Don't live in microgravity.

Why is it on the belly then and not on the back? Countershading?

Many non mammals have vision that includes UV (birds, reptiles, insects ... ) if any of these hunt the mammal, fluorescence may be a way of not reflecting light the predator can see. Fluorescence must emit a lower frequency and intensity of light than could have been reflected

Good point

A baby doesn't output propaganda at 6GB/s in computer readable text.

Not with that attitude! /s

They could also, like, go back where they would show a meaningful ad every 10 videos. and not 4 with every video you attempt to watch.

My child watched a 10 minute video the other day on a machine that doesn't have an adblocker installed on it.

There were 4 "commercial breaks" of 2, unskippable 30 second ads. So, 4 minutes extra.

That's an extra 40% of the original video length (10 minutes). That's 30% of the total length (14 minutes).

It's almost exactly the same as broadcast tv, maybe slightly high? TV averages 12-20 minutes per 60 of tv being ads.

Not really sure what to do with that. It feels like I should be upset, but really, it's proportionate to what already exists and I'm only upset because it's worse than it was 10 years ago.

In your summary, you described: -A service you pay for (traditional cable) has 30-40 percent of it's time -dedicated to charging you more. (time cost to watch the ads). -It has gotten worse both traditionally and on streaming media. -Your child, who is in no way associated with the payment structure, is forced to absorb malicious ads despite being too young to consent to the information being "forced". -(my observation) Media spot advertising does not work, is largely targeted incorectly.

We're PAYING for our kids to become desensitized to attention-vampiricity and we're unsure if it is ok to be upset? Yes!

So that's not what I was getting at. I was simply comparing the ad content from YouTube to traditional media. The original post claimed that it has too many ads, so I thought I'd do the math. I was surprised it turned out the way it did. Maybe that is just conditioning?

Your argument is a different thing. Valid as well, but completely different.

Me too. They should just use the German way.

Nomens are big and other Words are small.

I've never understood the point of this. This capitalization standard carries no information. How many nouns in German can also be other parts of speech? It is easy to learn, but how useful is it?

Many nouns have forms shared by corresponding adjectives and verbs. Some words are overloaded in other ways (e.g. pronouns and nouns). It actually happens quite often and I'd say it helps clear up confusion.

Smalltalk

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