MystikIncarnate
Not great. I try to ignore what's happening since there's SFA I can do about it until the next election. Each election I vote against the conservatives and yet, this is what we get. I hope someone is happy about it. That's not me, but I hope someone is.
I don't delude myself into thinking that it would be significant better with the liberals (or the NDP for that matter)... It might be less bad, but I certainly don't think it would be good by any stretch of the imagination.
Prices still rise, wages are still stagnant, business owners and shareholders get rich while everyone else gets poor. Same as it ever was.
I think that's a pretty normal arc. You work your butt off to get through school, then when you start working, and you have limited responsibilities, you don't really ever work outside of work. As you become more senior, you will have more to do than can be done in the ~8 hours during the day, M-F and you start feeling like you need to work while you're at home or whatever.
Then when you retire, every thing falls away.
I probably won't get to retire, so, I'll never get there. I'm glad you get to experience that again.
That "Goth" chick just rinsed this dude to watch her perform a dance.
To be blunt, I can't think of a better reason to go to war than to eliminate slavers and those that would regard an entire race of people as not worthy of respect.
The only other good reason for war is for defense. To protect yourself and your countrymen from a hostile force, but I digress.
That shit should have never been allowed. But here we are.
Everyone should take all of his threats (aka campaign promises) very seriously.
Always.
Also, Donald Trump is in the Epstein files.
I'm just going to say it....
Did anyone not expect this? Like... Of the people on Lemmy, is anyone here surprised that he is pushing to be a dictator?
Oh, also, Donald Trump is in the Epstein files. Donald Trump raped children.
When you look at corporate culture vs work/life balance.... And you consider a broader scope than just working hours and time off (vacation/holidays), apart from the weekend, you get shockingly few hours to do what you want. The vast majority of your day is serving the interest of the company.
Let's start at wake up time. Assuming you're a normal person and get up a few hours before work, so that you can go to work, and assuming you work in an office, and you commute there... You get up, have a coffee, that you paid for yourself, so you can be awake enough to get to work and be productive. You clean up, so you are visually appealing, or at least not visually repulsive, and put on clean clothes that you spent your own time and money to make clean. Now that you are energized, clean, dressed and presentable, you then get into the car you bought with your own money, to spend gasoline that you pay for (or electricity, if you're an EV owner), to propel yourself to your companies office. You do this, every day. Hours a day of unpaid work, out of your own pocket, in service of the company, all before you do one thing that might actually generate revenue for the business.
You finally clock in and you're getting paid.
Lunch comes around, and you're hungry from working hard all day long so far, so you either crack open your lunch box and take the food your bought with your own money, out of the box to eat. Food you might not even like, but it's cheap and works well for lunch, so you choke it down regardless.... Or you go and spend your money buying lunch, which might actually be something you enjoy eating, but it takes so long to get to where that food is, order it, eat it, pay for it, and get back to the office that you get exactly zero time to enjoy yourself.
You then get a few fleeting moments to enjoy the day, before you have to get back to the office and make more value for the shareholders.
Quitting time finally comes but you're not done for the day. Sure, you're off the clock, but now you have to travel home. Could be an hour or more to get home with all this traffic!
So you finally get home, but wait, there's more. You have to feed yourself so you're not starving tomorrow, so you make food and eat then clean up .. by the time you finally get to the part of the day that you can relax and do what you want to do, you get a precious couple of hours at most before you have to go to sleep at a reasonable time, so you can wake up and do it all over again tomorrow.
Let's add it up, shall we? Let's say you're pretty efficient and live relatively close to work. You get up and shower, consume some kind of nourishment and get out the door in, say, 1.5 hours, then drive 30 minutes to the office, 8 hour work day, and the pitiful "break" you get for lunch, so, let's say that's 9 hours in total, from the time you get there, until you are headed to the car. Another 30 minutes to get home. That alone is 11.5 hours. Take time out for dinner, and cleanup after dinner, say, an hour and a half, we're at 13 hours. Don't forget your should get 8 hours of sleep! So you've now spent 21 out of 24 hours catering to, creating value for, or doing things in service of, your overlords... I mean your workplace. You get a pittance of 3 hours to do what you want, at the end of the day, when you're tired and mentally drained from being at the office all day....
