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[–] bric@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Youtube ads don't just pay creators though, they also pay for video hosting, discovery, and streaming, which aren't cheap. A lemmy for video streaming would be great, but there's a reason it hasn't really happened yet, you'd need a much larger portion of viewers to pay than what it takes lemmy to run, and you'd need a bigger community of developers to build it, which is why most youtube alternatives are strictly paid products. None of that is criticism of the idea, I think it would be great if we could wrench away some of youtube's monopoly, but at the same time we need to understand why it's a challenging concept

[–] bric@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

In the legal sense, "personhood" just means an entity can appear in court and defend themselves, not that it's made of people. It doesn't even give the corporation any human rights, it mostly just means that you can sue them

I don't know why anyone would be mad about than

[–] bric@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

See, you're assuming that this would have taken time and money to develop. Usb3 is ubiquitous at this point, it probably doesn't even cost any more to include, or if it does, it's a trivial amount. This isn't apple "not adding a feature" this is apple purposely removing features to push people to the more expensive versions

[–] bric@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The base iPhone 15 is still a "premium" phone, it costs 2x as much as Google's A series phones, and google never had a problem putting USB 3 on those. Maybe most people won't do this, but it's obviously important enough that they didn't do the same on the pro version. It's so weird to see people defending a company purposely gimping their phones just to give them upsells.

[–] bric@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ok, but how did the perimeter go from 4 to 24??

r/unexpectedfactorial

[–] bric@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Not yet, but lemmy should have user controls to block instances soon

[–] bric@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

What does the bible have to do with laws banning Muslim clothing?

[–] bric@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Ok, so she's not a great source for truth, that still doesn't make nuclear bad though. Why is it always framed as "nuclear vs renewables" instead of "nuclear and renewables vs fossil fuels"?

[–] bric@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, but the second best time is today. We can't let what we should have done stop us from doing what should be done.

And for other sources, wind and solar are great sources of energy that should be a supplement, but sometimes the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine, and we don't currently have the battery technology to store energy on the scale to handle those fluctuations. We need a stable backup, and nuclear is by far the best clean and stable energy source.

[–] bric@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

What problems do you think nuclear has that outweighs the problems with fossil fuels?

[–] bric@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Another commenter mentioned how similar some of the arguments are with far right anti-lgbt arguments are, and I don't think there's a better example of it than your comment. "I don't want to ban it, I just hate it and don't want to see it, so let's ban it from anywhere I could run into it". " 'You say freedom to love you you want' I say 'You're putting it in my fucking face and letting LGBT activists decide laws that directly affect my family and I'. Get that gay shit out of my face. Sick of it". Don't you see how that type of rhetoric can be problematic?

I'm sorry, but you're going to run into people in the world that do and say things you don't agree with, that's part of life. If you want to fight to keep it out of government and laws, I'll be fighting right there with you, but once you extend it to people you're just silencing and oppressing. Freedom is even more important when you don't agree with the choices people are making, if you can't agree with that then I don't want to be anywhere near the "free" world you help build

[–] bric@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Separation of church and state is always a good thing, I'm not arguing against that, but this feels like a whole different level. If anything, this is the state taking an active role in changing the rules of the church. That's not separation, that's state sponsored atheism

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