Damn, lemmy is over here upset that you pay for something you like and use frequently.

YouTube creators have said many times they get a lot more from a premium view compared to a regular one.

Anyone I know who voted for trump for “economic reasons” are people I know to have the weakest grasp on what economic factors determine the price of eggs.

Turns out I’m wrong. I went to look for a source for what I had said and there’s a common misconception that listerine coined the word for marketing purposes. In reality, it existed before they popularized it. The etymology section of the halitosis Wikipedia article mentions that specifically.

Don’t remember specifically where I’d heard listerine made the word itself but I guess that’s a bending of the truth.

Halitosis is bad breath AND a totally made up disorder.

I wonder, if it’s even possible, if a device like the tasso blood collector would help people with this issue.

Needles are still involved but they’re significantly smaller and you can’t even feel or really even see them during the process.

I’ve had blood drawn using it and you can’t even feel it happening. It does take a lot longer than a typical blood draw, though.

https://www.tassoinc.com/tasso-plus

Source?

Rip the following things that often have undocumented immigrants working (from my anecdotal experience)

• Farms
• Construction
• Professional painters
• Drywalling
• Carpentry
• Concrete
• Flooring
• Seriously basically every part of constructing a building or infrastructure is supported by immigrant workers
• Fast food
• Normal speed food (restaurants)
• Cleaning services
• Landscaping
• Retail, like gas stations and grocery
• … And many more!

Truthfully, I’m not that invested in the stoty and I was under the impression that the honey issue was solely on the creator side, so knowing otherwise does change my perspective some.

That said, I don’t think we know if LTT knew the entire story at the time. If they did, I also believe they should have said something. AFAIK they haven’t come out to say they knew of the whole story at the time of dropping the sponsorship, just that they knew of some of the issues. Without doing a deep dive like other creators have, I still think they would rather avoid the publicity for fear of retaliation, like they stated.

Ultimately, to each their own on whether you like GN or LTT. I still think GN goes out of their way to stir drama, whether it’s called for or not, and it sure seems like he just has an issue with Linus overall.

I briefly fact checked myself before my comment but the first few articles I saw didn’t mention the issues beyond creators. Good information and definitely changes my perspective of the overall problem. Thank you!

Wasn’t the issue with honey that the creators were being scammed? They were replacing the codes being used with their own, so that honey was getting the affiliate money and not the creators themselves?

To the end user, the issue would be moot. The users themselves weren’t even being impacted, unless they were trying to specifically use the affiliate code to support their favorite creator.

If they realized it was an issue and cut off their sponsorship because it was negatively impacting their own business and not the viewers, they have no reason to tell the viewers about it. On the same note, had they stated their reason publically for discontinuing the partnership and made an erroneous claim which, if you believe GN, they are very likely to do, it could open them up to a lawsuit with honey, and ultimately PayPal, who has a lot more money than a relatively large YouTube entertainment company.

As you said, Linus had claimed that their primary goal is making money. They’re a business with over 100 employees, you have a responsibility as a business owner to ensure you can keep paying those people. He also has said that their primary channel creates edutainment and pure entertainment content because it’s the only thing that can maintain their viewership at a level high enough to support LMG.

I can’t see GN as anything but the annoying, self righteous redditor type who stands on his soapbox claiming everyone else is doing wrong and getting a sense of superiority out of it. Their content isn’t anything particularly special, so they have to drum up the view count by creating drama. It’s okay to like it, but at least hold them to the same scrutiny you would the channels they call out.

Dude makes money calling people out. He’s not here looking out for consumers, he’s here for the paycheck. Don’t be deceived. Ragebait makes money and they know it.

Where do people not line up for something to wait for it?

The police forces are managed by state governments, not federal.

My local gym had all the tvs near the treadmills set to various political news entertainment stations (fox, CNN, etc.).

I typically sat in front of fox and let the ragebait fuel my running. It’s interesting how emotions can make you exercise better.

Why do people like gamersnexus? All I ever see is them stirring up shit for views.

Do they even make real content that isn’t just “I called out entity x for reason y and now everyone should be angry”?

Typically the state only cares about things they perceive as children.

What’s wrong with drinking from jars?

What do you mean? Quick Google shows that T-Mobile allowed wireless calling back in 2007.

This leads me to two questions:

Do you guys often miss while standing and, if you do, not clean up after?

When you’re sitting do you not have an issue with the pee splashing UP the side of the bowl onto the seat? I have this happen often.

Oh shoot, right. I was thinking real life time not story time.