Well, it was an interesting article, and I agree with all their points. I’m not sure what I expected. The article was a bit more wide-ranging than just a list of facts. Yes, it did predictably start off with climate denialism, but it went other directions too. Worth a read.

Edit … Heh. I’ve rescanned it a few times. I love the way the guy shits on AI on the way out the door. Good work.

More edit … um … this guy’s a freeeak. Love it. He’s got a podcast called Starts With A Bang. He looks like Dr. Robotnik.

The impression I got was that this is a long straight thing that is spinning. “14 nearby galaxies rich in hydrogen gas, arranged in a thin, stretched-out line about 5.5 million light-years long and 117,000 light-years wide.”

You don’t have to think about that very long to see something strange. A line spinning around a common point must go slower in the middle and faster on the ends, just to keep up and even be a line of things.

If the whole line maintains a uniform speed, the middle will complete a rotation much faster than the edges, and what was a line shortly becomes a spiral.

Or, that’s the way shit is supposed to work. Unless you’re a galaxy. And in that case, people make shit up to explain your non-Netwonian dynamics. There isn’t enough info in the article to understand if they are implying a vast halo of dark matter to support this rotating structure. Christ. Something that big, spinning, with lobes, would send out gravity waves. The whole set of ideas here is just a fraught mess.

Well, the more of youtube we import … the more of youtube we import. Part of the reason we aren’t flooded with crap on the fediverse is that we are too small to matter. And perhaps we are small enough to effectively police our own. So … why would we want to import youtube at all? Bigger is not better.

That’s a link. They also call them URLs. We learned about them in web class, back in the stone age.

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Damn. It took me 3 paragraphs to say that. Good job.

Ok, I quibble with much of what you just wrote, but your first line contained a lucid point.

In essence, you propose that a federated monetization scheme would direct the bulk of the pie to the participants and not to the big corporate interests.

Now that’s a damned interesting thing to consider.
I think its obvious that it would/will go awry. Any time you get non-profits screwing around with money, somebody figures out how to steal it.
But if even a bit more went to the participants and paid for infrastructure, that would be a positive thing.

But again … non-profits and coops never handle money correctly. Watch this get all the way to the goalpost and then swoop, it all gets handled with GooglePay. Its doomed. DOOM.

Youtube was a lot more fun before it was flooded with professionals out to make a buck on advertising. This thing you seek … it is not good.

Ok. I can follow this line of reasoning.
If you want to avoid corporate platforms, fediverse doesn’t provide as viable an alternative as one might like.
This is clear, and makes sense. Thanks for the succinct explanation. At least I see some sense here now.

I’m not entirely sure that it matters.
Like, when was it decided that the ‘making money’ bit needed to be imported from YouTube?

Hey, um … I read your article. Or I tried to.
It lost me at the point where I need to give money to somebody else. So, basically right at the start.

To be more specific, your article starts of lamenting that its not convenient enough for me to give money to someone (“content creators”, a bullshit term if I’ve ever heard one) on these federated platforms. “this is a bit of a problem” There’s no examination of whether we should be doing this. Its taken as a given that monetization is a positive goal.

So … I really tried to get there and understand your point, but there’s this vast gulf between us.
Why would it be bad if nobody makes any money off the fediverse?
That sounds good to me.

This is just a turbo encabulator with write-only memory, powered by pressurized blinker fluid.

Read what people are saying. We disagree with your perspective and feel that this issue is justly deserved by Ubi’s behavior. Everyone was very, very clear about this. Our take is this is Ubi trying to hide their failure and blame it on an industry slump. So there ya go. Now you understand the article.

Do you want to know why? Read what people are saying. Ubi’s DRM policies have caused many, many people to lose access to their games. I have at least 4 Ubi games in my Steam Library that I can’t play. So … what’s that? A good $150 they owe me that I’ll never see? Gee. Why would I dislike them? Because they personallyh fuked me.

I gotta admit, I clicked, thinking that was a cool looking explosion. I guess I was disappointed.

Da fuq? Ya, that’s a cartoon, not a picture.

Here’s what they say about the actual pic.
… supernova SN 2024ggi in the NGC 3621 galaxy. It was taken on 11 April 2024, just 26 hours after the initial detection of the supernova. … spectropolarimetry, provides crucial information about the shape of the explosion even though it appears as a single point as seen from Earth.

And indeed. It’s a pic of a white dot.

The only games in my Steam library that I can’t play are Ubisoft.
Fuk Ubi. Forever. I would be happy if they went under.

I just reviewed the post again. It’s a stellar example of modern writing trends.

Read this:
Ultimate Blow Minds Change My Life Your Anything Basic Insane Advanced

Don’t you feel kinda gross now?

This was painful to read. Yuck. It was written like clickbait. Like AI writes. Yuck.
And of course it was crossposted. If you’ve got something you need everyone to know, you gotta crosspost it everywhere.

I haven’t gotten enough into JC2 to answer that question, but you just gave me another reason to play the game.

Um … characters in JC3 … well Mario gets developed. You get to see him dancing to a boom box. And he sends you to steal a scooter from some girl he doesn’t like. … There’s an announcer on the radio that crows about your victories. … There are some silly characters added with the DLCs. … And Sheldon. … But mostly I didn’t notice the characters.

JC3 was absolutely great. I finished it 100%.
JC2 is cool. I’ve not finished it.
JC4 is not fun. Boring. I’ve got about 3 hours into it.

Ya. JC5 is a no go.