If casinos want to be able to use laws like this, they shouldn’t be allowed to kick out people who are too good at the games.

It does, thanks.

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Do they prioritize the data at the beginning now?

I remember my bittorrent client having an option to do that even back in like 2010, though I never used it to actually stream, because my Internet wasn’t good enough.

As others have said, Nebula is pretty great. Much more limited in content, since creators are invite-only, and they curate for high quality creators. But it’s growing quite quickly and has a wide variety of content from leftist cultural video essays, to music analysis, to urbanism, film criticism, science, original films, game shows, and more.

There are a couple of centrist creators on there that I personally avoid, but most creators are centre-left to leftist, and I don’t think there’s anyone I would explicitly describe as right-wing.

It’s subscription only, but extremely affordable at $36/year or $6/month if you sign up through a creator’s invite code, and I think they promised grandfathered pricing if they raise the price in the future. You can see their library without an account at https://nebula.tv/explore/videos. Or ask any more questions you might have at !nebula@lemmy.world.

Yeah Nebula is for sure the best with the volume and variety of content they have. But there are also many creators/groups creating their own independent platforms. The NZ-based videogame sketch creators Viva la Dirt League have Viva+, the ancient tech podcast/vodcast company This Week in Tech has Club TWiT, and probably most successfully the former CollegeHumor is now focusing on improv comedy as Dropout, among others.

I assume many of these are probably white labelled Patreon (or similar) services, or possibly a front-end site with white-labelled Vimeo for serving videos, rather than building their own infrastructure from scratch. But as far as the viewer is concerned those technical details don’t matter.

Kinda like pirating a movie these days

Not really. More like pirating a movie in 2012. These days, there are excellent-quality pirate streaming services, there’s the ability to stream videos over bittorrent (if there are enough seeds), and probably other options I’m not thinking of that make pirated video more accessible than ever.

It’s also possible, not having seen the videos in question, that they simply did violate YouTube’s rules regarding graphic content. YouTube has had a terrible record of banning important content despite its societal value because of rigid adherence to ill-thought-out content policies. AI takes that problem and turns it up to 11.

Hey Jons, I hope you and your loved ones are doing good. I had enormous respect for you and your conduct on this platform, and you’ll be sorely missed, but you gotta do what’s right for you.

Whether you eventually come back as a regular user, or sign up and give Piefed a go, or this is permanently the end of the line for your threadiverse adventure, I wish you well.

IMO it’s primarily a fault of Lemmy for even allowing users to do that, and secondarily of users for using it in a way that makes it unobvious (e.g. funny fonts, pronouns, etc. are “obvious” changes that are unlikely to trip people up like this).

It’s a major bugbear of mine that people do this, but because their display name is significantly different from their username in a non-obvious way, you haven’t actually tagged them. Neither has @goat@sh.itjust.works.

To tag ikt, you have to do @Eyekaytee@aussie.zone.

Fun fact: nothing justifies genocide. Nothing.

No, I didn’t “act out”, I pointed out a bad actor for what they were, as a small part of a comment refuting them. (Heck, if you wanted to level the “acting out” accusation at me, my more recent comment in this thread where a different one of your users was and still is being a bad faith troll and I actually did lower myself to their level would have been one to point to.)

But anyway, as far as I’m concerned flatworm’s response to me closes out the matter.

Before I respond to the specific points you raised, I want to respond to the general vibes of it. Because genuinely, aside from the specific bits aimed personally at me (which mostly seem made out of ignorance), I liked it. I’ll take this comment as equivalent to the apology, because it’s at least a decent shot at an explanation for your actions I was asking for. I suspect that if you and I were to meet and discuss politics IRL, we’d get along pretty well. I hate tankies, but outside of Lemmy I rarely give them any thought. Zionists are a far bigger issue. Not least because my own government aids Israel’s genocide, and because the immediate intensity of that genocide is so much greater than anything China is doing. I am far more concerned with what Israel is doing to Palestinians right now than anything China is doing…with the exception that because I have some very good friends from Taiwan, every bit of news about China’s actions around Taiwan are concerning, even if so far it has not amounted to anything concrete.

I would not label myself an anarchist per se, but I lean that way. I’m strongly in favour of decision-making being devolved to be made by more local communities, empowered to feel genuine ownership over decisions. I don’t know quite how you balance that with NIMBY instincts, but hopefully being included in a genuinely deliberative process would reduce alienation and help lead to more thoughtful, less reactive NIMBY-style opinions. And more and more over recent years I have become disillusioned by the very top-down approach that is common in many representative democracies.

The very existence of billionaires is anathema to healthy society, but they’re a natural product of the capitalist economic system. And therefore the capitalist economic system is anathema to healthy society.

Honestly I’m getting pretty tired of folks like you jumping into our communities to froth at the mouth over tankies simply for existing

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you don’t need to bring that shit into every single interaction with someone. That’s just toxic behaviour intended to derail a conversation

Did you see the comment that started my thread? All I did was politely point out that according to the already expressed beliefs of the OP, they were already acknowledging the Uyghur genocide in all but name. That is, they expressed that they believe human rights abuses with the aim of erasing a culture were happening (an act that is per se tantamount to genocide, under the original definition of the term), even though they were reticent to use the G word itself. It was, I thought, a fairly amicable conversation between people who basically agree on the facts, if not the conclusions you should draw from those facts.

Then the actual tankie jumped into it to talk genocide denialist bullshit. This isn’t “frothing at the mouth over tankies simply for existing”. It isn’t me “bringing that shit into every single interaction”. It’s me criticising tankies for expressing some of the worst examples of their beliefs when they were the ones who brought the conversation to you. And a few other tankies also joined in the fun. One of whom seems to have gotten away scott-free with a comment that adds literally nothing to the conversation by saying just one word: “dumb”. The toxic derailing behaviour was not from me, it was from tankies. But I can understand the error; it was a complicated thread, there was a lot going on. It’s understandable for a mod to lose track of every single comment’s context.

But as I said, fundamentally, this comment of yours has gone a long way towards reassuring me of your intent.

Sorry, my comment was flamebaiting, but the sealioning by the other guy wasn’t? Dude started it by saying my sources were bad and claiming that his source (which was a search page on Lemmy) refuted it. All from a user who is well-known to be a very prominent tankie on this platform. I don’t see how pointing that fact out is any sort of borderline.

Still waiting for an apology for your mod abuse, that @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com overturned, but seems to be otherwise unbothered by.

Thanks for offering your considered opinion on my username

Your username having no bearing on your display name directly led to confusion as shown by this thread. People who use it to display their username in funny fonts, or to append pronouns, are using it in a way that I do not take issue with. People who make it look like they’re somebody else just lead to confusion. It added to the discussion because that’s what this conversation was about.

Oh yes, looks like it was. My bad. Well that’s certainly better than my last run-in with Lund.

The fact that the admins have demoted Lund, but not actually taken away the powers that he was abusing. 🤦‍♂️

lol, what happened to “I will assume good faith and intelligence until proven otherwise.”

Aww sweetums, I see those silent downvotes. Can’t take some genuine criticism? Grow up, troll.