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Check out some Andreas Vollenweider, Swiss harpist. His 80's stuff is pretty New Age. Check out Caverna Magica (the album), they are meant for seamless playback.

Sure. Sometimes it even works, but it's awkward and slow and tends to just recommend them again later anyway. That view history thing is supposedly the thing to try next.

I tried this... bunch of stuff kept getting repeated like I was the most hyperfocused person on earth, so I go into the history and remove a bunch of content related to it. Surely that's driving the recommendations, right?

Well, the instant result is that it just recommended me back everything I'd deleted. Slow clap IRL

And, in a truly shocking development, it turns out the UX for trying to manipulate your history and recs is dogshit

Youtube is gradually making itself unusable. It's not even just enshittification (although obviously it is that too), it's just fucking stupid.

At least you won't have the problem of being invited for dinner anymore

There were some side effects that warranted hospitals to abruptly stop the use. In many cases you're not even supposed to try to provoke vomiting.

While in many ways it's genuinely hard to navigate neurotypical society with all its prejudice, it's also actually relatively easy to just not go there

So a bull market for bears and a bear market for wolves, then.

Pretty smarmy - yes, I get it, google, you're being bitchy because I dared, I had the temerity, to try to watch some shit in a private window. Do you expect me to hand you a straight setup for the lecture just because of the "hey, this sure is slow eh? nudge nudge, wink wink"

This first post is fucking hilarious.

For the record: I’m not interested in reading comments stating your views on AI

Yeah, buddy, that's very clear.

My #1 guess is that it just wasn't thought out terribly well. It looks a lot like it was meant to be "Reddit, but with federation". With that mindset, just having each instance be its own minireddit with its own equivalent of subreddits is pretty intuitive, but it turns out to be really clunky once it's working. (Hard to find communities and content, dozen different but identically named communities, weird federation behavior)

This being said, nothing's stopping people from making general/chat/hangout communities, it just takes a lot of work to make a place active and discoverable enough, especially since activity is generally low across the board anyway.

Basically yes, that's exactly how it would work. "Dirty bombs" are not nuclear per se, they're conventional explosives that are meant to spread radioactive material.