wickerman

The problem is that Youtube's policy of aggressive takedown has enabled a massive abuse of the system. You can go and find many prominent YT creators complaining about their videos being taken down by false copyright claims. Literally any of us could go to a single channel, issue 3 copyright strikes and their channel will be taken down, with no regards to fair use whatsoever.

Moderation here isn't the problem. Youtube's policing has downright enabled censorship on the site.

As someone with the opposite of aphantasia (I can daydream very vividly) who's also worked as a pro illustrator I don't really imagine things as I draw. Drawing is more mechanical than people think, and while coming up with a concept requires imagination, and composition requires a level of spatial intelligence you don't really need to visualise things as you draw them. You just do.

I feel like any other tool, it largely depends on the context in which it's being used. I think that video chats are phenomenal in certain workplaces, or for certain people, and terrible in others. I've been in situations where half the team was offshore and it took a long time to build rapport because it's a lot more difficult to be casual while on calls - you want to get to the point while you're on a meeting, so you never get to chit chat with them the same way you would chit chat with the coworker you have right beside you.

But on the other side, I've also worked with people on the autism spectrum and noticed that interactions became a lot easier through video conference than in person. On my side at least, I tend to get thrown off a lot by out of place mannerisms so it was easier for me to communicate with them.

And as some other people have pointed out, there might be working environments where home working actually helps to avoid/reduce tension/intimidation/toxic relationships etc.

Edit: also worth mentioning that my husband and I met and fell in love after skyping for many years (we lived in different continents) and I'm certainly not the only one...

You hit the nail right on the head. The underlying rusophobia that has been eaten and digested by the english-speaking world after the cold war never ceases to amaze me, particularly in the face of the global threat that is the american military power. America has military bases outside of their own country all over the world and has a proven track record of interfering in other countries' politics, causing several wars, yet Russia is always the bad guy?

I do all my illustration work on Krita. I absolutely love it, after spending most of my career working on photoshop. I use a Cintiq Wacom tablet on Linux Mint and it works wonders.

I'm a data engineer, stopped trying to "upgrade" into ML years ago when I realised my skills were a lot more in need in the longer term than any ML specialists.

Coming from a part of the world where most people studying IT start working (as full time programmers) on their second year of college I really don't understand the mentality that even after paying for your education you still are not trained enough to go into a real workplace environment.

I've been actually posting in a few telnet BBS, as well as some SSH forums as of late. I love the small web. I love the freedom of anonymity. I grew up in the 2000s and also got into web design through notepad and hand written HTML. I do have a squarespace website but I'm thinking of just going to neocities and start over with some plain HTML one.

Have you tried applying for banks? Most of the contractors I worked with in banking in Ireland were older, 40+ including some 60 something, all python developers. I don't know what country you live in but both the UK and Ireland have anti-discrimination laws, so they can't discriminate based on age.

Another irritating bit about this is that when I search for news about my country in my language, spanish (I live in London, the UK one Siri, not the american one) I still get a number of english language results first.

I think this also happens because traditionally, people become loyal to a brand because they gain something intangible from it. Reducing prices is not a way to ensure loyalty - as soon as they find a better deal customers will bail, as you exemplified. What does Uber do so well that you'd prefer it over a cheaper Lyft? Nothing. There may be virtually no difference in quality of service (sorry I have never used Uber or Lyft).

I remember when I was in college doing an enterpreneurship class we were constantly added what was the value to our products - what does your product do so well that people would flock to you instead of the competition? Being cheaper was not an answer my professors allowed.