They’re throwing away the one asset that could dig them out of this hole, if only they’d admit they fucked up royally.

This bubble won’t burst, it will explode.

Any ideas for how we can hasten the end? I sure would like to stop them before they build more data centers.

I haven’t watched broadcast TV in many years, is this what I’ve been missing?!

Maybe to the front door? Probably, they’re only one of the cover points.

I bet someone has.

In 1970, I’d get home from kindergarten and watch Mr. Rogers in B&W. My mom didn’t like color TVs for a long time because the colors were “wrong”–she was an artist, a painter. So, we didn’t have a color TV till the mid-70s when she saw a Sony TV and decided the color was okay.

EDIT: I don’t like that Lemmy is changing my double hyphen (--) to an en-dash. I guess I’ll need to escape it from now on. I don’t like being tagged as AI, when I’m clearly just an old-school non-AI bot.

Hmm. 1970 is a little early for a kid to have a portable cassette recorder. Transistor radios were just getting affordable enough to give a kid.

While true, people still want to talk about shared experiences, and this is one of them.

Hold my beer.

It’s one damn thing after another.

If you haven’t done this before, there’s no time like the present. Also, go outside in your front yard. That pretty much maximizes the effect.

With socks. Otherwise, you’re focused on the weird feeling of wearing shoes without socks.

A few years back, I had a GF from South Carolina. We have one Waffle House here where I live, but it’s a half-hour drive away so I’d never been. She insisted we go, and now I fucking love Waffle House. It’s like a full step back in time, and one step to the left. I think the employees must need to audition for the job, like a movie or TV show.

I just woke up, and I know this is the best thing I’ll see all day.

Fucking hell, you’re right!

I mean, I’ve never used an AI chatbot, and even I know you’re right.

Couldn’t they, I don’t know, just go back to people writing the code, and stop using AI to do something it clearly can’t handle? Just an idea.

I guess they’ve invested (thrown) so much money at this thing, they’re determined to make it work. Also, I know they’ve gone into insanely deep debt and if it doesn’t work they’re going to lose an eye watering amount of money, and perhaps the bubble bursting will be the catalyst to bringing down the entire world economy.

Oh, so yeah, they do have great incentive to make this work, but I don’t see it happening. As usual, they fuck up and the rest of us pay the bill. None of the billionaires will suffer any more than loss of face over this. Even if they’ve broken laws, all they ever get is a small fine and a slap on the back, “Better luck, next time, ol’ boy!”

I’ll check out Nebula if YouTube gets to the point where I can’t avoid ads. But, till then, I won’t pay for what I can get free, simple as. If it comes to it, and most of the producers are there that I want to see, I will pay, whereas I won’t knowingly give Google one cent. I expect, though, if Nebula gets popular enough, they too will start with ads.

I only watch for shows not anywhere else. For instance, Tested, Perkins Brothers, Sabine, Louis Rossman, TechMoan, Just have a think, William Spaniel, etc.

For everyone saying they’ll leave YT, Google knows there are nine that won’t, so they’ll keep pushing till they hit the wall where this becomes unprofitable for them.

Personally, if it ever gets to the point that I can’t avoid ads on YouTube, I will stop watching, except for the occasional tutorial that I can’t find an alternative for–so maybe, a couple of times a year.

Because Valve has money.

“Child advocacy groups”, funded by billionaires.

If you can’t see it, you need to peel back a few more layers.