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YouTube suspends Russell Brand from making money off his channel — The suspension comes following the publication of rape and sexual assault allegations against the British star (www.nbcnews.com)

YouTube suspends Russell Brand from making money off his channel — The suspension comes following the publication of rape and sexual assault allegations against the British star::YouTube has blocked Russell Brand from making money off its platform and the BBC pulled some of his shows from its online streaming service in the...

Tesco ,

While it’s not “technically” underage rape, let’s be honest it basically is. No normal person thinks it’s acceptable for some in there 30s to have a relationship with a 16 year old.

The law is there to protect say an 18 year old in collage, where it’s common for 16-18 year olds to be in the same classes, not for creepy 30+ year olds.

Tesco ,

He’s abusing the law, it’s obviously not designed for a 30 plus year old to have a relationship with a 16 year old.

Tesco ,

Sunak is absolutely obsessed with doing exactly that. You can tell he just craves the prestige of being Prime Minister but isn’t actually interested in doing the job, it’s embarrassing really.

Fans Think Latest Pokémon Go Artwork Was Made With AI (gizmodo.com.au)

Fans Think Latest Pokémon Go Artwork Was Made With AI::Pokémon Go publisher Niantic has aroused fans’ suspicions after a promotional image showed some telltale signs of potentially being AI artwork, rather than something made by an actual human artist. The image in question appears in promotional material for Adventures...

Tesco ,

It’s because Niantic have actively made the game far worse in the past year, after a few quite decent years through the pandemic. Them using ai to generate the latest artwork just epitomises how ridiculously lazy they’ve gotten. The artwork on the loading screens was one of the few examples of legitimately good work they ever produce, so now they don’t even have that.

I don’t think anyone actually cares that it’s ai, but it is classic Niantic to just slap together ai artwork and make no attempt to hide it.

Tesco ,

Well yeah it’s been shit for a while now, it was in a terrible state before the pandemic but it was at least somewhat enjoyable to load up every so often. This past year it’s become basically unplayable, even the addicted whales have been dropping it in droves.

I’ve been boycotting the game since the remote raid price increases but caved for a few hours during Go Fest (without the ticket) I couldn’t believe how bad it’s actually gotten.

I live in a city and the spawn rate even during Go Fest is now attroucious, a handful of Pokémon every half a mile, it used to have 100s of spawns. The city centre now is almost as bad as the little remote village I lived in when the game first came out.

No one was raiding locally either, there was never a raid scene here but you could atleast do some during Go Fest in previous years.

The Gyms were full of people who’d been in them for well over two weeks at zero health, right in the centre of the city, last year they changed hands really regularly, even though our scene was relatively small. The two gyms at the top of the road where I live had people in them for over a month, all low level players when it used to be a us long term players who’d take them from each other. They used to change hands multiple times a day as there on a busy high street, so I could always get my coin’s, now I couldn’t even farm for the ridiculously priced remotes even if I wanted to.

It’s way worse than it was even a year ago.

Tesco ,

I can definitely relate to that! I used to try and find something special as a keep sake in the game to remember my trips abroad, so I’d waste quite a bit of the holiday trying to find something.

The only thing I will say the game does well and I do miss about it is that it’s a great game to play as a couple. Me andy husband had quite a few dates that we probably wouldn’t have bothered to do if it wasn’t for events in the game. We’ve tried replacements like Orna but they just don’t really hit the same spot.

Tesco ,

It just pops up randomly. Went to go make a coffee and when I came back there it was. I’m in the UK so it’s not just happening to US people.

Tesco ,

Not the person you replied to but personally I’d like to see some kind of random communities feature so I can discover new ones.

Most of the stuff I see is memes or US politics that I’m just not interested in.

TikTok has been pushing Chinese propaganda to millions of users in Europe: analysis (nypost.com)

TikTok has been pushing Chinese propaganda to millions of users in Europe: analysis::More than 1,000 ads from Chinese state media outlets have run on European users’ TikTok feeds since October 2022, according to the platform’s latest ad library update that was analyzed by Forbes.

Tesco ,

YouTube is absolutely dreadful for it. I have literally zero interest in American politics, I’m interested in world events but frankly couldn’t care less about another country’s domestic politics yet it’s pushed almost every time I load the site.

I mostly watch things like travel vlogs and trip reports, yet get endless spam about right wing American politics. There’s nothing in my search history that would suggest I’d care about it.

