I am slowly losing my mind over the shift towards video as the default media format.
I do not find this to be an efficient way to absorb information. I am bored and distracted by the time the largely unnecessary introduction is over. I can’t use ctrl+f to find the specific information I’m looking for. If there are instructions to follow, I don’t want to have to constantly pause and back up to the part I need.
At least give me a fucking transcript.
I can read faster than you can talk and these videos are wasting my time.
The transcript should also contain timestamps for any audio from the video that can’t be adequately translated into text, to ensure that the merits of both formats are not overshadowed by each other’s flaws.
Bruce is one of the richest men in the world. Bruce does not want to be one of the richest men in world.
He starts by implementing high starting salaries and full health care coverages for all levels at Wayne Enterprises. This in vastly improves retention and worker productivity, and WE profits soar. He increases PTO, grants generous parental and family leave, funds diversity initiatives, boosts salaries again. WE is ranked “#1 worker-friendly corporation”, and productively and profits soar again.
Ok, so clearly investing his workers isn’t the profit-destroying doomed strategy his peers claim it is. Bruce is going to keep doing it obviously (his next initiative is to ensure all part-time and contractors get the same benefits and pay as full time employees), but he is going to have to find a different way to dump his money.
But you know what else is supposed to be prohibitively expensive? Green and ethical initiatives. Yes, Bruce can do that. He creates and fund a 10 year plan to covert all Wayne facilities to renewable energy. He overhauls all factories to employ the best environmentally friendly practices and technologies. He cuts contracts with all suppliers that engage in unethical employment practices and pays for other to upgrade their equipment and facilities to meet WE’s new environmental and safety requirements. He spares no expense.
Yeah, Wayne Enterprises is so successful that they spin off an entire new business arm focused on helping other companies convert to environmentally friendly and safe practices like they did in an efficient, cost effective, successful way.
Admittedly, investing in his own company was probably never going to be the best way to get rid of his wealth. He slashes his own salary to a pittance (god knows he has more money than he could possibly know what to do with already) and keeps investing the profits back into the workers, and WE keeps responding with nearly terrifying success.
So WE is a no-go, and Bruce now has numerous angry billionaires on his back because they’ve been claiming all these measures he’s implementing are too expensive to justify for decades and they’re finding it a little hard to keep the wool over everyone’s eyes when Idiot Softheart Bruice Wayne has money spilling out his ears. BUT Bruce can invest in Gotham. That’ll go well, right?
Gotham’s infrastructure is the OSHA anti-Christ and even what little is up to code is constantly getting destroyed by Rogue attacks. Surely THAT will be a money sink.
Except the only non-corrupt employer in Gotham city is….Wayne Enterprises. Or contractors or companies or businesses that somehow, in some way or other, feed back to WE. Paying wholesale for improvement to Gotham’s infrastructure somehow increases WE’s profits.
Bruce funds a full system overhaul of Gotham hospital (it’s not his fault the best administrative system software is WE—he looked), he sets up foundations and trusts for shelters, free clinics, schools, meal plans, day care, literally anything he can think of.
Gotham continues to be a shithole. Bruce Wayne continues to be richer than god against his Batman-ingrained will.
Oh, and Bruice Wayne is no longer viewed as solely a spoiled idiot nepo baby. The public responds by investing in WE and anything else he owns, and stop doing this, please.
Bruce sets up a foundation to pay the college tuition of every Gotham citizen who applies. It’s so successful that within 10 years, donations from previous recipients more than cover incoming need, and Bruce can’t even donate to his own charity.
But by this time, Bruce has children. If he can’t get rid of his wealth, he can at least distribute it, right?
Except Dick Grayson absolutely refuses to receive any of his money, won’t touch his trust fund, and in fact has never been so successful and creative with his hacking skills as he is in dumping the money BACK on Bruce. Jason died and won’t legally resurrect to take his trust fund. Tim has his own inherited wealth, refuses to inherit more, and in fact happily joins forces with Dick to hack accounts and return whatever money he tries to give them. Cass has no concept of monetary wealth and gives him panicked, overwhelmed eyes whenever he so much as implies offering more than $100 at once. Damian is showing worrying signs of following in his precious Richard’s footsteps, and Babs barely allows him to fund tech for the Clocktower. At least Steph lets him pay for her tuition and uses his credit card to buy unholy amounts of Batburger. But that is hardly a drop in the ocean of Bruce’s wealth. And she won’t even accept a trust fund of only one million.
