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It's sounds like a good thing on the surface. But this is the kind of thing parents should be doing, not governments. I don't know how parents just let their kids doomscroll tiktok and shit all day, why have kids if you arent prepared to raise them?

It's not irrelevant at all. I can recognize most cars from a distance, the tesla design isn't special. The sharp edges of a cybertuck are an aesthetic choice that effects the car overall, if you have to make your car so fucking dangerous to stand out, you did something very wrong.

Design affects and is affected by all factors, a car looking a certain way is not an irrelevant factor to anything else. If you are ignoring how they interact, then any cosmetics are irrelevant themselves as at that point you no longer have a car, but a shell.

They dont have a door handle for... aesthetics. The cybertruck is a dangerous piece of metal because of... aesthetics.

It's all part of the overall design of the cars. So I'd say it's pretty relevant.

Teslas are fucking shit cars made as cheaply as possible. People literally burn to death in them trying to find the door handle.

Yes, the CEO is a human piece of shit, but the cars shouldn't be bought regardless.

Oh no. Affinity was a good paid alternative to the adobe shite, now this is going to turn down a subscription route after they get people hooked, isnt it?

The only competitor I could see YouTube getting is if Twitch decided to chase that route. The only companies with the global infrastructure required for a service as fast as YouTube's are Amazon, Microsoft (and Google).

Microsoft gave up on Mixer, so I don't see them ever trying to take on YouTube. Amazon have Twitch, which as mentioned, could try to take on YouTube. But even with owning their own servers and just running them at cost, it would be a massive undertaking and investment.

There's a tremendous amount of work to do, that these companies are not going to throw money at for decades just to compete for YouTube's profit margins, which apparently aren't that big (if they even exist).

Sites can exist alongside YouTube, We see a lot of smaller video hosting sites, like Dailymotion, but something would have to go seriously wrong at YouTube for any of them to grow meaningfully and become actual competitors.

I'd like a competitor as much as anybody, but I'm just being realistic here. Don't underestimate the size of YouTube.

As much as Twitch needs gutting, Kick is much worse.

Yeah, I can see it working until they come up with some workaround. Like you can buy currency, trade it as much as you want, but then that is used to buy cometics. So probably best to just ban the sale of it altogether.

Ban it all then. I'd personally ban all extra transactions in games to be honest, but we can start with removing virtual currency.

Might be in USD, but that probably doesn't translate to other currencies. Either way, they are using it to circumvent laws, refunds etc. They will still be pricing things so you have just under the amount you need, so you have to buy the next package up... then leaving you with too many coins than you needed, but still just short of another item. It's all predatory and needs to be abolished.

I'm sure they could draft something that allows that sort of thing still. The currency in games like EVE/WoW/RuneScape is technically an in-game item rather than a currency for a storefront.

If that sort of thing would end up being abused, then it'd have to go obviously.