Capricorn_Geriatric

@Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inappropriate Ads on Child-Directed Websites: Weight Loss Pills and Depression Tests for Kids.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The child having no money is not a problem.

  Children are easily influenced and gullible.

  A child will pester their parents to buy what they want, potentially for weeks.

  Bombarding children with some product, even if for “grown-ups” can make them like it in the future when they’re grown up themselves. It is a very long-term strategy, but it does work since people tend to associate brands from their childhood with quality.

  But I agree. Ads directed at kids always seemed distasteful to me, vut it was usually mixed in with “normal” TV or even YouTube ads. But now, when you can’t open a video on YouTube and have it play minimized because it’s “for kids”, you’d expect Google’d also make the ads at least less distasteful than on TV or “grownup” YouTube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Going back in time to see how the fishes and loaves trick was done⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, it got the concept very right. Do you think (most) Christians care about things such as historical accuracy or logic?

  They believe unironically in a benevelent-omnipotent-omnipresent Sky-Daddy. Their Bible has way more passages about stuff like hating the poor or not being a dick than the opposite. They’re in the cult that’s as old as time, since the modern calendar is based on Jesus’ (alleged) birthyear.

  Facts don’t care about their feelings. But more importantly, neither do their feelings care about the facts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skype was shut down for good today⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You forgot all the Bing Chats in between.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Short answer: the bank won’t give your shiny new tree-planting business a loan as easily as it will to a “liquid tank tree replacement” one.

  Long answer:

  • Trees take time to grow
  • Trees need to be planted
  • Trees make shade
  • Animals like birds and insects like bees and mosquitos like to live next to them
  • Trees don’t need electricity
  • Trees take in heat radiated from the pavement
  • Trees don’t look cool

  While algae are more efficient at turning CO2 into oxygen in theory, in practice algae don’t have a good climate in such a tank (no oxygen without ventilation, i.e. constant electricity and they get cooked through the glass).

  All in all, more of a gimmick than anything.