Maybe let’s try focusing on content and not personal characteristics of the presenters:

https://youtu.be/Q0yL2GezneU?t=1347&si=wZjBIJkdmK8CwzIm

I’m way more annoyed by that terrible echoey microphone

“The truth is you love censorship, and so does everyone else. The only question is whether you’re ready to admit it.”

https://gizmodo.com/why-censorship-is-part-of-everyday-life-section-230-1850095976

Their content promotion algorithms are not protected by section 230. Those algorithms are the real problem, pushing more and more radical content onto vulnerable minds. (The alt-right YouTube pipeline is pretty well documented. Reddit, I think, less so. But they still promote “similar content”)

It’s a rather bizarre argument, essentially saying “it’s not the whole solution so it’s not a solution at all”

Lawdamercy, can you please say it louder for the people in the back whinging that they refuse to vote for Biden because his Climate Bill wasn’t perfectly everything all at once? In the face of the Republican denialist obstructionism, it’s pretty fucking miraculous. The ultimate solution to climate change is going to be a patchwork quilt of a million different tiny solutions

You’re a good teacher, working around the things they find important in their lives. Thank you

No this is different, actually. The other event is the hypothesized genetic bottleneck triggered by the Toba supervolcano eruption only 74,000 years ago as opposed to 900,000 years ago for this newly proposed event.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

All economic bubbles do that

https://freakonomics.com/2007/06/the-benefits-of-a-bubble-even-when-burst/

Fully admits to being a literal child at the time. Still talking like they have something to contribute about the situation they fully admit to knowing nothing about. Gets snarky with the people who were actually impacted by it.

Fucking why do people like you feel the compulsive need to open their mouths about every god damned thing? Maybe your opinion, I dunno, isn’t relevant.

I would like to introduce you to a different possibility. It’s called keeping your mouth shut and listening. Crazy idea, I know, but it’s often followed by this thing called learning.

Give it a try sometime.

Well there are two of us right here in the comment section. I had a great job at a startup online retailer. They had a good business model, it was a great place to work.

We had been beating our sales projections and were only a couple months away from being profitable when the Sept 11 attacks happened. Within two weeks, our VC funding stopped and we were all out of jobs because the company owners had to choose between paying rent and paying us. They chose to pay us all severance, bless them for that.

Thankfully I was young, didn’t own a house, didn’t have kids. But a lot of my colleagues did.

Well, we’re not. There’s a reason you don’t see New York City jumping to adopt this tech, and it’s because they bothered to invest in a public transit system that makes cars obsolete for a lot of people. If we got decent public transit in more cities combined with an actually functional high speed rail system in this country, you’d see cars become obsolete for a whole lot more people.

This “lifestyle/culture” developed out of sheer necessity given the geographic size of this country and the complete failure to invest in mass transit. It can and must be changed, if we want our future to be viable at all.

Well this is beautiful. More of this kind of thing please

Obvious troll is obvious.

Yes, that is how monopolies function, Señor EatMyDick.

This kind of checking in with yourself during activities is one of the foundational techniques taught in some kinds of therapy as well, like cognitive behavior therapy and dialectic behavior therapy

There was some 90s Goth/industrial band who sampled that line “we’re not who we are” in a song and I can’t for the LIFE of me remember who it was.

I just use the kbin mobile web app and it’s fine for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Same, every time I see those posts thinking, “Kbin does that.”

Ernest is kinda the best, gotta say. Everyone should buy him a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin

This is the answer. If declining the raise could somehow increase the pay of other workers, I’d be all for it. But it won’t.

You can hate the game and still play it well, OP

Collectively advocate even! Some sort of group, a “union” of like minded employees we could call it

I also recommend the Hybrid Calisthenics channel. He focuses on low impact, easy to get into training options.

https://youtube.com/@HybridCalisthenics