Broski where do you live? Try saving 200k or whatever it takes to make a sensible downpayment wherever you live. Remember, while saving that money, you still pay for rent and logically, rent didn’t go down either.
I mean yeah, suck a fat dick, I’m with you. But IMO paying for YouTube isn’t wrong. If not for ads, they gain nothing from me. I used to lock them in. 3rd party instance, no google accounts, separate browser clients, ad block, sponsor block… everything a decently smart systems engineer could think of.
That’s wrong. I pay for services like nebula, why not pay for YouTube?
I currently pay about 2 bucks a month for YouTube Premium and YouTube Music. I legally share it with people I’m close with. 30 bucks a year for unlimited ad free (other than sponsorships) is very affordable, even if I didn’t share it with family and friends.
I still don’t share personal information with them. They probably think I live in Argentina or something because my account is not defined to a region and my IPA reads as residential Argentina most of the time.
YouTube started as a free to use service (in terms of monetary cost). There’s no way they could ever go from that to pay to use. Content creators depend on YouTube being accessible without monetary compensation through the viewer’s wallet. At the same time, upkeep for on demand 4k video up- and downstreaming is not easy, not simple, not cheap. Not cheap at all. Go ask Nebula and the likes.
Ads are ineviteable. You want goods and services, you pay for them. If you don’t feel like spending money, you will pay by watching ads and/or by giviny away personal information that in turn can be used to create monetary value in some form or another (better advert targeting, better market analysis, etc.).
Strategically avoiding any form of payment for goods and services is frankly immoral. It’s exactly the same as stealing. It morally is stealing. If you go to the store and steal a product, you’re doing the same. You cost said store money without reimbursing them by paying for it. Blocking ads and especially sponsorships is immoral and you have every right to do it as it stands. Just don’t complain about companies disliking your behaviour.
I don’t feel like adressing every point seperately because I’m just slothing with my cat in my bed right now. I’ll just be rambling a bit.
Anyways. Yeah sure, Google is a bad company in many regards, I’m with you. Morals and ethics are about as subjective as it gets, so here’s my take on that. Just because some entity is morally in the wrong doesn’t justify my own actions, whatever they may be. What makes it fair to obtain goods and services from Google without paying the price? It’s quasi-stealing but I already brought that up before. If the Alphabet Corp. (Google and stuff) is so bad, then maybe you should avoid their products by principle.
I know in the grand scheme it doesn’t matter what I do. The odds of my actions actually doing anything at all are quite low. Where I’m from people used to say “somewhere a bag of rice tipped over”. It’s inconsequential. And I believe that’s true in everyday life but I also know it’s not true in the grand scheme. While I am an individual, I have to look at my actions as if they are not. It doesn’t matter if I burn through 100 gallons of petrol a day… but it does matter if we all do it.
So yes, I agree with you in each and every way. Except I somehow also don’t. It’s really hard to live by the same morals and ethics each and every day. Utilitarism sounds good… but not for everything, same goes for deontology. Many concepts in ethics are not compatible with eachother and I don’t think it’s “normal” to even strive to find your own morals.
Google may be bad, but their business model with YouTube specifically isn’t really all that evil. They maintain a well established, feature rich platform and people get to share their content on that site for free. A small percentage earns money or even gets to make a living through that. They also maintain said platform for advertisers with promises on how often their ads will be shown and how they will be placed, received and forced upon a user. In this instance it’s not entirely clear who the bad guy is. All of em, kind of.
I studied for a bit a few years back and we had a series of courses called “ethics for engineers”. It was mainly about figuring out what you get to do and what you have to do as an engineer of any kind in terms of ethics. Right now I’m wondering, would I really feel all that bad as a software engineer or whatnot at such a company? It really depends I guess. Sure, increasing the ad counter from 2 to 3 sucks for users. Yet they accept it in some way u know? If they didn’t accept, they wouldn’t stay on YouTube. Using YouTube is not something you are forced to, you could, at any time, just stop. So, if supplying more ads is really totally nessecary to have the platform be profitable (which, be honest, in some form or another, it must be), it’s morally sound. Would it really be better to let the platform die? I don’t belive so. I believe the platform kind of self regulates in a sense that it would just die off it they took any negative aspect too far.
I don’t know what they promise their content creators… this view might look completely different by the way.
So. Yeah. Dunno. I don’t think “cheating” YouTube by blocking ads or whatnot is all that fair. It’s still legal, though. Probably still better to stay away if you believe that they are such a bad company.
Oh buddy I get you so well. I’m not german by the way, but I guess DACH is close enough.
I actually do work software development now, even though I said systems engineering in an earlier comment. Systems engineering is ‘just’ my past, back when I actually learned stuff. Funny enough, I work for the medical sector. Not IN the medical… oh what ze hell… We make software stuff for hospitals and whatnot. At least that’s what I’m up to right now and I don’t have to tell you, it doesn’t feel as good as it should. I am essentially hired for life. As decent people in IT do, I earn more money than one should reasonably spend and demand is so high, I could just sit back and relax 4 days a week with no major consequences other than my team hiring yet another person to compensate for my lazyness.
