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oh, thank you for clarifying. I’m not arguing they’re decent people - just that this sort of thing could potentially harm a creator. Unfortunately while in an ideal world creators would be able to tell the companies with this sort of overbearing contract to go fuck themselves, that’s not the one we live in. “Creators don’t have the power in the relationship: a capitalism story…”

What?

Youtube does provide info on which portions of videos are the most watched - while most advertisers aren’t the kind of people that do due diligence, quite a few of the big management groups have started introducing contracts that base payout for sponsor reads off of actual watch count. AFAIK it hasn’t made too much of a difference yet (though channels with high skip-counts are less likely to be given the decent sponsor deals) but if youtube makes the analytics easier to access it probably will have a pretty big impact.

It’s the default web interface - it doesn’t show on all videos, but in my experience it’s on nearly everything.

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What?

Whats that in Rhode Islands? And how about mass, can I get that measured in bigmacs?

That seems like a large generalization - my friends apt. in a major city has 100 gbps, my house in bumfuck has 1 gig fiber, my neighbor has 5mbps DSL. It’s pretty variable and enshittificiation is for sure an issue, but you can still absolutely find good ISPs in major american cities. It’s not that dire.

“In the US, 100 years is a long time. In the EU, 100 miles is a long distance.”

Old joke, but it really does highlight the largest fundamental cultural difference. Things like trying to explain how grudges that were formed in the 19th century and are indeed still the driving force behind political trends, or how accusing me of political indifference because I’m not in DC protesting is like accusing someone in portugal of not caring about world politics because they didn’t drive to eastern Ukraine for a protest…

color revolution

Oh god.

Lying about fuckin’ everything? Agreed.

Yeah, and that tendency is directly addressed in the policy.

Like, say, a candle?

Spelling/grammar checking and machine translation have been in use for decades on wikipedia, the only difference is that AI has improved the usefulness of the tools for first-pass editing. I don’t believe the policy has even changed - you still had to be fluent in the language if you were using the old style MTL tools, too.

Aside from generating videos of young girls with gigantic titties, this is the only thing generative AI is actually useful for.

This is the same kind of thing the local Airsofters were building with an arduino and a few hats a decade ago. It’s not a functional “weapon” it’s just a hobby rocket with fins (that admittedly looks real fun to shoot)

I can contribute that the goal with the drones is to help contain small fires before they spread - they aren’t there to stop the fires, just slow them down until humans can get there with the serious equipment.

it’s wild they do that while you’re awake in an exam room

It’s a little hyperbolic to say, but the most dangerous part of a surgery really is the anesthesia. If you can do an operation without it it’s far, far better for the patient, even though it sucks to have to be conscious through it.

Except that’s not how that works - creating a healthy used resale market drives demand for the Pixel phones. I may not be giving them my money directly, but it’s still of huge monetary benefit to Google if I purchase one of their phones used. I like grapheneOS, I really do, but it’s inseparability from Google hardware is a serious problem.

If only you didn’t have to give google money to be able to install it.

I won’t let it go to my head. I promise. Probably.

Anyways tho for an actual opinion:

This thread is a bit of a mess and I would caution taking anything being said (except by me, the absolute authority) without a large grain of salt - however mostly people aren’t contradicting each other, it’s just a hugely complex topic that quickly devolves into semantic-adjacent arguments about how we should be comparing battery chemistries (on market / in lab / cross-chemistry) and what degree we should be considering the “soft factors”; things like the number of recharge cycles, robustness of the cells to damage, cost of manufacturing and/or recycling the cells, etc.

Sodium batteries are a big deal, and as far as I’ve seen we’re finally at the point where they’re starting to become market viable, but they’re still a largely unproven technology. Arguing that battery tech hasn’t improved in the last decade is obviously wrong, but it’s also not wrong to say that there hasn’t been any dramatic improvement in the technology in the last decade. None of the many “miracle battery tech” announcements that promise to have double-or-better the capacity of lithium chemistries has panned out, we’ve just been making slow gains across many chemistries and those cumulative 10% improvements to battery life year-over-year are finally starting to add up to where the average consumer can really notice them.

Start of my villain arc right here. Like unidan, but with more buttholes.