@bigzaphod I feel this way too and I think it’s a problem! Because they’re coding their presentation as if they’re an expert and that adds extra weight to their credibility in our minds. It makes us feel like we’re getting more than surface-level insight.
But what’s worse is that people will introduce fake elements to make the video more compelling, or because they know they’ll get more engagement if they get something wrong that people will try to correct.
"With more data at hand than theoretical projection, the evidence is overwhelming: Universal #BasicIncome is working nearly universally."
"In city after city and cohort after cohort — old, young, single parents, ex-convicts — universal basic income has improved health outcomes, raised employment, and bolstered childcare opportunities (and recipients have had consistently better outcomes than control groups)."
UBI works. We know that. It will reduce other costs.
https://www.businessinsider.com/universal-basic-income-works-red-state-blue-state-2023-10
It's funny: Both Bandcamp and Patreon had the easiest and most straightforwardly long-term profitable business models imaginable: Sit between indie creatives and their fans, provide some basic services for mediation (comment sections, media posts, semi-global payment) and take enough of a cut of any payments to cover the costs and then some.
But because that business model wouldn't scale forever, they are instead being gutted, because ever _increasing_ growth is the only model capital accepts
A friend of mine listens to various sounds to help her fall asleep in an app that has various "sleep sounds" (ocean, wildlife, etc.)
As a former semi-serious sailor, she was excited to see that there were sailing sounds, so she started them up and immediately fell asleep. She then had rigging-related sailing nightmares all night because the soundtrack has the sounds ropes make when they're under an unsafe level of tension.
[EDIT: Ugh, this turns out to be wrong -- it's actually 78% of 11%. See page 89 of https://www.systemiq.earth/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BreakingThePlasticWave_MainReport.pdf -- misleading representation. 8.5% ain't nothing, but it's nothing like a majority. Thanks to those who replied to correct this!]
The good news: The majority of ocean microplastics come from one source, which means we could dramatically reduce their occurrence by focusing on just one solution.
The bad news: It's car tires. https://www.thedrive.com/news/tire-dust-makes-up-the-majority-of-ocean-microplastics-study-finds
“We are dealing with not one but two unreliable narrators: Musk and Isaacson himself.”
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/1/23895069/walter-isaacson-biography-musk-review
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