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Agreed, in my experience Tubi and Pluto both have very reasonable length, good quality ads. I declined to re-up on YouTube TV for NCAA football season this year specifically because I can stand their ads. At that price tier, they honestly expect me to sit through My Pillow ads??

This is not something I had ever thought about before and I am also fascinated.

Because I think quality of presentation is not being factored into the assessments you’re seeing on that wiki.

I tend to recommend Healthline to the public because it clearly targets a lay audience, and chooses to meet that audience where they live. It’s written the way I talk to my patients, and the information is accurate and accessibly easier to read.

Just look at the difference between the pages on hypertension from Healthline and MedlinePlus:

https://www.healthline.com/health/high-blood-pressure-hypertension

https://medlineplus.gov/highbloodpressure.html

The details and accuracy of the information is not different. But the way Healthline presents it is so much more accessible.

The best thing to happen from WebMD is we got a bunch of actual medical providers like Mayo Clinic, University of Maryland, Merck Manual that went, “GAH! No!!” and made actually informative, updated medical websites.

Healthline, kids. Healthline is where we go for our medical information.

Just did. Won our vote Wednesday night 💪

They didn’t get genetic raw data of anyone beyond the 14K, they got family relationship information. Which is an option you can turn on or off, if you want. It’s very clear that you’re exposing yourself to other people if you choose to see who you’re related to. It doesn’t expose raw data and it doesn’t instantly expose names, just how they’re related to you. (And most of the “relations” are 3rd to 5th cousins, aka strangers.)

Hackers used the genetic ancestry data of the 14K hacked users and their “relatives” connections to deduce large families of Ashkenazi Jews.

Use Amazon as a search engine, find what you need, then Google the manufacturer and buy it directly from them. You’d be surprised how many have free shipping . It’s usually not two day shipping, but what do you really need that fast?

If it’s electronics, buy online for local pickup at Best Buy. If it’s tools or house supplies, buy online for local pickup at Lowe’s or Home Depot. Buy online for local pickup at Target.

I haven’t purchased anything from Amazon in 4 years. It’s honestly way easier now than it was before Amazon started, but no one realizes that because Amazon got them locked in.

Reba McEntire! Love me some Reba
Alabama are another favorite of mine

Mary Chapin Carpenter is great too
The Judds
Loretta Lynn
Hank Williams Sr.
Kenny Rogers
Rosanne Cash
Waylon & Willie, baby (Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson)
Brooks & Dunn
Charlie Daniels Band

In a more modern iteration, I’ve been really enjoying The Dead South recently

I might have had an entire backyard dance choreographed to this song when I was a kid. Maybe. I’m not telling.

In real life, a restaurant can and will kick you out and ban you from the premises for wearing a swastika and saying you think minorities don’t deserve to live.

Ergo, being kicked off a company’s privately owned server for hate speech is EXACTLY the same amount of freedom they would have in real life.

Everyone loves censorship. Even you.

AI companies are most certainly making an effort to profit from the content they’re deriving from copyrighted works.

The kool-aid is laced, kid. You should put it down.

AI trained on plagiarized art created by real humans who were not compensated for work that AI companies are now making money on.

Aka stealing

It’s almost like people in the United States have the freedom to express their opinions on a matter. Imagine that!

This kind of passive bigotry is necessary for genocides to occur. It is the foundation on which the mechanisms of genocide are built.

It’s not just no good; it’s terrifying.

Favorable terms with no means of legal leverage are just wisps of air. They can and will be rescinded at the earliest convenience of the corporation, which is literally why we’re in the current situation we are today. The strongest middle class in the US existed when unions were at their peak. That is not a coincidence.

A formal, legal union gives employees power and leverage to enforce the favorable terms that they negotiate with an employer. You can argue that unions as organizations can be subject to similar corruption as any other organization, but contrary to popular propaganda, there is nothing inherent in the existence of a union that requires or lends itself to corruption any more than any other power structure.

Employees are legally permitted to organize a formal, legal union of their own outside the existing union organizations, but then they’re starting from scratch. Existing unions have been through negotiations, have experienced lawyers, know the process and all of its pitfalls. The vast majority of workers are better off joining an existing union because of this.

Oh I misread that, my bad

I’m mean, to be honest, yes. I haven’t purchased anything from Amazon in years. It was an adjustment, but easier than you think. Most times, I just wait a little longer for free delivery of something I don’t care about getting in two days anyway. One of the other changes I made was getting a membership to a Costco type place that has local delivery for my household stuff like cereal and toilet paper. You should give it a shot.

This is me. I no longer scroll Reddit. I only go over there to browse the nursing and Boston subreddits occasionally because I can’t get that same interaction here. Everything else I do here now.

Problem is people don’t have a lot of control over their subconscious perceptions. The subtle ways that they’ll remember two things being side by side and associating the two. This is why brands are careful about what content their ads are shown on.