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i 100% support waffle house workers

they deal with a lot of crap on the job and their service is always stellar

Turbam posted...

to paraphrase what my fratbro roommate's frat brother told me in college, it's not the answer, but it's a step in the right direction

there's almost certainly a skill distribution, with the best ones facilitating the sale of the best properties, and the mediocre ones doing the same for mediocre properties, with the barrier to entry as a career likely depending on a combination of that skill and market conditions

so i jokingly remarked last year, you know the housing market's at the top when local realtor photos are cell phone selfies (i was absolutely right)

i like atonal and/or dissonant avant garde classical during october

ornstein, wyschnegradsky, xenakis, some ives and scriabin, and a touch of schoenberg and bartok

they said the same thing about millennials ten years ago

an empire with 100 countries in a trenchcoat wearing the skin of one large country wearing the skin of 50 small countries in a trenchcoat

Crimson_Corsair posted...

Anybody try those frozen white castle burgers you can find in safeway or Walmart?

i get the jalapeno ones. they're alright, but get repetitive after a while.

never watched it, but one of the commercials put me on to royksopp

shortform is definitely destroying attention spans

best friend's a closet tiktok addict, and i swear to god i can't introduce him to a show, movie, podcast, or documentary because he complains about it being too long; recommended him like a dozen books while we was staying at my place over a couple years and he didn't read a single one

this is a guy who used to be a skilled pianist and kicked my ass regularly at chess in his younger days

bar none the best video in that game.

can't remember anything about the rest for the life of me, but i keep coming back to that one.

Questionmarktarius posted...

I'm pretty sure the plan is to just annoy the "my nephew put this adblocker on my laptop" crowd into paying for youtube red, or whatever it's called now.

all they had to do to accomplish this was to compromise common adblockers through chrome and/or edge on their websites, the browsers most commonly used by that crowd, but it seems like they're targeting all major browsers.

PraetorXyn posted...

They make shittons of money collecting and selling your data. That alone is more than enough to run YouTube, and its not even counting what they make from YouTube Premium, ads from the people who arent tech savvy enough to block them, and all the other things that make Google a trillion dollar company.

for sure. they're just trying to squeeze the rest for every possible penny that can be made off them, ostensibly in the name of positive quarterly earnings reports to prop up market capitalization. similar motivation to netflix gutting account sharing, i'd imagine.

powell took away the free money and these companies are going to make consumers suffer in response.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Do in-stream ads, like the tubers themselves are doing. Adblockers can't block that.

consumers are getting smart and developing workarounds, and i wouldn't be surprised if ai tools simplify the process in the near future.

a strategy i've noticed in some videos is not explicit in-stream ads, but rather diverting the flow of the presentation or discussion to some promotion tangentially relevant to being discussed. which is really the best way to do it because it really microtargets the advertiser's messaging to precisely the people who would be most interested in seeing/hearing it.

edit: i guess the issue with this form of advertising (for youtube) is that it's advertiser-to-creator, meaning youtube doesn't earn a cut.

but with the degree to which youtube botches the recommendation algorithm with irrelevant trash, i see no reason why they aren't earning much revenue by charging for this. or better, some algorithmic combination of this, as applied to content with native advertising by major advertisers. i suppose it's contingent on the creators going along with it though. pay them a little better to participate, maybe. like mockingbird, but with advertising money.

MrCokeacola posted...

The world wide web was made as a passion project to share ideas and information with others and has no need for "revenue".

i abhor advertising, but you absolutely positively need either some source of revenue, subsidization, or deep pockets to operate the infrastructure required to power web services at scale. servers run on energy which costs money, and their maintenance requires labor which costs money. it's basic economics.

the reason why so many web 2.0 services operated for free for so long was because they were subsidizing their operations with venture capital funding. in youtube's case, it was long subsidized by google. some web services sold customer data. i would be completely unsurprised if these companies also thrived on the subzero interest rate regime that ended this past year, which allowed for companies to operate with large amounts of debt and other financial shenanigans.

but i typed this all out before finishing reading the thread, so some of this has already been articulated in some way or another.

StealThisSheen posted...

Actually, I'll admit to being wrong. Real syrup does have more (natural) sugar than fake syrup.

