mipadaitu

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

You are not immune.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

You do, and don't fool yourself that you don't.

You probably don't click on ads, but they stick in your brain. You might see a half-dozen ads for Doritos, and then when you go to the store a week later, you're slightly more likely to buy Doritos.

The vast majority of advertising is just getting a brand or an idea into the back of your head so when you're looking for something in that product category, regardless of it's a VPN, a web host, a snack food, a car, or whatever, you're going to have a bias towards what you've seen in the past.

Most of my ad-blocking isn't to stop myself from buying some herbal supplement/spray tanner combo, it's to stop myself from being biased by the capitalist propaganda machine.

I am not immune from advertisements, and neither are you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's also only assuming that one person is doing that 2 minute task. If you automate a 2 minute task for 5 people, then it's only 1 year.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's room and need in the world for both. There's some stuff you'll just never figure out if you're not hyper specialized.

There's also stuff we'd never know if everyone was hyper specialized. Crossover knowledge develops a lot of unique stuff too.

With 8+ billion people in the world, having a mix of specialized and diverse knowledge helps build the world we see.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was an official act as part of his presidency, he should be immune.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 week ago (1 children)

... Was trump duped into thinking putin prefers Harris and now he's trying to win his favor back?

Does putin need to call trump and explain what's going on?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

“If there is ever a year to have an unhinged werewolf ripping its shirt off as the “I Voted” sticker … it’s 2024,” Derek Dobies, the chief of staff of the Michigan A.F.L.-C.I.O.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

“If there is ever a year to have an unhinged werewolf ripping its shirt off as the “I Voted” sticker … it’s 2024,” Derek Dobies, the chief of staff of the Michigan A.F.L.-C.I.O.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What exactly wouldn't work with it? Heck, even the maguffin is a magic black box that lets you unencrypt everything, including bank transfer data.

I can't think of much that won't work.

Edit: just realized I was thinking sneakers, not hackers...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well you certainly accomplished a lot. I'm proud of you.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I get daily emails reminding me that the company paid for copilot and we should be using it.

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