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  1. Comment on Formula 1 Grand Prix of Italy (Monza) 2023 - Results in ~sports.motorsports

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    What happened to Aston Martin? They've been my favourite team to watch this year and it feels like they've fell out of relevance. Stroll has had a pretty poor season and generally it feels like...

    What happened to Aston Martin? They've been my favourite team to watch this year and it feels like they've fell out of relevance. Stroll has had a pretty poor season and generally it feels like the car can't keep up.

    2 votes

  2. Comment on Madison Reeve explains why she quit Linus Tech Tips (CW: self harm, slurs, sexual harassment) in ~tech

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    This is... another nail in the LTT coffin. While their business will probably survive (inertia is like that), I think the whole saga is going to cost them an appreciable amount of their enthusiast...

    This is... another nail in the LTT coffin. While their business will probably survive (inertia is like that), I think the whole saga is going to cost them an appreciable amount of their enthusiast fan base. I'll wait to see if there is official comment, but based on how they handled the first set of issues (plugging merch in an apology video? Really guys?) I'm not hopeful.

    17 votes

  3. Comment on Failures in accuracy, ethics and responsibility with Linus Tech Tips and LMG as a whole in ~tech

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    I started writing an essay about this in the youtube comments, but nothing good happens there so here I am. This topic makes me angry. Not becuase I think Gamers Nexus did anything wrong, but...

    I started writing an essay about this in the youtube comments, but nothing good happens there so here I am. This topic makes me angry. Not becuase I think Gamers Nexus did anything wrong, but because it's confirmation about my feelings about LTT. I used to be a frequent LTT watcher back in the garage days, and my google history says this was I think the video that caused me to watch them daily.

    I remember when they were growing as a channel and began hiring a lot more people and doing entertainment content, linus looked exasperatedly into the camera and said something like "guys, do you have any idea how easy it is to do a power supply review?". "THEN DO A POWER SUPPLY REVIEW, I remember thinking.

    And when they were saying things like "why aren't we happy where we are? If we're not growing faster than youtube we're going to be left behind". "THEN GET LEFT BEHIND". To me, Linus has forgotten why he started the business. This, to me, seems to be a more and more common trend in businesses: nobody wants to let anything go. You don't have to be the #1 viewed channel on youtube, and you shouldn't want to be.

    Another point that gets me is the feeling that the love for budget viewers has been lost. Maybe that part of the industry has been gone, but if I had his platform every review since the GTX750TI should have started with "this performs [well/ok/badly], but you shouldn't buy it because there's no reasonable budget option". Is it self sabotage? Maybe? But someone has to say it.

    I know it's insane to care this much about what's sort of youtuber drama, but come on. I'm sad my formerly-favourite media organization has forgotten why they even got into business in the first place.

    55 votes

  4. Comment on Superconductor megathread in ~science

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    I'm wildly skeptical of this. Don't get me wrong, It'd be fantastic. The problem is how far ahead of the curve this discovery would be. If you plot "humanity's warmest achieved superconductor" vs...

    I'm wildly skeptical of this. Don't get me wrong, It'd be fantastic. The problem is how far ahead of the curve this discovery would be. If you plot "humanity's warmest achieved superconductor" vs time, you'd see that we've raised the temperature slowly over the last decades, but are still miles off room temperature or even 0C.

    EEVBlog also doesn't like their demo video. https://youtu.be/QHPFphlzwdQ

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Three Cheers for Tildes (Android version) is open for alpha testing on the Google Play Store in ~tildes

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    Honestly the promise of this app was one of the reasons I've started reading Tildes. The app looks fantastic so far! Great work!

    Honestly the promise of this app was one of the reasons I've started reading Tildes. The app looks fantastic so far! Great work!

    4 votes

  6. Comment on 'The Three-Body Problem' is... bad in ~books

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    A couple of friends and I read it for our book club ~6 months ago and we were pretty ambivolent on it. I really liked the first half, but I at least respected the dedication to the "realism", or...

    A couple of friends and I read it for our book club ~6 months ago and we were pretty ambivolent on it. I really liked the first half, but I at least respected the dedication to the "realism", or at least I felt like they were using words that were related to the subject at hand. Then, halfway through the book the author takes a right turn into a snowbank and everything goes off the rails. I'm not really sure what inspired this becoming a gepolotical thriller, but the subject matter got so rediculous it felt like I was reading one of the worse clive cussler novels.