If you use Reddit, but don’t like the direction it’s going, (more extractive, less user control) Lemmy is a good alternative. Same thing for Instagram or Twitter, pixelfed or mastodon are good alternatives for those. And they have the advantage that it’s harder to make them universally worse in the future, since the infrastructure is more distributed.

The better comparison is online service games and casinos. They both pull all the psychological tricks in the book to suck you dry.

I haven’t actually found anything that doesn’t work on Firefox on my personal computer. At work we also use Firefox, and some things don’t work on it, but some things don’t work on chrome or edge either, it’s a hodge poge.

For long form,

Bobby Broccoli, ~1hr videos on science scandals https://youtube.com/@bobbybroccoli

Defunctland, 30m to 1h45m videos on defunct theme parks and rides https://youtube.com/@defunctland

Your dinosaurs are wrong, 15m to 1h45m videos on comparing toy dinosaurs to the most up to date research https://youtube.com/@yourdinosaursarewrong

2nd on Drachinifel, 7m to 1h45m videos on naval History https://youtube.com/@drachinifel

Perun, 1h videos on defense economics https://youtube.com/@perunau

Diplo Strats, 2h to 6h videos on diplomacy the board game, like risk on massive steroids https://youtube.com/@diplostrats

Not exactly long from, but I agree they’re great!

Which SpaceX subsidies are you referring to? Just the contracts they’re fulfilling for NASA and the DOD?

Sure, but that doesn’t change whether subsidies should be granted or not.

Cutting EV subsidies would lead to more gas cars, which isn’t good. Investing in public transit would be better, but encouraging EVs is also good.

Taxation isn’t because there’s a middle man between your labor and the government?

How about taxes going to a military? Or is it just being forced to directly do morally abhorrent things?