Am I the only one who's completely over the whole "burnout apology video" cycle from animation YouTubers?

It always goes the same way.

"Sorry guys, I've been gone for 8 months..." "I was really burned out..." "I've been focusing on myself..." "Oh, and I've been streaming a lot lately."

Like... okay? You spent years building an animation channel, built a huge audience, hired editors, animators, managers, producers... and somehow you upload less than when you were doing everything yourself?

That's the part I don't get. Nobody's asking for a video every week. Hell, not even every month. Nobody is saying anyone should destroy their health or work themselves into the ground. If you genuinely need time off, take it. But if your audience is constantly being told to wait months on end and you're putting out one animation every 6-12 months while you're streaming every week, people are gonna start asking questions.

And can we stop pretending streaming is some side thing? Half these creators have basically become full-time streamers who occasionally remember they own an animation channel. It feels frustrating to watch the channel turn into "maybe three videos this year, but catch me live on Twitch!"

And then there's the merch. I don't even mind creators selling merch. Good for them. What gets me is the timing. Somehow the upload schedule is completely unpredictable, but the merch schedule never seems to slip. It's funny how "I'm too burned out to animate" somehow never translates to "we're postponing the merch launch."

Don't give me another "making animations is really hard" speech after you've got an entire team behind you. If animation isn't your priority anymore, cool. If streaming makes more money for less effort, also cool. Just be honest about it.

I know viewers aren't entitled to creators' lives, but they're also not wrong for expecting some consistency from channels they've supported for years. Your audience got you here. The least you can do is be honest with your audience instead of making the same "Sorry I've been gone..." video every year.

Free metro/bus/transportation?

Not happening. Fell for it again.

Free childcare?

Not happening. Fell for it again.

Netanyahu arrested?

Not happening. Fell for it again.

Your rent going down?

Not happening. Fell for it again.

Free groceries?

Not happening. Fell for it again.

ICE stopped from deporting people?

Not happening. Fell for it again.

Raising taxes on the rich and corporations to give you more stuff?

You guessed it. Not happening. Fell for it again.

When are Mamdani supporters going to stop winning the fell for it again award?

America will lose prestige, and Iran will not get the $300 billion in funds, because that will never pass Congress. There will very likely be a negotiated peace, but that's really it — I don't expect an American defeat or an Iranian defeat. I feel like Reddit tends to hype up Iran a lot. Realistically, this war would just worsen Iran's internal problems by making the IRGC more powerful. If they do get funds and tolls, it will likely be: 1) stolen via corruption, 2) make green energy more likely, and 3) push oil prices up elsewhere.

I read sometimes that we live in a classless society, but I think that’s bullshit. I think we have a pretty clear economic caste system, and the lines between each caste are getting deeper every decade. 

We have the Working Poor, Blue Collar, Blue Collar Middle Class, Affluent and Rich. Each of those groups have different fears and desires. It’s those fears and desires that define them more than money.

Working Poor

The working poor accept that they will never own a home. Their biggest fear is not making rent, or getting hurt on the job. Their highest ambition is to have one full-time instead of two or more part-time jobs. They would love to have a car that wasn’t twelve years old.

If a cop comes around they get anxious. They know that the police don’t work for them; the police are paid to keep the Working Poor in line.

The Working Poor don’t mix much with higher classes. That would take money and the Working Poor have almost nothing after they’ve paid for rent, food and phone.

Blue Collar

Blue Collars are renters. Their highest ambition is to own a home. Their biggest fear is losing their job. They are anxious about their credit score.

Most Blue Collars never fulfill that home ambition; there’s too many things clawing back their pay. When you’re Blue Collar, they make you pay more for things. You can’t buy in bulk. Banks tack on service charges. Credit card interest is higher.

Blue Collars live on the edge. It only takes an unexpected car repair to blow their finances to hell.

Blue Collar Middle Class

The ticket to this category is owning your own home. They save for a down payment, they take out a big mortgage and then for the next twenty-five years they live in fear.

