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DrBob, in In honor of the late William Anders, here's a really great video on the "Earthrise" photo and how improbable it is that we have it at all

One useful function for AI would be to watch YouTube videos and extract any useful information into concise paragraphs. I am looking to be informed, not entertained.

Corgana, (edited )
@Corgana@startrek.website avatar

sir this is a wendys

DrBob,

I am saying I am not watching the video. I would prefer a tight paragraph or two about whatever the videographer thinks are the extraordinary circumstances.

Corgana,
@Corgana@startrek.website avatar

I know what you are saying, and I fully support you in your mission to consume content faster, it’s just got nothing to do with the topic of this thread.

Psychodelic,

Well how else would they make your post about themselves? I mean, would they even feel superior if they hadn’t bother to comment

100,

you can keep using tiktok and melt your brain with 10 videos per minute then

Psychodelic,

Not sure if you’re mostly joking but TT has tons of long-form content as well. It’s one of the main reasons I don’t use it - all my recommendations are super interesting 7+ min videos (I think I get too anxious to open the app knowing it’s going to open up to some super in-depth breakdown on a very specific topic. It’s insane how good their algorithm is. It practically never misses

Grownbravy, in Where do you fall politically?
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Some form of militant communist.

FuckyWucky, in Survey reveals tough job market for Gen Z grads due to employer preferences

Bullshit, they don’t want to hire because the economy is in the shitter. Just in 2021, corps were hiring college graduates like crazy.

ValueSubtracted,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar

So the respondents were lying?

FuckyWucky,

They are employers. If they say it’s because of the economy, it’ll fuck up the stonks further because the whole thing is vibes based.

They are known to lie. See Target shoplifting claims which turned out to be bullshit.

ValueSubtracted,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar

Thank goodness we have you to tell us what’s real.

FuckyWucky, (edited )

Thank you, I’m so glad we have employers telling us the reason why they are not hiring is because they hate zoomers even though they also know zoomers will be an important market to sell their commodities to, which they can’t buy without a job.

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Zorque,

If they cared about giving their employees enough money to buy extra things wages wouldn't have stagnated for decades.

ShimmeringKoi,
@ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net avatar

Consider the motivations of one internet commenter to lie, then weigh that against the motivations of an entire economic system predicated on finding excuses to underpay your labor force.

420blazeit69,

Thank goodness we have people willing to organically repeat what companies say with zero analysis, we don’t get enough of that in every major media outlet

TeddyKila,
wildginger,

Probably, yeah, its a survey with no stakes asking people to give unverified confirmation of biases and stereotypes that they likely want to support and proliferate.

Weird to take it without a pillar of salt.

ValueSubtracted,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar

Seems to me that assuming it’s a flawed survey for no real reason is a confirmation of biases in and of itself…

ShimmeringKoi,
@ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net avatar

As opposed to assuming it’s flawless, which is the Smart and Unbiased thing to doso-true

wildginger,

You mean, beside the fact that I read almost this exact same survey a decade ago, saying almost the exact same thing about millenials? A thing proven to be untrue by the simple passage of time?

Or beside the long history going back to literal documents from the roman empire of older people calling the younger generation lazy, incompetent, and unfit to fill the shoes of the current “of age” generation? Despite this trend being wrong each and every time?

Or beside the fact that the survey has literally no way to back up its data as more than nonsense hearsay, and trusting it at all is inherently questionable?

Yeah man, Im the one with biases. Surely. No other explanation.

420blazeit69,

It’s impossible to create a survey that transmits people’s actual thoughts directly to you. Every single survey, ever, has flaws and biases. The game is figuring out the bias, how significant it is, and if you can get anything useful out of the results.

bazingabrain,
@bazingabrain@hexbear.net avatar

Are you geniunely trying to be an asshole? Curious, keep me posted.

Got_Bent, in Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content

I thought I would miss reddit.

I was wrong.

ValueSubtracted,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar

Quitting a platform is always easier than you think it will be.

Got_Bent,

Facebook definitely came with withdrawals. That one was tough. But five years later, I can’t imagine ever going back.

Corgana,
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I set up a firefox shortcut for my instance with keyword “r” so that if I type “r+enter” I get startrek.website. Putting that unwanted muscle memory to good use.

NaturalViber,

Man, this is one I am on the way out of. Late, I know. But I genuinely keep up with friends and family there, also facebook marketplace has taken over the game.

refurbishedrefurbisher,

YouTube is the only platform that I don’t think I’ll be able to quit any time soon. Hosting video on that kind of scale requires insane amounts of capitol, and P2P isn’t reliable enough, and I say this as someone who has streamed torrents before and has tried out PeerTube.

Also even if there was an alternative, having an alternative for creator monitization is even more difficult. LBRY and D-Tube tried to do it with cryptocurrency, but both of those projects seem to have fizzled out (and I think one is flooded with fascists nowadays).

Aggravationstation,

Do you mean for posting content or watching it?

If it’s just watching there’s plenty of alternatives. Newpipe and YMusic on Android are pretty awesome. Also there’s Freetube on desktop and Invidious.

refurbishedrefurbisher,

Posting content. I’ve been using NewPipe since the very first version.

Aggravationstation,

Yea, thought that might be the case. I just wanted an excuse to promote Newpipe more than anything there. God I love that app.

