Probably because, for many people, YouTube is used like cable TV was back in the day - something you put on for noise while you focus on something else. Feeding you something you'd already seen and possibly enjoyed lets you fulfil that need by providing something familiar to have on in the background so you can focus on the other task.

It's like throwing Star Wars on for the umpteenth time, sometimes you really want to watch it while others it's just something you can have on in the background while doing something else simultaneously giving you the opportunity to "take a break" when the Falcon gets caught in the tractor beam.

"My cousin's best friend's roommate was making fun of me for being lazy by staying in my room all day, when I caught them conspiring to sell my stuff and kick me out I stopped paying the 10k per month keeping them afloat and left. Days later I had 32 missed calls and numerous panicked texts..."

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind stories and often listen to audiobooks to help me sleep - if the AI voice is good and the story remains somewhat coherent I'll throw one on if I'm having trouble sleeping, saves money on buying audiobooks. But you can really tell the people who are trying to build a channel with decent narratives against those just looking to flood the algorithm, filling the space with rambling stories containing repeated details coupled with massive inconsistencies; the seemingly mousey unemployed [insert familial / friend archetype here] working out of their bedroom suddenly has 27 businesses worth a gazillion dollars with them being a well known figure amongst the same social circles their judgemental peers engage with.

Just because I'm tired and trying to sleep doesn't mean my brain stops working, I'm a systems and data analyst by trade so once those inconsistencies hit my brain can't help but hold on and now I'm wide awake again - thanks AI...

While in Boy Scouts, a three year adventure to learn just how much I hated camping, I'd spent a few weekends working on my nature badge planting trees. A regional farmer wanted to turn one of their fields back into a forest as a windbreak to prevent soil erosion on their other plots. I can never remember the name of the place and can barely remember where it is, I was a kid, but if I'm out driving and see the landmarks I'd remembered from back then I'll drive by.

40 years ago it was an empty field with a bunch of saplings, there's a forest there now and I gotta admit I feel a sense of pride for helping to do that - I mean think about it, I... me!, helped to make a forest once.

If you have kids around 10ish years old and see flyers for this around town looking for volunteers to plant them, sign up. It's easy to do and every time you drive by, watching it slowly turn into a forest, you can all feel a sense of accomplishment because it's not often a person does something so obviously impactful and beneficial to their local area.

Looking at the lifetime (MAX) stock price graph on the Google shows that, over time, Intel has a period of low cap followed by periods of increased growth. Current price is about $20 a share and with typical periods going up to the high twenties low thirties - seem like every 20 years or so there's a "wave" where the cap goes insane, but the overall value of the company appears to be somewhat stable.

So you gotta ask yourself, are you a betting person? Do you buy now, or wait a little longer in the hopes it goes even lower, then hold on to it long term waiting for AMD (or another competitor) to make a mistake so they can take on more market share before selling your stake?

All the "doom and gloom" is stupid, recent share price trends came off the back of the pandemic where people were quarantining and buying PCs to pass the time - that market has more or less dried up now and Intel is going back to it's more "stable" operating mode. Personally I prefer long term stability, not that I play the stock market directly, as I'd prefer to see returns over time versus taking a huge risk and losing my shirt hoping for that "lottery" win that's more luck than skill.

Not gonna talk about their chip issues this year, still rocking a 2009 iMac with a Windows 10 install as my daily driver and not really looking for a screaming new machine at the moment, but whatever problems they're having are also cyclical - AMD kicks their ass for a while then Intel catches up and kicks their ass, then AMD catches up to kick their ass again.

Saw a review on YouTube, looks like a decent machine for modest tasks, where they'd addressed the "controversy". Guy just flipped it upside down, the black "top" looks pretty good and it had the added benefit of moving the headphone jack to the left hand side of the unit where he'd typically kept his headphones, keeping the two front USB-C ports clear.

It's not like there's a spinning disk or optical media in there and USB-C / Thunderbolt are unidirectional, just turn it upside down if you turn your computer on and off so much. I'm far more upset at the ridiculous pricing for the 32GB ram upgrade or the absolutely insane amounts they charge for internal SSD storage, there is absolutely no possible way for an $800/CDN base machine to suddenly cost $2,424/CDN - three times the price! - because I decided to drop in 32GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD!

I remember reading something a few years ago, at work so can't really Google it, that scientists did some experiments during that time after 9/11 when planes were grounded and compared local weather / temperature patterns against similar periods / patterns when planes were in the air flying around and did see a difference in the local climate / air quality.

Again, at work, so I don't have much time to go look up what they'd found - I just remember that they did find something.

Reading the article it seems like Apple is blocking EU citizens from making purchases, or downloading apps / software, from countries outside the one they were in when setting-up and linking payment information to their Apple accounts. If I'm reading this right then essentially it's saying someone living in Germany using a credit card issued by a German bank can't make a purchase from an iTunes Store / Apple App Store, or other media services ran by third parties, from an online store in France despite both countries being a part of the EU.

This stance lets Apple, and other third parties, put "geo-blocks" on pricing, discounts, and software downloads to specific countries within the EU despite the EU being one large economic block with open borders and open trade amongst member nations. The EU is basically saying you can't artificially prevent EU citizens from making purchases, whether in person or online, from any companies operating within the EU.

