Oh, I’ve seen this movie.

In the next 5 years?

I’m skeptical. In the next 20, sure.

If it’s vacant then it’s not their home, it’s just unused housing.

Is this a map from the medieval era lol

It’s from America in 1965, so basically yeah.

So people are morons?

Yeah, sorry, that’s what I meant. I don’t really know the difference between a town and a tiny village I just meant there are way too many names.

Could’ve done with a few less to make it a bit clearer to read.

Feel like this would be a little more legible with slightly less towns on it. Can barely see the old borders there are so many names everywhere.

Serif (which owns Affinity) was just bought out by Canva, so it’s only a moment of time before they are enshittified unfortunately.

They released one on Egypt pretty recently.

This might change your mind a bit more: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/07/the-icelandic-popstars-who-brought-palestine-to-eurovision

Icelandic band Hatari held up the Palestinian flag at Eurovision in 2019.

Fall of Civilizations podcast.

Great insight it a number of civilisations that have collapsed throughout human history. Explains their rise, peak and of course collapse in great detail.

Fakespot add-on for Firefox for browsing Amazon.

The lore of the primary setting for my novels. It can get really info dumpy really quickly though…

Probably the ones outlined here, which you should be aware of, given there are statements from you included in the article: https://docs.beehaw.org/docs/important-questions-decisions-and-reflections/beehaw-lemmy-and-a-vision-of-the-fediverse/

Use the checkered deck lol it’s like cheat mode for the higher stakes.

They are probably using the default installed theme, which doesn’t have scalable icons so everything is horribly pixelated. Not sure why it’s still the default, but as you said it’s pretty easy to change.

401k, RRSP, etc.

Retirement investment account.

Because YouTube and Twitch are notorious for reducing ad payments or demontising creators. Have you forgotten about the adpocalypse already? Patreon also increased their fees with very little notice in 2019.

It’d honestly be an idiotic move to not take a video sponsor if they’re offered, because that is guaranteed and likely upfront, supplemental income to support the creation of videos.

Nebula is collectively creator owned, so it’s the only one of those that won’t fuck over creators for more money, but as I said, not a lot of people are paying for subscriptions. It’s small, the per-creator payouts are probably even less than Youtube.

And finally, the real answer: Man’s gotta eat. Simple.

All of that considered, I didn’t even see the sponsor ads you’re complaining about because I have Sponsorblock skip them automatically.

Well you can watch it ad free on Nebula, as linked in the video description. I honestly can’t hate on him for that decision, he needs to eat as much as the rest of us, and unless we’re paying for a Nebula subscription, video sponsors are the only way to do that.

Blasphemy.