Freudian theories as well - relevant SMBC.
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I see a number of questions:
1.) Are the creators producing explicit content, on or off, YouTube?
It doesn't seem that there's many false-positives in this ban wave. The bulk of creators were definitely linking NSFW content externally and some had very suggestive videos on YouTube to begin with.
So if they are and got banned, I suppose that's not surprising. That leads to a second question though.
2.) Should they be banned for this -especially if it is off YouTube?
I feel like that's really the heart of the matter, is using YouTube as a pipeline to NSFW content something that should be policed? YouTube sure seems to think so. I guess it's "Twitch Bathtub Streams 2.0"?
Ticks are pretty bad nearby in WPA, I've taken antibiotics prophylactically for them.
I've been listening to the network for decades now and directly credit my IT career to the people who've been platformed on the various shows over the years. Lots of great content.
All of their infrastructure from the very bottom to the very top is FOSS - except their membership program. It links to a third-party which processes payments compliantly.
They've attempted a pivot to funding the network via BTC/Lightning but clearly that's polarizing to a lot of people even though it better aligns with their philosophy.
We could barely agree on the probable scenarios - "dollar collapse" is bad enough without even getting into "aerosol transmissible Ebola" or the like.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-visited_websites
I would hazard a guess it falls below knowing Spanish but above folding origami cranes.
That’s the killer feature. I haven’t met a person who couldn’t use PLEX.
This isn’t a hypothetical scenario though - the lack of economic opportunity across the border is a key reason of why I’m married.
The industries sustaining the city are healthcare, finance and higher edu. There’s no invasion of m fedora-toting tech bros building B2B SaaS AI Agents.
This is a group of current inhabitants who do want the city to improve who are submitting -honestly minor - proposals to keep Pittsburgh from going the way of many of the other Rust-Belt cities.
De-industrialization for decades on decades - of which Pittsburgh did an okay job of pivoting (many many other towns nearby faired far far worse) - pile on brain drain to the Coasts and a opioid epidemic to boot, I don’t see how this is an indictment of Yinzers.
I’ve become intimately familiar with Youngstown, OH - about 70 miles away from the Pittsburgh - and it’s a great case study of how far a once-powerhouse city can fall if it doesn’t a actively reinvent itself.
I actually went through the Allegheny county “newcomer tax” just some months ago.
It was a bit of a strange process to appeal (I lost; my house is very weird for the area).
While I do see the benefit for not raising taxes so consistently for long-term owners (and could definitely see gentrification-esque effects) it does seem like a pretty obvious - if bitter - pill to swallow if the area is going to have any chance of continued growth.
I suppose it'd be from a utilitarian perspective?
Ex: My gut feeling is nitrogen fixing would rank "low" on "terminal ecological impact" against "positive benefits to humanity"; the Vinyl resurgence would be around the middle; private jets for the Epstein class would the highest etc.
Without journaling I really don’t agree with the oft repeated claims it makes a good “router”.
Any networking gear I’ve used is treated as an appliance and I don’t want an unfortunate power outage causing data loss.