cat_theorist - Hackdot

Re:What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @10:38AM (#42950024)

Hiring people based on race (white) and gender (male) is what happened _before_ Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives.

Do you know what is the original and ultimate identity politics? Enslaving people because you deem them inferior to your own race. The civil war, the civil rights movement, and modern social justice movements are a response to this, not the root of the conflict.

I'm a white guy in academia - not tenured yet - and I cannot fathom the ignorance necessary to believe that white males are at an disadvantage because of university administrators being "woke". Give me a break!

Re:FreeTube – The Private YouTube Client on Monday October 16, 2023 @11:31AM (#37901249)

They don’t publish that number, but you know it’s in the billions.

Here’s alphabet’s gross income (155b USD): https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/GOOG/financials/annua...

And here’s an estimate of YT’s profit margin: https://mannhowie.com/youtube-valuation#youtube-profit-margi...

My point wasn’t about the specific number, it was a qualitative one: people in this thread claim that YT needs to kill Adblockers to pay for the service and survive. They don’t. They’re already making billions without crippling web browsers to disable Adblockers.

Re:FreeTube – The Private YouTube Client on Monday October 16, 2023 @10:37AM (#37900441)

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/3/21121207/youtube-google-al...

YouTube us very profitable. It’s just that they want even more and they believe forcing users to turn off their adblockers will get them there. Smells monopolistic to me.

Re:Why Aren’t America’s Students Showing Up? on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @09:35AM (#37764947)

Did you miss the /s tag here?

Re:Blaming Capitalists and Workers for Inflation on Sunday July 30, 2023 @08:49AM (#36930646)

Author is affiliated with the (right-wing) Heritage Foundation. Blaming governments is a forgone conclusion for them.