She says that in the final years of the Soviet Union the Communist government gunned people down in the streets. I would be curious to learn more except I can't find anything about it, besides this event.

It is a bit sad that communism is now demonised for these people considering the scale of violence committed globally by capitalist regimes.

I don't really know what I'm trying to ask but there is a question there somewhere.

Days of Future Past. I don't know how something can be so good and yet feel kind of bad at the same time. Great cast, some great scenes, but overall kind of stinks. My least favourite parts were definitely the stupid cyborg thingies. Will probably watch Apocalypse next.

worst thing I have ever read, I had literally constant anxiety throughout the entire book

I was not expecting that at all, totally horrifying

According to several treaties between China and Britain, Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997. This was after 156 years of British rule that brought security and much prosperity to the territory. British rule spared Hong Kong from all the civil wars and general mayhem taking place in China. During World War II, Hong Kong was occupied by Japanese troops from late 1941 to August 1945. After the war Hong Kong quickly recovered economically. Since Hong Kong returned to Chinese control in 1997, the area has become a special economic zone that, despite some meddling by corrupt Chinese officials, has prospered. China expects that the same pattern would occur if they got Vladivostok back.

They were serving me and I recognised them, I said oh hey I see you at boxing don't I, and she said aye and TURNED AWAY

Seriously what the fuck is this? Googling this specifically because someone in my fam shared a boycott list including Shein and Temu and I thought hang on, what are they doing to fund the genocide in Israel, and saw that it was a boycott for the very real Uyghur genocide

She will run through fire, open herself up to opportunity attacks, and use up all her actions to send a squidgy mage into the middle of a battlefield. She says that strategy is boring. As a seasoned Xcom addict, I am dying.

I have tried pretty hard to find it again to no avail, it was just some guy in his house talking about his game and showing clips of gameplay, and I feel like his wife was in it too? The gameplay involved you cruising through space in your spaceship, exiting the cockpit and walking around while in transit, even going out on excursions - all in first person. Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?

The web page gets straight to the point:

Then there is some description of Bob Manoukian, which also happened to be kind of the only info I could find on the guy besides one other paywalled Bloomberg article.

Clicking through to the home page, things only gets weirder.

So the guy is desperately poor and his plan to capapult himself into the ruling class is to attract the attention of a wealthy benefactor apparently. Here's another quote from the bottom of the page:

I hesitate: Should I show my blog or not... Art Center

That link gets you to his plans for his dream house.

I kind of relate, to be honest. Who hasn't fantasized about living in a palace? I know I draw out my crazy plans all the time, it's my favourite form of escapism.

The about page gets even more interesting though.

That's a pretty wild montage. It got me wondering if the guy has pages dedicated to other billionaires, you would think so, as this was a project that was apparently maintained for at least three years. I tried Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates but neither one of them came up, so I searched on Google instead, and bingo.

I clicked one at random, and it is what you would expect.

Pretty interesting. I hope his plan worked and that is why the blog is not getting updated anymore.

I don't mean to dunk on people like this but not sure what is a better comm to post this to.

One of the OG Runescape devs from 2003 has been working on this for the last 10 years apparently and just announced it

Every time I log in I get the exact same recommendations. Literally the exact same ones, every single time, for months at a time, so I can't just refresh the page like I would on TikTok and get all new videos to watch. Plus, the recommendations are so bad, I may as well be scrolling Facebook. They are bad, and there is a huge recency bias. I watch one new thing, and suddenly almost my entire feed is made up of more of the same, and usually it isn't even similar videos, it is the same videos on the same exact topic. I feel like I have such a diverse range of interests, and so many channels that I follow, but I can go years without these channels coming up again.

I feel like the fix would be so easy as well. Option 1, go back to how it was before, and option 2, show me things that other people are watching. If someone watched the same video as me, the video they watch afterwards is probably going to be of interest to me.

That's the background, my question is has anyone else been able to make their YouTube recommendations not shit? Is there another website that mirrors YouTube but has good recommendations? and also, does anyone have any theories as to why YouTube recommendations are so horrendous? There must be a reason, it doesn't make any sense.