>despite the fact the existing evidence shows vaccinations are responsible for the massive epidemic of chronic disease that is sweeping our country.

OK... I am done with that garbage article and author.

Thank you for saving me reading time.

>Variants on the "123456" were among the most common for all age groups, with that exact string proving to be the most common among all users – the sixth time in seven years it holds the undesirable crown.

I'm sometimes amazed to read multiple "help! someone's using my account" stories a day. facts like this bring me back to reality.

I read this as the cost per unit of video produced. Of course it costs a lot to build power plants but they will produce exponentially more videos, exponentially faster and it's all about scale.

Edit... And the tech companies are certainly not paying the environmental costs now are they?

I don't even know how to parse "new hit song on Spotify." I suppose that means based on streams, but what kind of hollow "hit" never even sees the light of day outside of streaming and inevitable soundtrack use on tiktoks? Songs like "Thriller" transformed society. Only teenagers in headphones and corporate suits care about an AI hit.

I never use the app, only login to old. and when old is taken away, I will take my marbles and go home.

I don't either! Mostly because I don't use many apps anyway. I like the web.

we put way too much faith in them. It's easy to fake authoritative when your substance is virtual.

Suppose we hadn't done so; what alternative method of disseminating information might we have used, that would have had within a few orders of magnitude of the same reach?

The implication here is that YouTube enabled the reach it got; whereas in reality the reach was induced because of the faith we put in it. Had we not done so, then whatever alternative method of communication we did put our faith in - like blog posts, or self-hosting videos - would have had the same reach.

lol, the evening news was always a laugh if you knew anything about the subject matter.

giving Amazon vibes.

how about just a modest cadre of likeminded dorks?

I don't think the comments are the problem. It's the doomscrolling. On YT, that would be shorts. Here, I guess it would be skimming thread titles and occasionally checking out the link. More convo = less of that nonstop dopamine uptake train. At least I think.

The LAFD became a fire? What a terrible headline.