Tracking ROI from advertising is pretty sophisticated. Ad agencies will be tracking conversions in most cases. Especially on FB, where you have people’s real names and can track if someone who saw an ad bought through another platform.

I watch a lot of kids cartoons. MLP is a great show, but the people who got weirdly into it were weirdos completely unrelated to MLP, that was just how they manifested it.

In your 40s, you will pay for the sins of your 20s. Pay attention to your ergonomics because by the time you feel pain the damage is already done.

I use thick cushiony gel wrist supports and an ergonomic mouse. Why would anyone want to be less comfortable and risk future issues?

This doesn’t make sense when it’s Americans using China’s pollution to justify not scaling back our pollution.

It’s pretty accurate to say the wealthy like fascism if you look at how the wealthy keep trying to implement fascism. The Business Plot was an attempted fascist takeover of the United States, and the Trump regime was a successful fascist takeover of the United States. Both were bankrolled by the wealthy.

I’m not interested in defining the word fascist. The word has a definition and if some people use it incorrectly, that is not my concern.

I think when you talk about the “economy” you’re not taking into account income inequality. Economic crashes are great for the capitalist class. They get to buy everything at fire sale prices, and pay their workers pennies. Even if they have slightly less “wealth” than they might, they have enormously more power (which locks in more wealth during the “recovery”).

We have never ever ever dealt with white supremacy.

We have made some cursory nods towards helping minorities survive in a white supremacist state, but there has not even been a concerted effort to try to end white supremacy.

This is a technology forum. If the article is relevant here at all, it’s because of Microsoft. A better argument could probably be made that the article shouldn’t be here.

Sounds like you have decent privacy settings. Imagine sharing location data with ChatGPT.

Can you define “compressors” here? (Google was unhelpful.)

AI in the hands of moron CEOs is bad. (And they’re all morons)

LLMs can be useful in extremely limited circumstances. The problem is that idiots like this are going to use them to replace employees and consumers will receive worse products and services because of it.

You don’t do everything a picture on the internet tells you to?

At least you can go see the great clown, Paggliacci.

They’re called aglets. If you didn’t already know that, I’m going to assume you have a life and aren’t a gigantic nerd, and hope you still invite me to parties despite occasionally spouting useless information.

You think ethnic cleansing is new? They’re literally talking about how this is very similar to what the Nazis did.

The times are quite precedented. We are looking unfortunately similar to Germany in the lead up to WWII.

Yes, but you misspelled “capitalism”.

Maybe the person I replied to will read it this time.

No. Here’s a good (albeit infuriating) explanation of what happened.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/03/mother-of-autistic-boy-left-with-10000-debt-after-breaching-dwp-rules-by-192-a-week

No, bad journalism. This is an important, overlooked, under covered story. I don’t particularly care about Thuneberg or her location, but Israel bombing humanitarian aid ships should be much more widely reported.

If we’re adding unnecessary sexual dimorphism, we need to give males peacock feathers.