It is really weird that we have these big companies behaving like this with so little public outcry.
If an individual tracked your location, all of your spending, your web history, your communication and in-person meetings and built a profile on you containing all that information we'd label that person a stalker. But if Facebook does it, well that's just business.
Motorcycle assaults? What is this, an 80s action movie?
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.
I also love Star Twraerks
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.
This probably has a lot to do with Texas' new ID requirement law. These companies don't want to have to collect IDs and be responsible for maintaining that database of PII.