I don’t wanna work there anymore. I probably won’t be working there today one year later. Not because we scam people or anything, I just don’t think we do justice to what should be expected from us. Our oh so cool product saves lifes and that’s good. But shouldn’t we care a bit more about better quality control, more efficient workflows, more reliable products?
We’re good enough to “win” the capitalism game. People want the thing we make and the thing we make is a good thing. But is it as good as it could be? Definite no. Do others do better? Probably, they just invest more… higher costs. Could that mean that we are inactively killing people because we force them into buying our product due to cost efficiency? Yeah sure but it’s not that easy, is it? There’s no right or wrong here, really.
So… anyway.
I see your point about you not blocking ads actually being harmful for the advertiser, because you differ from the average Joe in terms of advertisement influence. But I don’t believe that’s for us to decide. By opting for advertising a product, companies risk approaching people like you (and ME if we are being honest… I guess it’s the high rate of autism in IT (I’m not gonna include a sarcasm tag here because they stink)), that don’t recieve advertisements well and might actively steer away from their product. They contractually do NOT risk their advert not being displayed at all… you see where this is going.
Genug Moralapostel. The existence of ads in modern media is okay with me. I don’t exactly wanna see them, but I understand their business model and it’s not really all that reprehensible to me. I do prefer straight up pay walls over ad walls… sometimes. At least for video streaming platforms. To be honest it’s probably the other way around for most situations. I gladly accept ads on websites if it means I don’t have to pay for each and every single website access all the time. Moral dillemmas everywhere.
I don’t think our opinions differ all that much. We basically had a “well if you feel like this, why don’t you do this?” “oh it was just a hypothetical, I actually already do this. But this and such…” “Ah yes, but no but, this and that”
Wenns nur ne rotierende Bürste sein soll, dann reicht meine 15 € OralB längstens. Die kann per Knopfdruck starten, stoppen und sogar ganz von alleine 30 Sekunden Intervalle sowie 2 Minuten per Vibration angeben. Funktioniert nach etwa 8 Jahren ganz normal. Vor ca. einem Jahr hab ich meiner Freundin so eine gekauft. Sieht genau gleich aus, funktioniert genau gleich.
Für Schallbürsten würde ich persönlich auf Panasonic oder Philips umsteigen. Meine Eltern haben seit 5 oder so Jahren ne teure Philips (war so ein 150 € Doppelpack). Die funktioniert aber auch gut… sagt mein alter Herr.
If by less damage you mean 18 instead of like 100, yeah sure. However, if you look closely, you can actually see a gray 81 behind the purple 18. For some reason, it tanked 81 dmg (even though it’s limited to 75) and then the game didn’t even account these 81 dmg to me.
One of my friends once made a “crown of dumb”. It was used at their summer camp to reward the dumbest action of the day for the tutors. Sadly, it never fit anyone because it was way too big, they could wear it as a necklace basically… until we recently found it in one of his moving boxes, and it fit me like a glove. Guess I’m the king of dumb now.
Anyway. I mostly wear headphones in office or while playing games, not so much music nowadays… somehow moved on to in ears for that, since headphones don’t really do as well outdoors (maybe because they don’t fit).
I’m not really looking to buy new headphones, usually I just self assemble some stupid solution. For example, one of my headphones has a piece of bicycle tubing around the headband, holds up quite well.
Side note: It’s also called Parizer in reference to Paris, the city that is neither Bologna, nor Lyon, another french city which would be the actual origin of the sausage.
I actually speak a bit of italian. It’s pronounced “bolonya” in american phonetics. I was actually supposed to go study in Bologna but unfortunately my uni canceled the deal.
The post is more about how americans pronounce the city of Bologna.
Schon länger kaufe ich bei DM beispielsweise für Handwaschcreme oder Spülmittel immer diese Nachfüllbeutel, weil das weniger Verpackungsmüll bedeutet als jedesmal einen neuen Spender zu kaufen. Was mich dabei aber schon länger stört, ist, dass diese Nachfüllbeutel so klein dimensioniert sind, dass ich meinen Spender nur...
Komischer ansatz von dir. Die jungen Frauen sind Frauen wie du auch… nur halt eventuell unter 18. Das spielt aber keine Rolle, die dürfen sich genau so kleiden wie alle anderen auch.
Klar zieht das den einen oder anderen Spanner an, das machen aber auch ü18 Brüste. Gleiches gilt für U10 Kinder die nackt rumlaufen. Dafür ist aber nur der oder die Voyeur:in verantwortlich und schuld.
Das Plural ist doch nicht feminin. Der Artikel “die” umfasst mehrere Bedeutungen… spezifisch das nominative und akkusative Femininum als auch das nominative und akkusative Plural.
