The problem with YouTube Premium is that it's not differentiated from NewPipe or Vanced.
You don't get a better algorithm. You don't get higher quality. You don't get faster speeds.
You literally get a service that is provided by third party apps.
Until they start baking in ads with their content, YouTube Premium is essentially a paid service for people who don't run adblock or don't want to use a third party tool.
Behind The Bastards made a very interesting observation:
In almost every society, the rich and/or powerful get so used to not being bound by the law, that they effectively push themselves to break more laws to see what they can get away with. It inevitably ends with them being pedophiles.
Robert Evans has said that he doesn't know if powerful people are actually pedophiles or if they are simply drawn to the power that they can become pedophiles without any consequences. But he also says it's a difference without a distinction.
Trump can legally kill people. Literally. He can point a gun in 5th Avenue and shoot someone and New York Court, SCOTUS, and his base, will all let him.
We cannot make arguments as if laws apply to this man because they simply don't.
So when he says words like "expel", we need to understand that he will try everything in his power, including things that are illegal to normal people like you and me, to accomplish his will.
During the pandemic, we were all starved for content so I'm not going to make apologies for this:
I watched Agents of SHIELD. It was decent enough to slog through.
As the series progressed, I saw that one of the main stars was half Chinese and they used her heritage as part of the plot. As an Asian, I am so used to these things being handled poorly. It's always some shit of "ancient Chinese secret" or Buddist bullshit.
But it was actually...compelling. There was depth and substance on how they handled it.
For the first time, I felt like I was seen.
Representation matters in so many ways because it helps normalize diversity. Something that the alt-right have a huge problem with apparently.
Pre-2010 social media still had issues. It incentivised likes and views, which then social media companies capitalized (literally) and then it became a terrible feedback loop. The desire for likes/views is deeply coded in our psyche and can't change that.
I agree with him in principle but the "poverty" line hasn't been raised in years. The amount needs to be in the lower middle class bracket. $75-80k is probably good so if you make that much, you won't pay income taxes.
What he and other progressives need to hammer home is that billionaire wealth doesn't help society and in fact hurts it. Money is only useful when it's used. Billionaires literally can lose a million dollars and they won't feel it.
I would love to see liberal states begin researching ways to banning states without violating the commerce clause.
We need more creative solutions like the SCOTUS term limits bill that has been making the rounds.
(I can't find the article but basically a president nominates a justice and then the longest serving justice is now considered a justice ameritus or something like that. Only the 9 shortest serving justices hear and decide cases, thereby still allowing justices to serve life sentences. It was genius.)
The problem with YouTube Premium is that it's not differentiated from NewPipe or Vanced.
You don't get a better algorithm. You don't get higher quality. You don't get faster speeds.
You literally get a service that is provided by third party apps.
Until they start baking in ads with their content, YouTube Premium is essentially a paid service for people who don't run adblock or don't want to use a third party tool.