Rainworld is its own genre

How is this a real question? We’re fucking cooked.

Dude what? It was a great show!

YouTube was operating at a loss under Google for years. The only reason it is able to exist is because a massive entity like Google was able to absorb that without folding, and keep providing a free service until it becomes profitable (is it even yet? I’m not sure).

I mean fuck Google, and yes a big enough non-profit (or even government) could do it (probably better), but unfortunately that’s not the world we live in right now.

It’s a very difficult business model to make profitable without an already massive userbase. In fact, I think YT was actually losing money for Google for a while after they bought it. I could be misremembering though.

I second Freetube. Not a perfect app (think it’s Chromium based), but it gets the job done and they’re pretty good about updating it pretty quickly whenever YT successfully breaks it.

yt-dlp is the goat

Same… And if they ever successfully make it impossible to avoid, I’ll just stop watching YouTube

I’m not sure why you’re thinking that I was making any kind of values judgment about the USSR whatsoever (honestly, don’t really feel like getting into it with a tankie right now). All I said was that they weren’t democratic (they weren’t dude), and they were probably our most important ally during WW2.

The French revolution was a success because they resorted to violence.

Are you sure it was a success? How come it seems like people immediately stopped studying French history before Napoleon comes in and tears it all down?

Edit: Oh look its you. I see you.

Do you think the photo you’re seeing is the entirity of this protest? I think you don’t actually grasp the size of the US.

This is a small turnout, relatively speaking (this one was “cancelled” so I imagine it would have even had more). I went to one in a pretty centrist-right leaning town (Much much smaller than Minneapolis… Like hundreds of times smaller), and our turnout was about the same as this photo.

Go look at the turnout for Philadelphia.

I haven’t seen any nationwide estimates yet, but I can pretty much guarantee that it was at least more than 1 million people. at least

Assuming you actually give a shit and aren’t just here to sow division.

Edit: I’m now seeing figures of around 4-6 million people total, with some places estimating as many as 12 million.

And this is after they “cancelled” it.

I wasn’t joking. Or was the USSR a functioning democracy?

USSR? You know, the MVPs of WW2?

How does being a member of a Lemmy community equate to making that thing your entire identity?

If I’m subscribed to a community with porn, does that mean porn is my identity?

This isn’t happening in a vacuum.

Don’t you get it, they’re “just asking questions”?

Please ignore the fact that they have doubled and tripled down by arguing with everyone that actually answered them.

Every fucking post has at least one of these faux-incredulous replies now… This shit is so disingenuous.

Fuck off with the concern trolling.

They act like they’re “just asking questions,” yet they end up arguing with anyone who actually answers them, with obviously no interest in finding the truth.

As someone who hasn’t worked anywhere with a profit-motive in over a decade, I don’t know how you guys do it. Truly…

Oh shit, a fellow FDE-head in the wild… What do you think of the latest Bad Dragons they just got in? I got one for 50% off, and it was only slightly used by Frank.