If YouTube stops working, it won't be the end of streaming video. Thousands of porn sites manage to do it. It may take several years, but something else will come along to take YouTube's place. In the meantime, we will have other stuff to do.
NutWrench
Some people utterly lack an instinct for self-preservation, like cave divers and base jumpers.
21st century Windows developer: "Hey! You know what people REALLY want in a text-based Office Suite? VERY very light gray text on a white background!"
It's like Windows is devolving into really, REALLY early Linux, where a single Control Panel application is broken up into a half dozen separate parts and scattered throughout the interface in a dozen separate sub-sub-sub menus.
You should NOT have to hunt for the "print" button in a freaking word processor.
Of course it's a mystery. An honest discussion about why orphan-crushing machines need to exist would lead to an honest discussion about where your society's pain really comes from.
And the owner class doesn't want that discussion to happen. Because it would come out that they don't pay their fair share of the tax burden, which would keep orphan-crushing machines from existing in the first place.
How Elon deals with advertising complaints: "Go advertise someplace else."
Advertisers:
I heard the ending of "Titanic" was very sad. But then, Leonardo DiCaprio dies and we got a happy ending after all!
You can't get oil out of babies, no matter how hard you squish them.
Besides the fact that he's dead.
I thought Fireball's reaction to Rudolph's glowing nose was a little extreme. He's a magical, flying reindeer who lives with Santa and his elves at the North Pole. Surely, he has seen some really weird sh*t.
But he reacts to Rudolph as if his skull had burst into flames.
And the "liberal news media" controls all the information. You know, that media that is all owned by about six corporations.
Look up "news consolidation" sometime. In the 1980s, all the news outlets were ultimately owned by about 30-40 companies.