immigrant propaganda, etc.

All of those violate their Community Guidelines, by the way. But remember, it’s guidelines, not actual policy as to what they remove.

Sorry if my wording was unclear, let me rephrase.

Odysee is the platform, the site, the frontend, and the company. LBRY was the backend, the blockchain-based system that actually stored the videos themselves.

Odysee was the main interface to interact with the videos stored on LBRY, to essentially act like YouTube, but the videos were technically available to anyone.

Odysee then used the justification that the backend was decentralized to say that they had to remain entirely neutral to any content on Odysee, because a decentralized system inherently cannot have its content censored by one party.

This ignored the fact that they could choose to modify which videos their frontend would show to users. They acted as if this was not possible, even though it was.

Thus, a decent YouTube alternative with some good creators on it refused to censor any nazi content that started making its way there because YouTube rightfully deplatformed its supporters, and let it infect the platform without doing anything to stop it, pretending as if they had no choice, while in reality, it just brought them more revenue.

They still somehow think trickle-down economics is a thing that works, while also thinking that more educated people don’t produce more economic growth. I can’t imagine thinking like these people do.

I have to disagree with this.

A study done recently using data from the 2020-2022 US midterm elections found that people’s views on abortion directly affected changes in vote choice, while other factors like the economy were blamed on both sides, and were substantially less influential in swaying votes. (here’s an article with more detail regarding the study)

I don’t think most are single-issue voters, on either side, but yes, Republicans do tend to vote more single-issue than Democrats. That said, if the Democrats stopped making access to abortion a central campaign issue, not only would it lose them support from those who are, y’know, big on women’s rights, a substantial amount of the population, but it wouldn’t actually change most Republican voters, since they would still be able to vote for a candidate that would be more strict on abortion.

The only shift caused by de-prioritizing abortion as a campaign issue would be pushing more Democrats toward either Independent, or right-wing candidates, both of which make it harder for the Democrats to win against the explicitly anti-choice party of Republicans.

I used to like Odysee until I saw them clearly promote conspiracy theories and far-right, almost Nazi rhetoric on the homepage.

Guys, just because the backbone of your site is decentralized doesn’t mean your centralized frontend can’t be modified by you.

They never even made a single attempt to help others develop alternative frontends too, so the decentralization there was more akin to decentralization theater.

The majority of Americans believe abortion should be legal.

When Republicans say they want to ban abortions, and try to play it off as a popular position, they are lying to your face.

Even a substantial portion of Republican voters want abortion to be legal.

They aren’t just fighting most Americans, they’re fighting themselves too.

The first thing I did the moment I saw this was imagine seeing this in Portal, and hearing GLaDOS say something like “Welcome to the Aperture Science wellness room, where test subjects can de-stress after a long day of testing”

(Rewriting my original comment since I think it came off wrong.)

It’s absolutely cultish behavior. I can’t imagine devoting that much of my life to some random dude that clearly doesn’t care about me and is obviously authoritarian.

I do want to add though, I strongly dislike this format of “look at all these weird people,” followed by a collage. I see it used all the time by the right when they attack marginalized groups, especially those in the LGBTQ+ community (think this post, but “Not weird, totally normal LGBTQ+ people” with photos of those people who go to family-friendly intended pride parades in kink gear, stereotypically unattractive trans people who don’t pass, etc.)

I see this sort of thing all the time, and it really contributes to a higher level of divisiveness in conversation than I think is necessary. It leads a lot of people to think all or even the majority of Trump voters look like this, when in reality, most of them are random people in the suburbs that just want lower taxes. (and think the Republicans will actually give it to them instead of just cutting taxes for the rich)

Adblockers are the largest consumer boycott in history.

Google isn’t just disabling an extension, they’re attacking a boycott comprised of 200,000,000+ people, all around the globe, standing up to forced manipulation of our beliefs and habits by profit-hungry corporations.

And even then, I’d rather not have to keep paying for a subscription that could stop and brick my mouse at any time when they decide to “consolidate their product offerings” like Spotify did with the Car Thing. (plus, card fees would mean they’d actually be losing $0.05-$0.10 or more off the purchase price every time your card gets charged, at that price point)

A lot of what we do as a society is redundant, but I do think fully written emails or cover letters have merit (even if it’s the same template replicated for multiple applications,)

It helps the reviewer understand if you’re articulate with your speech, gives them additional context to your resume, and lets them better match applicants with their current work environment.

That said, a lot of the process is still redundant anyways, and considering many hiring processes are now entirely automated, a more concise, standardized method of providing the same information would likely be more manageable and efficient for most people.

100%.

Even today, you can buy a component kit and 3D print your own custom shell for a DIY mouse. (the hardware quality is alright)

I can only imagine what the OSS community will do once companies like Logitech try rolling this crap out on a larger scale. It’s like the outrage against all things wrong with printers, except so much lower tech that almost anyone could build their own.

The people making these ads can’t fathom anything past pure efficiency. It’s what their entire job revolves around, efficiently using corporate resources to maximize the amount of people using or paying for a product.

Sure, I would like to be more efficient when writing, but that doesn’t mean writing the whole letter for me, it means giving me pointers on how to start it, things to emphasize, or how to reword something that doesn’t sound quite right, so I don’t spend 10 minutes staring at an email wondering if the way I worded it will be taken the wrong way.

AI is a tool, it is not a replacement for humans. Trying to replace true human interaction with an LLM is like trying to replace an experienced person’s job with a freshly hired intern with no experience. Sure, they can technically do the job, but they won’t do it well. It’s only a benefit when the intern works with the existing knowledgeable individuals in the field to do better work.

If we try to use AI to replace the entire process, we just end up with this:

It’s because they’ve conditioned their audience to believe a few key things:

1. “Voting” with your wallet is what matters over all other forms of action.
2. Giving money to “woke” companies harms you as an individual.
3. Buying products is the best way to signal your value as a person.

Let’s break that down.

They want money to be more important than voting, because they understand that their political demographic does not win the popular vote in most cases, and their policies are inherently not popular with the majority. But when they can get money instead, then use that to influence votes and policy, well, that just might get them the policies they want without substantial votes from the public.

They want people to fear giving money to “woke” corporations because it makes them seem like the only source of real truth, and objectivity. They’re the voices of reason in a world that’s all against you. Then, you’ll be willing to pay for their subscription streaming service, and their subscription streaming service for kids, and their merch, and their chocolate, and their razors, et cetera et cetera.

They want you to associate buying products as the way to define yourself, because when you so strongly identify with their politics, you’ll spend as much money as you can signaling to those around you that you don’t support the “woke” agenda through your wallet, you only support those who truly embody your cause. Giving them money becomes a symbol of your values.

And of course, they wouldn’t get any sales without this as a selling point. If they just start a razor brand, not affiliated with their political ventures, who’s gonna buy? Their razors are effectively the same price as Gilette’s, just without the likely higher standard of quality and availability in physical retail locations.

But when they combine all three of those tactics I mentioned to make their target demographic believe they need these razors to display their values, stop a perceived evil agenda, and make their voice heard… well, then you’ve got a good revenue stream.

It actually already did break sponsorblock for a bit because user submissions would include the wrong timestamps, due to the ads changing the duration of the video.

This would be hard to implement, but I personally would be happy to donate more to fund the development costs for such features. Adblocking is the largest consumer boycott in history and I won’t let a corporation try to crush it again.

It’s like applying DRM law to all media ever. And we know the problems with DRM already, as exemplified 2 decades ago by Cory Doctorow in his talk at Microsoft to convince them not to endorse and use it.