Use a form attached to a spreadsheet FTLoG! What a finicky way to dunce your job!

I paid for Lynda.com, and it could have easily taken in more business if YouTube wasn’t working so hard for Google ads. There are a lot of paid (and free) services that suffer because of YouTubes ad-money business model.

Netflix could use the extra business. There are plenty of services failing to thrive while YouTube exists. Peertube would be wide open if YouTube went the way of most of Google’s stable of apps. PeerTube is wide open even if YouTube doesn’t go away anyway.

People genuinely hate ads. It’s a high degree of enshitification. YouTube could divide into paid content and free content in a simple Freemium model.

Or, add third tier with ads, which any user can opt out of in the same way contributers can. I’d be happy to click subscribe on an ad free experience with less content available to me.

Or, add an option for a couple of free tier items per month, week, or day. Like Medium’s business model.

It’s not hard to stop sucking!

I have a student joke, but I’m not ready to submit it

I have a gardener joke, but I’ll have to dig it up

I have a cleaner joke, but it’s a bit dirty

Putting people on autopilot. The MS way!

This looks interesting, thanks!

A lot of blind courage is also missing. People used to answer to a lot of blind requests in a way that demanded a leap of faith and an effort to establish their own character. It also had a healthy dose of just wait and see. These days people can weasel out of uninformed situations quite a lot. So, we lean to shallow decision models with fewer good intentions accordingly.

You’re expending resources for greater intelligence with diminishing returns. At some point you’re killing yourself, so hopefully you’ll acquire enough intelligence to end the button cycle.

Imagine life without concern and high expectations your dreams will be profitable. No wonder money makes money.

The more of us that take the hit the fewer people just going along.

I caught a trespasser the other day that said it wasn’t him. Totally believed him too /s

“random” videos

Ah, good point. The universe hadn’t expanded yet.

Yeah, I’m slipping after 3 days. It’s like putting on beer goggles.

Spam is primarily contained as an illicit act. Normal corporations can’t engage in spam activities without some regulation. Around the world there are limitations on spam. As we know it, unstoppable spam is nothing in comparison to unstoppable heavy hitter DDOS type attacks.

If legal you would have to pay email providers to get out from under it. Think ads!

Open source isn’t struggling. It’s a struggle. People have high expectations, and expectations go awry in open source and profit models.

No, it’s very much a grown man with an awful disposition. (It’s probably more of an undiagnosed condition.)

He just switches channel and screams about what he wants to watch not being on.

I live with a guy that seems to hate music. Haven’t actually asked him about it because he just yells at the TV or radio if they have music on.