RealFknNito

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

The majority contributor to the UN. In both aid and military. This used to be a good thing when we didn’t vote for dogshit or vote against the entire counsel.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

Yes. Let’s disband the only gathering of all the nations in a peaceful assembly because politics can get hard sometimes.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

And this is the straw in which I will instruct Microsoft to suck shit through.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

I’m not done laughing yet, give me a minute.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

And the game will be hard coded to only work with a Wii controller.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

“Yeah so we tried to make this powdered garbage sweeter so children could stomach it. Sure it has nutritional value but it tastes like orphan slop. Can we improve that?”

“No.”

Fuck Nestlé but come on guys.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

Jesus Christ what misleading bullshit. Should we classify sugar as a schedule 3 drug then? Treat it like cocaine? No thats fucking stupid because it’s not. It can be addictive, like literally anything else. A baby is not going to get chemically dependant on sugar.

Another example of having the right information but the wrong conclusion.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

This is why anyone outside the left laughs at us. You have people sincerely equating sugar to cocaine because a corporation decided to try and make tasteless gruel edible.

Watch out, if you put sugar in your oatmeal you’re a drug addict. You’re taking truly the dumbest position possible because to admit there’s a middle ground doesn’t let you dig into the big bad Corp.

Should it be regulated due to its overabundance? Yes. Should it be regulated like cocaine? Fuck no. What’s wrong with your brain? Too much sugar or cocaine?

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

Weed is addictive and many people fall into a feedback loop of depending on it yet every dipshit on the left wants that unbanned and unregulated. The hypocracy is what annoys the shit out of me.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

As would nearly everyone on the left. But sugar? Oh no. It’s just cocaine lite.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

Lol the only reason you’re against this move is because sugar is vaguely tied to addiction and you want to demonize a corporation. Honey has sugar, are the bees trying to get us addicted too? These are the ramblings of the insane.

Yes, Nestlé fucking sucks. Evil, even. But them farting in the wind is not them engaging in chemical warfare. Treating it like it is, is part of what I can’t fucking stand. This is an isolated event. Just because someone has a shit reputation doesn’t mean every single minor move is a nefarious conspiracy.

You people are bored and hypocritical. The same people that would consider weed harmless but unironically compare sugar to cocaine. Sugar spurs on habitual addiction, not chemical dependancy. Not knowing the difference, pretending you understand addiction because you read the headline of a study and the parroted news articles, that’s how bullshit gets spread around.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

Fucking anything that derives pleasure can be habitually addictive, this shit means nothing. Literally nothing. Chemical dependancies are not the same fucking thing. Stop pretending they are so you can look smart. This circlejerk of dipshits is truly beyond my patience.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

Yes, it is. Habitual addiction is addiction. While you might not suffer from it, just like some people can become alcoholics but not all, some people can become severely dependant on the way weed makes them feel.

If it can make you feel good, it can become addictive. Knowing the difference between habitual and chemical addiction is extremely important.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

Because of the sugar or?

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

Right. So sugar isn’t the issue in feeding honey to babies. Baby food has sugar in it too. Just real interesting is all.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

Not defending corporations but these massive conglomerates usually get so intricate, so messy, that there are people who end up getting a paycheck that genuinely do not get assignments. In other words, getting paid to watch paint dry. So sometimes the comments that look terrible are directed at people who were doing nothing or very nearly nothing and still getting paid for it.

But yes also fuck executives getting x80 the pay of developers.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

This… this is nothing. Oh no, my messages on public servers are being scraped! Good thing I haven’t said anything in a public server I didn’t fully intend on being there forever.

The Discord haters will feast on anything. Granted, this should still be shutdown as a TOS violation but acting like this is a profound intrusion on privacy? Get ahold of yourselves. This is no different from Tweets being scraped or Facebook wall posts. Don’t add the bot to servers you don’t want it on and it’s a nonissue.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

Just never talk in a public server and it still won’t.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

Then don’t.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/061183d6-3129-48d5-968c-acff0ca010cd.png

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

… No. It’s $15 a month unless you sign up every single person in your family. It still boggles my mind how people have grown used to the idea of using services for free. The internet isn’t free. Everything costs money, even Lemmy. YouTube has server costs. Employee costs. And dare I say it, profit margins because they’re a business.

You need to pay for services you use. I’m exhausted with online entitlement that it all should be free.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

$15 a month is on par with other subscriptions, part of that money goes to the people you watch so they can get paid for what they do, I don’t see what’s unfair about this pricing. Yes, the features they give are lackluster and could easily be done by third party apps before they killed them but I pay for premium so the people who do YouTube as a job can make a living.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Does it even pay the people you watch? No… wait… it just freeloads off YouTube by piping that content to their site.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

The service was never fucking free you goober it always had ads. Since the moment it expanded beyond a couple dozen 240p videos, it had ads. You know what they did though? Tried to pay the people you watch so they could make a living giving you content. But yes throw a fucking tantrum that you have to pay the website so they can stay running and pay the people so they can earn that “regular people money” you ignorant fuckwit. YouTube still, to this day, doesn’t make a profit and still comes at an expense to Google/Alphabet.

