ChewFarceSkunk

People not seeing anything sinister in these infinite loops of "content" are baffling me. These loops, the very loopy quality of those things get burned into infant subconscious, and that's no small deal.

I once watched my nephew, 3 yo, having what I can best describe as a psychotic breakdown, hysterically crying out the same word, 'cartoon', interleaved with convulsive grasping for air, every few seconds for an hour straight, like a machine, when he was deprived of 'cartoons' as a penalty for his 'bad behavior', and nobody, including his mom, my sister, who spinelessly managed to outsource his upbringing to YT, could pull him out of that loop. That was really scary to see.

Imagine YT going instantly offline worldwide, what would happen to all those poor little cartoon burnouts?

I believe if your rainbow bubble is strong enough, you don't have to react to any doomposts out there, because everything's good in the world and nothing can shatter your mindset.

Besides: refrain from sharing this belief in the future? Are you from the belief police or something?

Trying to be good at all times is a tremendous trap. They don't say that good intentions pave the road to hell for no reason.

It seems like YT's horde of psychiatrists has tapped into parents' minds as well, so they are programmed into believing they can't downshift in any aspect of their lives and won't sacrifice shit to actually pay attention to their very own children, because: work, money, stress, no time, no energy. Better let YouTube take care of them.

Society is fucked.

And the world will surely pay a price.

Came here to write the same.

But then I'd like to add that despite her brilliant play in The Congress, it would be too wishful to expect that, as a person, she's as deeply aware of implications of depicted techno-medical fascist future as her film character is. Acting is just her daily job, after all.

I can also perfectly imagine some inhumane owners of the film industry indulging in an exquisite psychological torture of making an actress play herself getting digitized in a movie, only to find herself realizing the same scenario in her real life later.

This adds even more eerie recursion to the already outlandishly eerie and recursive Congress. Let's wait and see if they'll actually merge Miramax and Paramount into Miramount one day.

It's like being biten by an unknown insect and refusing to acknowledge the fact for the lack of a correct binomial nomenclature for that insect. No name = no entity, that's their motto.

Yet another nail in the Internet's coffin. It's more telescreen now than in 1984.

Yet another open {source|data|whatever} project is ending up with "Thank you, creative person, here's your exposure!"[1]

Isn't it a perfect business model for corporations?

1a) Launch an open source aka crowdsourced project at a relatively small cost, or 1b) Just wait until it comes out of the woodwork on its own.

2) Watch the data of interest flowing in, for free, in a self-organizing way.

3) Wait until it reaches the stage when bringing it up to a production-ready state takes again a relatively small investment, then take it over.

4) Now offset your small investments orders-of-magnitude-fold compared to what you would without crowdsourcing - by selling the data which people hand-picked and gathered for years, by training your AI on their code, by debugging a prototype of future blockchain money at the expense of enthusiasts and profiteers etc.

Would this work? Hell no, except maybe on Flat Earth! You forgot

0) To set the stage by preaching how noble and virtuous it is to give away the fruits of one's work away for free for the greater good, providing for a better future for all of us on the principles of freedom, predominantly as in beer, all over the Internet, especially in places where young and idealistic graze on the fields of IT.

[1]: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/exposure

Nice, but not hardcore enough! Here's the real deal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA

Also never mention those flags anywhere in docs, which are shambles anyway in regard of everything beyond the "I'm a power user, I promise I know what I'm doing" banner.. And there are literally hundreds of such flags in e.g. every modern browser.

Been there, done that, stopped updating when the layout got around 52 Gb. Decided to download only relevant workloads, which proved to be a failure on each reinstallation, even with all the recommended and optional workloads included as per MS docs...

Should also mention online-only installers a la vs_buildtools from MS and a whole lot vendors more.

Want an offline installer? Easy peasy, just

- find one in a cobweb-covered thread in an obscure subforum on a vendor's site;

- manually compile a list of thousands of workloads your build tools would need, including optional ones, and create an offline installer yourself - using another machine that still has to be online - which will fail anyway if your target machine happens to be really offline;

- be told to basically GTFO for being an outmoded Luddite who opposes The Progress.

Screenshotting this thread as a valueable appendix to my thesis on Stockholm syndrome.

What's up with the hypocrites who either have a paid job or spend other's earnings for a living but insist that other people must not charge money for what they do, whatever that is?