Because you need to meet the platform’s goals.

On a for-profit one, that’s being somehow profitable to it, whether by paying directly or through ads and content placement. Otherwise, you need a philanthropic platform, where either someone or you indirectly supports it, like a P2P one.

Instagram is of the former kind.

Another explanation for the observed results could be that enzymes, loosed from the irradiated cells, might be hanging around in the soil and continuing their biochemical jobs. Even when degraded, enzymes have stable backbones that might be capable of catalyzing reactions, said Sudha Rajamani (opens a new tab), an astrobiologist at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune who wasn’t involved in the study.

Sounds more plausible. Even without cells containing them to optimize the process, if enough of the biochemical components remained in the soil, even with broken up DNA and RNA strands, it seems plausible that the processes of life could continue for as long as there is an energy input, like keeping them in an incubator. Even to the point of going through most of the motions of life, including the assembly of enzymes.

They would need to either try with a mixture of minerals that never had any contact with any biological spillover (hard to do on Earth), or catalogue all the chemical compounds present in the breathing soil samples.

Age limits wouldn’t hurt either. Like, 20 might be too young, but 80 is not much better.

Poisoning what? Intentional poisoning doesn’t work, and self-consumption only works when it’s the exact same model feeding its own next version.

There’s this:

• https://www.popsci.com/technology/billionaire-freedom-city-greenland/

Breaking NATO also has a chance of destroying the USD, which could be related to these:

• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/14/trump-crypto-conflict-interest
• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/18/trump-financial-products-conflicts-of-interest

Women using sycophantic chatbots that they 100% control, is stil about power and control. One is about bodies, the other is about minds, that’s the only difference.

Is it a majority stake? In the video, he makes it sound like they’re co-owners… which says nothing, and the “our brands” wording is also common as a hyperbole.

If they earn money from pushing quality content, adding similar channels, adding Patreon financing, backer-only specials, merchandising, placing content on other platforms… “the other shoe” could be simply making a profit.

Whether Electrify will eventually sell out in turn, is a separate question.

When one has 20 million subscribers who get notified of the videos, those few cents per Ad, add up quickly. He’s also worked his ass off on the quality side of YouTube, which has earned him a lot of good will and supporters.

Goes to show that quality content, can also be profitable. It’s not all about the bottom dwellers.

I’m sorry to say this, but it sounds like you got duped, hard.

When estimating support numbers, remember the 90-9-1 rule. In opinion creating spaces, most of the Creators and Contributors are interested actors. What you thought were large numbers of “fellow people”, were most likely opinion creators, grifters, and a small number of genuine believers. The bulk of real people, were most likely the lurkers whom you never saw or heard from, and who likely held all sorts of different opinions.

Your one vote was barely relevant, the important part was to plant a series of messages in the minds of those silent 90%. Once the goal has been achieved, and the opinion space no longer needed, those genuine believers get discarded, and the next opinion creation space is spun up with the same formula.

Depending on how much is “too much power”, people might still want to purchase them at a discount for self-hosting purposes. The future is most likely to go through a decentralization of AI services, with spme higher efficiency large providers, combined with lower efficiency edge nodes for less demanding usage… at least, until the next order of magnitude technological shift.

Counter proposal: dynamic tactile buttons.

The tech already existed in 2013, just develop it further.

https://www.robaid.com/gadgets/tactus-technology-haptic-feedback-on-dynamic-user-interface.htm

Check the history of ReCaptcha: it started by helping digitize booksxfir the Gutenberg Project, then once it got acquired by Google, it switched to house numbers, street signs (auto driving?), and is now helping with object identification.

Strictly speaking, math gets proven from scratch by every math student. Software is slightly different, since most of it never gets a formal proof at all.

There is a long history of artists "pushing the envelope… by self-deprecating and making “statements” about how ridiculous the market for art is.

You don’t get to shove Dada, a Campbell’s soup can, canned “artist’s shit”, a black square on a canvas, a pile of trash, a shirt on a coat hanger, a self-shredding copy of a graffiti, and thousands of similar examples, all under the same label as the Louvre, illustrators, writers, etc… then magically have people value all artistic work.

There has been continuous, serious, self-damage done to the concept of “art”, and now come the consequences: the general public, thinks the value of art is close to $0, and that’s what they’re willing to pay.

Coincidentally, AI companies allow anyone to get “better than literal shit” art done for $0… so… 🤷

Customer perception of the value of art in general. You don’t get to call it all art, without muddying the perception.

Rule 1 of crypto: “Not your keys, not your money”

There is a reason why cold wallets are a thing.

“artists don’t deserve a living wage” or “they don’t do real art”

Blame the “Modern Art” movement, where a black square, or canned literal shit, can be worth millions.

At some point, people realized that they don’t need real art, just to decorate an office or house space with “artsy looking” stuff, so they went on a chase to the bottom. That used to be random people from third world countries working for peanuts… now it’s LLMs and GenAI working for fractions of peanuts.

Same thing has been going in all areas. Who needs a slab of real ice (from a mountain) for their fridge, when they can get fake ice much easier, for a fraction of the cost.

Silence protest, yes. “Involuntary lethal injection”… not yet.

Appearances, preconceptions, stereotypes… are shortcuts used to deal with complex issues. Since VCs don’t really care about 90% of the startups, they only need to weed out the worst ideas, in the quickest way possible.

Story time: When I was 20, I had some job interviews lined up, so a family friend helped me pick a decent looking suit and robe that weren’t too expensive. Got offered 3 different jobs in a single week 🤷

As long as you can re-disable it after playing the game…

I know, all background processes get impacted during gameplay, but that was the case already. The popup can explain the tradeoff, and who’s to blame (game dev).