WhipTheLlama

@WhipTheLlama@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate ads as much as anyone and have been blocking them for almost as long as ad blockers have existed. I still acknowledge the fact that ads are the primary revenue source for a lot of things on the Internet, and I selectively enable them for content I want to pay for.

  How do you think Youtube is supposed to survive without ads or subscriptions? When they puts ads on their site, the unsaid agreement is that you exchange your ad views for their service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another 62 ‘Girls Do Porn’ Victims Sue Pornhub for $600 Million⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can envision a world where the search bar is an AI prompt. What a time to be alive that will be!

  I wonder if we can also browse other peoples’ prompts. That would be cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The truth about Canada⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanksgiving, where we celebrate what we did to the natives.

  Despite all the awful things that settlers have done to Aboriginals in Canada (and Native Americans in the USA), neither country’s Thanksgiving is about that. Canada’s Thanksgiving was originally a celebration of arrival in the New World. Over time, it became a harvest celebration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon demands 30% share of ad revenue from TV networks’ apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure google will never pull the same stunt as Amazon. They’re the good guys!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon demands 30% share of ad revenue from TV networks’ apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Bell TV in Canada doesn’t support Samsung TVs because Bell is stupid. The only option is to use an external device. It’s a good thing I don’t care about their TV app. I only have access because it comes free with fibre internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they 'hated' it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There are also pedestrian safety laws. I’m not convinced that the Cybertruck is less safe than any other similar-sized pickup truck. If anything, the nose is a bit lower, so it’d let a pedestrian fall on the hood more than if they were hit by another truck.

  Either way, the stainless steel isn’t going to be a factor, and the pickup market is flooded with vehicles that are less safe for pedestrians than lower cars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they 'hated' it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are people so convinced that the Cybertruck won’t be safe? Of all the bad things we can say about Tesla, it’s a fact that they’re quite safe vehicles. I see no reason why the company would suddenly build a vehicle that is so unsafe it cannot be sold in Europe. Some comments in this thread say it doesn’t have any crumple zones. How strong do you think 3mm stainless steel is? The strength of every vehicle comes from its frame, not from its body panels. Same thing with the Cybertruck.