biddy

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[–] biddy@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But this is just culture, right? In the 70s smoking was normal and nobody was bothered by it. Now culture has changed and we see it as disgusting. With a bit of effort and luck, culture will change and driving a car in public will be seen to be just as disgusting as smoking is now.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They both agreed with each other but were arguing with a strawman. One said

their precious smartphones might be problematic.

The other said

maybe smartphones play a role

Which mean the same thing.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 16 points 2 months ago

I'm not as optimistic as you.

Hosting video is really expensive. Making video is really expensive. YouTube was losing money for about 15 years despite having a monopoly on online video for most of that time and the best advertising tech in the world. I don't think it's possible to make a free competitor to YouTube.

On the paid side, there's plenty of streaming services that are making money. But you have to be already established in order to get a contract. And since you will typically have to use social media in order to get past that initial barrier, it might as well include YouTube.

However, my guess is that YouTube makes the majority of it's money from larger channels. If the larger channels all join paid streaming services(e.g. Nebula) then gradually that may be able to bring YouTube down.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago

monkrus.ws idk how it works but it's even easier than installing the legit way.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 1 points 2 months ago

It isn't on a mobile device where you might go out of wifi or cellular coverage. But it's probably a good thing as I don't want my tab habit wearing out my disk

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When i worked at the office in my last job, I find it almost impossible to take a decent break.

What is wrong with your labor laws? In my country there's a mandatory 1 hour break(30 minutes of which is paid) in a full day of work.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago

Towards the end of the video he addresses the point that the optimum speed of cars is around 60(or I thought it was 70).

This argument doesn't apply here because that figure is for a car traveling at a constant speed on a straight, flat road with no wind. E.g. a freeway/motorway. In a city, a significant amount of the energy is used to speed up and slow down at intersections.

Remember the kinetic energy formula, Ek=1/2 mv^2 . That tells you that accelerating a car to twice the speed takes 4 times the energy, or in other words it takes 4 times as much fuel to get to 60 as it does to get to 30.

This extra energy to get up to speed is going to far outweigh any benefit from less rolling resistance at 60 compared to 30.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Look, if we're inventing hypothetical scenarios, imagine there was a fire truck behind the car. Now the car drivers are clearly the bigger assholes.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

$180 for a new 4TB USB SSD? Hard drives are becoming pointless.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not luck. Things are built for a reason, the regulations and structures of society are designed, and it artificially dictate s what is built. Perhaps they live in a place where the regulations mean that sensible livable apartments are fairly abundant. Perhaps you don't. That's not luck, those places were designed that way.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Since I don't know how well their manipulation works

I do. It works really fucking well. $900 billion per year well.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The truth about how I am? Because they don't care. They don't actually want a long infodump about personal details of my life.

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