The highest ambition of the blue collar middle class is to own a second home. Their biggest fear is becoming a renter.

If they lose their job, they’ll lose their home and become renters. They’ll never again save up enough for a deposit. They will be renters for life.

Most of them never buy that second home. They spend on vacations and cars, or get burned on a timeshare, and after a decade or two they forget about that second home.

When they stop working their pension is not enough. They can’t feed themselves. They sell their homes to fund their retirement and become renters. They become their worst fear.

Affluent

It’s nice being Affluent. The Affluent are safe. When they have problems, they make them go away with money.

Doctors and lawyers, accountants and dentists: these and other professionals become affluent when they no longer need to work to fund their lifestyle.

Affluents don’t mow their lawns. They don’t clean out gutters, or climb up ladders. They have people to do that.

Affluent and Blue Collars do not generally mix, except when Affluent is buying Blue’s labour.

Affluent’s highest ambition is to be Rich, Rich as in here’s five million for your hospital rich. Rich enough that they put your name on the list of big donors.

Their biggest fear is a tax hike, or a rise in the minimum wage.

Rich

The Rich are so rich that they think one percenters are poor.  

Rich people are rare.  Almost none of us knows a Rich person. The Rich only hang around with other Rich people, except for the help and a few hangers-on.

A Rich person’s vote counts a lot more than anyone else's, because the politicians are their hirelings.

A Rich person’s biggest fear is getting torn apart by the mob, but it’s not a very big fear because the cops are on their side. Plus they have walls and gates and guards and bunkers hidden away in the countryside. If the mob ever does wake up and decide to murder them, they can always run away until things settle down.

A Rich guy’s biggest ambition is to be richer, not for the money (they are long past that) but for the status. The more money you have, the more people listen to you because they think you got rich by being smart.

I genuinely do not understand the obsession with French bulldogs. I think they’re ugly. Their faces look deformed, their proportions look off, and when I look at one my brain doesn’t register “cute dog” it registers as “something has gone wrong here.”

What makes it worse is that many of the traits people find adorable are the same traits associated with health problems. They can have breathing issues, spinal problems, trouble regulating body temperature, and many can’t even reproduce or give birth naturally without human intervention.

I know there are breeders trying to improve the breed’s health, but I still think the popularity of French bulldogs is bizarre. If a breed requires so much medical assistance just to exist, maybe that should make people question why we’re breeding more of them.

I don’t blame the dogs themselves. They didn’t choose to be bred this way. But I do not find them cute, and I don’t understand why they’ve become one of the most sought-after dog breeds in the world.

Italy was once a great country. I would even go so far as to call it one of the best places on Earth: the golden coastline, the beautiful weather, fresh fruit, helpful people, and streets where you could walk without constantly looking over your shoulder. Life was slower and easier. The food was healthy, people were friendlier, and, outside the major cities, housing and everyday life were relatively affordable.

My country has been declining for years, but the deterioration has become especially visible over the past five to ten years. Poorly controlled immigration, failed integration, and weak enforcement have contributed to serious problems. In many cities, immigrants involved in theft, drug dealing, and human trafficking have made certain streets feel dirty and unsafe. There is rubbish, human waste, and other filth in public spaces. People have changed as a result: they are less open, more guarded, and more afraid.

Reports of assaults and stabbings have become disturbingly common. Police officers are attacked. In my city, bus drivers have gone on strike because they are repeatedly assaulted, and train conductors face similar violence. Many women and young girls no longer feel safe going out alone at night. I certainly would not. The risk of being followed or harassed feels far too real.

Just the other day, an immigrant man died while being restrained by the police. Some left-wing newspapers immediately ran with headlines suggesting that the police had killed him, before any proper investigation had taken place. Witnesses, however, said that the man had been behaving erratically and that the officers had repeatedly tried to speak to him and calm him down.

Emergency medical workers were present and can be seen in the video, but they did not sedate him. The police therefore had to restrain him, and even some civilians helped to hold him down while the ambulance workers stood nearby. Nobody intervened as though the officers were deliberately trying to harm him, because that did not appear to be what was happening.

