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They'd sooner do what Nasim Najafi Aghdam did 7 comments
carbontech · 3 years ago
In 2018, Nasim Najafi Aghdam, a YouTuber, entered YouTube headquarters, shot and wounded 3 people with a 9mm and then killed herself.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/04/us/who-is-nasim-aghdam-youtube-shooter/index.html
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They'd sooner do what Nasim Najafi Aghdam did 7 comments
carbontech · 3 years ago
YouTube has decided to start running ads on smaller channels, that fail to qualify as members of their Partner Program, something that they very rarely did before. So channels that are ad friendly, but have less than a 1000 subscribers and less than 4000 yearly view hours, might now be monatized.
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Passions vs Hyperfixations 6 comments
carbontech · 3 years ago
<while struggling to stick an oversized rook to my ceiling>"It's not as easy as you'd think."
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Art 1 comments
carbontech · 3 years ago
From the movie, Pulp A Fiction.
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[OC] And the customer of the year award goes to 1 comments
carbontech · 3 years ago
DEFINITELY going to try that next time this happens. Who knows, maybe they'll give it to me for free.
Defund Harvard... Is what I always say 2 comments
carbontech · 3 years ago
Only eat 6 fries per *mouthful. Saftey first.
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Sir thiccsalot 5 comments
carbontech · 3 years ago
Sir Thongalittle
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I barely found it,thank you for good hiding of package 3 comments
carbontech · 3 years ago
What package?
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nope 10 comments
carbontech · 3 years ago
Before anyone jumps in to tell me how greedy YouTube is, I already know. The content creators I follow have all been regularly complaining about that for the last year or two.
The underlying truth is that nothing is free. You watch "free" TV, you gotta watch the ads. You don't want to watch ads, you pay for a service provider and FF through the ads on the PVR you rent or bought or you subscribe to an ad free streaming service like Netflix. "Free" Facebook mines all your personal data. Free to play games are an ad every 2 minutes. You want to use YouTube, watch their ads or pay to not. You want a platform to host and share your popular and now, not so popular content, pay through the nose for the "privilege". Like I said before, you have options.
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nope 10 comments
carbontech · 3 years ago
So it seems they're following the Gold Rush model. Individually, a small content creator who has a small number of followers and views would, if properly compensated, be in line for pennies, or fractions thereof, a month-the massive overhead and distribution costs of servicing 10's - 100's? of millions of small accounts would significantly outweigh any potential payouts. But like the tons of dirt the Gold Rush guys sift to get a few grams of gold, YT is most assuredly set up to make money on the massive volumes they'll sift. It's as if you walked up to that dump truck of dirt and added a teaspoon of dirt. Your share would be miniscule fractions of a penny, but hey, at least they give you a teaspoon and offer to carry your contribution to the sifter. So your options are to stop posting, gripe fruitlessly, grin and bear it while trying to get big enough to qualify or just enjoy your ability to view, create and post content at no cost-save for watching those ads, lol.
nope 10 comments
carbontech · 3 years ago
They've changed their TOS. If you want a cut of the ad revenues you've still got to be part of the Partner Program.
To become eligible for the YouTube Partner Program, a creator has to be living in a country where it’s active, has to have 4,000 public watch hours in the last 12 months and has to have over 1,000 subscribers. YouTube only used to run ads on videos from channels that don’t meet those criteria under special circumstances, such as if the channel was previously a YPP member. Going forward, though, the website can monetize any video, so long as it meets its ad-friendly guidelines.
I wonder if this is a way to push their ad-free service or just a way to tap an unmined source of revenue? An ad seen by 100,000 sets of eyes, probably costs the same, if it's split between 1 or 2 channels or a 1000 channels.
breh 8 comments
carbontech · 3 years ago
You're right, twice. The picture was originally posted in 2018-so absolutely nothing to do with Covid. It's simply two, definitely English speaking tourists, who came across some anti-tourist graffiti, and like anyone with any sense of humour, they decided to take an ironic photo to share with their friends back home.
"How was your trip to <insert country with English-speaking graffiti artists>?"
"Great! They really rolled out the Welcome Wagon for us."(substitute their appropriate cultural reference), said while showing the photo.
Very light hilarity ensues.
The End.
