Hmm…one of these seems more important to do than the others…

The staff and patients fear that without Americans in the hospital to serve as political shields against the Israel Defense Forces, the hospital will be destroyed, as the IDF has done to every other hospital in Gaza.

God that is heart breaking. I understand why those that evacuated did, but I can’t help but greatly admire those that stayed. Fuck genocide.

Lol. I just posted the same vid to !videos@lemmy.ml

A really entertaining, insightful, and intimate video essay. This one was one of Abbie’s best.

Her presentations are fun. Thanks! Great watch.

Her presentations are fun. Thanks! Great watch.

Well dang! This guy makes my neck tired from all the nodding in agreement. Thanks!

Well my Nitter redirect on Android Mull Browser still works, which is all I barely care about.

Nah. If you’re gonna put this in any community, this is the one…though I’ll admit the question could use some clarification.

Google is required to send you a CSV of your YouTube subscriptions upon request.

If you have an Android phone, once you have said CSV file, you can upload it into the Newpipe Application and voila, watch YouTube without visiting YouTube (or supporting the creators, but that’s an aside to this topic). Sadly I know of no way of doing something similar on iPhone.

On desktop/tablet, you can always use Invidious. This is especially useful when combined with the tool yt-dlp and sponsorblock. If you use an RSS reader, you can “subscribe” to YouTube channels that way, and use redirection extensions to redirect you from YouTube to invidious, after that you can use yt-dlp with a sponsor block flag to download the video directly to your desktop, and watch it in whatever quality you want, with subtitles if you want, and have all mentions of sponsors cut out, and of course, no ads.

Obviously, this is too much work for most, but this is what I do to not visit YouTube while still watching their content, which is simply more plentiful and, IMHO, higher quality than what you find on other platforms (save for possibly Nebula).

Rumble is just a bunch of Nazis from what I’ve seen, so fuck them and their shitty platform.

Throwing the lamest capitalist party at the end of the world. Wooo…AI…boo…planet earth?..

It would be a much smaller business model. My guess is that there have already been multiple market analyses of what you’re talking about and the determination is most likely that the majority of hotel arrivals occur later on in the day.

This isn’t to say a good amount of arrivals dont occur much earlier in the day, just not enough to justify the cost.

Additionally, to flip that would have hotel staff be cleaning rooms at a much earlier time (midnight to 4am), meaning they would have to arrive at midnight to start their shift. At 4am, the cleaning staff management would then need to spend a minimum of 1 hour to inspect each room to ensure it met company and legal standards. This is all ignoring the various tasks this can incur on the other staff like concierges.

I used to work as a Front Desk Agent, and later on a Night Auditor, in a small, but upscale, hotel. The housekeeping staff were some of the hardest working people I’ve ever met, and yet they were the least appreciated. Those hours in between check-out and check-in was always a hussle. I was always thankful I worked front desk whenever I saw them and would do them small favors if they ever asked (though honestly more often than not it was the other way around and I was asking them for some small request on behalf of the guest).

If we had the rooms available for an early check in, then we did it, but if not the best we could do was offer them to check their luggage in at the front desk and they were on their own until check in. The occurrence of this wasn’t negligible, but given everything I witnessed, I determined, at least for our hotel, it wouldn’t have been monetarily feasible to adjust that check-out check-in window to accommodate them. It simply didn’t happen often enough to justify it.

I’m a beginner in both (heavily leaning towards putting more time into learning Rust though). Could you please elaborate a bit?

Ah yes, Mike Johnson and Donald Trump. Pinnacles of American virtue, as evidenced by Americans electing them into office. Indeed, all of our politicians are examples of the best America has to offer.

No. The convictions for rich white men will go as well as the Trump convictions have gone thus far.

The convictions will go through quickly for the LGBTQ community because that is where the allegations will be thrown at, and the jury will be hung for anyone cis white male, and will be unanimous in the conviction of everyone else.

Nah. Trump came along and basically said “Hey, you know how we’ve been openly and loudly racist? Let’s do that…but MORE open and LOUDER.”

That’s what “make America great again” means.

People are so scared of a Trump presidency, and rightly so. But let’s say Biden gets elected, and finally, somehow magically, Trump just disappears and his followers quietly dissipate into the ether?

Do you really think the next election we won’t be complaining about the exact same shit? Fascism vs Declining Capitalism (AKA, Good Cop Fascism)?