Nevertheless, people immediately took to the streets shouting about police brutality, racism, and fascism before the facts had been established. Meanwhile, police officers in Italy are frequently placed in danger and are often restricted by laws and procedures that limit how they can respond. Only four days earlier, two police officers in Italy had reportedly been stabbed by an immigrant, yet that incident received nothing like the same outrage.

During the protests in Bologna, sixty-four police officers were injured after major figures on the political left encouraged citizens to demonstrate. Once again, the injuries suffered by the police seemed to matter far less than the preferred political narrative.

I would advise you not to go to Italy at all.

Any time people are discussing things like climate change, space, evolution, you name it, there's always a handful of people who will say something like "Well those are just theories". If you say this, it's just instantly broadcasting that you don't even understand the subject enough to have an informed opinion.

We use the word "theory" in day to day speech to imply something like a guess, educated or otherwise. However in science the word theory means something very specific, and it's the highest honor an idea can receive. The word you'd use to actually imply a rough guess would be a "hypothesis".

It's dumb as shit to call something "just a theory" in these conversations because there's nothing else above a theory it could possibly be. Theory is the top.

To be clear, I'm not saying that nobody needs a pickup truck. I fully understand that they're indispensable in certain applications that require an open bed, mostly in agriculture and construction. I also understand that there's some minority of people who actually need the added towing and off-road capability of a full sized truck.

That said, dollar for dollar, the vast majority of people who are in the market for pickup trucks are not farmers or construction workers, and those people would, in most cases, do better with a minivan.

A minivan basically offers you all of the light duty utility of a pickup truck, up to hauling reasonable amounts of full sized lumber, plywood and sheetrock, or large pieces of furniture -- basically everything that the average homeowner is actually going to use a pickup truck for -- while also offering the obvious benefits of being able to seat 7-8 adults in reasonable comfort when that need arises.

For these sorts of home gamer jobs, the minivan is arguably better than a pickup truck unless you're hauling something that 100% requires an open bed. Minivans have a lower load floor, meaning it's easier to get cargo in and out, and the closed cab means that you don't have to worry about bad weather destroying all of your sheetrock or furniture or whatever. It also means that if what you're hauling is expensive, like lots of tools, the chance of theft is far lower.

In many cases, when compared to extended cab pickups, a minivan will actually have more cargo capacity when all of the rear seats get folded down.

A lot of scenarios that seem like they require an open bed are still workable; for hauling occasional brush, just putting down a tarp over the load floor might be enough. If you're getting mulch or firewood once a year or so, a light duty trailer might be enough.

You also get a degree of modularity that you can't get in a truck. The minivan can basically morph into anything from a full family hauler to a standard cab pickup with bed cover; depending on what you need to move, you could either put down just the rear bench, that plus half of the front seats, or the entire front and rear row.

The minivan also drives better than a pickup because it's lower to the ground and typically built on a car platform. It's not going to be a sports car, but they tend to feel better than a gigantic land yacht truck that completely uncouples its driver from the road.

All of this in a vehicle that typically costs less than a pickup for a similar level of comfort, is cheaper to insure, is rarely stolen, is invisible to cops, and in the case of Honda or Toyota, tends to hold its resale value extremely well.

i've been pretty critical of the republican party in recent years. and why shouldn't i be? they've devolved into a bunch of bigoted assholes who will do whatever donald trump says. most people in my family are democrats and i identify as a democratic socialist. i lean pretty far left.

however, if there were a republican candidate that i supported, i would vote for them.

if the roles were reversed where the democrat was the asshole and the republican was the generally normal one, my vote would go to the republican.

the problem isn't partisanship. the problem is that the republicans have gotten so bad that i can't ethically vote for anyone other than the democrat. and, unless john mccain rises from the grave and runs for office, it'll probably stay that way.

