I don't think it's selfish to not want kids. With how fucked the world is, maybe we should be thinking about if it's instead selfish to have kids.
I determined from about age 12 that I didn't want kids. 10 years later and I still don't want them, so I removed the possibility of accidentally having them. The government can't make me have kids - seeing as I yeeted my uterus.
It's All Cops Are Bastards, not Bad
I've seen it happen with my mother's Alexa, but not with my Google Home. And when hers does start listening it stops pretty quick when it realizes that it misheard the wake word.
Man, the real problem with smart devices is that most of the time they don't listen to me. I can't count the times that I've had to repeat "Hey Google" 4 times, louder every time, until it finally hears me. And then starts playing music instead of turning off the lights.
In all seriousness I do agree though - it really is a balancing act between convenience and security.
Software programmer. I have a Google Home running because I'm lazy af and like to be able to verbally turn on/off lights. I also use it to combat ADHD symptoms because saying "set an alarm" is less likely to distract me from what I'm doing than pulling out my phone is.
That's essentially how I use the Heap playlist
...my single spotify playlist for ALL my music is named Heap
Oh man, guess that anyone with ADHD should just try not having it if they want to be a pilot!
I want to believe that the rule is there to not bar people who were incorrectly diagnosed in the past but... I wouldn't put it past them to believe ADHD can be "cured" or "gotten over"
As someone with ADHD... What the fuck? Driving without my meds is much more dangerous because EVERY sensory input is jumping into my attention span. Much easier to focus on important things while on meds
As someone who rarely ever uses YouTube, $25 would be fucking bonkers to pay monthly for no ads. Imo a decent idea to explore would be x amount of minutes that are ad free per month, then after you hit that limit you get given ads. You'd have to be signed into an account, any instances with no account logged in get ads by default.
Another idea is to add lower tiers to the available plans. 5 people can sign in on the current option? Is there a cheaper plan that only allows linking 1 account? This could even tie in with the previous idea and have certain plans that give you x minutes of watching adless per month.
I'm sure there are plenty of other options out there. In fact I wouldn't be bothered having to watch an ad before a video (or a midroll in a longer video) but the experiences I've had with using YouTube frequently involve me pulling up a certain scene within a movie or something and getting 2-3 ads that are a minute long each, unskippable, and potentially midrolls in there if the video is over 5 minutes. It just makes me close the video and think "yeah fuck that, I don't need to watch that scene anymore".
Overall point: the ads would be fine if they weren't so excessive and intrusive
Small correction - federal minimum wage is $7.25, not $7.29