Tesco ,

It’s the YouTube algorithm that’s pushing this garbage and it’s blatantly obvious, the actual adverts largely line up with my interests. If I don’t watch a YouTuber for a couple of weeks they disappear from my reccommed. I never watch anything about American politics, barely watch any American YouTubers yet there it is every single time without fail.

Tesco ,

I mean his genius solution to the steering wheel being on the wrong side for UK Tesla’s was to give owners a big stick. I think it’s safe to say he’s not a genius.

Tesco ,

thedrive.com/…/tesla-gave-uk-owners-this-clawed-b…

First link I could find, but it has the pictures of the big stick you’ll get here.

Tesco ,

When I was at school the uniform was just a basic pull over jumper, polo shirt and skirt/trousers. They were pretty effective at getting you caught if you decided to bunk off, like I did during PE and RE.

The uniform kids have to wear these days, which is basically a full on suit looks so uncomfortable, especially in the summer.

Age Reversal Breakthrough: Harvard/MIT Discovery Could Enable Whole-Body Rejuvenation (scitechdaily.com)

Age Reversal Breakthrough: Harvard/MIT Discovery Could Enable Whole-Body Rejuvenation::In a pioneering study, researchers from Harvard Medical School, University of Maine, and MIT have introduced a chemical method for reversing cellular aging. This revolutionary approach offers a potential alternative to gene therapy for age...

Tesco ,

At first it isn’t, but as you go more and more grey it becomes a lot harder to manage on your own, especially if you started with dark hair. It’s depressing to be young and constantly fighting a losing battle against the grey. I was like 16 when it started, by my very early 30s the whole of the top of my hair was completely grey.

Tesco ,

I run an online business and the vast majority of people who contact me daily ask a question that is literally answered in the first sentence of the description.

Tesco ,

You know full well that they can’t have surgery until 18, you’re just spreading deliberate misinformation. It’s pathetically transparent that you are just straight up lying.

Tesco ,

Did you even bother to read your own source?

“Jay Langadinos, now 31, was just 19 when she first met Dr. Patrick Toohey, a veteran Sydney psychiatrist, in May 2010.”

Tesco ,

So no mutilation is happening to children, as proven by these sources. I hope you plan to go and edit out the blatant misinformation in your original post.

Tesco ,

Maybe I’m missing something, but I don’t understand the point in defederating. Aren’t you just cutting down on the amount of content you can see? As a user I’d personally prefer to pick and choose what I can see.

What’s the actual upside in doing it? Obviously I can see why you’d want defederating from say a far right instance, but in general it seems like only downsides.

I’m new to all this so maybe I’m missing a crucial bit of information.

Tesco ,

Isn’t it creating a situation of Reddit power mods on steroids? It’s easy to say “well go and make accounts on multiple instances”, but it’s creating additional barriers to entry that a lot of people won’t understand and frankly is kind of irritating as a user.

I feel like people aren’t taking the consequences seriously and that defederating needs to be viewed as like a nuclear option that’s avoided unless absolutely necessary. That’s what I get from the additional information you provided.

This place will become completely unusable in the future if the good will dies out and large instances decide to defederate from each other to try and become the “top” instance, especially as more and more casual users move over.

Tesco ,

Realistically most people aren’t going to make their own instance, so you kind of have to rely on the good will of others.

Purely as an example, let’s say that Lemmy world decides they no longer want to be federated with ML because of the Meta situation. If you’re on either world or ML now you’ve lost access to huge sections of Lemmy. This could basically go on forever, so any instance that wants to remain neutral can be locked out of either both or one of them as they keep defederating from instances until the whole thing becomes a walled garden, basically the same as if you upset a power mod on Reddit and lose access to huge sections of the site, except it’s worse on here because you wouldn’t even be able to lurk.

I guess you could just have multiple accounts, but we could easily see a situation where you need like 10 accounts just to see the most popular instances, which is obviously ridiculous and not practical unless you’re terminally online.

It seems like a pretty huge flaw in the system, to be honest. Theoretically it’s a good idea, but as more and more people flock to the large instances it seems like it’s only a matter of time before the power plays start to happen.

Is there anything at all to stop that happening? It’s seems inevitable to me that eventually the whole thing will fall apart if people abuse the system.

Tesco ,

I run an online business and have had quite a big increase in people not getting their items since the beginning of the year.

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