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Frog-Brawler,
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Not sure yet. I just visited WA. I loved Seattle but it seems like everywhere that’s not Seattle is somewhat neglected. I5 is a piece of shit.

WA was at the top of my list but it is not anymore. I guess I’ll go check out Colorado in a couple of months.

Frog-Brawler, (edited )
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To move out of state (FL).

Frog-Brawler,
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Good soles that don’t fall off while walking.

Frog-Brawler,
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Looks pretty fucking awesome to me 🤷‍♂️

Frog-Brawler,
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It’s generally intended to mean “pull your head out of your ass, what was once acceptable is no longer.”

Glad I was able to spell that out for you.

Frog-Brawler,
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Yet, you’re cool with doing it… okay.

Frog-Brawler,
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It’s not the word that I give a shit about; I just abhor people that opt to not attempt to use a modicum of respect when talking to other people. That word offends people for very specific reasons, and I (and most other people) phased it out of using it as a pejorative a long time ago.

If you want to act like a fucking child; keep on keeping on. You should block me now.

Frog-Brawler,
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And probably about 23 years where it’s been frowned on to use the word as a pejorative. Don’t use your capital letters with me dipshit.

Frog-Brawler,
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Whatever should you do? Probably stop being a cunt.

Frog-Brawler,
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I’m not the weak of personally sack of shit that used “blocking” as my solution. That was you.

Frog-Brawler,
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Yea I remember it went to shit around 2018 or somewhere there about. I had been hoping for a viable alternative for a while. I should thank Spez in retrospect.

Frog-Brawler,
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2023 now… doesn’t matter what it used to be.

Frog-Brawler,
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That means the issue is the culture, not photoshop.

Frog-Brawler,
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I downvoted it because it’s dumb.

It may be “simple” for today, but it’s possible that the reverse can be true in a few years; it already was true in the past.

Frog-Brawler,
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Something that’s inexpensive, comfortable, and socially acceptable. I could not give a fuck less what it looks like. I don’t think a $5k suit shows that I know what I am doing; in fact, it suggests the opposite. Someone that purchases a $5k suit is bad with money. I’m not.

Frog-Brawler,
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Super Mario Bros on the NES. The second game I played was Duck Hunt.

Frog-Brawler,
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That's not totalitarian enough.

Frog-Brawler,
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Making comments on YouTube videos, or making YouTube videos themselves =/= speech.

Frog-Brawler,
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To be honest, I'm not sure why YouTube was brought into a conversation about free speech. YouTube is not a free speech platform; thus, demonetization of someone on YouTube's platform has nothing at all to do with free speech.

Frog-Brawler,
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The NSFW flag is a really good idea in my opinion. It's a compromise. It's like saying "we're still going to have content that might not go over well with all audiences, or all settings; but you just have to mark it as such so that someone ELSE that happens to see the screen doesn't have a shit fit." I feel like it protects me, as the viewer. If I want to look at a picture of a party of lemons, then I know that what I'm about to click might cause me to get a bunch of shit from my conservative co-worker. Maybe I'll wait for her to leave the room, and then I'll click the link about the party of lemons.

Frog-Brawler, (edited )
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Content creation.

If YouTube shuts down indefinitely in a couple hours without warning; do you believe that you've lost the right of speech?!?!

Frog-Brawler, (edited )
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"Speech" in terms of the context in which you've been trying to use it means that you're free in an open forum. Speech would be going out on to the sidewalk and saying things to people. Speech would be your ability to make a platform like YouTube for others to make videos and say whatever they want.

Just as you do not have the right to demand air-time on ABC news to rant about whatever you want; you do not get the right to demand space on YouTube to rant about whatever you want either. When you post on YouTube (or Lemmy / Kbin / reddit) those things you say are not "speech." The posts you make are content for someone else's platform.

Frog-Brawler, (edited )
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JFC... are you this daft or just trolling? I'll map out this entire conversation because you're not able to keep up with your own BS and then I'm done with you.

This started because you made a claim that YouTube demonetizing things = "companies fiddling with speech."

Then, before I ever responded to you, the next comment that you made was "Free speech usually means that you have freedom to express yourself, not that you're speaking for no pay lol."

So it started off sounding like you were equating demonetization with a lack of free speech. I replied, _"To be honest, I'm not sure why YouTube was brought into a conversation about free speech. YouTube is not a free speech platform; thus, demonetization of someone on YouTube's platform has nothing at all to do with free speech."

Then you wanted to move the goalposts, so you said, "This conversation wasn't about free speech, it was about companies fiddling with speech." as you removed the word "free." You have the ability to NOT post on YouTube. YouTube CANNOT "fiddle with speech" if you do not participate in YouTube. Anything you put on there is content that they own. If somehow, some employee of YouTube starts following you around and setting off a bullhorn anytime you start to talk, I'll agree, then they're "fiddling with speech." If some employee of YouTube (Alphabet), starts coming on to Kbin or Lemmy, and removing your comments from here, then I'll agree with you in that scenario too. When an employee of YouTube is removing comments or not promoting comments that they don't like, that's not a speech issue; it's content moderation.

Frog-Brawler, (edited )
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demonitization means taking money away... that doesn't have anything to do with speech. Posting on YouTube is not "speech" in the traditional sense. Posting on YouTube is content creation.

Frog-Brawler,
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I’m not going to go to Reddit to read a call to action. Is the call to action, “boycott Reddit?” If so, I have good news for you… if the call to action is something other than “stop using Reddit,” it’s the wrong call to action.

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