Jason wins for best-worst child though because he currently runs a very lucrative crime empire. And although he pours the vast, vast majority of his profits back into Crime Alley, whenever he gets a little too rich for his tastes, he dumps the money on Bruce. At this point, Bruce almost wishes he was being used for money laundering because then he’s at least not have the money.
So children—generous, kindhearted, stubborn till the day they die the little shits, children—are also out.
Bruce was funding the Justice League. But then finances were leaked, and the public had an outcry over one man holding so much sway over the world’s superheroes (nevermind Bruce is one of those superheroes—but the public can’t know that). So Bruce had to do some fancy PR trickery, concede to a policy of not receiving a majority of funds from one individual, and significantly decrease his contributions because no one could match his donations.
At his wits end, Bruce hires a team of accounts to search through every crinkle and crevice of tax law to find what loopholes or shortcuts can be avoided in order to pay his damn taxes to the MAX.
The results are horrifying. According to the strictest definition of the law, the government owes him money.
Bruce burns the report, buries any evidence as deeply as he can, and organizes a foundation to lobby for FAR higher taxation of the upper class.
All this, and Wayne Enterprises is happily chugging along, churning profit, expanding into new markets, growing in the stock market, and trying to force the credit and proportionate compensation on their increasingly horrified CEO.
Bruce Wayne is one of the richest men in the world. Bruce Wayne will never not be one of the richest men in the world.
I don’t want anyone to take this the wrong way but Europe is kinda like a miniature America. All the landscapes and trees and stuff are SMALL, they’re little versions of the stuff we got going on over here. Even your big things, like the alps, are so cute. You could put a fun roller coaster up there and make it a little ride for the kids.
There’s already a snow coaster there. It’s called “Alpine skiing/sledding/snowboarding”.
already this has tags in the notes like “#anti ai” but… this is just real life with almost everything. this is like grifter 101 please don’t exceptionalize needing to be critical of chatgpt.
This is literally how job interviews work, by the way, and then everyone is surprised the super-duper confident guy is also an incompetent moron.
This worked on Trump voters, with the added selling point that he’s a piece of shit that gave them permission to be pieces of shit.
Talking to experts when I was young used to drive me nuts because I would say something self-evidently straightforward, and they would say, “Well, it’s not actually as simple as that…”
And then I got older and learned things on the way, and found people asking me questions that were straightforward, but the equivalent of “Why isn’t it obvious to everyone that there is only one right way of doing the thing…?” and I would reply, “Well, it’s not as simple as that…” and watch them decide that I probably didn’t know what I was talking about.
This one time I was at a street festival hosted by my Uni and there was a guy doing card tricks. I was watching him when I noticed he dropped a card. (7 of spades) I quickly pu my shoe in it and then bent down to act like I was tying my shoe. He then asks for a volunteer so I raise my hand. He asks me to say the name of a card at random so I say “7 of spades” he does his trick that I guess was supposed to make it come on top. He holds up the Ace of Hearts and says “is this your card?” And I hold up the card and said “no but this is” and the crowd LOST IT. I handed the card back to the magician and walked away. Later he comes up to me and asks me how I did it. I looked him in the eye, smiled and said “magicians never reveal their secrets” and walked away.
Can we please make “I’m depressed” a valid reason to out-of-the-blue fall off the face of the earth?
I’m not busy.
I’m not tired.
My plate isn’t full.
I’m not swamped with work.
I don’t have a cold or flu.
I’m not laying awake at night. (But I am sleepy throughout the day.)
Nothing tragic or traumatic has happened.
I nor anyone I know or work with is going through anything.
You didn’t do or say anything wrong.
But I’m not sad, either. I’m not homesick or in mourning. I’m not angry at anyone or anything.
Nothing is wrong…
I just woke up and suddenly being alive sucked, eating became a dumb idea and nothing mattered. I canceled training for the next two weeks, making up a lie, saying I’d be out of town on business.
