That is partly why I don’t date, and why I don’t like dealing with people much in general.

Everyone has so many of these stupid, made-up rules that they kinda just assume are universal because their social media algorithms make it seem that way.

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I hate that a country can threaten an entire region’s water supply and the headline seems so normal.

Absolutely. You can’t teach that. Pure, natural talent.

Reminds me of the people here in the US who drive gargantuan, gas-guzzling trucks and SUV’s in order to make themselves feel cool, when there are smaller, more efficient, and better-running vehicles that are readily available and more useful for daily travel.

Iran and Ukraine have certainly demonstrated that military priorities in America are misplaced, not to mention their strategy. From what I’ve read, we’re running out of the interceptor missiles we need to protect against these drones and they’re too expensive and difficult to produce that it’ll take years to replace the American stockpile. (Though, admittedly, I’m no expert and only know what I read.)

It also reminds me of Vietnam, when the US was defeated, essentially, with booby traps made of wood, natural cables and string, and scavenged ordnance. Hell, listening to Keg-breath speak about Iran reminds me very much of Robert McNamara. Sucks that we have people running wars who paid smarter people to write their history term papers.

But this one isn’t on the military in my book. The Joint Chiefs told them the US military wasn’t prepared for a war with Iran and why, and Donald just assumed he could order up another victory like a Big Mac. He was destined to fuck with the wrong country eventually.

Yeah, I think most get my meaning, but fair point.

What would it need to become a viable youtube alternative?

Good question. I was only on it for about 30 minutes, so I don’t really have extensive feedback other than it felt very low quality and too basic.

Are there any well-populated instances you would recommend? I could be convinced to give it another try.

Have you thought about mirroring your youtube content to peertube?

I’ll consider doing that.

Why did you find it underwhelming?

There’s a chapter on that in the video. :D But I was just vastly unimpressed with the quality of content and the UI. It’s not a viable YouTube alternative at this point, IMHO.

to put it politely, politically intense.

You think?

One of the things I love about the Fediverse is how easy it is to avoid political content. So many good filtering settings under the hood, especially on Mastodon, but with Lemmy you can just subscribe to non-political content and make your subs your default home page.

We can be intense though.

It’s gotten a pretty good response, despite my channel being smaller. I think a lot of folks just don’t realize that there’s viable, enjoyable social media that is ad, AI, and algo-free.

Ah, thank you for the info.

I only mentioned ‘Lemmy’ in the video, but did include a link to a Lemmy instance database, so I presume those options are included.

I tried PeerTube and, unfortunately, found it terribly underwhelming. But thank you for the suggestion.

And, meanwhile, my friends who think themselves liberal also oppose any kind of regulation of social media.

I don’t get it.

Doubtful.

This is just a way for SpaceX to try further integrate itself into the spheres of government and public funding, and thus, make it easier to justify government bailouts.

Very glad that he is proving me wrong and I fucking wish he was eligible to run for president.

Oddly enough, one of my lifelong best friends is someone I met on bolt.com in the 90’s.

We’ve hung out in person half a dozen times but facetime and chat all the time.

Yup, they followed up with a Super Bowl ad to that effect, and the negative response was so strong that Ring/Amazon immediately walked it back.

Here’s one source: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/investigators-wrangled-video-nancy-guthries-google-nest-camera-backend-rcna258460

I’m 100% sure it was Kash’s call, and he was just too stupid to realize what the FBI was inadvertently admitting to by releasing this footage.

Yup.

And they probably did ruin their Macbook, since Macs are designed to be irreparable on purpose and a ding like that may have affected screen functionality significantly.