I just tried to sign up for Peertube because this comment reminded me

The only site with any videos on it (Fediverse.TV) doesn’t allow signups. Neither does the default instance (Peertube.TV).

Tragically, Web3 cryptoshit MAHA platform “Odyssey” was much more functional when I tried to use it, before realizing what kind of content dominated there.

EDIT: Finally found one that let me create an account:

Why create an account?
As you’ve probably noticed, creating an account is not necessary to watch videos on Tube Free.
However, creating an account on Tube Free will allow you to:

• Comment on videos
• Subscribe to channels and receive notifications of new videos
• Have access to your watch history

…So even with an account, I can’t upload videos?

Right? Let them see what I think and let them know they should be afraid. Thoughts aren’t illegal… yet.

“Only a handful of people indicate to me that I’m being an asshole when I know I’m being an asshole. What are you going to do? I am helpless in this situation.”

Don’t forget that he vetoed unemployment pay for striking workers, vetoed decriminalization of psychedelics (in other words, the aspiring future leader of “my body my choice” party wants to put people in prison for what they do with their bodies), and frequently flaunted COVID restrictions which he put in place.

He also did nothing about corporations stealing (and now ruining) the legal cannabis industry. Voters who voted to pass cannabis legalization did so under the context of an acreage cap: no corporation could own more than… 2 acres? I don’t know the exact number off the top of my head, but the idea was, it’s small enough to keep corporations from dominating but big enough to allow them decent operating room.

Lawmakers went behind the electorate’s back and removed the acreage cap. Newsom did nothing, and was buddy-buddy with corporate cannabis people like Big Mike, so why would he? This resulted in corporate cannabis, including professional boof cultivators like Glass House Farms (owned by a MAGA-supporting cop), dominating the legal industry. Their weed is garbage, which is why ~75% of cannabis sales in California occur in the legacy market (“illegal” under bullshit laws that everyone should ignore).

He also hosts conservative shitstains on his podcast, though if he was actually ideologically righteous, I could potentially excuse that as genuine outreach. But he’s not, so I don’t.

He was doing homeless sweeps and talking about his undying support for Pissrael when Republicans were on the up-trend. Now everyone hates Republicans, so suddenly Newsom is refusing money from AIPAC and doesn’t talk so much about the problem of having to witness poors in the street. He stands for nothing but his own gain.

Here’s a photo op he did of him throwing away, potentially, the only worldly possessions of homeless people. He presumably retreated to his Napa Valley winery after this. Fucking parasite.

It literally has an AI function lmao

The environmental search engine has an environment-killing function that no one needs. They also partner with Google and Microsoft, both avid environment-murderers.

But yeah sure bro, plant a few trees, that’ll offset everything I’m sure.

And their search results are powered by Bing, so it won’t be any better than DDG anyway.

Jesus should we go back to having to type in the specific web address to find everything !?

Yes, you should inconvenience yourself with the weighty first-world burden of having to press a few buttons for access to the full library of mankind’s knowledge in order to avoid using a product which is inherently destructive to the one and only planet currently available for our species to inhabit.

Hope that helps. Fuck peace, go in love, including the love of a mother bear to destroy what threatens those she loves.

Yeah I’m not a big fan of DDG either… it’s powered by Bing so hardly surprising it isn’t great. And Microsoft isn’t any less evil than Google.

Presearch is the best I’ve found - just a nice, basic search - but it’s a little slow and has some cryptoshit background so I’m open to alternatives. Ecosia is greenwashing bullshit afaik.

It’s a billionaire. I begrudge it for its mere existence.

Strawman arguments are a weak response to being presented with facts you don’t like being reminded of.

AOC voted to continue arming Pissrael, so…

Ooh thank you… hope I remember that trick lol

This seems like a wonderful time to share this wonderful song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_mzYS-ET8o

oh fuck you

and your ai

fuck you elon, fuck you sam,

fuck you sundar pichai

you said the chance

that we all die is

around 1 in 5 – was that hype?

or are you really

generating genocide?

Both parties are the same when it comes to committing genocide in Palestine, so with that said, I don’t really care what their domestic policies are. “Do you want to vote for the slightly kinder Hitler or the meaner Hitler? Look at you, now it’s your fault that meaner-Hitler got elected!”

Democrat politicians are not the proletariat lol (except at the local / county-level, potentially)

Weird how many videos I’ve seen of German police beating anti-genocide protestors and British police arresting seniors for expressing anti-genocide opinions. Maybe that was just an American psyop.

White supremacy is the problem, and America may have the worst case of that, but certainly not the only case.

Cops basically exist to prevent people from taking revenge into their own hands.

No, cops exist to protect capital.

This is just one example too, they’ve issued multiple similar rulings. Also, uh, see: Uvalde.

If there were no cops, do you think these white “Karens” would just leave the black men alone? Or do you think they’d get together and lynch them?

…you think cops keep black people safe? Are you being remotely serious here?

Israel controls America’s politicians because they are either quietly-corrupt feckless liberals or openly-corrupt fascists. Sure, fuck the Supreme Court too 100%, but you shouldn’t absolve people for the blame of their own actions / decisions. The politicians still choose (mostly) to take the money.

Otherwise I agree yeah.

For someone so insistent on demonstrating (or performing) your apparent intellect, your inability to understand the concept of hyperbole is a bit odd.

The “two paragraph Gazette article” links to a 209-page MIT study. Before we began our overreliance on slop summaries, human journalists would often summarize things themselves. I’d encourage you to read it - all on your own, no AI!

And it’s not that I have a “hard time” reading your r/iamverysmart level responses, it’s just a lack of willingness to waste my time on people who tell me I’m ableist for calling out AI lobotomites. Someone who would make that response certainly has nothing of value to offer me in the following wall of slop-sympathizer text.

I’m also very much not a liberal lol

I don’t care. Fire the executives anyway.

Also, I don’t know if you realize the ableism you seem to subscribe to here. “Loss of cognitive ability,” in reference to students’ use of AI is, quite frankly, harmful.

lmao yeah I stopped reading right there. No it isn’t. If you opt-in to your AI lobotomy, that’s on you (or your parents for failing to raise you properly).