There was no tech middleman taking in part of the profit while making every other part of the transaction a net negative for everyone else though. I do agree that AI might not have much to do with it though.
Or fortunately, the larger the store, the more it messes up with the local economy. The profits from local or semi local businesses can stay in the area. The profits from the large players are funneled out into accounts waiting for the next thing to invest in, sustainable or not.
In many ways Walmart is worse that target. They specifically will go to a town, annihilate its local economy and leave as soon as it becomes slightly inconvenient to their profit expectations.
Not to mention the PR on search engines trying to tell people searching that Walmart is not a net negative for tax payers when a lot of their employees are on social programs. Of they are not paying the taxes, we are. Fuck them.
We just need tucking trains and public transport in cities. Rural areas are under separate requirements. It's that easy, but we've built cities for failure for a while now. We "send our prayers" each time a kid biking to school is run over and then complain when the number of lanes on the freeway is not expanded to accommodate the ever increasing number of cars or speed limits don't allow for deadlier crashes because our commute from a poorly designed suburb to a poorly designed city increases by 5 minutes.
Edit: rant is not directed at you. Just frustrated with the US in general when looking at the needs of the general population.
Or built for a different market, like 90s Hondas/Nissans etc. which assumed every country was as safe as Japan when it came to car theft. Nowadays its mostly profit driven. Security is not cheap and can add it's own set of headaches (security vs convenience).
Edit: Nissan still sucked at it from what I remember hearing of those and some kias being the main target near where we lived.
Depends how it's handled. If its just a gag and you show investors a shiny graph with a line going up (# of toilet paper holders went up this week!), it could work.
E.g.: in some of the roller coaster tycoon games, you could fire staff, but it wasn't necessarily a core mechanic.
As someone with an n100, I did have to spend on an apple TV to have a hardware accelerated client for some of the harder to transcode content (h265 4k at higher bit rates). N100 will absolutely choke on some of those even with hardware acceleration enabled.
He goes into detail on some of the videos, but to summarize the "controversial" videos due less well when it comes to recouping the money it takes to film them (if at all). They (often):
have to account for more travel expenses to interview people
can't be sponsored since no one wants to sign up for those kinds of pieces and depend on ad revenue alone
can include additional legal costs (have lawyers review things, etc. )
for things that are time sensitive, they can also mess with the work life balance of the team and the regularly scheduled content they've been working on
stress from dealing with mega corps with the money to ruin you as a side quest
Speaking of SNES, I enjoyed the top gear soundtracks. They were like eurobeat on a race before eurobeat, powerful yet soothing:
https://youtu.be/sqF1nOdV7bY
Maybe it will enhance your play through as well. I agree sometimes not much happens, but it feels more rewarding than trying to min/max the run for whatever reason.
Or they could be subtracting viewers with ad blockers? It would make sense that more techie channels would be hit the hardest.