And I have no other explanation for that, but I don’t [can’t] say anything because the word “depression” might as well be “itchy” to some people.
“Here, have a mango. You like mangos, right? This should cheer you up!” But I’m not sad.
“Just think happy things!” But I’m not sad.
“Did something happen? You know you can always talk to me!” About what? I’m not sad.
It’ll go away just as it came: on its own.
How long it’ll stay in my system this time is anyone’s guess.
I just can’t suspend my disbelief about anteaters. It doesn’t make any sense that a mammal that huge can keep its body sustained eating just ants and termites. “Oh but they raid hundreds of nests per day and eat thousands and thousands of them!” Dude, I feel like even you must know you’re reaching here. Come on.
It’s a shame, because the idea is genuinely really cool, a big fluffy guy whose main deal is slurping up insects with its crazy tongue, what’s not to love. But they went too far and felt the need to make that gimmick its ENTIRE food supply, and then it just… doesn’t work! Nobody would be complaining if it ALSO ate some berries or something every once in a while! Your worldbuilding is allowed to have some nuance!
And I guess they tried to address this when they made the aardvark by introducing the aardvark cucumber, which is a special melon-looking fruit that only aardvarks care about and which supplements their mostly insect-based diet. Which… okay to be honest I think that’s a really ham-fisted and dumb solution, but at least it’s something.
I will be honest if someone posted “I’m a tutor and everyday I watch zoomers try to double tap on books to open them” thousands of you would reblog it and tag “😱 it’s so scary that this is what all kids today are really like they’re so helpless and stupid omg!!! those damn kids need to get off their phones!!!!”
Who would do that like actually. I would- holy shit why can’t I remember the last time I read a book.
“why can’t they just be friends” not in the homophobic way but in the “their platonic relationship in the source material is far more dynamic and complex than the sanitized personalities they gain as a result of shipping” way
“why can’t they just be friends” not in the homophobic way but in the “this is a valuable exploration of intimacy and vulnerability that we’re conditioned to recognize only in romantic relationships but that can exist platonically as well” way
the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because “tasty” means something tastes good. conversely, from the words “smelly” and “noisy” we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck
this is what ancient greek philosophy is like
False! “Sightly” is a positive word, so the default way for things to work is good as well.
The true most ordinary object is beautiful, horrible sounding, very smelly, intangible, and delicious.
I still don’t think it matches anything in existence but to truly understand a thing one must know its true nature.
“touchy” is also a word! however it’s mostly used for things that aren’t objects, like subjects of conversation. it either means “oversensitive and irritable” or “requires careful handling/wording, delicate”
i think the second one works well for our hypothetical object. so we can use that.
therefore, the Default Object is:
beautiful
makes a horrendous sound
smells absolutely awful
is very fragile
tastes delicious
and i still cannot think of anything that matches this
I am slowly losing my mind over the shift towards video as the default media format.
I do not find this to be an efficient way to absorb information. I am bored and distracted by the time the largely unnecessary introduction is over. I can’t use ctrl+f to find the specific information I’m looking for. If there are instructions to follow, I don’t want to have to constantly pause and back up to the part I need.
At least give me a fucking transcript.
I can read faster than you can talk and these videos are wasting my time.
The transcript should also contain timestamps for any audio from the video that can’t be adequately translated into text, to ensure that the merits of both formats are not overshadowed by each other’s flaws.
I don’t want anyone to take this the wrong way but Europe is kinda like a miniature America. All the landscapes and trees and stuff are SMALL, they’re little versions of the stuff we got going on over here. Even your big things, like the alps, are so cute. You could put a fun roller coaster up there and make it a little ride for the kids.
There’s already a snow coaster there. It’s called “Alpine skiing/sledding/snowboarding”.