This is your lives now folks, every four years, choose your flavor of Fascism, they certainly look different, but once you put them in your mouth, they all taste like the same shit.

Elect your Biden, and then don’t criticize your government, and get the fuck back to work and don’t protest and keep your heads down and your mouth shut.

Then four years later, compromise and vote for the lesser of two evils that somehow gets more evil every four years. That is all of us now. I’d say see you in hell, but we’re already here.

Gotta say, I’m liking the logo. The fact that the devs let you choose to keep one or the other is a really nice touch. I look forward to the release!

God I love that episode and that line. It’s so sad how that observation somehow became even more relevant today than it was back when that episode released.

Thank you.

There are many legitimate reasons to not use ecosia, and yes, from the ecological perspective.

Planting trees has shown to be not as effective at curbing the effects of climate change as previously thought. Contrary to popular belief, the oceans have a much larger effect on our climate than our forests, and we aren’t doing nearly enough to clean those up because the task would require us to fundamentally change the way we farm, fish, and obtain oil (i.e. pretty much stop everything we’re currently doing).

This isn’t to say planting trees doesn’t have some benefit, but there are much better ways to curb your CO² emissions which you can see at the end of this rant/post.

Sneak peak though, if you eat meat, and actually give a fuck about the forests, perhaps you should stop consuming animals. Eating meat in particular is directly related to deforestation, as often deforestation is done to make room for massive CAFOs, which even if the deforestation didn’t occur, would still significantly contribute to climate change.

Ecosia’s funding comes from advertisements, which incentivizes consumption, which itself contributes to climate change innately. Every purchase you make, every meal you eat, every time you travel by automobile, airplane, or petroleum powered boat, contributes to the ever growing mass of CO2.

Advertisements and marketing exacerbate climate change by cultivating a never ending consumerist desire for products that are almost entirely produced using a petroleum derived process and/or packaged in petroleum derived plastic, resulting in the consumerist behavior being inherently responsible for climate change.

Ecosia is a moldy old band aid on a gushing neck wound that honestly is causing more harm than good by distracting people from the real source of the climate crisis, which is modern capitalism and the resulting consumerism.

Actually fighting climate change requires more of you than some passive empty gesture. Here’s a bullet point list of things you can do today to make a real difference:

• Stop eating and utilizing animal based products.
• Stop eating foods that were grown using petroleum derived fertilizers (i.e. eat Organic).
• Stop eating foods that had to be trucked in from over 100 miles away (i.e. eat local).
• Stop buying plastic packaged goods.
• Stop traveling by any means that require oil.
• Stop living in or working in places which utilize electricity from the standard fossil fueled grid.
• Abandon the fast fashion industry.
• Only buy local goods and services.
• Stop buying new electronic devices unless absolutely necessary.
• Stop buying things you don’t absolutely 100% need to survive.
• Don’t use AI as it utilizes an insane amount of fossil fuel generated electricity and consumes an exorbitant amount of water.
• Same goes for playing AAA video games on high end GPUs.
• Same goes for participating in Cryptocurrency mining/trading.
• Protest the continuation of the exploration of space until Earth’s climate has stabilized, as the utilization of resources required for space exploration greatly contribute to climate change and encourages a techno futurism that “solves” the climate crisis by abandoning Earth, rather than actually creating a future where humans are the stewards of the Earth, not its masters.
• Get politically involved to pressure your local governments to implement safer spaces for pedestrians and cyclists and generally improve public transportation infrastructure like railways and metros.
• Spend all your spare time fighting the fossil fuel, plastic, and privatized water industries, because all of the above only makes a difference if those industries are GONE FOR GOOD.
• Don’t have children (biggest contributor to climate change is more consumerist humans).
• Don’t leave this problem to the next generation to solve. The moment is now or never. You either care about the future of humanity and their place on Earth, or you don’t.

There is a reason climate scientists are increasingly becoming climate activists. This is not something you can buy, recycle, or search engine your way out of.

As I’ve pointed out, there simply are far more impactful ways you can make a difference today than using a search engine that gets in bed with marketers and advertisers all in order to make relatively empty gestures while playing nice with corporations that, I guarantee you, are far more interested in pursuing business as usual than preserving the planet for their own children, let alone you and me.

Sweet! Thank you so much!!