You’re right, nothing compares to Youtube for video hosting. What do you post?

refurbishedrefurbisher,

I don’t personally post much; I just want a good alternative that will convince the creators I watch to switch to a more libre platform.

OctoFloofy,
@OctoFloofy@kbin.social avatar

Tbf under quitting i understand not interacting with the platform anymore in any way. Just using a different app for that platform isnt really quitting. I still use reddit with a modded 3rd party app so it still works since i never really got into lemmy or kbin (i'm here after months of not opening it just to look what changed) so while i dont use the official way of accessing it i cannot say i quit

Stormygeddon,

I wish I didn’t make half my money from commissions set up through reddit.

eva_sieve, in "This is a tremendous achievement" - Lemmy is sitting at ~36K active daily users across all instances

The shitposters of c/risa : “we’re doing our part!”

mxcory,
teft, in Amazon Will Inject Ads Into Prime Video Starting Jan. 29th
@teft@startrek.website avatar

Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free.

andrew_bidlaw, in "This is a tremendous achievement" - Lemmy is sitting at ~36K active daily users across all instances

So all people I reply to and see here are like one big village, minus alts and nsfw accounts. It’s not bad. For once, I started to recognize persons behind a half of quality risa posts, like I did with niche reddit subs before. That’s what I want from a community, too see it tight-knit and filled with dedicated posters. It feels healthy and encourages to participate.

108, in FCC details plan to restore the net neutrality rules repealed by Ajit Pai
@108@kbin.social avatar

Should have been done already.

Corgana,
@Corgana@startrek.website avatar

💯 Didn’t have the votes until now according to the article though.

girlfreddy, in Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content
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Ofc it does.

Glad I left that place months ago. What a sewer.

LinkOpensChest_wav,
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I thought I might miss it, but I don’t. At all.

ptz, in Admirals in The Orville are much better than Star Trek admirals.
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Yeah, they borrowed a lot from Trek lore, but thankfully they seem to have left the “badmiral” trope in the cutting room with the transporters. Both of which I appreciate they omitted.

The first time I watched through The Orville, every time one of the admirals was on screen, I was like, “What’s your angle?” and just generally distrustful. Even Victor Garber, you might ask? Especially Victor Garber.

remotelove,

If you think transporters are bullshit, wait until you hear about subspace.

Ashyr, in Netflix’s ‘Daredevil’ Showrunner Steven DeKnight Calls MCU’s ‘Born Again’ Reboot “An Old Disney Scam”

Basically Disney is keeping a lot of the same creatives behind the original Daredevil, but intend to use season 1 pay rates because they tacked, ‘Born Again’ on to the title.

Pretty gross penny pinching from one of the wealthiest media corporations in the world.

dylanmorgan,

Yeah, look at any of the Disney channel series, they all change the name slightly to reset the season and avoid union required pay increases. One example: The Suite Life… which was split into 2-3 season series.

reddig33,

Hollywood accounting strikes again!

KazuyaDarklight, in Survey reveals tough job market for Gen Z grads due to employer preferences
@KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world avatar

I’ll acknowledge that 1-in-5 bring parents bit is pretty wild to me as I’m assuming it was more than just a ride.

RandomWalker,

1-in-5 of the survey respondents say they’ve seen a recent grad bring in a parent. That doesn’t mean 1-in-5 bring parents.

wildginger,

That doesnt even mean anyone brought in parents. Thats an easy lie that multiple managers Ive worked for would gleefully tell

KazuyaDarklight,
@KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world avatar

What’s the point of that lie though?

wildginger,

Reinforcing stereotypes they believe are true despite lack of evidence.

Like how these same people swore up and down that millenials were lazy, greedy, worthless members of society not 10 years prior. Wasnt true then, isnt true now, but I spent my working years getting an earful of “examples” of why millenials were awful workers.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod,
@Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social avatar

I've interviewed more than five Gen Zers and none of them brought their parents

PM_Your_Nudes_Please,

That doesn’t mean 1-in-5 bring parents. It means 1-in-5 interviewers have seen someone bring in a parent. If an interviewer has 500 interviews and 1 brings in a parent, that interviewer is one of the five who has seen a parent at an interview. Even though it was only 1 in 500 interviews for them, they’re still 1-in-5 interviewers.

Hell, it could even be the same fucking parent at every interview, if it’s a small enough industry. Maybe that same college grad applied to all of the local jobs in the industry (because of course they did; it’s what they studied for) and so all the interviewers in that part of the industry have seen a parent at an interview. It’s still only the 1 parent, but all of the interviewers in the area have seen them, so they all report that they’ve seen a recent college grad bring a parent.

M68040, (edited ) in Where do you fall politically?
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Theoretically some kind of communist but it’s mostly just all window dressing for whatever lets me act out my decades long grudge against conservatism at large. The fact that I hate their asses and want to spend the rest of my life lashing out at them is more where my commitments lie more so than any specific school of thought

Scrof, in NATO Explains Why The Theme For ‘Star Trek: First Contact’ Was Played At Sweden’s Induction Ceremony

Good job, whomever decided on this piece is definitely a man or a woman of culture. First Contact is one my favourite sci-fi movies of all time too!

MTLion3, in FCC details plan to restore the net neutrality rules repealed by Ajit Pai

Man was a cancer on the internet - glad they’re trying to repeal his shit.

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