Oof. What’s the prognosis?

Food / cooking:

• https://www.youtube.com/@imamuroom She used to do a lot of bento boxes but has since switched to regular home cooking. Good for getting meal inspirations.
• https://www.youtube.com/@AcreHomestead She does a lot of “meal prep” style videos and food preservation, including lots of freezer meals. Also good for inspiration.
• https://www.youtube.com/@Doobydobap She has a few long-ish videos that give a good high level overview of Korean cooking. The majority of the channel is more vlog-like but I’ve only watched her cooking videos.
• https://www.youtube.com/@CSaffitz Mostly does desserts. Her recipes tend to be on the more complex side. I’d look to her if I really want to perfect a recipe.

Others:

• https://www.youtube.com/@theleanbeefpatty Gym videos. More of a mindless entertainment channel than informational. She has a pet pig.
• https://www.youtube.com/@Caroline_Winkler Interior design. She has a peculiar sense of humor that’s not quite my style, but the information is good.

Absence of moderation is in itself a form of censorship.

Only worthwhile if you’re independently pursuing your passion.

I think the idea is that you keep the layout as simple as possible such that you don’t need any code for it, css or otherwise.

Every day is an emergency

The problem with the subscription feed is that it shows you every channel that you’re subscribed to. If I only want to see cooking videos for example, then it has to be through the standard YouTube recommendations page. What it needs is the ability to manually group channels and let us choose which set of channels we want to see.

This reads like a Google AI summary. I love it.

Waste not, want not.

I think what you’re observing is the interplay between two variables with opposing correlation with respect to wealth:

1. Having empathy
2. Ability to display empathy

Poorer people might have more empathy, but their ability to show it is inhibited because of lack of resources (time/energy/material) and lots of mental health issues that are a result of being poor. Wealthier people may have all the means to display empathy, but they’re less incentivized to do so. At some point in the middle, you get a sweet spot where there’s both sufficient desire and ability to do good.

Growing up, I didn’t like water either because I didn’t like the taste. No one around me could understand how I could dislike it because water supposedly tastes like nothing. BUT IT DOESN’T. WATER HAS FLAVOUR. Anyway, I later figured out that filtered tap water tastes a lot better than the bottled kind.

I believe the main cost is in hosting all the videos. A lot of them are probably junk that were never meant to see the light of day. I certainly use it as an extra backup for many of my videos with no context and random UUID titles.

For everything else, a potential solution is to have everyone come in with their own videos hosted elsewhere and the platform just integrated with a bunch of APIs for fetching and serving those videos. For small time creators, the cost should be fairly low to none since a lot of platforms allow you to store a small number of files for free.

I can understand some negative sentiment in contexts where it’s used dismissively (e.g. “I’m [self-diagnosed] autistic and I don’t have this issue, so you’re obviously just a bad person”), or if you use it as an excuse to be a shitty person. Although I’d say that a professional diagnosis wouldn’t make any of these scenarios better.

In your case, you’re experiencing problems and you’re trying to solve them. A self diagnosis helps a lot in narrowing down what the causes could be and help you prioritize different potential solutions to try. It makes no sense to handicap yourself and try to fix things like a neurotypical person when you have good reason to believe you’re not.

The main reason is that they took away my preferred app, and the official app is excessively noisy (visually) to the point that I just can’t parse anything on the screen without huge effort. Doom scrolling is supposed to be brain off time, not brain work extra hard time.

Legally, yes. But laws get broken all the time.

I’ve never gotten sick from undercooked chicken either, but that doesn’t mean I’m willing to take the risk. Gastro is no fun, and well done burgers taste great (unless maybe if you use very lean meat?) so it’s all upsides with no downsides.

Are you maybe just using very lean ground beef? In my experience, 15% ground beef is very hard to overcook.

For the same reason I’d attend a meeting and complain afterwards that it could’ve been an email, despite knowing that I was going into a meeting.

I think it’s reasonable to expect the video formats to only be used when it’s a good medium for communicating whatever it’s communicating.

Conversely, if the conclusion was wrong but it added value to the discussion, then it’s still a good post.

This is a great argument for the possibility of changing some minds. You’ve definitely changed mine. My policy is unchanged though; I’m not going to set out with the goal of changing minds in online discussions.