Beispiel: Der Arzt -> Die Ärzte.; Im Singular klar maskulin. Im Plural tatsächlich auch Maskulin, aber warum? Das Maskulinum, Femininum oder Neutrum bezieht sich nicht auf den Artikel (der, die, das, den, dem, des) sondern auf das Nomen. Der Artikel wiederum umfängt im Singular sowohl das Geschlecht als auch den Fall und im Plural nur den Fall.
Weiteres Beispiel: Dem Arzt -> Den Ärzten.; Ist jetzt beides im Neutrum? Nö… wir befinden uns einfach im Dativ. Fürs Singular im maskulinen Dativ und fürs Plural einfach nur im Dativ, da das Geschlecht des Nomens hier keinen Einfluss hat. Das Nomen an sich ist jedoch in beiden Fällen klar Maskulin (Femininum wäre Den Ärztinnen).
Um klar zu machen hier ein Beispiel im Femininum: Der Ärztin -> Der Ärztinnen.; Was ist den hier geschehen? Sind die Damen nun maskulin geworden? Ne, die sind genitiv geworden. Ein Satz dazu wäre “Die Arbeit der Ärztin(nen) ist gut.”
Übrigens: Ich war mindestens 15 Jahre nicht mehr im Deutschunterricht und trotzdem fällt mir sowas nicht schwer. Deutsch ist nichtmal meine Alltagssprache… Solltest du also auch hinkriegen.
Nö. Ein Bordstein muss ziemlich hoch und/oder steil sein um nicht überfahrbar zu sein. Solche unterbrochenen “Randsteine” bieten besseren Schutz, auch wenns nicht intuitiv ist.
Der wirtschaftliche Schaden der in einer Unfallsituation entsteht ist gerechtfertigt, solange dadurch ein Mensch physisch verschont wird. Falls du da nicht zustimmst, kannst du auch Airbags und Knautschzonen verbieten. Die zerstören ja dein eigenes Auto und das nur um dich zu schützen.
Die benötigte Mehl Menge hängt etwas vom Mehl an sich ab. Gewisse Mehle binden quasi mehr Flüssigkeit als andere, auch wenn beide “Weissmehl” oder “Haushaltsmehl” oder sowas sind. Merke dir also am besten wie die Konsistenz etwa war und machs dann nach Gefühl etwas “nasser”.
Come on. The internet is kinda anonymous, you could tell us it's because it's your biggest kink and noone would bat an eye. If you don't tell in fear of IRL friends finding out... that's already gone anyways.
Als vegetatisch/vegane Person stimme ich rein faktisch zu. Solange Fleischkonsum die Norm ist haben wir da ein Problem. Die Kommunikation dessen ist aber schrecklich.
I went through my late teens as the initial smart phone boom was happening. I had a Motorola q that could get TV channels and had a keyboard. I had the enV that flipped open. And many androids/blackberries that I loved for their unique form factor and functionality....
You have to earn $115,000 a year to afford a typical house now in the US (www.axios.com)
youtube getting more agressive blocking users after 3 videos (lemmy.world)
youtube getting more aggressive… i’ve got firefox and ublock but this shit is still coming up
Produktzyklus elektrischer Zahnbürsten und Suche nach Ratschlag
Meine lieben Fedditeure,...
Does damage to Revenant shadow shield not get counted as damage?
Here I hit revenant with everything the PK got, and it’s enough to break the shadow shield and do 18 damage to his purple armor...
Slippery Headbands and headphones that fall off
Have you guys ever had the problem of slippery headbands or “unstable” headphones?...
If the sausage Bologna is pronounced "Balloney" in english, how is the city of Bologna pronounced?
Side note: It’s also called Parizer in reference to Paris, the city that is neither Bologna, nor Lyon, another french city which would be the actual origin of the sausage.
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Kanister ökologisch besser als Nachfüllbeutel? German
Schon länger kaufe ich bei DM beispielsweise für Handwaschcreme oder Spülmittel immer diese Nachfüllbeutel, weil das weniger Verpackungsmüll bedeutet als jedesmal einen neuen Spender zu kaufen. Was mich dabei aber schon länger stört, ist, dass diese Nachfüllbeutel so klein dimensioniert sind, dass ich meinen Spender nur...
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Fotos: Hier hat es an Mönchengladbachs erster Protected Bike Lane gekracht (rp-online.de) German
Hab mich an Brezeln versucht (feddit.de)
Puh hätte nicht gedacht, dass es so schwer ist hier was zu posten. Dieser Ladekreis dreht sich bloß immer weiter.
I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack?
Please don't ask why I need this....
Benecke: "Wenn Sie sagen, ich verwende weiter Eier und Milch, haben Sie den Knall nicht gehört" (utopia.de) German
Android Snapchat users are second fiddle, god I hate having to use it. (sh.itjust.works)
What niche phone features would appeal to you?
I went through my late teens as the initial smart phone boom was happening. I had a Motorola q that could get TV channels and had a keyboard. I had the enV that flipped open. And many androids/blackberries that I loved for their unique form factor and functionality....