More like “If we further break what’s half-broken and going haywire, maybe it’ll stop.”

This is how it works for me. The radio plays songs I’m not all that interested in, so it fades into the background and I can listen to it for hours without issue. My own songs are interesting to me, so I actively pay attention to them, but that also means I get brain fatigue from that attention.

They’ll consider it if they know someone else is willing to pay it. I got headhunted a couple years ago by a place willing to pay me 50% more than I made to work remotely doing generally the same thing I was already doing in-office. There were more responsibilities, though, so I wanted to stick with my current job if I could get them to match the offer. I took it to my boss, and he agreed to match the pay, and even talked the CEO into letting me work remotely when they otherwise have a pretty strong push toward in-office work.

Now I get paid more than my own supervisor while working a pretty cushy job in my pajamas.

They’re trending heavily in their community, but nowhere else. It’s like how a bunch of audiophiles will probably watch a review of some super-expensive set of headphones, but nobody else will be interested at all.

People who watch conspiracy videos tend to watch a lot of conspiracy videos, which the algorithm likes. So if your watch history suggests you might watch a conspiracy video, it’ll suggest them to you so that you’ll hopefully get pulled in and watch a bunch of videos.

Ultimately, we need to tip people in the short term to keep them afloat until we can work with them in the long term to get America to the standard that most of the rest of the world takes, where tipping is a special case scenario only for exceptionally good work, and never to be needed or expected.

I subscribe to a lot of channels, and they usually put out significantly more videos that I don’t want to watch than videos that I do. I’ll usually subscribe to a channel for a specific video in case they make more of that specific kind of video, but I won’t care about their other stuff.

For example, I subscribe to the Game Grumps channel, but I only want to watch them play games that I’ve also played, or that I at least know enough about to follow along with the gameplay without focusing all of my attention on it. If they’re playing a game I’ve never heard of - which they often do - then I don’t care to watch it.

The algorithm does a better job of showing me the videos I actually want to see than the subscription feed does because it takes into account which specific videos I’ve seen and skipped for each of my subscriptions.

I didn’t get the sense that they’re saying China’s the sole reason for pollution - we all understand that it’s an issue globally - that article is just showing an example of how, instead of fixing the problem, the powerhouse countries of the world are doubling down on pollution.

Inspiration isn’t the same. It’s more like if I found a bunch of pictures I liked, then traced my favorite parts from each one onto a single piece of paper to make one image made up of lots of small copied pieces of other people’s work.

It’s new, but not original. With the recent influx of AI content that doesn’t seem to be slowing down, I’d say we should make a new designation of GC - generated content.

I think that achieving space colonization will only happen if we bring this world to the brink of destruction and the 5 people with all the money at that time decide to spend it all to escape. If we do achieve harmony it’ll be after those guys have already left to go destroy another world, and those left behind who survive the millennia of desolation as the world falls apart and puts itself back together again finally get the picture and treat their home with respect. And even then all it’ll take is one self-centered, power-hungry person being born for the exploitation to come back again.

I dunno, man. A species using up all the resources available in its isolated home, only to develop the ability to use those stolen resources to go to other nearby bodies and use up their resources as well… Makes me think of a virus. If that’s how our species survives, I’d rather we didn’t.