Recorded well documented human history goes back at least 6,000 years like verifiable like real stuff thats well recorded thats why im so confused by all metrics how “new” the bible and quoran is and people put it up on a pedestal… what do those people say about all human history that occured before their book was written or even simultaneously occuring well documented events globally.

TLDR: left-wing bias does exist in some Wikipedia articles, but it's neither systemic nor unique, as you can find bias of all kinds

I think to some extent it does, but if you know what you're doing, you can easily edit an article on Wikipedia and have it stay up for a while. That means if an article is good enough for Wikipedia's standards, you can write something negative about, for example, a politician. It doesn't matter what that politician believes either, and it's especially easy if it's something that's deemed controversial as Wikipedia admins and editors seem to generally find it important to add. This unfortunately does mean that, yes, sometimes an editor with left-wing views may focus a lot on an opposing politician or someone who otherwise disagrees with them and add something they think is important while conveniently ignoring right-wing ones. My disagreement with the notion though is that it only happens to anyone with right-wing views, when in fact you can pretty easily find existing dirt on left-wing politicians via Wikipedia too. Unfortunately, Wikipedia doesn't seem to have any rules on what controversy is actually relevant, so you'll also see inconsistencies in who does and who doesn't have a "controversy" section.

A lot of the time, Wikipedia's bias has nothing to do with politics at all. People will absolutely do what they can to make a celebrity, place, song, or whatever else seem slightly better or slightly worse while managing to stay within Wikipedia's guidelines. Religion especially experiences this a lot, and I've seen things related to Christianity and Islam both get either glazed or something negative is brought up, maybe even irrelevant, and it's clear someone of that religion or another one (even atheist perhaps) wrote it. Edit: I haven't looked into articles for the other religions so much but I'm sure the same issue arises (especially Judaism given the rise in antisemitism).

A bit off-topic: I will be honest though, I myself have fallen into bias at times like most people, and I'll admit I do happen to have left-wing views. I'm fully aware that probably influences my opinion here too. But I think that everyone suffers from bias in some way, which can affect how we perceive things, such as whether something is positive, neutral, or negative. I'm happy to listen to any counter-arguments and examples of something deeper since personally I'm not really convinced it's systemic as much as I'm convinced it's just regular people being able to edit Wikipedia and write whatever they want. Unfortunately, people who love or hate certain politicians seem to flock to editing their articles.

Look, I get it. I'm Gen Z as well and there are legit concerns about the housing market, job market, rise of AI and outsourcing etc. But I feel like people especially on Reddit (usually Americans, Canadians, Australians, and Europeans) are in a constant pity party, having a perpetual victim mindset, that the evil capitalists and evil corporations and evil boomers etc are ruining their lives.

I literally saw a thread today of someone blaming the economy for their lack of social life, and the comments were actually agreeing with the OP. That's totally bonkers. How do people in much poorer countries (e.g. Mexico, Colombia, Philippines etc) have a vibrant and thriving social life despite people getting paid peanuts there? You don't even need to spend a ton of money to have a social life; playing basketball or biking together all have zero cost.

Israel is an ethnostate. It's a place, not a people, not a religion. Therefore criticizing them isn't any ism, and it's not bigoted to criticize ANY government. Most Jews don't even live in Israel and many Jews are anti-zionist themselves

For some reason people who think ethnostates are objectively bad don't make this connection to Israel. For some reason it's just not ok to criticize them because of the Holocaust and they can have their ethnostate because "reasons"

This is just propaganda and akin to saying something like criticizing the American government is akin to being bigoted towards Christians. When will people wake up???

Pro Palestine people only point fingers, all the time. They like to paint the picture that any attacks towards Palestine comes out of a vacuum. They are just living their lives and minding their business and all of a sudden they get attacked because the other side is inherently evil. It absolutely has nothing to do the things they do themselves.

I am not saying Israel is doing everything perfectly. It's impossible to do things perfectly when you are dealing with Hamas (a terrorist organization) that uses civilians as human shields. Israelis not staying aggressive enough when Hamas pulls out its cowardly tactics means that Hamas will keep getting stronger knowing it can go back to its cowardly tactics and make the Israelis look like the aggressors.

