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.

they want all of that “spying on their own people” power for themselves.

My assumption as well, after after the video release in the Guthrie case, we know objectively that every device with a microphone or camera and a wireless connection is spying on us and feeding the data to the US government without a warrant too.

This is the kind of stuff that makes me despair more than anything else. That billion dollars they’re wasting could do so much fucking good in local jurisdictions all over the country, but instead, it’s being used to lock us further into a fossil fuel energy structure. Not only is this one singular asshole (and to be fair, his golf buddies) enough to turn back the clock on renewable energy, but in my town, we’ve experienced temperature swings of 70 degrees twice in the last ten days.

To me, it seems undeniable that climate change is escalating, but none of our federal legislators experience this because they’re all massively wealthy and insulated from the consequences. Bad weather? They hop on a plane Ted Cruz style and go somewhere else, or tuck themselves away in some McMansion that is energy-independent of the grid and climate-controlled. Ergo, it’s not their problem.

And over in China, fossil fuels are being burned at a massive rate because of the Iran War, which could very well drag on for years despite Donald’s assertions (and that’s what they are, unconfirmed assertions) that he’s supposedly gotten Iran to come to the negotiating table.

I’m just glad I never procreated. I’ll have to deal with the fallout of this shit, but I’m not rolling the boulder further downhill.

Thank you.

You’re wrong.

But that’s okay. Thank you for the reply. I hope you a nice day.