You’ve been comfortable in that red wig and nose for way too long already.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

They provide a service not easily replicated, hence why there are no good alternatives. They operate on a loss because Alphabet/Google can afford it. They own the monopoly because they’re willing to lose money on it. You can swallow your pride and fuck off but it doesn’t matter. You don’t make an impact. They’ll still have the userbase and you leaving does nothing but lighten the server load from people who won’t pay anyway.

You aren’t entitled to free services at the expense of others. They don’t have to let you use their website without charging you. You not using the site without paying isn’t the attack you think it is, it’s the desired outcome.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

How much do they profit off YouTube again?

Oh wait - they don’t. They take losses from it. A business, meant for making money, is suffering a loss to provide goobers like you content and have the goobers making that content profit enough so they aren’t in poverty for choosing to make videos for a living.

You people really throw logic out the window when you talk about shit like this. You want corporations to make less money? Go fix the fucking tax laws not bitch about average membership fees like a fuckwit.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

It doesn’t.

Source? Me. I’ve had it for months haven’t seen a single ad.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

I don’t care if it’s Google, Amazon, or fucking Walmart. If the product makes sense as it is right now and the price is on par with other services, I’ll pay for it if it makes sense for me.

I’m not going to avoid something or complain about shit that hasn’t even happened yet. If you don’t like the corporations and want to avoid supporting them, fine, but I’m exhausted with people giving bullshit answers as to why xyz isn’t fair.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

Do you know how little money advertisers pay per ad? I think last I heard it’s between 0.5 and 3 cents. Could be even lower. That’s probably not enough, so they sell your anonymized data. That’s not enough, so they offer a membership without ads so the ratio can allow them to get closer to break even. What’s left?

The people getting the benefits of membership without paying for it. Third party apps letting you use premium features for free? Gone. Didn’t push the needle far enough. Most of their userbase using adblocker? New target acquired.

They’re very clearly trying to get their revenue and expenses to hit 1:1 because no company that’s doing well is going to crack down on their users. Netflix was flourishing so they let you share accounts. Then, the bill came and they said fuck that. Their revenue and profits went up what, 60%? They just had to endure the people throwing tantrums.

No, they’re learning that if 5% of the people using adblockers instead get Premium, they lose less money, even if it means doing what Netflix did and riding out the storm while people bitch and moan about how their free shit isn’t free anymore. Should they help offset it by making Premium more worthwhile with features even third party apps could do? Absolutely. Do I hate having to defend a company that could be doing so much more to benefit their users but are making pretty common sense business practices? Absolutely.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

YouTube has been running on a loss since they last posted their info some handful of years ago. I think Susan was being pressured by creators to be transparent or something. YouTube has expanded well beyond what it used to be and hasn’t demanded money to compensate. It just keeps getting bigger and bigger and Google/Alphabet has been fine with that but clearly aren’t anymore.

Alphabet makes money in other areas, yes, but YouTube specifically is the problem child that keeps begging for an allowance. So, how does YouTube fix it? How do they save money? By kicking off the freeloaders. You watch ads, contribute your 13 cents for the day, then fuck off - or you can buy premium.

Like I’ve said before, if you hate the big companies fix the tax laws, don’t bitch about them charging you for the service you’ve been getting free of charge.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

Sure, that’s fair critique. Them not implementing the features people turn to third party apps for. Absolutely.

What I can’t make sense of are the people who want control, privacy, content, and not to pay a dime. YouTube could do this better, sure, but let that be the criticism not the mere fact they have the audacity to kick off people who provide nothing and take everything.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

Thing is, what you’re describing is a logical fallacy. That because things got worse they’re going to continue to get worse. The slippery slope fallacy.

Yes, you used to have dozens and even hundreds of songs that nobody could take away from you. You were your own server. However, now that we have a service like Spotify where you can listen to most of the world’s music, not be required to store it, not have to buy each album, each track, but instead pay $15 and listen to anything, anytime, make nearly unlimited playlists of nearly unlimited tracks… it doesn’t make me miss the old days. I don’t feel nostalgia for the days when my disk walkman skipped because I walked too fast or the headphones on my head were $3 and I couldn’t even hear the lyrics properly. Now we have lossless compression, headphones that would cost thousands just a few years ago being only a couple hundred, devices that don’t skip, don’t lag, don’t buffer, but instead of you fronting the cost all at once you make payment plans. You take for granted the things we dreamt of and demand improvement, not stagnation, and god forbid a decline.

