I would just like to add that the gross-up close-up is canon.

https://youtu.be/Rr5i93ZhxdQ

Accurate. He definitely holds up 3 fingers when he says that.

One orange braincell

I also pay for YouTube. I just don't normally bring it up because it usually results in a lot of rather unpleasant replies.

It's fascinating, really.

Google gets a lot of hate for being a data collection behemoth. The whole "if you aren't paying, you are the product" thing. And rightfully so.

And pirates love to say that if companies would just charge a reasonable rate for an easy-to-use service, then they would just pay instead of pirating.

But when it comes to YouTube, a lot of people seem to want to have it both ways.

There was a citation in the original post. The screenshot cut it off.

The total cost of the US post-9/11 wars is $8 trillion by 2050, approximately 1/3 of which will go to veteran care and the majority of which has not yet been paid.

Yes, 1/3 by 2050 is not most. My bad.

Yes, it will continue to rise after 2050.

The statement that funding another country's military is cheaper than putting boots on the ground isn't a hot take or even a position. It is objectively true.

I don't like war. I'm not cheering for war. I don't endorse the parent post's take about it being a proxy war (have you never contributed to a conversation while simultaneously suppressing the urge to ackchyually the other person?). And I do hope that humanitarian assistance is provided down the line by the parties involved.

Call it a proxy war, or don't. It doesn't make any difference to me what people want to label it. That doesn't change the objective truth about the cost difference. Either way, I would love more of my tax dollars to be steered away from war and toward the problems in my own country.

You're better than them!

They literally just need people to show up and do basic things. As long as you aren't creating a disturbance, I can't see there being any issues.

Ubuntu is the most popular operating system across the major public cloud providers.

For all we know, it was a temporal paradox in which Boimler was always the reason Spock changed back in the first place.

There are definitely longer story arcs in Lower Decks :)

What we need are more backend and full stack developers to shore up the core functionality. A polished mobile app is not going to cancel out the other shortcomings.

There are critical bugs and missing functions/features that need to be addressed first. Otherwise the masses are going to take one look and never return.

It makes sense for topical instances. For example, startrek.website is where /r/startrek and /r/daystrominstitute and /r/risa landed. I saw a post earlier about some all-things-gardening instance as well.

And just in general, I certainly wouldn't want to drink from the firehose. The whole reason I created an account on reddit over a decade ago was to limit what I saw on the front page. Aside from occasional usage for discoverability, I cannot imagine wanting to drink from every firehose, everywhere, all at once.