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Independent thinker valuing discussions grounded in reason, not emotions.

Open to reconsider my views in light of good-faith counter-arguments but also willing to defend what's right, even when it's unpopular. My goal is to engage in dialogue that seeks truth rather than scoring points.

  • Sure, I have nothing against that. I, however, still think that whatever platform hosts their videos deserves some compensation, right? So that's going to be either subscribtion, ads or donations.

  • Ok, but 'fuck subscriptions' is a blanket statement directed at the subscribtion business model as whole, including the hypothetical well run, and non-greedy ones.

  • Right, but I don't see how simply being on the platform makes one part of the problem.

  • Sure, but it's also a fact that many of the YouTubers whose videos I deeply enjoy wouldn't be able to make them if it didn't make them any money

  • How do you apply this to a platform like YouTube? I don't even finish most of the videos I start watching there, and the ones I do, I'll likely never watch again anyway. Subscribtion seems much more logical profit model to a company like that.

  • Ah, I see. Live and let live.

  • But how do you apply this to a platform like YouTube? I don't want to have to buy each video I watch.

  • What? Using twitter causes people to die now?

  • I wonder if the right-wing content actually has increased, or if it's just the ratio of it compared to left-wing content as much of the left has seemingly abandoned the platform.

    My feed was almost entirely non-political to begin with, and personally, I've hardly noticed any difference, though the little politics that do get thru tend to indeed lean right.

  • What's the problem?

  • The test asks whether a work features at least two female characters who have a conversation about something other than a man. Some versions of the test also require that those two female characters have names.

    Two female characters. Not talking about men. Both have names.

  • Doesn't quite work with something like streaming services

  • My subscribtions are Protonmail, Mullvad VPN and ChatGPT. On top of that I'm paying a voluntary monthy donation to a podcast.

    That's it. If I had to guess, YouTube premium will be the next one but so far adblocking still seems to work.

  • Fuck ads and fuck subscriptions

    How do you imagine developers and content creators to get paid if neither of these two options is acceptable to you?

  • I haven’t seen that movie, but you’d need to hold the match there for a while. Inside the sprinkler head, there’s a small glass vial with liquid. When it heats up enough it expands, the glass breaks, releasing the water behind it.

  • Yeah, absolutely. All bets are off once you go from just thoughts to actions.

    If I remember correctly, the strongest correlation with offending is proximity to children. So if someone has these tendencies and works in childcare, teaching, a church, or, in this case, as a 'youth leader,' then we're on a bad path there..

  • When replacing thermostat valves or radiators in buildings with steel-pipe radiator lines, the water that comes out is often as black as ink. It’s surprising how dark it can get.

    And for anyone wondering why steel is used, yes, it does rust, but only while there’s air in the water. As the pipes start rusting, that air gets used up, and the rusting stops. Same applies to sprinkler lines. Steel pipes in radiator lines can easily last the building’s lifetime, whereas copper pipes for drinking water usually need replacement every 30 years or so.

  • Just a friendly reminder that pedophile is not synonymous with child molester. It's a term describing sexual attraction, not behaviour, just like 'heterosexual' is. Simply being a heterosexual doesn't make a man danger to women any more than being pedophile alone makes them danger to children. They have a sense of morality too.

    The vast majority of people in prison for child abuse are not, in fact, pedophiles but just good-old rapists. Children unfortunelately simply are an easy target. The capability to rape a person - underage or not - generally requires some levels of narcissism, psychopathy and/or machiavellianism i.e. the 'dark triad' personality.

  • I fired an assault rifle in the army without hearing protection once just so try how loud it was. No need to try that one again. I knew it's going to be loud but not that loud.