Eww

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Mr. Pibbs' wife.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The Rings Of Saturn

Was chosen by my Community College English professor and it was the most mind numbing thing I've ever had to read. It was translated from German, so there are multi-page, run-on sentences that haunt me till this day.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

The discovery of catnip.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Your comment just made me $10, thanks for participating!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I don't work for Google, but I have been in IT Support for almost 20 years.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Same. I also remember when it took forever to load and there was nothing but viral videos. Now I can learn a new skill or watch in depth research on things I am interested in buying by people who took a lot of time to produce a video to help me make the best decision. If I was only consuming trash YouTuber content like Mr. Beast, then I would understand. The majority of my watch history consists of educational or informational content, and not having to watch ads and have it on-demand reliably is something I see worth paying for.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I acknowledge your opinion, but you won't make me feel bad for exercising my freedom of choice. I do appreciate your upvote.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I only pay $22.99, I didn't want YouTube TV since I don't really watch regular TV.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm not rewarding them for bad behavior, I am paying them for running a sophisticated system that delivers any and all information in a digestible format to my fingertips. I do agree their free service has gone to shit, but it should have been a paid service from the start. I've built my own personal cloud and it is prohibitively expensive for me to have it stream HD video. Definitely more than a YT Premium subscription.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I am not opposed to being enlightened if you are willing to share. Otherwise, your comment adds nothing of value.

 

I get that it started for free with less intrusive ads, but YouTube has had a huge impact on the way we all share and consume information. Understanding how much money it takes to run a service with the technology needed to provide high definition videos on a site that is up 99.9999999% of the time, I have no issue paying for a service that has changed my life in many positive ways. Now I do hate price gouging like everyone else, but it's inescapable from gas & groceries to all streaming platforms.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I would argue the loud ones who went to the rallies, burned books and actually took people out of their homes were more integral to the proliferation of Nazi ideals.

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