If you are using ublock Origin you can just select the section of the page that shows the shorts and block it with the element picker.
NaibofTabr
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It would take less than 16hrs of labor per week to make sure everyone has access to all human needs and a reasonable amount of human wants.
Er, based on what? Because infrastructure is difficult, complex, and fantastically expensive.
What level of medical care does this estimate involve? Modern hospitals require massive amounts of labor to keep operational, especially if you account for all the external inputs (e.g. consumables like IV bags and exam gloves and lab analysis equipment).
Is this a surprise to anyone? Iran has been using Chinese-made missiles and other military hardware for over a decade.
Hanlon's razor always applies. If you always assume that everything bad that happens is intentionally malicious, with no acceptance of human weaknesses and the potential for mistakes, then you are part of the extremism problem. You are part of the "everyone who does something that I don't like must be evil" group.
Hanlon’s razor was never really a great axiom, imo, but now it’s completely dead.
If you actually believe this, I'm afraid you're on the wrong side of the razor.
We don't need more extremist rhetoric. We don't need more division. We don't need to perpetuate the "us vs. them" mentality.
If you are othering, you are wrong.
Yes, even with Republicans.
We take away the power of divisive, destructive autocrats by finding or making common cause.
The suspension, which lasted approximately 3 hours before his account was reinstated, was explained by Instagram senior directors in an internal leaked memo that his content was deemed “too socialist,” and goes against current national US interest.
Wow, that is blatant. McCarthyism all over again.
It takes time to grow an audience, and if you're very lucky maybe 5% of your audience will actually give you money to do what you do.
Even if you manage to stand out in what is a fairly saturated market, it will be years before you have enough people following you to make enough to live on. And to grow that audience you will have to put in constant steady effort all those years while seeing little to no return for it. If you waver, if you stop putting in that effort, the audience will start to go away and any momentum you had going will fade. And even if you do keep it up, there's no guarantee that you will make a decent living from it.
It is not impossible, but keep in mind that turning it into a job will mean that it is a job. You will not spend most of your time playing video games and having fun. Most of it will be spent doing things to manage and grow the business - all of the technical details that go into setting up a quality stream, all of the social media aspects of interacting with your fans, all of the bureaucratic details that go into running any business.
or it's generated...
I think we need to acknowledge that left-wing groups (especially online) have just as much of a problem with extremists as right-wing groups do. It's not quite as systemic and weaponized as what's described in Innuendo Studio's excellent video, but it is there and it can just as easily result in violent behavior.
Whenever a community turns into an echo chamber, the ideological aspects of that community switch from principles to performances. The members of the community start trying to prove that they're holier-than-thou, usually to gain nothing more than attention.
but I don't remember this kind of thing happening in American politics any time previous to the social-media-mass-shilling age of political discourse.
I think you're right, but I think this has less to do with some false-flag conspiracy and more to do with the accelerant nature of social media in general. I think a lot of this kind of behavior is driven by the one-upmanship impulse, and the effect of online communities is to concentrate a self-selecting group of people with similar interests. The larger the group becomes, the more an individual has to work to stand out and receive recognition from the rest of the group. Frequently the easiest way to do that is to demonstrate some extreme form of whatever the group's ideology is.
Basically I think a lot of this is just people looking for an ego-stroking. It's attention-seeking behavior, the kind you see in teenagers. They fall into some community or other and then find a community-acceptable way to exhibit their narcissistic tendencies.
Motorcycle assaults? What is this, an 80s action movie?