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  • The main issue with YouTube premium is the price, I can’t imagine that they’re making anywhere near $14 a month from showing me ads that I never click on. I’d love to see a breakdown, including how much is subsiding free users, how much is going to creators, and how much is going into the pockets of shareholders.

    I think like most if not all of the people I know would easily pay $5 dollars for premium








  • I don’t understand how so many people are taking “Program with level 0 access shipped faulty code that caused the OS to refuse to boot until a single file is removed” as “Windows bad lmao”. Not that I disagree with Windows bad, just the over liberal application and acting like this is some sort of Linux win.

    Give me kernel level access and I can make anything refuse to boot



  • I’m not sure where you’re going with that? I would argue that yes, it is. As it’s sexual material of a child, with that child’s face on it, explicitly made for the purpose of defaming her. So I would say it sexually abused a child.

    But you could also be taking the stance of “AI trains on adult porn, and is mearly recreating child porn. No child was actually harmed during the process.” Which as I’ve said above, I disagree with, especially in this particular circumstance.

    Apologies if it’s just my reading comprehension being shit


  • The original 20 minute video in the article makes it clear he’s talking about job roles, and mentions writers a few times (admittedly not close enough to draw an 100% certain link). I don’t think it’s enough to discredit this just based on the assumption that he’s talking about actors or that there isn’t enough context. Obviously it’s vague enough that we can’t draw any solid conclusions, so I agree with you there.

    The main reason I think this is bullshit is that the guy’s testimony isn’t credible for two main reasons:

    • The guy was recently passed up for promotion, and blames it on being white and male
    • The interviewer is posing as a romantically interested date and asking plenty of leading questions, the guy is at least partially telling her what she wants to hear

    These two points, regardless of how true his story is, give him an ulterior motive for embellishing the story and exaggerating facts, which ultimately means we can’t trust this.

    I’d like to see a full investigation, as with any accusation of discrimination. But we all know that when nothing turns up, it wouldn’t shut the right wingers up


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    6 months ago

    To add to your point. It also, in this case, subverted my expectations of what the joke was going to be. As the standard one just implies the therapist is taking notes because you’ve done something weird. The expectation is subverted, as the therapist is just stealing the joke instead. Subverted expectations are often a key part of humour.







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    6 months ago

    Ah, gotcha, sorry my mistake. Thank you for all your help btw.

    So it’s specific for when men are less disenfranchised than women? Regardless of the perpetrator of said injustice?

    So looking at that other guys examples. The only one that doesn’t immediately make sense is:

    Or if some women asking for some sort of benefits over men is patriarchy

    And to me the only example that comes to mind is women expecting men to pay for dates? Which I think is part of patriarchy as it’s inherited from a time where women couldn’t work or had severely limited career prospects?

    And other things like

    Or if some women shaming men for not being masculine enough is patriarchy.

    are a response to a historic lack of agency among women, requiring them to force their husbands to find success for them.

    I’m not getting this one though, could you explain how this is patriarchy?

    Wonder if some women abusing men is patriarchy.


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    6 months ago

    Thank you for responding.

    What I’m getting is that patriarchy is a system that is structured in a way that it benefits (or disenfranchises less) those that are:

    • White
    • Wealthy
    • Born in a “Western” country?
    • Able bodied
    • Straight and cis gendered

    And that you can keep identifying different traits and expanding the list where relevant?