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October 21st, 1966. The Aberfan Disaster. 116 children and 28 adults died that day 2 comments
carbontech · 3 years ago
From Esquire:
"Aberfan was a Welsh mining village founded in the late 1800s—one of many such villages that burgeoned near the Methyr Vale colliery, which began its operations in 1869. In the fall of 1966, Wales was deluged by weeks of heavy rain, which caused a nearby spoil tip (a mountainous pile of mining waste) to liquefy into a thick slurry. On October 21, 1966, the slurry hurtled into the village of Aberfan like a landslide of black quicksand, inundating buildings, streets, and most notably, the local schoolhouse."
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This Hotdog looks a little hard to eat 7 comments
carbontech · 3 years ago
In Russia, food doesn't melt in your mouth...
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Space exploration monument in Moscow 3 comments
carbontech · 3 years ago
It's legit, at over 100 meters high. Search for "The Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics" on Google Earth. The only thing that may have been added is the flare of the exhaust, Photoshop or lucky reflection of the sun?
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Angry Newborn reminds me that the birthday is not the best day 2 comments
carbontech · 3 years ago
The real reason they wear masks in maternity ORs-fear of baby's wrath.
"The door was locked from the inside, so how did the killer get in? They both simultaneously notice the slightly askew cat door. "He was an OB/GYN...you don't think..." DUN DUN!
Law & Order: Baby Justice.
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Gotham City - Toronto, Canada at Night 3 comments
carbontech · 3 years ago
As a Canadian, I take a bit of pride whenever Canada is mentioned in a positive light, but there are many cities that have TO beat. I figured if I searched I would come up with several Chinese cities, however, while doing a search for futuristic cities, I came across the following, "With 49% of its population having been born outside of Canada, UNESCO has named it the most diverse city in the world. And if diversity is an element of the future, then Toronto has arrived." Guess you're right, lol.
https://thefairytaletraveler.com/2017/04/19/futuristic-cities/
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Hard pill to swallow 6 comments
carbontech · 3 years ago
Unfortunately, as Voltaire noted, "Common sense is not so common."
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Healthcare for some 87 comments
carbontech · 3 years ago
To those that think we should all fend for ourselves, I'll ask how you feel about collectively paying for a standing army, for teachers, police and firemen, for water and sewers, roads and bridges and all manner of farm subsidies. Imagine how much higher your lifetime costs would be if these purely socialist endeavours were all run as for-profit businesses. You're being duped by the insurance companies, their lobbyists and the political whores they buy with the obscenely massive profits they make on human misery. And their constant goal is to make ever more money while further restricting access. Wake up.
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Healthcare for some 87 comments
carbontech · 3 years ago
So it seems, with the profit motive removed, a country does better overall health wise and at a cheaper cost, what with no insurance companies fucking people over for preexisting conditions and lifetime limits and hospitals existing where they're required, not just where they can turn a profit-see rural America. Health care becomes preventative rather than reactive-people don't put off a visit now and pay through the nose later. No one goes bankrupt because they lost their job provided insurance at a critical time and your boss loses that insurance stick he always holds over your head. More freedom, right?
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Healthcare for some 87 comments
carbontech · 3 years ago
US probably has the highest paid doctors, but then what else would you expect when Health Care is a FOR-PROFIT INDUSTRY. However, the US', 46th worldwide ranking in life expectancy, might lead one to believe they are not earning that money, lol.
As for the yearly costs involved, per capita, the US Government wins, as the highest overall out of 21 countries, at over $10,000 per citizen(that's YOUR tax dollars) and then your personal insurance adds $4500-$8300...yearly. Just as point of comparison, your neighbours to the north rank 12th, at about $4800 per man woman and child, with $0 for personal insurance. Life expectancy-wise, they are ranked 30 places higher than the US, at 16th highest, with almost 4 years more of average life expectancy.
https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/
https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/cost-of-healthcare-countries-ranked-2019-3
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Got to watch out for those stock photos 2 comments
carbontech · 3 years ago
When you're trying to buy a bike from a James Fridman fan.
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I've prepared a romantic bubble water for my wife. She wasn't impressed! 2 comments
carbontech · 3 years ago
Headline: Police still not sure how drowning victim ended up with Dawn in his lungs and candles in a bodily orifice.
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Very friendly 4 comments
carbontech · 3 years ago
Answers to the name, Dragger.
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Road rager gets lit 10 comments
carbontech · 3 years ago
If this was scene from an action movie, you KNOW the driver would have quipped, "You're FIRED!", as he drove off.
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