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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • We’re comparing China and the USA. That’s the topic.

    There’s a reason Florida currently has thousands of vacancies in teaching positions and is one of the bottom 10 states in terms of education.

    Teachers are still free to do what they want and express their opinions (i.e., staying and risking prison, leaving the state, not working as a teacher, being politically active, teaching outside the classroom).

    Book burning and expressing your opinion are protected rights. It’s absolutely embarrassing that the law exists, but the law will be challenged in court.

    Discourse doesn’t happen in China. If the government wanted, you just go to prison and they throw the key away. That’s if you’re not killed outright. No discussion, no politics, nothing.

    The USA has freedom. China does not.

    EDIT - Ironically, even you and I discussing this online is forbidden in China. You’re not allowed to express your disgust with problems of the Chinese government or state.







  • Finally a good argument, thank you.

    I agree that premium splits the percentage of my cash equally and easily but only 55% bugs me. That’s an arbitrary number based off of some black box calculation.

    I do not trust YouTube to have my or the creators best interest in mind.

    If this number was 90% for creators I would consider it fair. The majority of the work comes from creators and is the reason YouTube has any people at its doorstep.

    In the meantime, I can still far less effectively make use of my money the way I want to until a better alternative comes around.

    I’ll just have the sweat it and try harder to be a better consumer, I guess.


  • I would be fine if YouTube crumbled and was put into second place by a better platform or two.

    Yes it’s the best option currently which is why they can do such ridiculous practices.

    But once they have actual competition, I expect them to bend over backwards for my attention. Because if they don’t change the current trajectory, they’ll go the way of the other digital giants of the past.

    Do not worry about having a viable platform in a future without YouTube. I am 100% sure there will be one.




  • Going to lose a family friend to pancreatic cancer in a few months. The life expectancy after symptoms is like 6months. It’s brutally fast.

    The problem is the speed. This research might not “stop” this form of cancer, but if it opens up roads to makes it more detectable? So we can get to it earlier to treat it or manage it. I’ll take that.

    Maybe we can move that number from 6 months life expectancy to something that would give some more time. Maybe we could stop it all together. Whatever it is, all information is useful in the fight. I just hope we get some mileage out of this soon before it takes more loved ones.


  • There is a reason for doing it that way.

    I remember complaining to my dad about this exact thing saying that people just look it up in real life. He told me that in the end, the grade that I get will only tell future employers that I am more or less “teachable” compared to others.

    What you studied, specifically, didn’t matter. It’s how well you learned the material in a short period of time, then cranked out correct answers in a time-pressure situation.

    If you can do that quickly, you get a better grade, which tells people that you are a better candidate for a position.