4dpuzzle

I deeply hate YouTube, and I hate that I have to depend on them for some content. Their enormous resources and a huge cache of useful videos make them a monopoly. And they leverage that advantage in truly aggressive and extortionist ways, after killing off all potential competition by initially offering their services for free.

Every platform has to have some form of moderation to protect their users from harm including bullying, nudity and violence. But YouTube’s censorship algorithms are biased political bullies themselves. They kill heated, but necessary discussions and even entire topics. It’s also very biased in some social topics that they essentially define the narrative and culture in seriously damaging ways.

Examples include the topics of rapes and porn. Sure, they’re distressing or disturbing topics for many. But how do you solve them if the discussion around them is completely shutdown? How do you avoid those words in videos raising awareness, crime videos, etc? And how ridiculous is it that grapes 🍇and corn 🌽 should take the fall for Google’s narcissistic stubbornness? The future generations are going to be baffled by this idiocy that they inflicted on us!

At this point they’re too big to fail and they consider it beneath them to address the grievances of the creators or the audience. No company should have so much power over the society. Google should have been splintered into thousands of little pieces and sprinkled all over the planet a long time ago.

It’s high time that we leave YouTube behind and migrate elsewhere, wherever that be. Continuing to depend on them will be willful and irresponsible submission of our society to the abuses of a very toxic, greedy and unscrupulous conglomerate.

I’m an adult and am not responsible for anything you described. They were all there even before I was born. In fact, the same may apply to my parents or even grandparents. I’d rather blame a sociopolitical class than any single generation for all those ills.

But to answer your question, yes, I’d blame that entire class for the harm caused by young people using murder tools they introduced. They did it with the full knowledge of its consequences. They valued momentary material gains above the wellbeing of entire generations. They absolutely should be punished for all the mass shootings in schools, because they knew it could happen. Yet they chose the blood money. Similarly, if an entire city is under a drugs epidemic (like the current opioid crisis), wouldn’t you want to hunt down the producers and suppliers, instead of the users?

It’s extremely nuanced. ‘Light years ahead’ is correct since you are thinking about a race where one competitor is a long distance ahead of others. On the other hand, ‘light years away’ doesn’t make sense, since we think of achievements in terms of time needed, rather than distance.

Wasn’t that the point behind hanging, drawing and quartering?

No. Just leave their corpses in the jail for multiple lifetimes.

The sort of mental gymnastics and cognitive dissonance that these subhuman c-suite employ to justify stealing everyone else’s data while demonizing sharing of their data, is just infuriating. If these scumbags were incarcerated for a day each for every time they showed this hypocrisy, they would all rot in the jails for their entire lifetime, perhaps more.

Exactly what we need! More pods! SMH!

I wish they undid a lot of their stupid redesigns instead of doubling down on it.

The fact any board of directors considers this man employable at all is mind boggling to me.

All recent events indicate that the board of directors are seriously manipulated by the chief executive and are not good at taking sane decisions. Musk companies, OpenAI and Theranos are good examples.

As I recall, there was a board meeting of Theranos where they summoned Elizabeth Holmes to fire her for misleading them about the state of development of the project. But she managed to get them to reverse that decision and then take action against the person that reported her.

Honestly it’s not as bad as I expected.

Based on what you know.

I’m shocked that the human trail was authorized at all, considering the fate of the monkeys that were subject to the same. I’m not confident that this man or any future subjects will be truly safe. We won’t know even if something goes wrong.

You have seen what he has done to twitter/X. For all his talks about freedom, free speech and survival of mankind, he is fundamentally a conservative billionaire oligarch who has no qualms about exploiting others to death to add to his wealth.

Now just imagine if a brain implant goes the same way. Forget his delusions about backing up the human brain and telepathic nonsense. Even simple implants meant to help paraplegics are going to be dangerous under the control of people like him. Just the way the brain moves our limbs can be used against us.

This is why it’s important to report on matters like this. So that people understand the danger and avoid it, instead of falling for the propaganda that he is some sort of tech messiah.

Covid demonstrated that the physical presence of the staff in the office is not necessary for many types of jobs. WFH is shown to be economic, time saving and improving the work-life balance of those workers, without sacrificing productivity. It’s not like any of these companies are willing to compensate the workers for the hours lost in the commute.

If you still refuse to return to the office, then you’re just being lazy at that point.

That is classic gaslighting. What matches the current situation better is that the corporate overlords are being greedy AF. They are worried more about the returns on their real estate investments than about employee wellbeing, practicality and sustainability.

They’re not addicted to work. Just money. In exploiting regular people - both workers and customers - by robbing their wealth. Do you think their pay is proportional to their work? How do you think they get time to socialize and scheme against plebs if they are addicted to work?

In this particular context, they insist on return to office because WFH represents a loss of returns on the investments they made on corporate real estate.

While their addiction to money is a disorder, it’s as bad to the general public as people with antisocial and criminal tendencies. The only difference is that these rich sociopaths have enough capital to buy their way out of being held responsible. They won’t seek help because they enjoy the harm they inflict - just like how criminals don’t consider their sadism as a mental disorder. They need to be treated the same way as any other criminal - as a threat to society. And measures should be taken to prevent them from inflicting harm on normal people. Something like locking them in a cell and throwing the key away.

Modern legged robots are great. But they’re no match for crafty humans yet. It will get blown up from all sides. I’m pretty sure that the IDF has much more sinister and lethal weapons.

One weapon I’m particularly worried about is a swarm of mini drones equipped with AI to detect their targets and kill them with shaped charges. The only humans who deserve to be killed by it are the ones who were evil enough to invent it in the first place.

I think you misspelled ‘backdoors’.

Ajit Pai didn’t have to audition for anything. His employment was already guaranteed. He just had to do his assigned task. You see the same with NASA’s Kathy Lueders and SpaceX. The US is totally blind when it comes to the concept of conflict of interests.

PS: When I typed ‘Ajit Pai’, my phone auto corrected it to ‘Ajit Paid’. I guess even my phone knows!

Google would like to apologize for that inadvertent mistake. All efforts are being made to identify how this came to be and to avoid doing the same in the future.

OK, I misunderstood it. However, this was something that people were warning about for a long time.

I wonder if the codeberg site is vulnerable to such laws. I think they operate from the EU.