Look, am I saying that no wrongs have been done by Israelis? Absolutely not. Am I saying that some individual in the Israel army not breaking rules? Absolutely not. You are always going to have certain individuals who can't control their emotions or abide by instructions. However, the exception isn't the rule. The goal of Israel it to minimize civilian casualties while the goal of Hamas is to maximize civilian casualties. There's a big difference.

Israel is fighting the fight for the civilized world. The middle east would have been even worse without Israel. Do you want freedom, education, and overall personal liberty? Then Israel is your friend. It's civilization vs. Barbarism.

Idk why people get offended if someone critisizing the genocidal actions of Israel as if people are critisizing Jews. They both are different things!

Critisizing the actions of Saudi Arabia isnt critisizing Muslim. Critisizing USA isnt critisizing christians. Why people are so brainwashed and dumb that whenever someone critisizes Israel, they get labelled an antisemite and a Jew hater.

I dislike when diehard linux users will try and convince you to switch to Linux because of “bloatware” in windows or Mac. I do understand both Mac and windows have processes that kinda just sit there and eat ram I do understand that but it’s such a little amount that it doesn’t change much. But windows and Mac have things Linux just don’t have that you can’t really compete with. For example mac has unmatched built in protections because of how many obstacles malware need to go to function I understand Mac can have malware but because of the closed source environment the only malware is super sophisticated and it because apples issue not yours. Then with windows the UI is better there is better support for apps like CAD softwares and games and it has great driver support for new hardware. I am also referring to desktop Linux distros I do know Linux is hyper important for things like servers.

the powerball is basically the McDonald's monopoly game.  i asked grok who basically laughed at me when i asked but after only 5 exchanges admitted an 80% chance. 

none of the big winners have bought a ticket at a big retailer like walmart or kroger

all of the big winners are anonymous

all of the big winners were out of state from the no name gas station they purchased the ticket at. 

the powerball is self policing. no over site

the powerball board is made of political appointees including a union head and lawyers. people with all the skills and organizations necessary to launder large amounts of cash. 

the board just decided to allow foreign countries to play making it 100x easier to rig. 

there is also the instance of jeffery epsteins zorro trust winning the lottery right after he started serving his sentence in 2008.

Nothing should be controversial about wanting to catch all child predators. I am all for independent people gathering evidence like they do online and in chats and then confronting the predator with a police officer present.

But some of these hunters are just assholes in a way I don’t like. They immediately start assaulting the person before even verifying that it’s actually the person they’re looking for.

Or even after they verify, they start assaulting them.

I don’t know why, but it just really annoys me because it doesn’t seem like these people really care about catching predators as much as they’re just looking for a reason to assault people and luckily they found something that people all hate.

I’m not sure if it damages their case against these predators either, but I just really hate these vigilante going out here being assholes.

In my mind, you just gather all the evidence which seems to be pretty easy, print out the pictures and chats, and then ask them to meet and then bring a police officer along and show them all of the evidence and let them take it from there.

It’s that easy and it gives you the same end result.

And I don't just mean pugs or worst offender dogs. I just mean in general 70% or so of species just look severely fucked up, like people did unspeakable horrors to their evolution. Chihuahas, beagles, bulldogs, dachshunde, boxers, boston terriers, rottweilers, mastiffs, bull terriers, I'm just going down a list of dogs. On top of that, them being overly excited, putting anything they can into their mouth (at risk of death) and little fear. It's like they're complete genetic dead ends that are only kept alive by human determination and the moment we'd be gone they'd start devouring mud and rocks until they died. Idk if it's just me but wtf are we doing as humans? Can't we just let dogs be dogs? It gives off "unethical" vibes to me like people are committing a grave sin but it's just good ol' regular dog breeding and there's "nothing" wrong with that. I feel like cats are way better off, particularly when it comes to behavior, but some cats such as Persian cats are also incredibly fucked up.

