Only losers have a problem with the AC character.

Or the topic is inaccurate and should say “The essence of consumerism”.

The conservative version is the same but removes the poster from the left window.

What a simple, stupid argument.

I do miss driving a manual, however EV one-pedal driving has its own gamifying aspects.

What is this garbage?

You people think it will be a night and day collapse? Get real. The rich will continue to get richer and you’ll toil away in relative comfort as you do now.

I’m somewhere between the whipper and the whipee.

Not a chance. Millennials had to be good at tech when they were coming up. Everybody after got iOS.

I’m sorry, but the YouTube of 2005 is nothing like the YouTube of 2023.

In fact, nothing in 2023 is like it was in 2005.

Ad money. And that’s drying up.

Waaaaah why can’t I just get everything for free!? Waaaaaaah

Maybe go start c/fuck_everything?

also the ‘pseudo-childfree’ mention might also be bothersome to some, what with it suggesting said lifestyle might be just a phase

That was not my intention. I don’t consider it a phase and I don’t think everyone needs to be a parent. I just got a very c\fuck_kids vibe from the whole thing. I’m sure I could have said it better, but… eh.

Oh no!

Anyways…

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Anyways…

Yes. Very reasonable take. Well done.

I don’t really know how people can expect YouTube to exist without some sort of income.

The age of free content is coming to a close as VC funds dry up. Serving video is expensive.

In reaction to this news from YouTube, I signed up for Premium. $12/mo for my main source of content? Easy decision.

I kind of assume people are listening to music or something with the headphones on. That does a good enough job to drown out all sounds for me. If you just put on noise-canceling headphones, turn them on, then don’t play anything… yeah… not going to be super effective at filtering out crying babies.

JFC are people really understanding my take as blaming the fucking babies? The whole “kids these days” was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the adults in the plane complaining about the babies.

I am putting it on the adults complaining about crying kids on planes or whatever other little thing that gets under their skin.