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Comment · 3 months ago
Watching Youtube through Brave browser and I can't remember the last time I saw ads (ads by youtube, not by the content creator within the video). Twitch is different story, platform ads certainly play there.

Prior to Brave, ublock origin on Firefox provided a similar ad-free Youtube experience.

I don't consider ad content like the tech channels you mention to be a negative. Informing people about new products is a useful service. The ads that are negative are those that impose themselves over other content or mess with normal internet browsing experience.

Comment · 6 months ago
First time hearing that the Vision Pro got an update. The pricing still makes it a prohibitive purchase, but the hardware update does make it a bit more interesting to look into.
Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
I've been using Monarch (https://www.monarch.com/) as a replacement for Mint. It's been decent enough that I haven't tried looking for something else.
Comment · 1 year ago
Is there a particular text that you can reference showing their goal was dynastic wealth?

I can take good ideas and leave bad ideas, the generations following the founders eventually did that by ending slavery.

Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks, I read it wrongly.
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks for pointing this out, I misread the parent comment.
Comment · 1 year ago
The stand they took and what they created is what has led to where we are today. To disregard their advice is at the very least disrespectful.

Regardless of where a set of ideas come from, if you disagree with them, argue against them head on and not with redirections to other topics.

Comment · 1 year ago
I would argue that it was much bigger at that time. How many days of sailing would it take to cross the ocean? How undeveloped was the entirety of what we now have as the US?

Edit: I'm a fool and read the parent completely incorrectly. Ignore this comment.

Comment · 1 year ago
How is it not in American interest to stop wasting money on a proxy war? Yes, Russia should not have invaded Ukraine, but they did and they have basically won.

If news reports are at all accurate, our military isn't as great as we think (our of resources to send to Ukraine, poor ability to resupply quickly) it is and the theater of war has changed to be more drone focused than ever before.

Why have there been next to no peace talks since the beginning of the war? How much more money will we spend on another quagmire of intervention? There are plenty of issues here at home that need more attention and money than this proxy war. Like our unsustainable debt.

Comment · 1 year ago
I used to use Mint, and now use Monarch since Mint shutdown. I'm pretty content with it as a tool to aggregate various accounts into a single place for review.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Trump was willing to build a coalition while Democrats were not. RFK, assuming he gets past the Senate, will be in a substantially better position to influence health policy than if he were to have snubbed Trump.

The game of politics makes enemies one day become allies the next. If you want real progress on an agenda, being dogmatic generally isn't the best way to accomplish it (imo).

Comment · 1 year ago
https://apnews.com/article/onion-buys-infowars-alex-jones-64...

"Walter Cicack, an attorney for First United American Companies, told U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez that Murray changed the auction process only days before, deciding not to hold a round Wednesday where parties could outbid each other. Sealed bids were submitted last week, and the trustee chose only from those, Cicack said."

"“We’re all going to an evidentiary hearing and I’m going to figure out exactly what happened,” he said. “No one should feel comfortable with the results of this auction.”

An exact date of next week’s hearing was not immediately set.

After the hearing, Jones said on his show that he thought the auction was unfairly rigged and expressed optimism that the judge would nullify the sale."

Comment · 2 years ago
Do you have references backing up the claim of such gas consumption not being sustainable?

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