A Random Person on the Internet

This post talks about a new DM feature in youtube. What it fails to mention is that as part of this new feature is that when you send someone a link to a video, and they open it in the youtube app, they will see who sent them the link. Specifically, your channel name.

If your google account name is your real name, so is your channel name by default.

This means the new default behavior is that everyone you send a youtube link to will see your full name if they open it in the mobile app.

To turn this off:

Go to your youtube app settings

Go to Privacy

Turn off "Channel visibility for shared links"

Black pilot, West Point graduate, and combat veteran Wesley Hunt delivered a masterclass response:

“Hey Jasmine… Black pilot here.

I graduated from West Point. I went through Army flight school. I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache. I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.

Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color. Nobody lowered the standards for me.

Suggesting that Black pilots, engineers, doctors, or leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.

I didn’t want a different standard. I wanted the same standard.”

He ended with a powerful line:

“Merit isn’t racist. Excellence isn’t discriminatory. And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.”

Capacity to harm is not intent to harm.

Seek, as best as you can, to have capacity, to have skill, to be capable. 

Seek to be capable in life, in love, and in defense of those things, both with words and with action.

In other words;

A good man is a very, very dangerous man who has that under voluntary control.

Anything more than that constitutes "selling out" and being "THE MAN." Which is where it becomes time to take the artists down a peg with leaking videos, accusations of ____isms, and in general making any attempt at monetization a betrayal of those "indie" roots, and justifying any and all attempts at sabotage.

So when it comes to conversations about economics, there's a tug of war over what "capitalism" means, and the pro-capitalists seem to be struggling to assert their definition because the anti-capitalist definitions are very entrenched.

Which is a bad thing because anti-capitalist definitions of "capitalism" tend to be biased garbage. "Capitalism is when bad things" is a phrase that alludes to this, but I see there's some need for a breakdown.

1; Capitalism amirite?:

A lot of people are casual anticapitalists, and don't really have a definition. They're operating on a socially infectious habit of blaming everything bad on capitalism. Rich getting richer? Capitalism. Small business struggling? Capitalism. The snack you like getting discontinued? Capitalism.

To these people "capitalism" doesn't have a real meaning, it's just a convenient scapegoat and bogeyman for everything they don't like.

2; Capitalism is this list of bad things:

It can be greed and corruption, corporations, a "system defined by exploitation," whatever the specifics, "capitalism" is defined this way is synonymous with evil.

Not much to say about it, it's just blatant with bias.

3; Capitalism is basically everything (but actually just the bad things.)

This one is a bit more convoluted. This is a case where someone starts with a definition of "capitalism" so broad and all-encompassing that it doesn't have any meaning.

From there, "capitalism" can conveniently be blamed for every negative outcome in a system. (While any positive outcomes are ignored, disqualified, or otherwise not credited to capitalism.)

In summary: "Capitalism is when bad things" is an apt summary of how critics of "capitalism" describe it.

The libertarian right has a few ding-dongs in this area, too. Like people who say “Capitalism = Freedom”, which is kinda stupid, even if you like capitalism a lot. More commonly it tends to be equivalent to “free enterprise”, which is fine, but I’ve heard it defined in a particular way:

That is, when someone raises money (said “capital”) in order to buy machinery and industrial space, then hires workers to work on those machines to produce goods for a wage. There are other implications, like a financial system that allows people to pool their resources into corporations to facilitate such a framework.

You don't just go around with an unaltered Nazi tattoo for years and years if you've turned your back on those ideas. Or at least you shouldn't. Especially if you plan to run for office!

Elon symbolically grabs his heart and throws it out to the audience, and everyone calls him a Nazi for years.

This guy has a totenkopf tattoo, a literal Nazi symbol with no other possible interpretations, and we're told that we can't pass judgment, because we don't know or understand the full context.

- using gen AI or chat gpt

- blaming everything bad about society on men

- not getting vaccines to own the libs

- sending money to scammers pretending to be from gaza

- bashing people who use ozempic with guidance from their doctors

- hating lonely men for being lonely

- demonizing Jewish people and people who live in Israel

- blaming vaccines for autism

- purposely making myself look ugly (according to my own personal tastes) in order to trigger conservative men

~he has been chosen~

those who are chosen by the baby to receive the gentle lean are blessed indeed

They don't kiss much in public and seldom do they call each other pet names (Alastor at most calls her my dearest or darling but even then there isn't an emphasis put on the name and Charlie herself really only sticks to Al. )

But they're always breaking out into songs--something people were already accustomed to with Charlie, and admittedly people thought there would be less of it seeing as her partner was the actual radio demon who wasn't a person you'd associate with the word 'fun'--

But nope.

Now she has a duet and he turns it into a whole production just for her and for himself too, he likes to show off and then he even gets her to start dancing more as well,

He didn't snuff out her fire like people had anticipated he fanned it. Enthusiastically.

She didn't melt his thorns she just navigated around them. Effortlessly.

Lowkey feels like this:

They want other people to give them healthcare, they need a system to educate them, they want someone to provide food stamps to them, someone else is responsible for providing a comfortable living standard.