Did anyone read YouTube's actual policy? They're restricting direct firearm sales and DIY manufacturing instructions. Seems reasonable for any controlled device.

They are book burning. If you don’t see that, I don’t know what to tell you.

Almost everything they have removed was 100% legal content that they didn’t like.

IDK about you, but I’ll chose to use sites that want to do their job of hosting, and not my job of choosing what I see/learn.

>YouTube prohibits certain kinds of content featuring firearms. Specifically, we don’t allow content that... links to sites that sell firearms or certain firearms accessories.[1]

This effectively cuts off any revenue stream other than crowdfunding, as practically every sponsor would sell guns or accessories. Furthermore, direct firearm sales and instructions on how to make (and indeed, actually making) firearms are entirely legal.

[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7667605

Not just "direct" firearm sales, but content that "intends to sell firearms". This can mean any review, unboxing, etc.

Also "instructions on manufacturing a firearm, ammunition" are expressly prohibited, even though if it is legal for you to possess a gun or ammo, it is also legal to make it for personal use (and with appropriate licence even for sale). There are plenty of gunsmithing and reloading videos that are now going away.

She was an artist. Making money isn't a requirement for something to be work.

Huh, I think I'll become an artist. It sounds nice.

Totally. I'm 23 and I'll readily admit I can't program to save my life without taking piracetam and a light dose of dextroamphetamine. I was sick and tired of living with my parents, no money, no friends. After a year and a half of DIY binge learning I have an incredible job. It's really messed up that that's the only way I felt I could dig myself out of the tar pit and find a job that doesn't make me hate my life.

I mean, when has society not ever been sick? Think of the gold rushes, oil rushes. There's always been desperate people willing to risk it all. It's only now they have access to these options. The only surprising thing should be for people who don't understand the weird new societal pressures placed on people in this age range.

I entered "Self Destruct DO NOT PRESS!"

...FWEW! Just the adrenaline kick I needed.

Which begs the question as fish was released 10 years ago.

Yes. It's about phonetics, not the first letter. The y sound in "you" is a consonant, like "a ukulele", whereas the h in "an hour" is not.

there better be a cute little guide-bot who shoots flares at bad guys

Higher signal to noise ratio. Dr. Barry Blesser suggests that "raising the loudness of music, like a double shot of whisky, elevates the intensity of the experience". Listeners undergo significant, measurable changes in mind-body states and Blesser reckons that "loud music is simply a stronger stimulant than soft music".

Blesser - The Seductive (Yet Destructive) Appeal of Loud Music: http://www.blesser.net/downloads/eContact%20Loud%20Music.pdf

Psychoacoustic tricks such as compression and EQ allow us to increase perceived loudness without crossing the threshold of pain.

3, 4, and 6 in this article explain this psychoacoustic phenomena pretty well: http://getthatprosound.com/hacking-your-listeners-ears-9-psy...

And this article argues in depth, that the relationship between actual/perceived dynamic range is ultimately an artistic choice, yielding different feels. What people who complain about loudness are really objecting to is the improper use of these techniques: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep11/articles/loudness.htm

The hegemony of consumerism is falling apart and the things people increasingly "value more" than work is free time and to be loved by the people they love. That's something work won't give you in exchange.

Work gives you free time when you are more efficient at your profession than by subsistence farming.

You are presuming access to land to subsistence farm upon, skills needed to subsistence farm, and tolerance by the institutions to retreating from the existing economy and engaging in that.

True, but unfortunately, under our economy that free time just gets used as an opportunity to out-work the competition.

Being able to feed and house yourself and family is rather hard to replace in the long run. The society still expects people to buy food and pay rent (mortgages on your house etc).

We could start paying citizens a base salary, but that salary would be rather low. And with a large part of the population not working we need to figure out how to finance these citizen salaries. Preferably in a way that don't drive business and money to other countries.

Countries compete for industry and there is a race to the bottom re cost of operating a business in a country. I have a hard to to reconcile how the trend with increasing automation and, anti work, basic income and global business.

I was actually just reading Max Weber today. The radical change in Christianity over time is astounding.

Jesus: "consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin thread"

...I don't think he meant that literally, but he definitely didn't mean, "work as hard as you can so you can give a little to charity yet still anonymously hire tons of people to make you nice things"

That passage is meant to keep you from worrying, not from working. Later on there's this: "Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands."

Christianity was never for the rich:

“Go and sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor” and "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!” - Mark 10:21+

They also serve who only stand and wait.