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Comment on YouTube is testing a three-strikes policy for ad blocking in ~tech
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Comment on Where do you stand on climate change? in ~talk
pizzaparty LinkAs others have said, it's not a matter of belief, but rather of whatever the evidence shows. The fact that it can be posed here in questions like this shows the success of people trying to cloud...As others have said, it's not a matter of belief, but rather of whatever the evidence shows. The fact that it can be posed here in questions like this shows the success of people trying to cloud the issue.
I feel like the only people trying to deny the evidence have an agenda, such as trying to help industry avoid the costs of new regulations on pollution, carbon, etc. They don't want the changes that they'd have to accept if we acted upon the scientific evidence because it would cost them money and obligate them to sacrifice, so they deliberately flood the channel with fear, uncertainty, and doubt via the modern discipline of political manipulation to try to delegitimize the evidence. The idea that there's a worldwide conspiracy of scientists secretly colluding to advance some nefarious agenda is ludicrous. That's not what scientist do. They'd be the very last group to do that. The whole thing is sad and stupid.
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Comment on This feels dumb to ask, but how do you get your news? in ~news
pizzaparty LinkI use a combo of my google news feed on my phone, reddit, apnews.com, bbc.com, npr.org, and guardian.com. Used to do cnn because lazy, until they finally went too far.I use a combo of my google news feed on my phone, reddit, apnews.com, bbc.com, npr.org, and guardian.com. Used to do cnn because lazy, until they finally went too far.
Oh no! I have as much blocked as possible on desktop where I do 95% of my youtubing, which is why it's always jarring to visit it on mobile where it is just about unusable due to ads. If that becomes the desktop experience, I'm going to be in a pickle. I can't sit through that shit. There are already some sites like that and I try muting, going to another tab to wait it out, etc., and sometimes if you go to another tab, it knows and makes you start over! Crap. It's torture, can't do it. Surely someone will just come up with new ways to get around it though, or at least I'm hopeful they will.