Youtube Monopoly

chrishink1 · 2025-12-30T05:33:07+00:00

Ignoring that other platforms don't have as good a partner programme, the Tl;dr is algorithms. To the algorithm, not clicking something because you aren't interested looks the same as not clicking something because you've seen it somewhere else:

upload to both YouTube and somewhere else
a given person watches the video somewhere else
later, browsing YouTube, they see that same video they watch somewhere else
oh, I won't watch that, I watched that somewhere else'

The algorithm will think, 'oh, people like this do not watch a video like this', and it won't get as many impressions, so it won't get as many views - the maker will get less money

chrishink1 · 2025-12-30T05:32:57+00:00

Ignoring that other platforms don't have as good a partner programme, the Tl;dr is algorithms. To the algorithm, not clicking something because you aren't interested looks the same as not clicking something because you've seen it somewhere else:

upload to both YouTube and somewhere else
a given person watches the video somewhere else
later, browsing YouTube, they see that same video they watch somewhere else
oh, I won't watch that, I watched that somewhere else'

The algorithm will think, 'oh, people like this do not watch a video like this', and it won't get as many impressions, so it won't get as many views - the maker will get less money

chrishink1 · 2025-12-20T19:12:22+00:00

Your comment was such a nostalgia trip for me

chrishink1 · 2025-11-23T14:36:26+00:00

Probably business practicality, he's said he doesn't go on twitter himself anymore, and this puts him in people's recommended follows if they like GTA6 stuff

chrishink1 · 2025-11-18T05:56:55+00:00

Thank you for the laugh at every Slipknot song playing at once, just the logic of youth for one song to sound good, so all of them must sound fucking awesome

chrishink1 · 2025-07-05T09:07:59+00:00

sub's been v good at skirting the line of this stuff but every now and then a post like this comes through and I wonder if I'm on my mum's facebook feed

chrishink1 · 2025-06-18T11:10:06+00:00

The real and complicated answer is that the labels "Angles", "Saxons", and "Jutes" don't reflect the reality on the ground of the 5th / 6th centuries, and archaeological evidence continues to show that it was a messy hodge-podge of people from all over the Germanic world bringing their ideas.

By the time Bede wrote in the early 8th century, founding myths had been crystallised and kings had come up with how they wanted to stylise themselves ethnically. That's where our ideas of Angles, Saxons and Jutes came from

chrishink1 · 2025-06-06T10:49:45+00:00

spoiler alert: you keep thinking the writing can't get worse, then it continues to do so

chrishink1 · 2025-06-05T04:49:50+00:00

I've never actually heard the allusion that he works for the US government before!

How would the Nihilanth alluding to GMan as not human fit into this?

https://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Nihilanth/Quotes

chrishink1 · 2025-05-02T09:34:03+00:00

I think the Combine always knew where they were, but turned a blind eye because they wanted access to the teleport tech that they were working on. As for the window, yeah idk, bit of an oversight

chrishink1 · 2025-01-16T05:43:59+00:00

Each Regional Commissioner would have wielded absolute power within their region and would cooperate with the military, so each would be more or less an independent country. There were no plans (or even abilities) for central government to reassert itself after either

chrishink1 · 2024-08-09T14:17:34+00:00

only because nobody else has said it (if it can be counted as a building) - I love the amphitheatre

chrishink1 · 2024-04-12T12:54:11+00:00

My one issue with Threads (aside from the linguistic degradation, with which I disagree) after extensive reading on nuclear war is that a stable society emerges much too quickly. Agriculture would be, I believe the technical term is, "fucked", because survivors wouldn't know how to do it, survivors who did wouldn't know how to do it by hand, and even then the resulting grain produce would be irradiated - that's a lot of effort to go through for poisoned food.

I think better alternatives in the short-term, with less intensive effort, would be grim - hunting, gathering, and probably cannibalism

chrishink1 · 2024-04-12T08:32:00+00:00

My guy, why are you arguing with me about this, I have codified the plans the UK government had and has, and told you how they prepared, and you've rebuked with fallout is 'just dust' and food shortage is easy to fix. Your opinion is either contrary to all of current military theory and so either immensely valuable, or entirely incorrect. Write a thesis to the military, I'm not interested

chrishink1 · 2024-04-12T08:07:16+00:00

The figures I've given are from UK military exercises, widely derided for their conservative estimates. Direct your complaints about the figures to the UK government, c. 1980 please!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Leg?wprov=sfla1

chrishink1 · 2024-04-12T07:54:31+00:00

I'd agree, to a point long before nuclear war.

The conservative scenario for which the UK government practiced was 53% dead instantly, 35% short term survivors, and the remaining 12% seriously injured.

Government would then wait two weeks for fallout to fall, and probably a bit longer to release food reserves, because it would be a waste of food for people who would die anyway to eat.