And companies wonder why people want to work from home.
I work from home. I get up maybe 15 minutes before work, make a coffee, go log into work. I'm then doing work until lunch, I eat whatever's cheap and available, honestly, usually leftovers from yesterday. And once I clock out, I'm home. And I can start doing whatever I want right away. Cuts that 21 hours down to... What? 18? Tops? I easily get twice as much free time to do what I want during the day than you in office workers....
I understand what you're saying here. I would reiterate "fair use".
I know, DMCA take downs can happen for a lot less than what's covered under fair use, especially with YouTube/Google's system of handling take down requests. Err on the side of the copyright holder, until proven otherwise.
I still have a lot to look into on this so I can't say how relevant your point or mine is in the context of GN. But you certainly do make good points.
This is accurate. People are conflating plumbing, with the act of installing, and maintaining plumbing. It doesn't help that the act of maintaining the plumbing (noun) is called plumbing (verb).
But people don't want to have to hire a plumber to fix the plumbing when it is not doing what it is supposed to.
They want "AI" to do it. Except that such a thing would require advanced robotics more than "AI". With advanced (and affordable) robotics, the plumber wouldn't need to actually go to your house, they could just remotely control the plumber bot from the comfort of their home, or from a central office or something. The person that shows up with the bot can be little more than a minimum wage delivery driver. Deliver the bot, make sure it powers on, make sure nobody steals or destroys it, then pack it up and move on when it's done. The highly paid plumbers never have to go anywhere, and can basically hop from one bot to the next. While they're working on one job, a bot is already en route to their next job, and ready to go when they finish with the current job.
We've adapted art and communication to the Internet. We have not done the same for plumbing (the verb). So expecting something that you can't even currently do with a computer, to now basically be done by AI, which is confined to the restrictions of a digital-only environment, is foolish at best.
Since we adapted communication and art to digital media already, it's almost trivial to have that generated by "AI".
We need to build a robot capable of the work before we can do anything more here.
I don't usually watch gamers Nexus stuff, I find it to be a bit dense for casual watching. It's accurate as all hell, as far as I'm concerned... They know their shit and they research the crap out of whatever they're covering; this both makes them awesome, but adds to the density of their content.
I also have immense respect for them because they'll call shit out like this, and just give the finger to any possible repercussions. They're legally in the clear as far as I'm concerned, they're hyper careful about that kind of thing. But that doesn't mean that Google is willing to host them while they do shit that makes Google's advertising partners grumpy; and I assume Bloomberg, or a company affiliated with Bloomberg runs ads on YouTube/Google/whatever.
They're in a position where they have significant risk, and instead of tucking tail and doing what they're told, they're fighting, and pointing out the problem. They're putting a spotlight on the fact that we all know, but nobody really mentions, that "good business" in the ad space, is to appease your advertisers as much as possible. Like it or not, Google is still, very much, an ad company. That's how they started, that's still a big part of the business. It's why Google search is free. It's why Gmail is free, and it's why YouTube is free (almost all of these have paid options, but that's not the focus right now).
So like it or not, Google's in a pretty tough spot. I'm sure the views from GN drive some significant ad revenue, at the same time, in certain that the contracts for ads from Bloomberg and affiliates, are worth quite a bit as well. If they kick GN, then they lose ad revenue from any ads that would run on their videos in there future. If they don't, they risk losing a potentially very valuable advertiser.
They're stuck in the middle. I have no idea what they're going to decide here.
I won't blame Google either way. I'd like to see them standing up for GN, but I can see why they wouldn't. They'll have a stronger arm against GN than they would against Bloomberg, because, let's face it, Bloomberg has more money to throw at lawyers and making legal issues for Google, than GN does.
I do, however, entirely blame Bloomberg in all of this. I'm certain that GN is using any footage insert fair use laws with proper attribution to the original source (though, I haven't seen this video yet, nor the one in question. I just know GN well enough to know that the likelihood that they didn't, is basically zero).
GN already has my trust for their integrity. I can't say the same for Google, YouTube, and certainly not Bloomberg.... Ha.
I will, of course, be looking more deeply into this later, and I will amend my viewpoint as information is uncovered. Until then, good luck GN. You guys are heros and legends. Never stop being exactly who you are.