Zagorath

Xcancel was most useful when someone else posted a link to Twitter. That doesn't stop being useful when you personally don't use the site.

Unfortunately I think you're right about Facebook. If you're not on Facebook you're putting yourself at a significant disadvantage in terms of reaching a broad audience. If you're a small customer-facing (i.e. not B2B) business or grassroots organisation you need to be on Facebook.

But I just don't think the same thing is true of Xitter. And hasn't been since long before paedo guy bought it. Average people don't use Twitter and never have. It's used by a smaller group of journalists, techies, and the terminally online.

Jury vs judge trial is a separate axis from common law vs civil law. You can have common law (where decisions of higher courts are deemed binding on lower courts) even if lower courts are all judge-only trials. You can have trials decided by a jury where every decision made by a judge is ultimately answerable only to written statute, with prior judicial judgments being at best persuasive.

If you work from home, it’s possible to shift some of the big load equipment to early afternoon

If the "big load" equipment you mean here is washing machines and dishwashers, many (if not most) have a delay timer option. I set mine before I leave home. Dishwasher can finish whenever; washing machine I schedule to finish around the time I get home so I can put things out to dry before they've been sitting wet for too long.

Even heaters can be partially shifted, if you've got good insulation and the technical capability. My (reverse cycle) AC system lets me set a timer, for example. You can automate them to run and heat up the place when electricity is free so the place is warm when you get home. Good insulation should keep it warm for a while. Though later into the evening and early the next morning are definitely still going to need it.

I subscribed to YouTube Red back in the day, when that’s what it was called.

Then circa early 2018 they changed the rules for monetisation from the previous 10k lifetime views to 1k subs & 4k watch hours over 12 months. That was when I unsubscribed from Red and installed an ad blocker. I had always been anti ad-blocker because my view was that people creating content deserve to get paid for it. That’s still my view in principle, but the increasing enshittification of the web thanks in no small part to shit like this from Google has meant I weigh the pros & cons differently. YouTube showed me very directly that they don’t care about supporting their creators. So I decided I didn’t want to support them anymore. It’s not like this was the first problem…the whole “where’s the fair use” thing came before that, and many other events besides. But cutting off small creators like that, without even grandfathering in existing creators who had been monetised with that threshold, was the last straw for me.

It was also Google’s fault that I moved from Ad Block Plus, which I chose specifically because of its “acceptable ads” policy (basically: let through ads that aren’t obnoxious), to uBlock Origin, which lacked such a policy, after YouTube tried blocking ad blockers from YouTube, and UBO was quicker to adapt.

That’s twice now that Google’s own actions have directly led to me supporting them less than I used to. This won’t be the third time, but only because I have no more cuts to give.

Back when they had the Curiosity Stream bundle content discovery basically didn't matter, because they barely had any content. You could check the site like two or three times a week and there'd be like 4 or 5 new videos each time.

It's expanded a huge amount since then. And they've added a larger degree of content discovery stuff. Personally I mostly just go straight to the "Latest Videos" section (which, unlike the confusingly-similarly-named "New Releases" section, only shows the latest videos from channels you follow), but there are a bunch of other ways you can let it suggest content to you.

I don't really want to give Murdoch the clicks, and the non-paywall link doesn't work. Anyone got a quick summary?

That's why I pay for Nebula. Others should too, or for other similar platforms that support creators more directly.

I subscribed to YouTube Red back in the day, when that's what it was called.

Then circa early-to-mid 2018 they changed the rules for monetisation from the previous 10k total views to 1k subs & 4k watch hours over 12 months. That was when I unsubscribed from Red and installed an ad blocker. I had always been anti ad-blocker because my view was that people creating content deserve to get paid for it. That's still my view in principle, but the increasing enshittification of the web thanks in no small part to shit like this from Google has meant I weigh the pros & cons differently. YouTube showed me very directly that they don't care about supporting their creators. So I decided I didn't want to support them anymore. It's not like this was the first problem...the whole "where's the fair use" thing came before that, and many other events besides. But cutting off small creators like that, without even grandfathering in existing creators who had been monetised with that threshold, was the last straw for me.

It was even Google's fault that I moved from Ad Block Plus, which I chose specifically because of its "acceptable ads" policy (basically: let through ads that aren't obnoxious), to uBlock Origin, which lacked such a policy, after YouTube tried blocking ad blockers from YouTube.

That's twice now that Google's own actions have directly led to me supporting them less than I used to. This won't be the third time, but only because I have no more cuts to give.

I believe the Facebook glasses do have this.

The problem is just that the light is rather easy for an end-user to remove. And that it may be too dim to clearly see in brighter situations.

Mine have interchangeable lenses, so I can swap them out for yellow or clear lenses if the light isn't so bright but I still want UV protection, protection from magpies, or something to block the wind in my eyes.

Well I could have said Nebula, except that Kurzgesagt was on Nebula, and chose to leave it because they wanted to leech off of other creators on that platform and everyone else said "lol no".