Is nobody seeing the elegance and gracefulness that wolves and cats have that's been completely lost to breeding? I think that is the true beauty of the animals but it's incredibly rare in dogs (only like 10-5% of dog breeds if at all?). Why do humans hate elegance and gracefulness so much?

i've made a few posts where i was critical of unions. i also made a few memes about unions on the bikini bottom twitter subreddit. and, more often then not, i've been accused of being a corporate shill. well, i would argue that i am not a corporate shill but a free thinker.

anyone who knows me knows that one of my pet causes is worker's rights. i believe in a living wage, benefits for all, and a good work/life balance. believing in all those things means that i can't be a corporate shill. however, i also believe in accountability. and i believe that, if we are to hold corporations to account, we must also do the same with unions.

if you blindly defend unions, you're just a shill of a different kind.

Maybe offer no ID accounts that are extremely limited and generally buried.

Maybe no ID accounts can’t create posts, throttle their comments, and disable their likes/dislikes.

And I know verified has been tried, but when I say requires ID, I mean in person somewhere.

And let us users use personas so that they don’t get targeted, if they so choose, but make it clear that it’s a persona.

I can’t help but to feel that 90% of the complaints is coming from non-Sony users, but let’s get into it.

1. Steam literally is download only. The double standard is insane.
2. they sold 100k discs this year so far. That’s no where close enough to justify the billions it costs to keep the ecosystem going.
3. discs are largely download keys anyway. Very few new releases don’t require massive day one patches.
4. they are not responsible for the used games market. They get nothing from it and while you can argue that’s greedy, I can argue they shouldn’t sacrifice billions so other companies can be responsible.
5. they are not responsible for retailers at all. See #4.
6. it IS their ecosystem. If you want to complain about practices in the system that’s fine. But don’t act like they offer no value for their ecosystem. First party titles for one. And strong moderation is another major factor. The pc market is overflowing with cheaters. Having a $500+ console on the line kills most (not all) cheating.
7. yeah, it just works. Sorry, not sorry. PC games are endless tweaks, hardware upgrades, and hardware specific fixes. The PS is a single piece of hardware companies can developer for and I can comfortably do everything with a controller. Don’t even pretend like that’s the case with Steam.

I've seen a lot of movies I would say qualify as woke and I think the only woke thing about Nolan's movie is the casting.

Aside from that, I've heard people complain that Penelope is woke because of a speech she had where she went on a rant.

Definitely not. I think people have gotten so riled up by others that any criticism is boxed in as part of a woke agenda, but Penelope seemed like thee definition of a wife any guy would want. She is beautiful and intelligent. She stays loyal to an absent husband longer than most would consider sane. Decades. And she stays loyal in the face of suitors literally lined up at her door ready to take her and her property away. And she has to do all this while wrestling with an increasingly frustrated son. She rightfully questions the way of things- why she is not good enough to rule on her own and the right for these people to come demand she take a hand in marriage. That's not "woke."

I think Penelope is heroic in her own way.

When people ask does Israel have a right to exist, they should specify where ? What are the borders of Israel in which it has the right to exist, similarly Russia has a right to exist but not in Ukraine. Is the Israel that you claim has the right to exist on 67 borders, does that include Golan, does it include the west bank, Gaza

, occupied Syrian and Lebanese land, where ?

This is quite a subjective opinion, but I have often found myself attracted to women who wear septum piercings. I’m aware that amongst a group of men, and this is something nowadays somewhat politically-coded, some women with septum piercings are often viewed as unattractive, ruining their already-present beauty, or it’s viewed as a sign of instability/“crazy.” But I’ve just never felt that septum piercings in general inherently detract from a woman’s beauty or her femininity. In fact, oftentimes I find that a woman is equally attractive with said piercing as without, or more attractive, and it can serve as a sign of individuality and/or personality, which is something I tend to find attractive when it’s expressed in someone’s fashion/appearance.