I’m still upset about what they did to Jorgensen in 2020. If they hadn’t retroactively banned her from participating in the debates she may have actually had a chance at the seat.

We had a chance to put Jorgensen in 2020 and we blew that too. Could have avoided this whole mess if you ask me. Probably the last actually qualified candidate I’ve seen since probably FDR.

It’s a matter of finding where the line between cost and user satisfaction meet.

Like sure you could limit all videos to 60fps @ 720p or 30fps @ 1080p but most everyone now wants everything 120fps @ 2160p which takes up dozens of gigs per video and eats up bandwidth.

I think a big part of that is just straight up storage space, more specially a lack thereof. Google won’t release specifics but estimates put the total data stored by YouTube at somewhere near an exabyte (1 million terrabytes). Most of which is made up by video files.

Of course that’s just issue number 1 of many to figure out.

Yea peertube is rough… Mostly in part due to, in my opinion at least, people wanting to make use of YouTube’s ad revenue system even tho most creators I watch making most of their income via donations rather than ad revenue.

And extreme toxicity to the point that it drives everyone away from them so they just start with some Olympic level mental gymnastics to explain why it’s not their fault people hate them.

Mans got 2 braincells fighting for 3rd place and they’re both losing.

It would temporarily redeem him. Temporarily. Until he opened his mouth again.

I guess I should elaborate. I look at more than just what’s on the site. I’ll actually go around and look for 3rd party reviews and such. It’s not fool proof but I’ve had a much better buying experience since I’ve started doing that.

I look at reviews more than I look at advertising. On top of that I look at negative reviews. Most negative reviews usually have pros and cons listed or will actually go into depth about the product and it’s shortcomings unlike most positive reviews that just say “it’s great!”

Thankfully I can just filter their email address straight into the garbage bin but it’s still ridiculous.

With the advent of the internet and a bit of sailing the high seas it wasn’t hard to get a hold of em anyway.

I wanna see a cage match between Joe Rogan and Alex Jones where they beat the hell out of each other while debating screaming incoherently.

Reminds me of that scene from Castlevania between the Bishop and the Demon. You can guess who’s who.

“My life’s work, was in his name!”

“Your life’s work makes him puke.”

“pray for peace, prepare for war.” As they say.

You’re probably right. I’m just “huffing copium” as the kids say I guess. Already bad enough struggling with anxiety and depression this whole ordeal just exacerbates it so I’m doing what I can to not be completely defeatist/doomer about it. Keyword is trying. So far I’m not doing so hot.

Hence why I say that I’m not sold on the idea that they will be coming back… Cautious optimism maybe but I won’t be holding my breathe.

That’s the part where I’m divided. On the one hand, I understand that they basically have to strip the website down to the basic foundation then rebuild it. On the other hand… I’m not entirely sold that when it returns it will have all of the things it once had. Only time will tell I guess.