Mind boggling that people would actually complain in public about that. Even if it was irritating to be woken up, do you have zero awareness of what a prick it makes you look like to do it?
Wait, back up. I get that it ignores your phone being on vibrate. But if your phone's turned off, it somehow automatically turns the phone on? Because that one I'm a little less okay with, if that's even possible.
I don’t think that’s possible. Northern Alberta did have an amber alert recently for a missing girl in Saskatchewan. My colleagues got the alert but my phone was off and I did not.
So one thing to keep in mind is that we probably get to see or hear about all of the idiots who felt it necessary to complain. So 10 to 100 dicks rather than 30% of the population.
I would cut some slack for the people who may not have been in the city when the AA was being initially tested and had no idea what was going on, and phoned out of concern. For the people who knew what it was and still called to complain, that’s just all kinds of bad.
Personally, I would prefer that we either tell the Syrians to do whatever they want. Or put them on a plane home and have a tragic depressurization accident on the way home.
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Canada Goose is slowly driving me off this planet. All I see now are jackets with dog fur wrapped around the hood. They're literally everywhere. And what really has put me over the edge is that no one really understands what they're wearing.
I've heard people say "No, mine is not real fur" or "I'd never wear real fur" or "They just use fur from animals that die naturally" or "They are harvested ethically by first nations trappers so it's ok".
It takes about one entire dog to make a fur trim for a Goose coat. By dog I mean coyote but trappers call them dogs. So it's a dog skin that is wrapped around the hoods of Canada Goose coats. We sell about 50k dogs a year in Alberta, most of them to Canada Goose. The market exists as it does now simply because of Canada Goose. However to get one dog to auction, usually three other dogs have been trapped but deemed unfit for fur use. Ravens eat several dogs before trappers get to them. Most dogs have poor quality fur, mites, mange, woolly or patchy pelts. If they freeze to the ground the fur won't be usable. There are several more dogs that are not processed properly and don't make it to auction. So it takes a lot to get the fur on the hood.
Most dogs are snared. Snares are not considered commercial traps because you can make them at home. They're cheap, effective and popular. And so they are not included by law as an ethical trap. But they are still allowed. In fact snares are proven to be absolutely anything but ethical. It takes days or weeks for a dog to die in a snare. So when Canada Goose says they only get furs from ethical trapping practices they are not lying according to law, but they are also not telling the truth according to reality.
This video was made last week from a spot about an our and a half from Calgary. A place I know well...I can't embed it but here's the link...
I've heard an argument for predator control. That doesn't make sense to me. There are better ways to control predators if that is indeed a concern. However it's not. Predators control themselves very well. But even so, what trappers are doing is essentially drag netting the land. They kill as many wolves, lynx, fox, wolverines as they can. They kills birds, deer, rabbits, pets...basically everything that walks gets snagged in traps. That's just stupid as a means of predator control.
There's also no financial argument to be made here. Dogs get about 70 bucks at auction. Wolves about 200. Lynx and wolverines up to 500. A trap line sells for up to 100k. Trappers build cabins. They own and operate trucks, trailers, snow machines and travel hundreds of kms a day during the season. To be sure it's an expensive hobby and a way to get access to a cabin on public land for 6 months a year. You'd be lucky to cover operating costs much less roi or capital return.
Laws and rules in Alberta are really lacking in this area. Alberta produces public information for just about everything. however when you look at all the info on line, there is nothing about trapping because it's included as hunting. So if there's hunting, there's trapping. Even though they occur at different times of the year, in different locations with different dangers, they are they same in the eyes of the province. There are no signs required to warn people. They only law is it has to be 200 meters from a house. That's not good enough.
BC has banned several kinds of traps. Manitoba has banned trapping in areas frequented by people. California is banning all trapping now. Trapping is an anachronism that requires tortured logic to validate. I've heard so many times that trappers respect and love the animals and are carrying on a service for the public for free. It's all nonsense. Hanging animals from trees for days on end, skinning them and throwing their bodies away is the opposite of respect. It's psychotic.
Honestly I mean no judgment if you're into wearing furs. It's not my thing but that doesn't mean it can't be yours. If anyone wants, here's a great letter you can sign on to that goes to dozens of politicians...
This guy has found out how pedophiles are using Youtube. It's very disgusting.
NSFW!
I'm going to add his comment that he posted on Reddit for those who don't want to watch the video.
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Over the past 48 hours I have discovered a wormhole into a soft-core pedophilia ring on Youtube. Youtube’s recommended algorithm is facilitating pedophiles’ ability to connect with each-other, trade contact info, and link to actual child pornography in the comments. I can consistently get access to it from vanilla, never-before-used Youtube accounts via innocuous videos in less than ten minutes, in sometimes less than five clicks. I have made a twenty Youtube video showing the process, and where there is video evidence that these videos are being monetized by big brands like McDonald’s and Disney.
This is significant because Youtube’s recommendation system is the main factor in determining what kind of content shows up in a user’s feed. There is no direct information about how exactly the algorithm works, but in 2017 Youtube got caught in a controversy over something called “Elsagate,” where they committed to implementing algorithms and policies to help battle child abuse on the platform. There was some awareness of these soft core pedophile rings as well at the time, with Youtubers making videos about the problem.
I also have video evidence that some of the videos are being monetized. This is significant because Youtube got into very deep water two years ago over exploitative videos being monetized. This event was dubbed the “Ad-pocalypse.” In my video I show several examples of adverts from big name brands like Lysol and Glad being played before videos where people are time-stamping in the comment section. I have the raw footage of these adverts being played on inappropriate videos, as well as a separate evidence video I’m sending to news outlets.
