Aaron

Can someone eli5 this for me?

I’ve noticed that a significant majority of makers on YouTube that I watch are Canadian. It’s easier to bootstrap a channel when you don’t have to pay out of pocket for insurance or emergency care. Americans won’t take that risk so they start channels while they have another job and most don’t make it to a sustainable size to quit the regular job.

Isn’t it fair to say that Native Americans didn’t consider land to be “owned” by anyone? What colonialism (and agriculture) did was assert control over land that was previously thought to be communal.

The tragedy of the commons is a capitalist invention. Shared resources have all been managed effectively until the point where they become considered private resources.

We only do DraftKings here!

Heard about the Slate Truck?

https://slate.auto

More old trivia is that the original OK Cupid system was written in C, including the actual web server that served the pages. They wrote it in C so that the matching thing could run real-time, which is super impressive, even if writing your own web server is actually pretty dumb.

I loved the days when people just wanted to make fun, useful, quirky stuff on the internet and not just peddle thirst traps and Chinese merchandise.

It feels like realizing that WhatsApp is a terrible Meta privacy nightmare, but you can’t wake up because you can’t convince your whole family to use Signal.

I support Pocket Casts because it’s made by Automattic, the makers of WordPress, Tumblr, and WooCommerce. Their CEO, Matt Mullenweg, is someone who seems to really care about the freedom and diversity of the internet. As far as players go, it’s got all the features you’d want for an Android app.

I seldom listen on my PC, but if I want to I can usually find the stream on whatever service the podcast has chosen (their own site, or whichever embedded player they elect to use).