Part 2 is on Nebula.TV
Part 1 was long but dramatic and overall one of Bobby's most fun videos.
Franzia
joined 1 year ago
Yeah the dark "secret" is they have spent $100 billion dollars and these cars still can't do anything useful and relatively safe.
Cities that have studied it believe on-demand car service is necessary (but often much more expensive) to reaching 100% transit coverage. But they also said you could reach like 95% with just busses.
Most of the creators I liked are on Twitch now or have quit. A very small amount made the pivot to Patreon. Nebula creators are often very successful youtubers who are smart enough to make a new business, though some are academics who don't do so well on youtube. I use youtube music too! And pay for it... And I'm invested, I want alternatives. I was about ready to download all of my YouTube music stuff and go hop onto band camp, despite that it would be many times more expensive. I just wanna be treated right.
Never forget that youtube filters us towards those creators, too. New creators saying a new message? They aren't gonna get any attention. Youtube de-prioritized LGBT and BIPOC content tags for years.
I have literally seen 2 creators ever bring up youtube red, saying that yes subscribers do make up a more significant percentage of their revenue and did help a little bit when videos got demonetized. Every creator is saying some sort of the "I don't want all my eggs in one basket, I can't trust these platforms" argument.
Well the creators I like don't see it as a good relationship. They keep leaving for Twitch, Patreon, Nebula, or quitting on content creation. If I'm a fan of them, I need to listen to their concerns about how YouTube is constantly threatening their livelihood.
The time for YouTube to ask for more money was before they made hundreds of unpopular decisions and drove away literally hundreds of creators that I liked.
Alright fine, I'll be a Luddite now. Every time we 'upgrade' or 'make progress' it is really about controling the working class and circumventing a previous business model. Capital pays more and more for the inputs: fuel and technology, in order to justify their control. And then once they have it, they use progress to justify poor labor protections. They never use the predicted best solution, or even a compromise, they use the solution that offers them more power.
I dont give a rat's ass about EV's. Give me bike infrastructure. Wait, I do care about EV's: EV busses. Especially for schools. This last 5 years has radicalized me so much, I grew up thinking my first car would be self-driving. The world is chock full of lies waiting to find eager ears.
Adding this to the pile: CEO wants brave to be an ad platform. He doesnt want to challenge power beyond gaining it for himself.
Well I should hope autonomous driving tech people believe they can make it work, despite the incredible expense and waste.