It’s clear nothing has changed. If anything, it appears Youtube’s new algorithm is working in the pedophiles’ favour. Once you enter into the “wormhole,” the only content available in the recommended sidebar is more soft core sexually-implicit material. Again, this is all covered in my video.
One of the consistent behaviours in the comments of these videos is people time-stamping sections of the video when the kids are in compromising positions. These comments are often the most upvoted posts on the video. Knowing this, we can deduce that Youtube is aware these videos exist and that pedophiles are watching them. I say this because one of their implemented policies, as reported in a blog post in 2017 by Youtube’s vice president of product management Johanna Wright, is that “comments of this nature are abhorrent and we work ... to report illegal behaviour to law enforcement. Starting this week we will begin taking an even more aggressive stance by turning off all comments on videos of minors where we see these types of comments.”1 However, in the wormhole I still see countless users time-stamping and sharing social media info. A fair number of the videos in the wormhole have their comments disabled, which means Youtube’s algorithm is detecting unusual behaviour. But that begs the question as to why Youtube, if it is detecting exploitative behaviour on a particular video, isn’t having the video manually reviewed by a human and deleting the video outright. Given the age of some of the girls in the videos, a significant number of them are pre-pubescent, which is a clear violation of Youtube’s minimum age policy of thirteen (and older in Europe and South America). I found one example of a video with a prepubescent girl who ends up topless mid way through the video. The thumbnail is her without a shirt on. This a video on Youtube, not unlisted, and is openly available for anyone to see. I won't provide screenshots or a link, because I don't want to be implicated in some kind of wrongdoing.
I want this issue to be brought to the surface. I want Youtube to be held accountable for this. It makes me sick that this is happening, that Youtube isn’t being proactive in dealing with reports (I reported a channel and a user for child abuse, 60 hours later both are still online) and proactive with this issue in general. Youtube absolutely has the technology and the resources to be doing something about this. Instead of wasting resources auto-flagging videos where content creators "use inappropriate language" and cover "controversial issues and sensitive events" they should be detecting exploitative videos, deleting the content, and enforcing their established age restrictions. The fact that Youtubers were aware this was happening two years ago and it is still online leaves me speechless. I’m not interested in clout or views here, I just want it to be reported.
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That’s really ####ed up but ultimately there’s nothing inherently inappropriate about the videos. If parents let children upload videos of themselves and some people watch them for pervy reasons, I don’t really see what can be done about it.
Youtube is notorious for doing an awful job managing content, be it due to inappropriate content, misleading, scams, copyright etc.
That’s really ####ed up but ultimately there’s nothing inherently inappropriate about the videos. If parents let children upload videos of themselves and some people watch them for pervy reasons, I don’t really see what can be done about it.
Youtube is notorious for doing an awful job managing content, be it due to inappropriate content, misleading, scams, copyright etc.
Yeah, the videos are little girls doing little girl things so there’s no reason to remove them. It’s just sick to see the comments with time stamps and crude remarks. And it’s scary how easily the algorithm leads you to these videos and suggests nothing else once you stumble upon them.
There was another video I saw of a young girl doing ASMR where she was being sexualized. Thankfully it was removed and hopefully the parents are being investigated. There are also mommy videos of women in compromising positions with their children in frame. Those are gross too even though they technically have no nudity.
Also bikini haul and lingerie haul videos. Wtf. I didn’t know this existed. Most of them seem clearly directed towards men and achieving a Kardashian like online notoriety.
YouTube is so weird. Here I am watching videos on game of thrones and breakdowns of great screenplays and there’s this massive rabbit hole of weird ass content that I never see.
Also bikini haul and lingerie haul videos. Wtf. I didn’t know this existed. Most of them seem clearly directed towards men and achieving a Kardashian like online notoriety.
YouTube is so weird. Here I am watching videos on game of thrones and breakdowns of great screenplays and there’s this massive rabbit hole of weird ass content that I never see.
Basically it is women trying on bikinis and lingerie and modelling them, most often suggestively. As if any woman wanting to see lingerie reviews needs to see the model bend over with a close up of her ass to see how it fits. It’s how the guy in the video above starts his search.
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Basically it is women trying on bikinis and lingerie and modelling them, most often suggestively. As if any woman wanting to see lingerie reviews needs to see the model bend over with a close up of her ass to see how it fits. It’s how the guy in the video above starts his search.
Can you provide some links so I can umm... stay clear of them?
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Yeah, the videos are little girls doing little girl things so there’s no reason to remove them. It’s just sick to see the comments with time stamps and crude remarks. And it’s scary how easily the algorithm leads you to these videos and suggests nothing else once you stumble upon them.
That's the way the algorithm is for everything, if I search for videos about hidden Easter eggs in superhero moves one or two clicks in then that's all I see. I don't see how they can get away from that when the whole idea is to show people more of what they're looking at.
So I think he's overreacting a bit about it, especially when it comes to the advertisers.. Though I guess maybe if advertisers were more aware this was a thing they'd be more inclined to pressure YouTube to do more?
Seems to me though that there should be some way for YouTube to be better identify these videos for automated and manual intervention. Maybe some kind of threshold for timestamp vs. total comments ratio combined with common words in titles and comments, autosuspend comments on the video until someone can look at it and clean it up.
Though with the # of videos posted every day maybe they already do something like that and the stuff the guy was finding is what makes it through the cracks and there's 100x MORE stuff that's getting caught.
Because I think the bad part is the comments as that's what actually could have an effect on the kid.
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Disney, Nestle and "Fortnite" maker Epic Games have paused advertising on YouTube after reports of a pedophile network rampant in the comments of monetized videos, according to Bloomberg and spokespeople for the companies.
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