I don't necessarily disagree that serving size is a useless unit, but that's also why they put actual numbers right underneath it defining what a "serving" is.

I went from working at a shitty company to working at an amazing company and find myself asking the same question, but rhetorically. It's hard because you can describe what both are doing by using the same words in the same order, but it's as if the tone or the reasons behind it are all wrong at the shitty company. Think how wildly different the statement "you look good today" could be meant and/or interpreted depending on tone of voice, relationship between the speaker and listener, and general context. Say it to your significant other and maybe it's a good thing (or maybe they're in a bad mood and they take it as sarcasm and now it's a bad thing). Say it to a subordinate at work and maybe it's mildly inappropriate. Say it to a stranger while drunkenly looming over them and after having missed several previous rebuffs and it's going to get you maced.

Couldn't agree more, but then this necessitates competent upper management, and if they had been competent they probably wouldn't have gotten the middle management problem.

From my experience working at a company that started out great and then went to shit over the course of about 10 years, the incompetence starts at the top and works its way down until the whole thing is just rotten all the way through. By the time it reaches the guys on the front lines it's too late to be saved.

This assumes competent management that could make good selections during a layoff though. If your middle management is incompetent and doesn't have a good feel for who's performing and who isn't, this kind of forced attrition isn't much worse than middle management laying off the people who don't suck up to them enough.

The difference is that generally there are reporting requirements for employees buying stock related to their employer precisely to help prevent such insider trading scenarios.

You expect a professor to re-create the same slide show tens of times for each student? And then how do you expect to handle questions when nobody is on the same page because they've all got slightly different slides?

A couple more I forgot:

- SuckerPinch for watching a phd intentionally overcomplicate things in humorously cool ways (start with his "harder drives" video)

- Wintergatan if you want to watch a musician learn every single hard lesson in engineering the hard way as he builds a very sophisticated marble machine for playing music.

- Kyle Hill has an incredible series about nuclear stuff, and just generally good science content

- BrickImmortar for documentaries about various nautical accidents

- Forgotten Weapons for cool old guns (the chambers machine gun from the 1700s is one of my favorites)

- Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan if you want to see some documentaries from an independent journalist who gets all kinds of crazy fascinating interviews

Stuff that tends to be more sober and less clickbait "hey whatup youtube remember to like and subscribe but first a word from our sponsor":

- SmarterEveryDay for just generally interesting engineering stuff

- PracticalEngineering for cool topics in civil engineering (seriously, I went from 'hurr durr civil engineers build the targets using 100+ year old books' to having a whole lot more respect for that branch of engineering after watching his stuff)

- RealEngineering for a guy with an accent talking about interesting things

- Matthias wandel for wood working (and other random nerdy stuff that interests him at the time) content

- HyperspacePirate if you want to see somebody endlessly fiddle with different refrigeration systems in an attempt to reach something near absolute zero 100% DIY

- ThisOldTony for hobby machining content with hilariously subtle humor

- StuffMadeHere if you want to see a very smart guy with barely managed adhd torture himself in integration hell for months at a time

- AlphaPhoenix for really great in-depth explanations of complicated stuff. His video about CO2 lasers was particularly good (he's a phd in materials science)

- NightHawkInLight for random DIY stuff. It feels almost like those stupid life hacks channels, except it's things that are interesting and actually work.

- Primitive Technology if you want to watch a guy build furnaces out of mud and sticks with no tools and no voiceover. Just the ambient rainforest sounds (turn on captions for the descriptions of what he's doing)

- Tom Stanton for interesting DIY stuff (his latest thing has been completely DIY RC aircraft engines that run off compressed air)

- ProjectsInFlight isn't big yet, but it's got a ton of potential. He's creating his own integrated circuits completely from scratch and has put out some incredibly detailed and well researched videos as he finds his way through the process.

- NileRed if you like chemistry

- TechnologyConnections if you want to see a guy autistically infodump about things that interest him. Anything from lanterns to dishwashers to heat pumps to christmas lights to obscure analog video formats.

- The 8-bit guy for neat stuff about old computers


Channels that tend more towards the "typical youtuber" side of things:

- YouSuckAtCooking for simple recipes delivered in a humorous way (it helped me a ton when I was a single guy who never made food for myself because I hated cooking)

- ZeFrank for "Nature"-like animal documentaries delivered in a humorous way. A lot of the humor involves the accent he created, and have been literal years in the making, e.g. his decision to pronounce Ts and Ds similarly was made with a very specific video in mind that he didn't create until years after he'd established it.

- ColinFurze for over the top hyper building things that feel like they shouldn't be built (especially his earlier content)

- ElectroBoom for a guy with a masters in electrical engineering acting stupid and sometimes fake-shocking himself for humorous education

- PlasmaChannel for cool high voltage stuff

- StyroPyro is a piece of youtube history, he's been putting out crazy laser and high voltage related content since his teens.

Which ones did you look at? If you just went by popular on the front page while not logged in or channels with the most subscribers, I could understand, but there are plenty of great science and maker youtube channels that I'd count as "big name" content creators.

I've noticed now that a lot of news sites will intermittently hit me with a paywall depending on various factors like VPN usage, where the link originated from, or even just seemingly at random.

And also since this is slashdot, running something like noscript or even just disabling javascript for that site with your adblocker disables like 99% of news article paywalls.

That's still a narrative thing though. The police will call just about anything 'assaulting an officer' if it falls anywhere between "ripped his shirt off and started swinging while screaming 'AM I BEING DETAINED?!?!?'" and "the officer hurt their knuckles when he hit their fist with his face after he lost a game of simon says".

B-b-b-b-but the Geneva convention!!111one

You mean the ads by the content makers? Look into the sponsorblock extension.

So tax food at 500% and use the proceeds to fund propaganda posters in schools instructing people to "just say no to food"? I mean, we're already halfway there with recent efforts to prevent schools from giving food to kids.

low speed maglev is already a thing without superconductors, just nobody is interested in them.