Amazon can't even succeed when they buy an existing robot company, let alone build their own in-house. It'll be a long, slow fall, but hard, and someone will eat their lunch when it comes to automated labor.
But in his final letter to shareholders as chief executive last year, Bezos said the company had to “do a better job” for its employees. Amazon will commit to being “earth’s best employer and earth’s safest place to work”, he wrote.
In part, Bezos’s change of heart is down to a wave of unionization efforts at the company’s warehouses. But Amazon also faces a problem of scale. As the US’s second largest private employer, it is now struggling to replace all the workers it loses.
No way, are we actually forcing Jeff Bezos to stop being the worst employer on planet Earth?
It's a linear extrapolation that doesn't take into account the not completely unreasonable chance that commercially viable banana varieties could go [functionally] extinct or that climate change will make it dramatically more expensive to grow them in sufficient quantities such that the price can stay on trend.
Ah yes, the Gros Michel banana. It's the banana my parents grew up with, but is now virtually extinct. Weird story. Even weirder that it could happen again.
I'm not sure what happened, but my algorithm is on fire lately (in a good way). I frequently get recommended quality videos with very little engagement and not many views. Smaller gaming channels, car enthusiast videos, short <20 second videos that are hilarious and remind me of early YouTube.
It looks like other people are getting these as well because they will be 5-6 year videos with 10k views and all the comments are from this last month.
The whole experience is very much "early YouTube" and I'm here for it. My front page used to be all from the same dozen channels but I have so much more variety now.
Noticed this last night when I got some totally unrelated stuff, comments are filled with "what is going on, why did YouTube reccomend this to me? I love it"
I've been getting these types of recommendations as well but unfortunately I've only seen one good one, for the most part they are low quality/beginner content. I like the effort though. I'd pay for premium if they tried to get back to early YouTube, restored the dislike button, fixed the search functionality, only recommend videos related to what im watching, and didn't optimize their algorithm to murder my attention span.
You probably already know but there's a good extension for returning the dislike button that a lot of people seem to use. And another one for skipping sponsored content automatically and it also adds a highlight button that will skip to what is presumably the point of the video (why you clicked) as well as ublock origin.
Between that and the improved algorithm my YT experience is so much better.
But doesn't that extension just assume dislikes is some proportion of likes (1/3 comes to mind but I'm not sure why)? The whole point of dislikes is knowing ahead of time that the video is a pile of shite, for example if it's got 20 likes and 200 dislikes it's probably not worth bothering with. But if it's got 20 likes and, say, 7 dislikes based on dislikes=likes/3, that gives you no useful information.
Now if that extension queries some API that returns the hidden 200 dislikes, THEN it'd be useful.
It does a pretty good job with the ratio id say just give it a try?if a video is like 75% or lower it's usually a pretty shit video or the person has some wack views. I've seen a few videos too where it's as low as ~25%
My comfort show is a 10 hours long tier list by some youtuber with a considerably monotone voice and almost constant volume. Some day I'll discover what's at the middle of the tier list.
I used to when it was easier to watch it on streaming without ads... As soon as I set up a media server and acquire it somehow, I'll be back in business!
I mean, I have no idea who made it. I think it's entirely possible they did this just as a bit of fun.
But it runs entirely too close to "ironic" 4chan "Hitler was good actually" posting.
There isn't really anything grounding it in the realm of parody, of insincerity, and so it's kind of indistinguishable from what someone who actually likes this abuse fantasy would do.
The point is, I had an argument about literally this very subject with someone 2 or 3 weeks ago, and this is extremely vindicating.
Not to say the game can't be fun. I believe people when they say they have a good time. It's not like you have to do this.
I don't think there's actually anything wrong with indulging in a fantasy of abuse (so long as all participants are sane consenting adults, that is), I just find it creepy on a personal level.
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