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Danny LaFever posted:Firefox and ublock works great for me. I do notice that a lot of times the video automatically drops to 480p and I have to manually change it. Its not my internet that is the issue. I had read somewhere the google is deliberately pulling bullshit to make yt worse on firefox so people will use Chrome. again, and I cannot stress this enough, they did user-agent checks to make Google Maps completely non-functional on Windows Phone so they could kill the platform, which was moribund anyway because app developers couldn't be bothered with it Hit Apple, Google, MS, Amazon, and Meta with a giant hammer IMO (Meta might not be necessary at this point but we can't have them getting opportunist over everyone else getting broken up)
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Apr 9, 2024 14:38
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Danny LaFever posted:Firefox and ublock works great for me. I do notice that a lot of times the video automatically drops to 480p and I have to manually change it. Its not my internet that is the issue. I had read somewhere the google is deliberately pulling bullshit to make yt worse on firefox so people will use Chrome. They constantly automatically change you back to auto resolution, presumably to cut down on service costs. 1080+ is significantly more resource intensive to serve than 480/720. I downloaded an extension on Firefox to lock it to 1080, but tbqh I don't remember what it was called
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Apr 9, 2024 14:45
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also shout out to SponsorBlock: which lets you auto-skip sponsors, intros, outros, subscription reminders, and other annoying stuff
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Apr 9, 2024 15:00
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Lol at people thinking the apple anti trust suit is going anywhere.
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Apr 9, 2024 15:04
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webcams for christ posted:also shout out to SponsorBlock: which lets you auto-skip sponsors, intros, outros, subscription reminders, and other annoying stuff love it lol
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Apr 9, 2024 15:05
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Biplane posted:Lol at people thinking the apple anti trust suit is going anywhere. Pelosi not dumping the stock was certainly a bad sign
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Apr 9, 2024 15:06
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Biplane posted:Lol at people thinking the apple anti trust suit is going anywhere. the doj is good now. the institutions are back, baby (wolf howl)
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Apr 9, 2024 15:07
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the EPA did something today too. Dems are scared about November Lol.
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Apr 9, 2024 15:09
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  love to be bullish about commodities. this is good for inflation, right?
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Apr 9, 2024 15:13
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loquacius posted:again, and I cannot stress this enough, they did user-agent checks to make Google Maps completely non-functional on Windows Phone so they could kill the platform, which was moribund anyway because app developers couldn't be bothered with it It's kind of silly we have to do this manually, we should just institute laws that automatically break up companies once they hit a certain size threshold.
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Apr 9, 2024 15:20
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why should we break up monopolies instead of nationalizing them?
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Apr 9, 2024 15:30
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against the WTO rules
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Apr 9, 2024 15:31
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loquacius posted:again, and I cannot stress this enough, they did user-agent checks to make Google Maps completely non-functional on Windows Phone so they could kill the platform, which was moribund anyway because app developers couldn't be bothered with it But, but, hitting the FAANGs with a hammer might shatter the e-con-omy.
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Apr 9, 2024 15:31
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Engorged Pedipalps posted:But the IT generic manager jobs where the guys job description is to sit in zoom meetings and do no personnel management? These people are loving useless. This is me currently. I am aggressively paying down our house because I really need to make hay while the sun shines because this poo poo ain’t gonna last and I’d rather not be homeless when I lose my job.
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Apr 9, 2024 15:32
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anonumos posted:But, but, hitting the FAANGs with a hammer might shatter the e-con-omy. Maybe you should shatter the, freaking economy!
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Apr 9, 2024 15:41
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stumblebum posted:why should we break up monopolies instead of nationalizing them? Apple and Meta aren't worth nationalizing. Amazon and Microsoft, probably.
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Apr 9, 2024 15:45
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Edit: dumb misread
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Apr 9, 2024 15:48
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SKULL.GIF posted:Apple and Meta aren't worth nationalizing. Amazon and Microsoft, probably. I feel like a social media project run with social good as a goal rather than profit would probably be worth pursuing, and Facebook is probably closer to what we'd need than, like, Twitter or Reddit or Tumblr or whatever, so nationalize Meta in its entirety. Nationalize Amazon in its entirety too because an all-inclusive public online storefront without Jeff Bezos getting to wet his beak would be a valuable tool, and because cloud-computing resources being available at cost would be too. Split Azure off of Microsoft and nationalize it too for the same reason. Nationalize Google's search function because it allows them to exert an unhealthy amount of control over the Internet, and because they drove it into the ground with their AI poo poo. Nationalize Youtube for the same reason we nationalized Facebook; run it like a crowd-created PBS. Nationalize Gmail too I think, unless people get too worried about the government reading all their emails, in which case I guess just spin it off. Google Maps' value as a utility speaks for itself imo so nationalize that too. Fully nationalize all ISPs obviously. Everything else can probably just be hit with a big hammer and shattered into a million pieces IMO but if people really wanna nationalize everything full-stop I sure won't complain
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Apr 9, 2024 15:54
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loquacius posted:I feel like a social media project run with social good as a goal rather than profit would probably be worth pursuing, and Facebook is probably closer to what we'd need than, like, Twitter or Reddit or Tumblr or whatever, so nationalize Meta in its entirety. No! Noo!!!! What about all the useless middlemen 
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Apr 9, 2024 16:07
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anonumos posted:But, but, hitting the FAANGs with a hammer might shatter the e-con-omy. Smaller pieces grow back into bigger pieces and become new monopolies.  The oligarchy really hates growth
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Apr 9, 2024 16:09
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CPI forecasts for tomorrow: Economists anticipate the overall CPI reading for March to show that consumer prices rose 0.3% on a monthly basis, down from 0.4% growth in February, according to FactSet’s consensus estimates. However, the annual inflation rate is expected to rise to 3.4% from 3.2%. The report is scheduled to be released Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. EST.
