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low quality youtube video for anyone who doesn't get the reference

You can count on one hand the number of cities we have with actually usable public transport. It's pretty bad.

• It's a lengthy process if you do it thoroughly
• The stakes are high so taking your time to do things right is important
• Trump's legal team has certainly been doing everything they can to delay everything they're able to

Fwiw, Denuvo is actually really hard to crack. There's like one well-known person who is capable and she's incredibly unlikeable. Agreeable sentiment though; Denuvo sucks and harms legitimate consumers (arguably more than it inconveniences pirates).

At least part of it is that NASA is good at marketing. They make cool shit and hype up the public so we all know how cool it is too. Soon they'll be launching a NASA+ streaming service that's completely free. All their video and live content in one place. They're genuinely one of the coolest public entities I know about, and part of why I know about them is because they're so good at marketing their projects to the lay public.

YouTube makes money by showing ads on videos people watch. If they show people the videos they want to watch, they get to show more ads before someone stops watching YouTube for the day. This incentives YouTube to surface the videos that people will watch for the longest time with no regard for anything but their advertisers' willingness to have their ads played on said videos.

Also it's expensive to moderate a platform so big that one in three humans uses it.

For anyone wondering, this is lemmynsfw's take on the situation.

On a personal level, the vibes are off. Their defense seems really defensive and immediately moves to reframe the situation as body shaming. There's a difference between an adult who looks underage posting porn of themselves and a community dedicated to porn of adults who look underage. Reducing the latter down to body shaming seems like unfair framing to me.

Also don't defund the program like Portugal did. The conservatives there didn't like that decriminalizing drug possession for personal use actually works, so they immediately worked to cut funding to the program by like 80% and surprise surprise the program stopped being as effective as it was at the start. Essentially every piece of data we have on Tough on Crime™ politics shows that the approach doesn't work. If you want people to stop using drugs, make it easy for them to do so without fear of being arrested/imprisoned.

If humans can save pandas from extinction we can damn well save ourselves. Easier said than done, I know, but we're actually making a lot of progress on managing climate change behind the scenes. None of it draws the same attention as a headline like "the world is literally on fire and we're all going to die" but that doesn't mean that progress isn't happening.

Moving out of hell is cheaper said than done. Most Americans can't even afford an emergency $500 expense. Vacancy rates are near historical lows but housing costs are at all-time highs. Finding somewhere to live is hard, especially if you don't have middle or upper class income. Most of the people risking their lives by not moving don't have a choice.

A big part for me was also going through the DSM-5 and using that to diagnose myself using the official criteria. Ended up finally getting medication that works for me (after fighting the US healthcare system for like a year) and I take it when I need to focus up for the day, assuming I actually remember to take it.

DSM-5 via Anna's Archive (I'm on mobile right now so I haven't checked how good this pdf is but there are a bunch of other versions if this doesn't work)

This is one of the few things I don't want to selfhost, at least right now. If I fuck something up with Vaultwarden or the PC it runs on, I lose access to EVERYTHING all at once. I'd rather offload that risk to Bitwarden's official server.