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- Comment on 1 week ago:
0 people liked the removal of the dislike button.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
“Generating” $117m, or allocating ad revenue and watch hours to these videos? Because it sounds like businesses will pay for advertisements to see numbers go up, and if numbers go up then people think ads are working. This whole economy is stupid because unless the money is coming from a consumer then it’s false. If the only thing being consumed is content, the ads are simply a hurdle that people love to keep throwing in the way and propping up this shit content. At some point market economics needs to win and balance things out and advertisers need to check their ROI, but that will never happen because new metrics will be made to justify the marketing teams or 3rd party consultants these companies are paying to put out these ads.
If there was a filter for “unmonetised” this house of cards would fall on its ass. Real people uploading real content to share for real consumers to enjoy and view.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 1 week ago:
The AI snake is finally eating its tail.
- Comment on Exploiting a Massacre to Cover Up a Genocide 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results 2 weeks ago:
Is there a better alternative app search platform that has curated reviews and is community driven, or have bots destroyed everything nice on the internet?
- Comment on TikTok allegedly monitoring users’ Grindr activity, digital rights group claims 2 weeks ago:
I wish I could packet sniff or monitor what apps are doing what on my phone. If I install a calculator, I only want it to math some numbers, not harvest data from me.
Apple is supposed to mention this in the App Store but even then it’s just a tag on an app and there’s no more details.
- Comment on Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents 2 months ago:
What a bowl of shit
- Comment on Hit-run driver Jake Danby spared jail time by NT Supreme Court after describing victim as an 'oxygen thief' 3 months ago:
How grateful we must all feel knowing this man is able to continue on and be remorseful and contribute positively to our society. I don’t look forward to the next time he does something else fuelled by his racism and no longer has the isolated incident - I went to church one time (I’m sorry what?? How is this worth anything in a court of law?) - defence.
- Comment on After 3 prototypes and several motors I finally got this cat toy motorized, still pretty loud though I wonder if I can dampen the gearbox somehow 3 months ago:
What kind of motor is in it? I recently bought a 2.5rpm motor and have yet to test it. Hopefully it’s not this loud…
- Comment on Australian state to ban fish-shaped soy sauce bottles 4 months ago:
South Australia ftr
- Comment on In shower today: "I bet my YouTube account is older than most of the people on YouTube." ...Yes, yes it is. 4 months ago:
Older people consume the content because that’s the dynamic that we are used to. Few produce it, we don’t have much we “need” to share or say, we are also busy earning. Young people are also busy earning, but it just so happens that their business is the platform, and they “need” to share - not that anyone is asking them to except for the advertising machine that feeds off the engagement, click and rage bait.
- Comment on OpenAI eyes world’s largest valuation for private company in stock sale talks 4 months ago:
Meanwhile hedge funds and money makers:
“I’d buy that for a dollar!”
- Comment on OpenAI eyes world’s largest valuation for private company in stock sale talks 4 months ago:
Meanwhile hedge funds and money makers:
“I’d buy that for a dollar!”
- Comment on UK government to use AI to predict crime locations by 2030 4 months ago:
They can skip the investment and just racially profile to get the same result but with less steps
- Comment on Uber Eats is adding AI to menus, food photos, and reviews 5 months ago:
Hey look, false advertising, ai slop and shitty food porn all in one.
- Comment on Dubai to debut restaurant operated by an AI chef 5 months ago:
Great now we have “vibe” cooking and real chefs are going to be needed to “fix” the mess it churns out.
- Comment on In a few years, new smartphones will be as big and heavy as the first cell phones. 7 months ago:
Meanwhile, female pocket sizes: image_not_found.jpg
- Comment on Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads 8 months ago:
The suppression of knowledge and non-conservative views by American politicians and fundamentalist groups is all lip service when it comes to banning books because information these days is no longer bound to libraries it’s on the internet.
- Comment on Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads 8 months ago:
Because everyone is all about getting their information from a library… where is the closest library… how about we google that - oh looky here trans folk and porn is everywhere now!
- Comment on Team Fortress 2 Legacy (not to be confused with Team Fortress 2 Classic) is coming to Steam 8 months ago:
Classic coke?
I like classic… wanna play me some avanti again
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 9 months ago:
Ooooh that’s dirty
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 9 months ago:
This is so fetch
- Comment on How come there is enough asphalt for speed bumps, but not enough to fill potholes ? 10 months ago:
It was in certain pot hole fillers interest to ensure the pot hole continued to need to be filled so they could continue to fill holes, so despite filling a hole once the gas ensured they’d have to come back again and redo the job and get paid multiple times for the same hole.
- Comment on How come there is enough asphalt for speed bumps, but not enough to fill potholes ? 10 months ago:
When pot holes were regularly filed, workers would pour gas on the tar to make sure they could eat and have a job next week.
- Comment on Has Anyone Else Noticed Jellico's Face Constantly Changes in Prodigy? 10 months ago:
I honestly can’t tell the differences and think the lighting and emotion is what makes these screenshots look different. The model and textures seem pretty much the same. There’s a chance the blendshapes used for certain poses go off model or make the textures look different as they swim or pull with the geometry but to me it looks the least like TNG Jelico when certain expressions are used which are out of character for him rather than a different face itself.
Knowing how productions run as well, usually assets are approved before they are used in any episodes. Things do change slightly for performance reasons to make a character achieve certain things needed in the script but the model designs are usually approved well in advance of animation. Changing models in production is costly and usually problematic. There’s a chance maybe that you could make changes between seasons but it would be rare as seasons are in production back to back.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
I think the show Severance covers this topic well even though the premise is slightly different, I believe the result would be the same. You have a fork of your existence basically since the self and its experiences are local to the entity of the particular snapshot and you’d grow and diverge. How much you diverge depends on the environment and stimuli you experience.
- Comment on Why don't Taco Trucks have a recognizable theme song and menu like Ice Cream Trucks? 10 months ago:
While it doesn’t answer your question this episode of the Decoder Ring podcast gives a good history of ice cream trucks and how they got the jingle.
- Comment on Swastikcar showing a roman rust pattern in Lower Manhattan 10 months ago:
We are in theonion levels of reality now
- Comment on What is your favorite retro racing game? 10 months ago:
Gaelco’s World Rally Championship (1993)
- Comment on is telling an employee how he has to speak micromanaging? Is it toxic? 10 months ago:
“I don’t have the time or the crayons to explain it to you” is the best response.