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Apr 9, 2024 16:09
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Biplane posted:No! Noo!!!! What about all the useless middlemen They will be perfectly happy in their new role as public employees in the large bureaucracy that will be necessitated by these new government services 
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Apr 9, 2024 16:16
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Oh, oh, I almost forgot Uber! Don't nationalize or antitrust them, just loving shut them down. Shutter their doors. Sell their office chairs at auction. e: the auctions would be on newly-nationalized eBay ofc
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Apr 9, 2024 16:19
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Gonna pass by Pittsburgh today
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Apr 9, 2024 16:24
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loquacius posted:Oh, oh, I almost forgot Uber! Don't nationalize or antitrust them, just loving shut them down. Shutter their doors. Sell their office chairs at auction. Uber and Lyft are very useful services for the disabled if nothing else and in the absence of a national shutter service are unfortunately quite essential for a lot of people
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Apr 9, 2024 16:41
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Business Gorillas posted:YouTube finally killed my ad blocker. I was wasting so much drat time on there. I feel free 🥰 if you use ublock origins and Firefox and keep it updated you should be fine. the ublock Reddit is staying ontop of the big G and pwning them. if you ever need to find out the latest block status and how to get around it anyways come post in the cspam podcast thread but off the top of my head, plastic pills is decent (but very dense) philosophy pod (but a bit too lib at times). Fall of Civillizations and radio war nerd are great history podcasts
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Apr 9, 2024 16:46
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If you're not listening to radiowarnerd you should be. Also Blowback. Don't know any other history pod I'd recommend without reservation.
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Apr 9, 2024 16:48
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Age of Napoleon and The Fall of Rome are great history pods
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Apr 9, 2024 16:53
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genericnick posted:If you're not listening to radiowarnerd you should be. Also Blowback. Don't know any other history pod I'd recommend without reservation. Tides of History is fun imo.
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Apr 9, 2024 16:53
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genericnick posted:If you're not listening to radiowarnerd you should be. Also Blowback. Don't know any other history pod I'd recommend without reservation. people’s history of ideas is a little dry but really good
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Apr 9, 2024 16:53
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https://twitter.com/zhirji28/status/1777716197850554522?t=ruJSzwqECRxfc3oePbtIng
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Apr 9, 2024 16:57
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Weird what happens when you include things that are specifically excluded.
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Apr 9, 2024 17:00
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loquacius posted:Oh, oh, I almost forgot Uber! Don't nationalize or antitrust them, just loving shut them down. Shutter their doors. Sell their office chairs at auction. A national taxi service with app hailing is dope. The problem is the non-employees under girding the entire operation. Salaried drivers w/ bennies, sick days and a company owned fleet makes Uber work still. I'm sure it would still be profitable
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Apr 9, 2024 17:04
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taxis don’t reliably exist outside of a small number of areas. The use case for ride sharing is huge it just needs to not be run explicitly to gently caress over the drivers. Also I don’t understand this trend the last few years of people doing the whole ableist argument thing to defend something they use rather than just defending it on its own merits.
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Apr 9, 2024 17:05
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Thoguh posted:Also I don’t understand this trend the last few years of people doing the whole ableist argument thing to defend something they use rather than just defending it on its own merits. It's literally part of Uber's PR strategy, nevermind that they also spearhead defunding paratransit, anybody repeating it is a fuckwad
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Apr 9, 2024 17:07
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nationalize ubereats because sometimes im really drunk and need a cheese burger
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Apr 9, 2024 17:08
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AARD VARKMAN posted:nationalize ubereats because sometimes im really drunk and need a cheese burger
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Apr 9, 2024 17:10
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lol CNN trying to soften the blow wrt the administrative state being dismantled https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/09/politics/sandra-day-oconnor-chevron-case/index.html quote:
I didn't need that clean air or water anyway
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Apr 9, 2024 17:11
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nationalizing ride sharing is dice clatter in background ableist, because leafing through rule book corporate ghouls need to extract the maximum possible fees from disabled people or they’ll die
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Apr 9, 2024 17:12
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AARD VARKMAN posted:nationalize ubereats because sometimes im really drunk and need a cheese burger
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