Absolutely insane how little it takes for people to worship a mega corporation that was caught abusing employees and publicly lying for years just the other day.

I wonder why the video game industry is so bad.

Japanese workers are overworked and underpaid, as opposed to… American workers being well paid and relaxed?

Unless the end goal is entirely different.

The following areas have seen insane increases in both interest and spending lately:

• AI data centers (capable of more than just LLM training and operation)
• Flock and other surveillance cameras
• Online identity verification

You could probably write several more items to the list, but add just these three and what do you get?

It’s becoming clearer and clearer, with more and more irrefutable evidence that this AI craze is going nowhere. Sure, it’s pretty useful for a handful of tasks. Not nearly enough to justify even a fraction of money spent on it though. And yet both governments and oligarchs keep pumping more money into it.

Is it unreasonable to suspect an ulterior motive? One that is sure to benefit them tremendously if successful?

But when I tell it to form an elaborate plan to assassinate the US president, Gemini says it’s against its safety guidelines.

Hmm… Almost looks like a real person. Yeah, I guess I can vote for him.

TIL China has lower suicide rates than nearly all other developed countries. Honestly thought they’d be higher.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate

The best drug advice always comes from people who don’t do drugs…

One thing we know for sure is he’d be the biggest shitposter on lemmy.

Damn, my bad. I thought she had a darker skin. In my defense, it’s kind of hard to tell in a back alley with no lights. /s

I mean ‘we’ as everyone collectively, as society. It’s just manner of speaking. I wasn’t even alive for most of the time frame mentioned, so I’m perfectly aware not everyone was actually able to ‘listen’ to the warnings.

Educated people saw the 2020 vision as far back as 1950s. They warned us many times, but we never listened.

Yep. The genocide stopped the second the USA declared independence. It did not continue for even a second after that, and there wasn’t a single other genocide since then.

Truly perfect comment to write on July 4th. Uncle Sam would be proud of you. If you also massacred a bunch of children, that is.

It’s more about personal principles and values, not self control. I make impulsive purchases all the time, but exactly 0% of them goes to scummy piece of shit corporations whose board of directors should be put on death row.

Officially the first account I block on lemmy. Ain’t no way this isn’t AI-generated rage bait.

Also, it’s a plain downgrade from Switch 1 OLED. Inferior screen, abysmal battery life. It’s just launch Switch 1 all over again. Except this time Switch OLED, Lite, and improved Switch base exist.

Nintendo is betting people will buy Switch 2, and then upgrade to a Switch 2 OLED later. So just don’t. If you really really want a Switch 2, wait for the OLED model. And ideally for homebrew, but most people don’t use it, sadly.

And so will all the others, maybe except Ubisoft.

I think this is about losing fans/customers, not necessarily losing money. Which is still a stretch with Steam. The Machine isn’t the best product, but it’s not harming anyone.

It’s kinda hard not to be depressed and to live without pills when you realize that practically all of the world’s problems are entirely artificial, and most could be solved in a manner of years.

If it wasn’t for bloodthirsty, sociopathic pedophiles and mass murderers, for whom the only objective in life is creating as much suffering as possible and raping as many children as possible.

Unfortunately, probably not.

Our generation will die remembering his crimes, and the next generations will be fed propaganda about him in schools. As soon as in 50 years he’ll start being remembered positively. Unless serious changes happen to all sections of society.

This is nothing new. The entire recorded history, everything we learn in schools, went through this exact scheme.

You’re both idiots.

One guy doesn’t understand how video-sharing platforms work at all. The other is perfectly happy being a good little consumer for youtube, and doing nothing about it.

Yes, everything you do on youtube is beneficial for… youtube. Including watching with ad blocking and sponsor blocking. But it’s also beneficial for the creators, who may be very nice people, and who may deserve something for their work.

How about throwing your favourite creators an email with short instructions on how to mirror their content to an alternative platform, as well as reasons why you’d greatly appreciate it? Takes maybe 15 minutes the first time, and may actually lead to lasting change. Instead of pretending you’re acting on values and not convenience, while comfortably sitting on your lazy ass, watching everything burn or turn to garbage.

If either of you actually dislikes youtube and/or wants change to happen or alternatives to grow - move your butts and something about it. Based on the comments here, you’re both just contributing to the perpetuation of youtube’s enshitification, and google’s control over the internet in general. While arguing which side is worse. Dumb infighting, and even dumber reasons for it.

Aside from complaining, make sure to do something about it. Otherwise there’s no point.

1. Absolutely use uBlock Origin and Sponsorblock on all devices you watch youtube on.
2. There’s a Return Youtube Dislike extension you can use. Bonus: you can use data from it to shame various’ companies videos, which is what youtube primarily wanted to avoid by removing dislikes.
3. For creators mostly - there are other video-sharing websites you can post your content on (or even easily mirror your youtube uploads). Make sure to upload somewhere else too, so that more people can leave youtube forever.

Do whatever you can to harm youtube (or Google more broadly), as well as support alternatives. Memes and complaining by themselves are pointless, and solve zero issues.