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Cake day: September 9th, 2024

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  • I paid for Google Music back before it was YouTube Music. It came with YouTube Red (I think they still called it that at the time). I’m still paying for premium because no ads is important to me. Also, according to now ancient videos by Hank Green, YouTube Red made a considerable, good impact for the content creators and I don’t care that other video platforms are cheaper because I’m not watching random videos, I’m following particular channels. I can almost never get the same content somewhere else. I’m locked in because of that. If my channels put their content on other sites, I’d drop YouTube in a heartbeat. If every video went on patreon and not just the exclusive videos, I’d drop YouTube in a heartbeat. I believe in the patreon model and am not a member of a single YouTube channel.

    I wish YouTube understood that they are not the content I watch, they are between me and the content I watch. Maybe then the relationship could be more respectful than ads on the pause screen.


  • There’s commonalities that make a particular type of site a hazard. Parking a sidewalk’s length from the building is pretty unique to these types of stores. People run over people or damage property all the time but why do you think these kinds stores are so targeted in this article? Because they built an environment where it’s MUCH easier to happen than say apartments, grocery stores, hospitals, or most anywhere else. And then they didn’t protect you from what is apparently a common enough danger that they have created and you don’t have an alternative.

    You should be able to walk into a 7-11 without fearing you’re going to lose your legs.

    “Who needs safety equipment when there’s someone we can blame.” Boy am I glad we invented seat belts before this every-man-for-himself mindset took over.