If we can make it through to midterm elections I will worry then.

They have to wrestle for the job. Winner keeps it, loser walks.

You should listen to your doctor and your body when they are telling you “no”. Not trying to be preachy or shame you, but please consider your health and well-being.

People don’t rush to their polling places for “we’ll undo some of the damage” as a message. They need well spoken people to sell a lasting solution.

The older I get the less I want to overeat. After big meals now if I don’t take a walk I feel like absolute garbage.

https://phishyurl.com/

Caffeine is bitter. That’s why they mask it with sweet flavors in soda. Just drink it during the day as a treat occasionally and have water (or something else) with dinner?

Fox news was playing up illegal immigration (remember the caravan?), and people are susceptible to propaganda.

This will be truth social again with a pre-existing user base and better algorithms. People will drop off, but they will probably boil the frog slowly to keep people around.

Maybe? He just wants to piss off his opposition and remind them that he is a big boy, and he’s in charge. His actual opposition just happens to be in the big blue cities that also have more progressive policies.

Honestly I think it is his wet dream for people to attempt violence against ice. If a few agents get killed he can ramp things up further and finish installing himself as a dictator because of domestic terrorism.

It’s very awkward. I think they mean you can stop the intent to cancel, so cancel the cancellation.

I’m chronically online, very progressive, and pretty in the weeds with politics. The only reason I know Ken Martin’s name is the story about him vs David Hogg.

Hogg’s message of removing ineffective democrats and fighting for progressive causes seems good to me.

What is Ken’s value proposition? I tried googling to see his platform or what he’s accomplished, and all I can find are articles about Hogg or him getting elected.

Is he the one sending Bernie/AOC out to fix relationships with red voters?

I canceled my no-ad $19/mo plan today. It was my last paid streaming service. Sucks I just don’t have TV anymore, but it feels like the only thing I can do about this situation. I guess I’ll set up a $19/mo donation to the ACLU instead.

Can’t speak my mind without fear on social media, can’t watch legacy TV, won’t shop at a growing number of companies. The only possible end in sight is midterm elections, but the left is taking a beating right now and has no strategy to fight back. The DNC refuses to support good candidates and falls back to ineffective elders.

Shits bad right now.

Her current talking point was that hate speech is not free speech, and the government will come after you.

She later clarified that isn’t what she meant, but her initial implication was that big brother will get you for voicing your opinion.

Originally she said:

“There’s free speech and then there’s hate speech. And there is no place — especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie — in our society,” Bondi told Katie Miller, the former DOGE aide, on her podcast that was released Monday. “We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech.”

They parse the website for feeds, search, etc. It is a java library and it looks like they are using jsoup to parse the dom.

Using the website and actually establishing a connection to a video are separate things. The search side of things is essentially a headless browser that is just aimlessly looking for videos. As far as YouTube is concerned nothing is played during this process.

When you decide to commit and watch a video, the NewPipe client establishes a connection to the video stream, which doesn’t count for YouTube stats.

YouTube counts a view for long-form content when a viewer watches for at least 30 seconds, while Shorts views count each time a short begins to play or replay, with no minimum watchtime. Valid views must come from human users, with limitations on how often the same person can generate views within a short timeframe to prevent fraud from bots or artificial inflation.

Using the API “correctly” is likely a requirement for the view to be counted. Their media extractor circumvents that by intentionally not using their API and instead parsing their website for content. Then it establishes a connection to the stream using an internal API.

If you want a view to count you need to use an official client (or at least one with a legit API key). It not counting is a feature with NewPipe.

(Google probably knows the content is being streamed, but if you could just create synthetic views with a third party project, that would be bad for YouTube stats)

From the NewPipe FAQ:

Does NewPipe use the YouTube API?

No. NewPipe does not rely on the YouTube API, as using it requires an API key bringing with it specific regulations and restrictions. YouTube would then have more options of tracking your YouTube usage at their disposal. Therefore, NewPipe Extractor gets the information by parsing YouTube websites.

Schrodinger’s shit

Divided we fall. Seriously though.

I bought byd stock. It keeps going down. I will never understand investing