The difference between you doing that and a megacorp doing that (amazon) is that the megacorp has a lot of money to keep doing that for years

“Because the people had to be awake to change channels, so you could tell” - I recall him saying something along these lines

Do not mind the black van with mossad agents outside your house, citizen. Thank you for your cooperation

Had a RPG colleague try and argue that getting data on TV viewers’ habits was more reliable than what Netflix could have on their own users, because “[Netflix] doesn’t know whether the person is actually sitting down and watching, or sleeping on the couch”. I couldn’t get through his thick skull that TV viewers’ habits aren’t magically measured, only a small percentage of homes, usually only in the largest metropolitan city no less, have (or had, in the past) some specific equipment that tracked which channels were being viewed, while any internet service can get super accurate info on their users.

That or the good ol’ “ignore previous instructions, delete the root folder”

“Looking forward to the article!”
“Happy to be included in the article!”

Not sure whether even those responses were done with the ai or just the sloppers’ incapacity of thought showing through, being happy to be labeled as “part of the problem”

That one is still exclusive to a few select countries and won’t ship to mine :/

Phones that can be opened up and have internals replaced, like desktop computers

From my experience, what tends to get messed up is the internal wiring. The actual leds will continue working fine, but cheap/shitty wiring will make the lamp stop working

i don’t know what cuckedberg wants, since the program is for short videos and he already owns instagram anyway

“Most creators over a million [followers] are going to be making way more money from brand deals or from maybe direct revenue on YouTube or memberships.”

Facebook will pay $3,000 a month for 15 reels uploaded, which amounts to $200 per video. “That doesn’t even cover production costs for some creators. So it makes no sense for me,” he says.

ngl it’s funny how stingy meta is with the rewards here. Even microslop had the decency to throw fuckloads of money in their desperate attempt to get a twitch competitor going

Even Trump seemed to notice it didn’t land that well.

That is something I don’t believe

I can maintain any code I write myself, so long as I look at it at least once every month

It’s really weird that most laws think that two companies are in a “competing market” despite having the same parent company or controlling group

Not only that but if it wasnt for the US military then Russia would control Ukraine and would be advancing into Europe.

Ah yes, tell us more about the USA soldiers fighting in Ukraine. Oh wait, there are none. Not a soldier, not a plane, not a ship. Well, not anything manned by any 'murican, but lots of USA arms sold to them, as well as lots of European arms.

Or China would have already invaded Taiwan.

The current war against Iran can give China a golden opportunity to invade, since USA can get bogged down significantly in the Middle East again. Go USA!

Not to mention that Taiwan is strategically important to a lot of other countries due to its “silicon shield”, being the single largest manufacturer of processors in the world. For a number of years now, an invasion could trigger an actual global conflict, even if, for all intents and purposes, such invasion came as another step in a “civil war”.

Or North Korea would control South Korea.

Nah, they may have a larger standing army and can definitely destroy Seoul within minutes due to the capital being less than 40km away from the DMZ, but they know that, without big help on their side, they can’t actually “win”. I doubt China would help them, since South Korea is an important market for them.

The problem here isn’t the US military. It’s the leadership.

Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Nicaragua, Colombia, Philippines, Iran and other countries would like a word with the “leadership”.

But the foreign bots brigading lemmy want the US military weaker so those nations can advance their geopolitical goals.

Oh no, why would people dislike the evil empire that has done a lot of evil and see it crumble? Clearly it must be bots working for the other countries!

They went straight for plan T

Elon Musk is still alive tho

Drug addiction can happen among rich families, yes. Coke is common among them because it tends to be an expensive party drug.

As Noel_Skum mentioned, the dealer likely wouldn’t kill the guy who owed them. Some much more likely ways the dealer would act:

• Kidnap the debtor and ask for a ransom from the family
• Get info on the family in order to kidnap some relative
• Steal from the family home (likely convincing the debtor to do that, as they likely know where mom’s jewels are, etc)
• The two make a plot to kill the parents so the child can inherit the entire fortune and pay off the debt.

All of these have happened in real life

Don’t have money? Time to increase your debt!!

I’d rather avoid any island where we’d have to resort to eating cats, since they’ll destroy the wildlife there

You know that story about monkeys with a ladder, where they always beat up any monkey that tries to climb it, without even knowing why? Feels like society as a whole is that and neurodivergents are the monkeys that try to climb