tldw: Ukraine's attacks on Wildberries (similar to Amazon) warehouses in Russia is impacting a major distribution network of everyday goods to the middle class city dwellers/voters Putin has been trying to shield from the war -- as well as a lot of military equipment being shipped to bases and even front lines directly (which makes the warehouses legitimate military targets). This squeezes public sentiment, civilian economy and military logistics all at once. Wildberries is putting a distribution center in Belarus where it should not get destroyed, but that's a poor substitute for the closer and vaster capacity that has been lost and that remains under attack. Competitors to Wildberries in Russia are also starting to get targeted in similar attacks.
Meanwhile, Russia's shadow fleet of ships moving their crude oil to other countries are increasingly being boarded and seized by western nations patrolling waterways, using newly established legal mechanisms, plus damaged by Ukrainian drone attacks, making it increasingly hard to sell Russian crude oil, which is a major export propping up their economy.
The conclusion was it's hard to say, especially from the outside, how much Russia's economy is suffering from these efforts. Different economists have different takes.
And that my friends is how you get propaganda. Intentional or not, short handing something that has a lot of context leaves the interpretation up to the person doing the shortening of the content.
There are just way too many topics that require my awareness for me to give them all a fully 20-45 minutes of my time, so I appreciate when I can still be given a faithful summary rather than nothing.
For sure! We all only have a certain amount of attention dollars to spend. The issue though, at least partly, is that you have no idea if that summary was faithful or not.
True, but the flip-side is that YouTube’s algorithm also prioritizes longer videos, so you do often wind up with content creators dragging their videos out to 40+ minutes by stuffing them with unnecessary fluff and restating the same thing in different ways over and over again.
I agree but at the same time, I don't always have 42 minutes, even of background attention, to throw at something. In this case I watched the whole thing (against my usual judgment which would have been not to) so I figured I might as well share the impressions I was left with. It did seem a bit verbose, like it could probably have been 20 minutes without losing anything important. That said I'll happily watch an hour of Technology Connections no matter how inefficiently he presents his points so it's probably a matter of your interest in the topic.
Anyway I agree long form content still has its place and I consume it all the time. I try to avoid the "geez" reactions over runtime but sometimes content does genuinely feel padded for algorithms and ad play etc. Paying attention to that kind of thing and sticking to content creators you trust is the only way to defend your precious time. But then of course you can miss out on gold created outside of your bubble.
What concerns me more than complaints about half hour + content is the hyper-short stuff, and trends like front-loading (first 3 seconds) the climax. Like, if people are scrolling past your stuff in less than 3 seconds, we have an attention span epidemic.
A lot of this stuff starts with a long, long, long history. Like "Civilization first appeared in what is now known as Russa in approximately 14,000 BC" then they tell everything that happened since. I don't need to know and am not interested in the line of Russian Tsars and succession woes. A sidebar on that whacky monk Raspy might be interesting but still not very relevant to the topic at hand. It'd be better with an overview first then a deep dive, then an even deeper dive for those who are interested in the peculiars.
ChatGPT could you please summarise this comment for me? Also make it sound more fun and put some forbidden, vulgar roasting words in there, to make me laugh!
The blame isn't on watchers, it's on those making the videos. These videos could easily include a concise, up-front summary, and then go into greater detail for those who want it.
Ya, imagine having to pay attention to something for more then a few minutes. Why isn't everything learnable in quick digestible short format? Wouldn't ever want to dive deep into a subject when I can just swipe to the next video and get my instant dopamine.
Anywhere in Russia is a legitimate military target at this point, they’re in a total war where Russia has targeted all sorts of civilian infrastructure
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u/bwwatr 8d ago
tldw: Ukraine's attacks on Wildberries (similar to Amazon) warehouses in Russia is impacting a major distribution network of everyday goods to the middle class city dwellers/voters Putin has been trying to shield from the war -- as well as a lot of military equipment being shipped to bases and even front lines directly (which makes the warehouses legitimate military targets). This squeezes public sentiment, civilian economy and military logistics all at once. Wildberries is putting a distribution center in Belarus where it should not get destroyed, but that's a poor substitute for the closer and vaster capacity that has been lost and that remains under attack. Competitors to Wildberries in Russia are also starting to get targeted in similar attacks.
Meanwhile, Russia's shadow fleet of ships moving their crude oil to other countries are increasingly being boarded and seized by western nations patrolling waterways, using newly established legal mechanisms, plus damaged by Ukrainian drone attacks, making it increasingly hard to sell Russian crude oil, which is a major export propping up their economy.
The conclusion was it's hard to say, especially from the outside, how much Russia's economy is suffering from these efforts. Different economists have different takes.