Wow, and just get rid of gig economy workers? I bet you expect Amazon delivery drivers to piss in the toilet and not their drink bottles, too. Fucking pinko.
I use Kagi, if you're interested in alternate search engines. It's a paid service, something I'm happy to pay for in the effort to de-google myself. It downranks results that are ad-driven or use trackers. In effect the results it gives can be very even handed.
AI is really good at hallucinating a series of words until it falls into the places it expects the user wants it to, so while AI slop will never be more than AI slop, you can still make it write absolute bangers.
I love BE, I'm in that sweet spot of having never engaged with his online presence but occasionally watched his scripted videos. It makes everyone seem absolutely unhinged when they auto-nope out of any conversation involving him, when the takes usually in question is something like 'genocide bad'
I think this view only slides if you do actually already have inherent misogynistic or misanthropic tendencies, and those tendencies mix with the natural jealousy feeling that cheating invokes. I think of asexual people who also don't love being cheated on.
Hypersexuality can be destructive for the self and online spaces see high rates of hypersexuality that are seen as sex-positivity instead. This leaks out into the real world eventually.
I think it's direly important to understand where sexuality ends and the real world begins. lots of functional adults cannot do this and it leads to things like bioessessentialist thinking (women just want to get RAILED by HARD STRONG ALPHA MEN WHO ARE BLACK) or obsessive shipping (x and y would be so good together! imagine how they would have sex?!). It makes conversations uncomfortable and makes whatever space they are inhabiting inherently adult-only.
There is so much to this world other than sex. There's so much to just human relations other than sex. Really, sex takes up such a small part of our lives but disproportionately motivates much of it for most people. It's a sad state of affairs and I can definitely see where you're coming from, OP.
russia is the no-no country for doing bad things, like starting pointless wars and terrorizing a civilian population. so you can't support them. you'll have to find other alternatives to your services that support bad countries doing bad things.
All leftist video creators are overrated, leftist authors less so but there's still a huge contingent of them that are just co-opted by their main topic of critique. I don't think this is a failing on the creators themselves but a feature of the market.
When you get down to it, no matter how ideologically 'pure' you manage to be, once you're earning money for something - even if it's not your primary income - your ability to affect the change you're talking about becomes limited. You don't want to risk your income. You don't want to get 'cancelled' by your peers. For some this comes down to mindful self-censorship, but for most they don't even realize that they've started down the algorithmic intellectual death spiral.
But! I think this is very okay and for our purposes can be leveraged. I absorbed endless amounts of this content when I was feeling the full effects of alienation. Alone all day, underappreciated and working my body to the bone in a warehouse. The reason I read ML theory at all is because of some of these chucklefucks - ThoughtSlime, The Deprogram, even broader liberal-types like Hbomberguy. They were friendly voices to listen to and fueled an inherent rebellious nature most of us have within.
But content cycles, your interests peak and change, and if you walk away from ""breadtubers"" having absorbed any actual theory, your admiration turns somewhat to scorn, and you begin to feel frustrated with the endless complaining and no actionable solutions. You'll either fall back into liblight or your exposure to theory will grow into a larger revolutionary sprout.
That's when you're pushed out of the content mill and become exposed to the dreaded ideas that YouTubers can't actually say due to ad revenue concerns. Getting to this stage of radicalization, especially in the west, used to be like pulling teeth. You'd need serious organizational power to spread the education needed.
Now it can be achieved by listening to freely accessible (and even semi-mainstream) content slop and letting well-known parasocial elements play out in a listener. Learning, admiration, surpassing the teacher, and finally finding your revolutionary spirit.
Russian state disinformation is also, seemingly, the most powerful influence on Earth. Seriously, it can get into anything and affect everyone. US-based free media press are under Russian influence depending on who you ask. The president himself? A cold war sleeper agent. It's all Russia!
These are the same groups of people who, generally, can't comprehend how Trump won, and how many trumpists spout earnest disinformation like their lives depended on it. So much disinformation is present, Trump won the presidency!
But no, it's Russian disinformation that's causing all the problems. America just has, um, cooky rednecks.
I think that just further highlights the disparity between media and the real world - imo a separate issue libs also struggle with. When you're raised on as much media content as a lot of westerners are, it leaves you alienated about what life is actually like.
I motion towards white collar workers gathering around the water cooler to discuss the latest shows, while blue collar workers like, actually hang out and drink after work. One of these groups is touching grass way more than the other.
I wish people/libs could see how self evidently different life in the ruling class is compared to the lives of most of humanity, and how that will clearly lead to radically different behaviors and ideals.
Even if you don't want to acknowledge the systems of exploitation that billionaires require to exist, you have to inherently understand that billionaires have different, inaccessible life experiences, they're incapable of understanding what most of humanity understands of day-to-day life, socialization, civic responsibility, etc.
If good billionaires did exist, their antisocial tendencies would make them less compatible with society than most violent criminals.
crimes, as soon as times get hard in the home country i'm resorting to crimes. organized crimes, random crime, union adjacent political crimes, whatever. fuck fighting for the imperial machine and fuck dying due to austerity. i'm straight crime'ing it.
Wow, and just get rid of gig economy workers? I bet you expect Amazon delivery drivers to piss in the toilet and not their drink bottles, too. Fucking pinko.