You could consider media, industry, schools, government and judiciary to be faucets of information or power. Make up your own terminology so you can sell your own political theory books, yay!

As an in-between measure, may I suggest Nebula? Creators get 50% of the earnings, it’s assigned by view time. Price is significantly cheaper than Netflix or YouTube Premium. Yes, most of the creators are on YouTube too, but a lot of them do bonus content on Nebula + there’s no ads + they get more money. If you use an ad blocker on YouTube, the creator gets nothing.

You can get a discount for your first year by using your favourite small-medium size creator’s marketing link (which gives them a bit of money). If you don’t have one, may I suggest Patrick H Willems? He has cool video essays on cinema. You could of course use a bigger creator’s link too, but I figure I’d rather pump some smaller creator’s numbers.

Okay, so you don’t even need a socialist system for this, just a moderately sane government. Even here in Estonia, the government hands out funding for cultural projects. Now this is still a capitalist society, so you likely can’t get full funding for a big project.

In an actual socialist economy, the government will give you full funding for projects. The actors and everyone else working on a movie or TV show have guaranteed income that’s enough to live their lives, guaranteed living accommodations, etc, so they’re more likely to do it as a passion project, but they could still be paid as extra motivation. Funding is still required for equipment, etc. Unless you go fully money free as a society, in which case you ask the government to assign equipment to you.

I don’t even consider the Soviet Union to be very successful socialism, but here you go.

Here’s a 1970s sci-fi movie from Soviet-occupied Estonia that I would recommend. It’s honestly a pretty cool movie, even if janky. But it’s not like 1970s western movies feel much less janky nowadays.

And inb4 “you only get the state approved media” - well right now you only get the capitalists approved media (so same-same) and also in a functioning socialist society, for bigger art projects like film and TV show, projects get funding from government without being government-initiated. I mean it was the same in the soviet union, but since it was a dictatorship, the government was picky in what was approved.

In fact, best thing about government funding is that there’s a lot less pressure to be commercially successful than with corporate funding. Commercial flops can still have cultural value and the fun thing is, a socialist government as the source of your funding can see that as a value unto itself, whereas a corporation has no value for culture other than the money it can bring in.

Meanwhile someone made an open source version of Apollo for Lemmy and it’s great. Voyager is the name for anyone not aware yet (though I think most have heard)

Essentially a private company can be owned by a dickhead, or a nice person who’s not all about profitmaxing. A publicly traded company is forced to maximize shareholder value.

Valve as a publicly traded company would quickly become another EA/Microsoft/Whatever, because it’s only the next quarter that matters. Valve under GabeN has been built to bring in large, and yet sustainable profits.

EA’s new owners are going to be the absolute worst. So it’s going to be a worse company than before.

Consider that Erik Prince’s murder-for-hire company is private. So is Xitter now that Melon bought it.

So it’s not that private companies are better, but rather that they have the capacity to be better. And it all depends on the owners.

Consider Microsoft destroying Nokia and their Linux phones to benefit fellow American companies Apple and Google.

I’ve considered it, but I do think it was a huge blunder that was planned differently. They invested a bunch of money in Windows Mobile, had a partnership with Nokia and then bought their mobile business… And then they just gave up, handling their competitors in other markets (Apple being a competitor to Windows and Google at the time being already a competitor to Office) a win. I suspect they actually had faith in Windows Mobile and wanted to fuck up Nokia and buy their phone business so they could sell Windows Phones.

Yes and also only AI watching it. Then AI will make statistics on it for advertiser AI to pay them per view.

Not really, it’s more about children not being exposed to things usually. Hence starting with age requirements for porn and they move forward to other things.

lol that’s just the cherry on the whole apple pie.

That’s a good point, time to ban banking websites and only allow people with locked-down phones to bank.

Not always. It can also be about the children.

They put desktop cooling on the testbench apparently.

They’re also comparing to only the base M4 chip, not the Pro.

Also the M5 could still come out this year. But it also might not so it’s still a fair comparison till then.

Anyway if you’re looking for a Windows laptop specifically and don’t need anything that doesn’t run on ARM, it might be pretty damn good. I’d still wait for independent benchmarks.

They also used the base M4, not M4 Pro or Max

Lol ok. Fact is, they have nearly the same coverage and both achieve it through private insurance usually paid by the employer - China just has a few more extra groups that get their equivalent of Medicare and Medicaid, but that’s it.

Depends, but definitely highly possible.

Sometimes it’s their own money saved up from a successful career (less likely), sometimes it’s parents money (more likely), sometimes it’s an actual business loan.

In her case it seems like one of the first two because she went to a very expensive university and has had pretty decent jobs in the tech industry since then.

Much as I hate AI being put into everything just to get funding (and I have no idea if it was thrown in there as a buzzword or if she actually believes AI can improve things), it seems she’s trying to get more people into lifting weights via the product they’re making, so that’s cool at least. Should keep half an eye on it just for fun.

IIRC that is one parameter they actually mentioned taking into account.

I guess my 2006 or 2007 or whatever YouTube account (which, yes, I later connected with my Google account - not all that much later, in fact) will perhaps qualify me for adult-only content finally.

I’m Estonian, I unfortunately can’t say it’s free, as it costs 5 euros per visit for ER and specialty doctors and 2.50 per night stayed in hospital if you have surgery or something.

But then neither does China. Is what I’m saying.

By the Chinese definition of it, it’s very close.

In 2024, approximately 92.0% of Americans had health insurance for some or all of the year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau

For China it was 95%

Neither country gives you free insurance unless you’re old or poor enough.

I think you’re unfamiliar with at least one of the two systems then because they’re described as pretty similar by people who have lived in both countries. Both are pay 2 play, American one is just more expensive.