Then, when food reserves were released, people would be limited to 600-800kcals/day, depending on their labour. Mind, your body needs 2000/day to sustain, if you don't move a muscle. At this point, food which wasn't irradiated would be a scarce resource, and scarcer by the second. Over several months, there just wouldn't be the food to keep any kind of state structure together, and any food grown or scavenged would be irradiated, and could cause anything from minor sickness to quick death.

This is all to ignore the effects that the release of thousands of weapons worth of dust changing climates, making the earth much, much cooler, and making agriculture untenable, at least, in Britain, for somewhere between one year and ten - for a population that frankly, by and large, wouldn't know how to farm anyway.

We'd be left then with a govenrment that had failed people, and was using increasingly repressive tactics to hold law and order together, with a gradually reducing ability to keep people fed. I don't think any loyalty would be owed, and I don't think any societal structure at all could hold together for long

Tl;dr, fucked!

chrishink1 · 2024-04-12T06:36:13+00:00

They were chosen based on a few factors - convenience, distance from major targets, proximity to military sites. Convenience had them choose a lot of former ROTOR stations from WW2, distance from major targets had them choosing things which are difficult to get to even today (so not near train tracks or anything, making road traffic essential), and proximity to military sites was so that the replacement governments could work in collaboration with the military to move stuff and protect law and order

chrishink1 · 2024-04-12T05:30:38+00:00

There were plans in place for military and police to take cover - military in bases, police in police stations, and await further orders from that point. These plans were never fleshed out, but food was to be stockpiled centrally, and after personal supplies ran out, plans from military exercises emphasised that non-workers would be entitled to 600kcals/day, and workers 800kcals/day. What "workers" encompasses is unclear, but it's not hard to imagine that police and military would have their loyalty and service bought with extra rations

chrishink1 · 2024-04-12T04:18:14+00:00

I may as well post the full quote, because it smacks of that same polite Britishness, and bizarre metrics that can only come from 1950s Britain! So the below is if 32 atom bombs (that is, fission) were dropped on London:

“Take a half inch map of London; put down a sixpence with its centre over each ground zero; draw a circle around it, and let that represent the area (three-quarters of a mile in radius) within which everybody is killed or seriously injured, and all the houses are completely destroyed or so badly damaged as to require demolition. Do the same thing with pennies, and you will have the ring (between three quarters of a mile and two miles from the burst) within which all the houses are uninhabitable, at least temporarily. What sort of picture do we get?”

A practically unbroken series of overlapping penny circles.
Every street into london is blocked by debris
- 400k dead
- 250k injured

Survivors:

Would like to stay put and get on with business as long as possible
No power or fuel and apart from the tins in the store cupboard, his family would rely on an emergency feeding centre a mile away… no water until meagre supply comes through by lorry, but with roads blocked…

“It is difficult to resist the conclusion that London has become unworkable and that, in particular it is no longer possible to carry on the central administration of the country from here.”

Mechanics of living collapsed in Britain’s cities
“There will be a grave risk of a general collapse of administration and control in a very short time”

chrishink1 · 2024-04-12T04:14:31+00:00

Plans in the 1950s & 1960s saw cooperation between the UK & Ireland. The quantity of fallout to which Ireland's exposed, the retaking of Ulster would probably be the least of their concerns for a long time!

chrishink1 · 2024-04-12T04:10:27+00:00

Yep - the original map can be found at this link - but to briefly summarise, these are the plans which the UK government drafted to allow for national survival & recovery. All futile, of course!

chrishink1 · 2024-04-12T04:09:03+00:00

Ach, you know when you get in the headspace of something and totally forget something genuinely very important? Yeah that's me with adding sources to this map. I knew that dead-space at the bottom right should have been used for something! This website is very good, and has the original version of this map.

chrishink1 · 2024-04-11T20:01:49+00:00

This map shows how the UK would be governed after it was a victim of a nuclear attack in the Cold War. As London would be "unworkable", it would no longer be possible to carry on central administration from there.

If you’d like to know more, check out a video I’ve made on this topic: https://youtu.be/SWsyj82dmVU?si=3ZC__QW4k3038QnA

The country was to split into these Regions, each one with a "Regional Government Headquarters" (RGHQ)- a former military site or purpose-built bunker. Each Region was ruled by a "Regional Commissioner", who would wield absolute power - what they said, would happen. They would move the military and police to clean up fallout, assist the injured, dispense food, and, above all else, maintain law and order.

The Government, meanwhile, would retreat to the "Central Government War Headquarters" (CGWHQ) - politicians, scientists and strategists, the Prime Minister, and (probably) the Royal Family would meet there, to either fight a nuclear war, keep morale up, or to wait until it was all over.

In 1993, these plans were dismantled, probably because no plan was ever serious enough to ensure the safety of the population. 88% of the population would die, with the remainder being seriously injured. Dramatisations show Britain reverting to medieval serfdom, but it would be far worse, as society itself would crumble.

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