maybe?? though i'm not sure why shorts would provide more data than regular videos either. i wonder if it's truly just about undercutting tiktok/keeping tiktok from cutting into their market share

honestly i'm thinking about it now & realizing i don't think i've ever seen ads on yt shorts? do they play them? why would yt want to emphasize shorts if there are so many fewer ads to sell?

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this is the first mention of Proposition Joe i've seen in the thread and i'm shocked

look if you believe in demons here & you actually think you would have no problem considering & debating the merits of ideas which you, personally, believe are perpetuated in society by literal demons, prove me wrong i guess. but that seems like it would be odd, you know

& yeah it's frustrating (to say the least) when someone complains they are facing "viewpoint discrimination" but their own viewpoint is... definitionally in favor of discriminating against other viewpoints

like in practice, believing evil demons, or satan, or idk lizard people or the illuminati or whoever are the source of a certain idea means you are cutting yourself off from a potential route of ideological inquiry. there are questions you can't ask & people you forbid yourself from understanding

like "this is demonic" would seem to imply on its face that the student has signaled a refusal to engage with the idea, regardless of what arguments or evidence they might encounter. & maybe you just can't really believe that & be in academia

now i do not believe in demons or hell, so maybe i don't know the nuances of what that belief system implies. but my impression would be "this idea is demonic" = "it is in service to ontological evil, & to even consider it on the merits would be immoral"

bc i think that gets harder when someone calls certain attitudes "demonic." they're not arguing against a point they disagree with, they're not trying to produce evidence that the idea is unsupported, they're calling it "demonic" as in it comes from,, fuckin, demons

i will note i'm not sure how much that last one is an actual band, they have 1 single song on their bandcamp page, posted in 2018. cool that they staked a claim to that name though i guess