This one time I was at a street festival hosted by my Uni and there was a guy doing card tricks. I was watching him when I noticed he dropped a card. (7 of spades) I quickly pu my shoe in it and then bent down to act like I was tying my shoe. He then asks for a volunteer so I raise my hand. He asks me to say the name of a card at random so I say “7 of spades” he does his trick that I guess was supposed to make it come on top. He holds up the Ace of Hearts and says “is this your card?” And I hold up the card and said “no but this is” and the crowd LOST IT. I handed the card back to the magician and walked away. Later he comes up to me and asks me how I did it. I looked him in the eye, smiled and said “magicians never reveal their secrets” and walked away.
already this has tags in the notes like “#anti ai” but… this is just real life with almost everything. this is like grifter 101 please don’t exceptionalize needing to be critical of chatgpt.
This is literally how job interviews work, by the way, and then everyone is surprised the super-duper confident guy is also an incompetent moron.
This worked on Trump voters, with the added selling point that he’s a piece of shit that gave them permission to be pieces of shit.
Talking to experts when I was young used to drive me nuts because I would say something self-evidently straightforward, and they would say, “Well, it’s not actually as simple as that…”
And then I got older and learned things on the way, and found people asking me questions that were straightforward, but the equivalent of “Why isn’t it obvious to everyone that there is only one right way of doing the thing…?” and I would reply, “Well, it’s not as simple as that…” and watch them decide that I probably didn’t know what I was talking about.
“The YouTuber patriarch of a right-wing Canadian family, Arend Feenstra, decided that he’d had just about enough of the gay people existing in his country. So he decided to take his family to Russia instead.
“We didn’t feel safe for our children there in the future anymore,” said avowedly Christian dad of eight Arend Feenstra on Russian state TV. “There’s a lot of left-wing ideology, LGBTQ+, trans, just a lot of things that we don’t agree with that they teach there now, and we wanted to get away from that for our children.”
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Would it have been a good idea for them to learn Russian before they went? Yes, yes it would. Did they do that? No, they did not. “We were naive on that,” said Anneesa Feenstra, matriarch and former beet farmer. “I needed to use the washroom, and on the doors said male and female, but I didn’t know which was which!”
…
In a YouTube episode titled “our first week in Russia”, Arend Feenstra showcases the hospitality that the local people living in their district had shown to the clueless family, who hadn’t brought enough cold-weather clothes. The locals donated snow suits for the children, and even helped them with their language issues.
…
Unfortunately, no amount of kindness from strangers can make up for significant financial problems: something the Feenstras encountered because – who knew?! – Visa or MasterCard don’t work there, and authorities closed the Russian account they moved their money to due to it being a suspiciously high sum with no explanation of where it came from. Similar anti-money laundering laws exist in the UK and US.
Arguing for their money proved incredibly challenging since Russia doesn’t require any bank, or any business, to hire English translators.
This caused a fairly significant tantrum, posted on YouTube by Anneesa Feenstra and then deleted. “I’m very disappointed in this country at this point,” she said – about a snag that could have easily been solved in advance with a quick Google search. “I’m ready to jump on a plane and get out of here”.”
“An Indiana family of missionaries that fled to the Caribbean over COVID-19 is now facing mounting legal woes and financial ruin since investigators found an unlicensed firearm and a trove of ammunition in their possessions.
Jason and Jennifer Grogg and their two teen daughters were taken into custody on April 17 when authorities on the island of Dominica found the gun and ammunition inside the 40-foot shipping container the family used to store their belongings, the Indianapolis Star reported.
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The Groggs’ legal woes came two years after Jason and Jennifer – who describe themselves as Christian missionaries – moved their family to Dominica from Logansport amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Even before the family decided to decamp to the East Caribbean, they had written in a newsletter to friends and family that they felt the expansion of LGBTQ+ rights meant that the US had rejected God.
“We were feeling like God was leading us out of the country to go somewhere else. He led us to the Commonwealth of Dominica,” Jason told the IndyStar.
The Groggs decided to decamp to the Dominica based on a recommendation from an associate in Florida, and their own research that connected them with Feed My Sheep, a faith-based nonprofit that supports youth in crisis on the island.
Feed My Sheep severed ties with Jason Grogg on April 11 – just a few days before the authorities raided the family’s belongings – due to “his recent abusive & fraudulent behavior,” the organization said in a statement.”