I know their gender but I was deliberately being obtuse for two main reasons:

1) I write a number of emails daily to a diverse group of individuals, some of whom use they / them pronouns so I was taking the opportunity to practice.
2) I didn't want gendered stereotypes getting in the way of the importance of the message.

No, they won't, because that's not how capitalism works.

The capitalist will see their employees doing five days work in four on one side with shareholders screaming for ever higher profits on the other and will make a business decision to have their employees go back to working five days while producing six days worth of work for the same pay - they get the benefit of higher productivity and the profits from that, pleasing shareholders, while you just get more work.

Capitalists will do everything they can to maximize profits to the exclusion of everything else and will fully expect you to do six days work in five for no change in pay. Governments, when they're working properly for their citizens, are supposed to be there to protect the people from being exploited like this.

They're supposed to setup rules telling companies who implement four day work weeks, finding employees can keep up with five days output in that time, should not only continue to be paid for the five days worth of effort they produce but when they have to work that fifth day then they will get paid the equivalent of the six days worth of production they're producing.

Capitalists won't do it on their own out of the goodness of their hearts, it goes against their fiduciary responsibility to maximize profits at all costs, so they have to be forced to do it by law so yeah, Government.

I have someone on my team like this, constantly working long hours over and above everyone else on the team. It's largely the company's fault by not bothering to hire replacements as people left the company or do adequate training, leaving them the only person remaining who largely knows a lot of the underlying processes.

The problem is they're so overworked, being pulled by a number of departments for their expertise, they look for any excuse to slack off! Asking them a simple question which would normally take ten to fifteen minutes for most ends up being a 45 minute affair whereupon you'll learn about their best friend's third cousin's roommate who knew a guy that knew a gal who knew a park ranger that went on a skiing trip that one time.

I get why they do it, they're stressed out of their minds and need a break, and I often just roll along with it because they'll throw nuggets of useful information about various processes and system into the conversation. But because the company hasn't prioritized having them stop working, instead of having them spend time transferring the work to other people while they teach those people how to do it, just ends up putting them even more behind and working longer hours.

What's worse is their retirement is less than 5 years away, it's gonna be so much fun after they leave.

Perhaps not, but there's definitely a conversation to be had regarding the opportunity cost and return on investment. A gigawatt can power around 750k homes, what is the "AI" doing that we'd want to divert a somewhat large city's power toward running it and is it worth it for the larger society as a whole?

Here, let me fix that for you:

"No sir, you can't go from A to B with that conveyance, because of the conveyance" is like saying, "No sir, you can't go from A to B with that particular conveyance as you have not yet demonstrated your ability to operate the conveyance safely though you will, as always, continue to remain free to travel from A to B using an alternate transportation method."

Take a bus, a taxi, ride a bike, scooter, walk - you got two feed and a heartbeat right, wheelchair, skateboard - absolutely no one is "restricting your movement" but if you want to drive yourself around town within an encapsulated one tonne guided missile designed mainly for the operator's safety, then larger society has a right to demand you demonstrate your competence before we collectively give you the privilege of doing so.

We would have if the US government didn't proceed with their cutbacks to NASA after the moon landings.

The cutbacks kept us from getting that fancy moonbase meaning we never found the monolith in 1999, stopping Hal from telling Dave he couldn't do that in 2001. No monolith on the moon, no Hal and Dave, so no needing to send Roy Scheider nine years later in 2010 to find out what Hal couldn't do, meaning humanity has collectively failed the intelligence test thus there no reason for the monoliths to turn Jupiter into a sun leading to us remaining a non binary system.

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So you're a captain in the middle of an active warzone and your ship is taking fire. Your chief engineer is down in the engine room on the phone with 1-800-FIX-SHIP trying to convince Lockheed's automated answering assistant to escape the doom loop and connect them to a live agent to negotiate for an expedited repair crew to drop ship the repair parts and installation team, unfortunately finding out another ship beat you in the queue.

Normally this wouldn't have been an issue but a part needed by the airforce for one of their delivery jets is on backorder from Boeing, it'll be at least 24 hours before there's an available delivery jet to send the part and installation team. Of course Lockheed understands the battle will likely be over by then, resulting in the complete loss of ship and crew due to the lack of vital repair, but they'd like to assure you the safety of both your ship and crew remains one of their defining corporate values.are extremely important to them.

ALL economic models suck because the human administrators typically have a difficult time suppressing their greed, often finding ways to "game the system" and take extra resources for themselves.

Communism as a concept isn't horrible, where everyone basically owns everything equally and thus shares equally in those resources, it's the human operators doling out those resources succumbing to their greed thus taking extra which makes it suck. Capitalism as a concept isn't horrible, where everyone basically has the same opportunity to create a profitable business while sharing those profits equitably with the workers who've generated those resources for them, it's the human business owners succumbing to their greed by hoarding resources and not equitably sharing with the workers who generated them which makes it suck.

The trick is to have multiple watchdogs in place who have the authority to ensure balance is, more or less, kept in equilibrium for both sides to mitigate the effects of human greed as much as possible. North America, unfortunately, has been pretty bad at that.