Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

This brave new world with such ads in it

What's the price on selling out.

Whatever manscaped pays to run ads within content masquerading as non-ads, I suppose.

Like, it's a decent video, providing info and stuff. but still, ads.

In the current landscape it's unavoidable.

Not only unavoidable, isn't even sufficient.

Small to medium "creators" not only get next to nothing for ads but have to resort to in-video spots and patreon plugs too. It's lose/lose. Just more unsustainability.

When even small YT videos need a cast of half a dozen to a dozen people for filming, editing, sound editing, effects, scripts and whatever else, the profit margins are slim to none existent.

Problem is cost and thinking they need high production quality, ie expensive, for YT. It's not TV.

For years I've been thinking this whole thing was going to implode catastrophically and I still can't figure out why it hasn't happened yet. We live in a huge outdoors vacation area and this past weekend everything was slammed. Nowhere to rent, every parking lot full, grocery stores packed, rental gear all out, etc. I keep hearing about how expensive everything is and the job market is crap but people keep spending money to travel and buy expensive items, I can't figure out where the money is coming from. Same with cars. All I can figure is people are stacking up debt but with the interest rates it's surprising if that's the case.

Our financial situation is fubar due to healthcare expenses. Our youngest was born with Esophageal Atresia and all the various doctors he has to see max us out every year. It ends up being between $60-70k/yr including insurance, in fact we just got a bill for $9k last week that finally hit our max for the year. We still get bills from years ago when he was born, so we live in this looming state of wondering what massive bill we receive the insurance company was able to duck out of. It basically cuts our ability to do anything and we know folks way worse off than we are.

Credit Card Debt

Credit cards are carrying an astronomical burden that can't last forever.

and the IRS stepping up their audits to hurt the little guy, can't win anywhere these days if you aren't super rich

think I've mostly adpoted Chrome now, but I had to make it stop trying to translate this site into Maltese, which would change item and player names lol

Good morning you who watch full ads to support your favorite content creator.

Good morning also to you who skip them as soon and you can.

Also, good morning you who cheats to bypass the ads entirely.

But worry not, the content creator also has his own advertisement.

And buy his shirt while youre at it.

This post is sponsored by Hot Dog Hot Productions

The thing about content creators is the more money they make the more money they want, it's like an insatiable hunger.

Patreon was originally a way for small creators to make a living, then the big creators earning millions a year realized people would give them money and opened one too. Or took sponsored ads worth tens of thousands of dollars ontop of the tens of thousands they get from ad-revenue. It used to be seen as a bad thing if you took sponsored deals, cause you were selling out. Now it's seen as good cause all anyone cares about these days is money.

I can't even imagine how mind busted you have to be to give money to someone for no reason, that is obviously more well off than you. It's like busking but they are already getting paid and are driving around in a ferarri.

Some people legit have way too much money these days, even though they pretend otherwise.


Why do you think we are having all these proxy wars? that's just throwing billions of dollars into the military industrial complex to prop up the economy. All that money they keep throwing at Ukraine or whatever else, they immediately give that money back to the US military industries and it goes back into the economy.

Wow, conspiracy hat time. All the companies trying to pull a fast one. The same soap I purchased tons of time per year, is the exact same price with all the same labeling, yet now instead of 18oz its 9oz with no pump.

I have been purchasing the same shelving for my collection for years. Now I went to buy two new ones to replace an old one and when it arrived it was smaller and shorter and cheaper quality, even tho amazon says I purchased it many times before. All these sellers taking items people are used to buying, changing the "small" details and selling for the same price. Unreal, anyone see that anywhere else? lol

I check the reviews and if you click "show most recent" you can see people complain about that and how it changed under the radar.

Ugh, I took almost 2 weeks to figure how to fix the books example code.

Its not (entirely) authors fault as the error was due to a very recent change to Angular that broke an API he used.

I did send him a mail telling to fix it as the book was still unfinished. But no reply.

Good thing is that I had to learn better about Signals, and now Im a little more used to this new feature

It's widespread, I think they call is shrinkflation.

Inflation is exploding, so they either increase the price (which people don't like) or give you less for the old price (which most don't realize). It's most often seen in food, where they are lower the amount you get in the pack and the price stays the same.

It has more to do with geopolitics and less to do with money for military industry. Military industry is benefitting from geopolitics conflict but that does not mean they are the main reason behind those conflicts.

Isn't just credit card debt. Pledging assets(such as house, bonds etc) has been a very, very popular investment strategy in the past 2 years. In my country at least. So this drives stock market and BTC price insanely high, this strategy made a bunch of people rich. Even though a large amount of money in stock and crypto market are not even real money, just loans. You either participate and make money using everyone's loan or you don't. Those who don't are at the disadvantage of being more poor in this competition.


Edit: Also a lot of countries, such as Japan, has low or even negative interest rate. So that is a lot of extra money entering the economy and stock/Crypto market.

genshin weebs out in force being angry about wuthering waves, lol

I hate feeling asleep at work.

Yawn

My trick is take a quick nap at WC. Only Hitler will bother someone who could be potentially shitting.

This is not new.

When I was 5 or 6 we had the incredible shrinking candy bars. It was most noticeable with the ones that had cardboard trays inside the wrapper. They would rattle about inside the packaging. Also chunky candy, I swear the height was reduced by half.

Was the Sortie thread always orange?

Now its not anymore!

It should be purple.

Who was the guy who made again? Looks like his account kerploded.

Who? You mean Falkirk? I 1000000% agree!

I meant the sortie thread
The page background needs to have a preference override and it should be purple

yeah when I hear the average life span in shorter in the USA for example than Canada, it makes sense after moving here to take care of American born family in 2020.

I went from living in the poorest province in Canada 30+ years to the richest state in USA so the tax rate has stayed about the same for me, but I have to stress about paying for health insurance for 3 dependents now too so it's no wonder people die earlier here, that stress weighs on you your entire life etc.

Stuff like bankruptcy from a cancer diagnosis as a genuine risk. And even stuff like ambulances were just free in Canada and didn't give them a second thought

Although since gas prices went to $2.00/litre CAD it's been nice having an electric vehicle and not having to stress about a high power bill or high gas prices anymore, since the grocery stores around me all have free ev chargers to fill up while shopping.

No they arent.

Ontario:
$240 or $45 or $0 depending on the situation

Alberta:
$250 to send the Ambulance out, an extra 185 if theyre brought to the hospital, an extra $200 if theyre not a resident of AB, free if 65+ or first nations or on income support (aka poor horizon players)

Quebec (I'm presuming this is what you meant by poorest province):
base of $125 if Canadian or $400 if non-Canadian, both have additional rates based on distance traveled and an additional $35/person beyond the first.

Manitoba. but that is a good stipulation I should clarify since it's probably not obvious: if someone just straight up calls an ambulance and uses them for a taxi without medical necessity yeah abusing the system is not free.

What they meant is probably health care is never free, it is tax payers paying for the price. But it feels like it is free for the users. Which often leads to the system being overused.

Canada's health care system has been pretty lame for quite some time due to the lack of money. Isn't wait time for a specialist average something like 27 weeks in 2023? Yikes. At that point people may as well pay for it for better services.....