“Comment Award goes to Laughing Gravy: "I’ll bet back home they used to whine about immigrants who don’t know the language, who have no money, who expect the government to hand them a house and a job, and who complain when they don’t get everything they want.”“
When I was a very suicidal trans activist in Texas, Benjamin Sisko saying “sure, you would [die for your people]. Dying gets you off the hook. The question is: are you willing to live for your people?” changed and possibly saved my life. It’s up there with “if we are going to be damned, let us be damned for who we really are” from Picard. Star Trek not only shows us a better world, it teaches us how to make it there
[ID: an aged, unbound book of pages written on in black inked cursive. The text is not legible from this angle but there are many lines crossed out and rewritten throughout. end ID]
“oh, you act so romantic with your friends-” SHUT UP! I CAN ACT ALL MUSHY AND SWEET WITH MY FRIENDS, WHAT’S WRONG WITH THAT!? COWARD! YOU DON’T SHOWER YOUR FRIENDS IN AFFECTION AND LOVE!? YOU’RE WEAK! WEAK AND PATHETIC!
THIS RIGHT HERE THIS RIGHT HERE THIS FUCKING RIGHT HERE
Most shows need to end at some point, and in many instances they benefit from ending sooner rather than later. This is not the case with doctor who. To me, half the entertainment value of dw comes from trying to write new content for a show that’s been around 60+ years. I need it to ferment; I need to see what doctor who will look like in another couple of decades. I need it to go on forever. I hope future generations will have to experience centuries, maybe even millennia-old doctor who. I hope they have lore so incomprehensible it takes a lifetime to even begin to understand
Can we please make “I’m depressed” a valid reason to out-of-the-blue fall off the face of the earth?
I’m not busy.
I’m not tired.
My plate isn’t full.
I’m not swamped with work.
I don’t have a cold or flu.
I’m not laying awake at night. (But I am sleepy throughout the day.)
Nothing tragic or traumatic has happened.
I nor anyone I know or work with is going through anything.
You didn’t do or say anything wrong.
But I’m not sad, either. I’m not homesick or in mourning. I’m not angry at anyone or anything.
Nothing is wrong…
I just woke up and suddenly being alive sucked, eating became a dumb idea and nothing mattered. I canceled training for the next two weeks, making up a lie, saying I’d be out of town on business.
And I have no other explanation for that, but I don’t [can’t] say anything because the word “depression” might as well be “itchy” to some people.
“Here, have a mango. You like mangos, right? This should cheer you up!” But I’m not sad.
“Just think happy things!” But I’m not sad.
“Did something happen? You know you can always talk to me!” About what? I’m not sad.
It’ll go away just as it came: on its own.
How long it’ll stay in my system this time is anyone’s guess.
I just can’t suspend my disbelief about anteaters. It doesn’t make any sense that a mammal that huge can keep its body sustained eating just ants and termites. “Oh but they raid hundreds of nests per day and eat thousands and thousands of them!” Dude, I feel like even you must know you’re reaching here. Come on.
It’s a shame, because the idea is genuinely really cool, a big fluffy guy whose main deal is slurping up insects with its crazy tongue, what’s not to love. But they went too far and felt the need to make that gimmick its ENTIRE food supply, and then it just… doesn’t work! Nobody would be complaining if it ALSO ate some berries or something every once in a while! Your worldbuilding is allowed to have some nuance!
And I guess they tried to address this when they made the aardvark by introducing the aardvark cucumber, which is a special melon-looking fruit that only aardvarks care about and which supplements their mostly insect-based diet. Which… okay to be honest I think that’s a really ham-fisted and dumb solution, but at least it’s something.
I will be honest if someone posted “I’m a tutor and everyday I watch zoomers try to double tap on books to open them” thousands of you would reblog it and tag “😱 it’s so scary that this is what all kids today are really like they’re so helpless and stupid omg!!! those damn kids need to get off their phones!!!!”
Who would do that like actually. I would- holy shit why can’t I remember the last time I read a book.
“why can’t they just be friends” not in the homophobic way but in the “their platonic relationship in the source material is far more dynamic and complex than the sanitized personalities they gain as a result of shipping” way
“why can’t they just be friends” not in the homophobic way but in the “this is a valuable exploration of intimacy and vulnerability that we’re conditioned to recognize only in romantic relationships but that can exist platonically as well” way
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