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Comment Dead site (Score 1) 24

Maybe dead internet. But they can't survive this. Reddit is already kinda useless. You need rage bait and outrage porn to engage people on the internet enough to keep advertisers happy and get enough engagement so that you can mine data and train AI with posts.

They are supposedly going to make it so you can curate your feed better though. I gave up on Reddit because I could not get it to stop giving me rage bait posts. YouTube has the ability to just block them but Reddit doesn't let you do that. I know why it's better for engagement and that's all they care about.

That's the fundamental problem in the internet even more so than AI sloppification. It is heavily optimized to make you angry and keep you angry because that's what keeps you glued to the screen the longest.

Comment sigh (Score 0) 17

I get that slashvertisements have to exist to keep this place afloat, but "The glasses are available to order today" is such a massive fuck you. That's not what available means. The ordering website is available. The glasses are not. Advertisers are all gaslighters.

Comment Re: \o/ (Score 1) 87

I'm sure Israel would have preferred to not have Oct 7 happen. But they weren't given that option.

Yes, they were. All they had to do was not have Netanyahu as president making sure October 7th happened. Or barring that, maybe not be doing illegal settlements and having soldiers support those illegal settlers for literally their whole existence. The same clown fucks who rant about illegal immigration in the USA love it in Gaza.

Comment Re: Wrong Diagnosis; Motivated Dishonesty. (Score 1) 189

Internet censorship won't restart the engines. That doesn't mean they won't keep trying anyway.

They've been interested in censoring it ever since they became aware of it. It's truly remarkable how the CDA backfired so beautifully. It's somewhat stupefying how many people who ought to know better (as in, they wouldn't even be allowed to opine further about it) would like to undo that!

Comment You aren't gambling on the stock market (Score 1) 48

You're buying something of value and you might be underestimating or overestimating the value of that thing but you're still getting the thing. Specifically you are buying ownership in a company.

That's not gambling. You don't get paid based on the outcome. You get paid based on the relative value of the company.

Now if that system isn't working very well for you no shit, we have been deregulating markets for the last 50 years what the fuck did you expect? But that's not a problem with the underlining system that's you refusing to do the maintenance the system needs to function properly. If you stop changing your car is oil it's going to break down.

Gambling is when you are paid based entirely on whether a predetermined outcome happens or not. That is definitely what gambling is. You do not own anything. So you only get paid if the event happens. And there is a specific event that has to happen for you to be paid. That is gambling.

Comment Orange pedophile (Score 5, Insightful) 48

Even without the context we all know who I'm talking about.

I bring it up because dear God this administration is corrupt and in light of the subject of this comment what the hell was anyone expecting?

I think the real problem is about 25% of the population of any given country or dyed in the wool assholes.

From there all you have to do is push people to enough desperation that their brain stop working right. People under enormous amounts of pressure don't suddenly get better or smarter. They make bad decisions and they make more of them.

Like believing a famous pedophile who bankrupts everything he touches is somehow going to reduce the cost of groceries. Somebody who can think straight knows better than that.

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