You can still live in the past. Download and store entire discographies from any of the dozens of pirate sites, force them onto your device, then play them as if we still lived in 2009. But the artist doesn’t see a dime for that. The pirate site doesn’t see a nickel. So you either support the people who make things you like in a system you don’t, or you fuck them over to try and stick it to the system itself. Thing is, I think the system will survive even when the things you like, don’t.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

This has been a point of discussion for nearly a decade. It’s almost common knowledge YouTube runs at a loss. CDN hosting was approximated to be about 2 billion in 2017, not including what they pay to creators, employees, etc. Their revenue does not cover all of these expenses, meaning there are no profits to announce. They borrow money from their parent company, Alphabet, because they benefit from YouTube by it merely existing under their control. They have an effective monopoly on video hosting and zero meaningful competition.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

You know what’s really strange? That you think not paying YouTube would make it so they could give their creators enough to where they didn’t need to take outside sponsors. Almost like YouTube has limited or even no control over creators having third party sponsors but you still blaming them for it.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

I think the only problem with Netflix is that they funnel money into the wrong shows. They’d rather launch 180 new series than fund 18 really good ones. Other companies, like Disney, making new platforms to host their own content definitely hurt Netflix but I think it still has enough value to warrant buying.

I took your comment as idolizing the past and gesturing to a grim future.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

To. Support. The. Creators. I. Watch.

Use sponsorblock then, I sure as hell do. My main goal is to get rid of as many problems as possible and creators not getting paid enough is on that list.

So I buy premium. I participate in the system because a tantrum doesn’t fix it.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

The internet is actually free

Okay I’ll let Verizon know so they can stop charging me monthly. I’ll let Google know the servers they bought should have been free. That the electricity to keep them running, also free. It’s all just fuckin free!

How long have you been on the internet? Two weeks? Three? How did you even find Lemmy?

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

So you’re just outing yourself as being among the freeloaders they’re trying to kick off.

Okay then?

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

First of all, the link to Reddit had their own links but hey, fuck trying to find a source. Second, you’re looking for decade old information as if it were brand new, not really how SEO works but hey.

YouTube doesn’t report their expenses. We have to guess. The one time they did revealed they operate at a loss which is why in the fucking Reddit post I showed you, they were discussing said losses. But hey, not an acceptable source. Christ.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

Then may your videos be riddled with ads, sponsors, and one day throttled buffering speeds.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

… Because the site you fucking watch them on needs to pay bills? Why are you all so selectively stupid on this point?

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

And their expenses? 31 billion? 32 billion? You don’t fucking know do you? REVENUE IS A POINTLESS METRIC WITHOUT FUCKING EXPENSES. Holy shit you people really are so vapid.

RealFknNito , 1 month ago

Okay, take care psuedo intellectual. If you aren’t passionate about your position, your position is worthless.

RealFknNito , 2 months ago

The amount of disgusting freaks that don’t know you need to wash this and reapply the seasoning with oil in the oven is insane to me.

RealFknNito , 2 months ago

I learned from a chef that an oven would work better due to the even heat applied all over but in a pinch or if you don’t want to do all that, the stove top could be fine.

RealFknNito , 2 months ago

Because if they actually try they’ll be shot dead in the streets by hellfire drones. Texas doesn’t win against America. Especially not a gaggle of hicks who can’t even spell secede.

RealFknNito , 2 months ago

Friendly reminder we’ve had photoshop for decades. Legislation can’t keep up with technology and trying to do so will almost always come at the cost of constitutional rights. Like freedom of expression.

If I want to photoshop a dick on Trump’s face, nobody should be allowed to tell me no. It’s not fucking “interpersonal violence”.

RealFknNito , 2 months ago

The people who hate AI always seem to have no fucking idea how it actually works and it’s frustrating.

People were required to teach the AI how to do it’s job. A ‘new employee’ is going to make frequent mistakes during training. Yes - it took a long time to train a program to identify a person, match them to their ID, identify a product, match it to the UPC, then make absolutely 110% sure that item remained on the person when they left with no mistakes. For it to be flawless even when you shove it into your backpack.

Should the people training it have been paid more for their temporary position? Sure. Should Amazon have been transparent about how they were teaching the AI? Sure. They still did not rely on Indian workers for their stores, they relied on people to teach the AI, like doing a captcha, that the store relied on. Any human being would have done the trick, India just allows its people to be exploited the most apparently. Headlines are meant to make you click, not give you accurate information.

Experiments in technology don’t always work. This was a bold plan that they gave years to which would have been a really cool thing to have. Just grabbing your shit and leaving? That’s like EZPass for retail. There was definitely money there, they just couldn’t get to it in time.

RealFknNito , 2 months ago

If it was on anyone’s cards, they should win a cash prize. Like a lottery of some sort.