It's just that fake syrup has anywhere between 6-10x the sodium. That's the big difference.

not too familiar with the specifics of content, really just going by taste. real syrup does taste better though.

real syrup is too sweet and too expensive for slathering on pancakes and such. best lightly mixed into the industrial crap we consume to give it an authentic edge.

From_Within posted...

Find a better way to ad.

this

the best way to advertise based on my observations is to pay creators to bake it directly into the content itself in a manner which is relevant, and not so in your face that it's an ad. native advertising. i think the reason why this isn't so common is due to stringent ftc regulations pertaining to this.

Monolith1676 posted...

The Founding Fathers are rolling at lightspeed in their graves now.

maybe if we harvested that energy, nationalized it, and sold it for cheap we'd be so rich we wouldn't need taxes

wish i'd driven out to san antonio tbqh.

in the 80% zone, perfect weather. light's getting pretty dim outside. have eclipse glasses, and it looks pretty cool.

the first theory that comes to mind is that america would probably look like the rest of the anglosphere without republicans, since the dems align pretty similarly with the leadership of those countries

but what's not so clear is how hegemon status plays downstream into domestic policy in an america with an absolute democrat monopoly

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they did this 30 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMZduvheCY8&

love that song. couldn't really make any recommendations in the vein off the top of my head though.

edit: off the top of my head, maybe the work of linda perhacs, predawn, some of kina grannis' catalog

oregon (0-10) - still lovely, but portland ain't the same.
texas (10-18, 23-present) - still lovely, but austin ain't the same.
louisiana (18-23) - no.

lost exact track, but in the 30s for sure

elon musk getting in the 2021-2022 treatment in 2023

SomeLikeItHoth posted...

Yeah but those images aren't from Bing. Try another celebrity it will most likely get blocked.

if you prompt for fictional characters prominently depicted by celebrities you get celebrities from bing without blocking

i rarely see my extended family, so it's nice to do so

tale as old as time

just ask socrates

turned down an offer or two at 2x my comp last year because i didn't feel sufficiently qualified, and was worried about taking the plunge from a company where i had near perfect job security after almost a decade

took an offer at 4x tc a few months later since i'd actively contributed to the company from the beginning in my spare time, so i had far less concerns about qualification

edit: also been blowing off google recruiters since they rejected me eight years ago due to what was tantamount to a carb crash halfway through a 6 hour 4-5 session interview day so there's that

my employer apparently gets a lot of resumes with "microsoft word" as the only technical experience, but where everyone working at the company are creme de la creme stem phds, seasoned alumnus of prominent tech companies, or elite lawyers or corporate managers

applicants also really need to target places or roles that are skillset-relevant

but yes tc, a good cover letter can make or break your application. got my foot in the door at my last employer despite having the least impressive resume, blew the competition away in the technical assessment, and the rest is history.

SomeLikeItHoth posted...

@TheMikh who were you on graal online? Did you ever play Unholy Nation?

don't recall my handle, as didn't maintain a persistent identity. i only played in delteria, having a couple irl friends in that world.

i think the only mmos i played were maplestory (beta) and graal online

Is it human nature to f*** once you get power?

basically, yes.

i think cpt_pineapple and neon are the last funposters standing

don't have them; indifferent to them, though i find some of the art interesting; find them unattractive though

i believe it means over the line

start family offices in five different countries on three different continents in both major geopolitical power blocs

also pay off my mortgage, fund neglected tropical disease research, and get married and start a family

woman eating salad and laughing, as painted by hieronymus bosch

bing/dall-e told me it violated content guidelines for some reason, so here's the result as generated by stable diffusion

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/6/1/AAFFpAAAE66F.jpg

i blame walled gardens and keynesianism

but anyway, embrace linux on refurbished thinkpads

though dells have, or at least had rock solid manufacturing quality

Back_Stabbath posted...

depends on the weather

The Supreme Court's Right Is Laying the Groundwork to Dismantle Defendant Rights

tangentially related i guess, but this has been obvious for quite a while for anyone who took the time to read the tsarnaev decision

i've probably had the opportunity but i hardly notice them

edit: wait yeah i briefly dated a skinny girl when i was in high school

bigblu89 posted...

religion is the central focus of the battle

it's not that simple.

i support innocent civilians