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“[Netflix] members pay as much attention to midroll ads as they do to the shows and movies themselves,” Amy Reinhard, president of advertising at Netflix, said, per the publication.

Amy, I want you to be honest with me, are you an alien.

Because on planet Earth we do not, if fact, pay as much attention to the ads as to the things we're actually interested in. Famously our brains even produce this fascinating effect to spare us from the bullshit you're shoving into our eyeballs.

So is renewable energy, but if I start correcting people that they don't exist because the sun is finite, I will look like a pedant.

Because compared to the fossil fiels they are renewable, the same way Wikipedia is unbiased compared to foxnews.

Because having a CEO earning 100x of an average employee disincentivizes looking for stable, consumer-friendly income streams.

Why would the leadership want that, the only way they can continue paying themselves that much money is by sucking big tech's tit.

(let me preach a little, I have to listen to my boss gushing about AI every meeting)

Compare AI tools: now vs 3 years ago. All those 2022 "Prompt engineer" courses are totally useless in 2025.

Extrapolate into the future and realize, that you're not losing anything valuable by not learning AI tools today. The whole point of them is they don't require any proficiency. It "just works".

Instead focus on what makes you a good developer: understanding how things work, which solution is good for what problem, centering your divs.

Ironically, pixels are best for de-googling (stock android that can be easily un- and re-locked)

Most MS controversial features go through "opt in -> opt out -> mandatory" pipeline examples are Telemetry, Windows Live account, Spotlight (ui ads), etc.

I've resigned myself that this will be the state of memes in the future, but god would I take a paint doodle over this.

.. only for ai to start drawing paint doodles because making an effort is not a human nature

One of the best part of shadowrun was picking irl city and giving it a fantasy+cyberpunk makeover: placing districts of note, choosing what factions operate there, riffing on landmarks..

Venice is where church agents, mafia goons and old money are bidding for awakened relics while gig workers are trying not to drown in half sunken apartments.

Detroit is, of course, a jungle of mega factories and spacescrapers. Robo-cops? Naah, there was a trial run, but the tin men always go psycho from sensory depravation. We'll stomp our citizens scum the old fashion way, thank you very much.

Moscow metro runs through literal hell. Also grab a molotov, Lenin has risen and calling for a revolution against the corpos. Why are his eyes red? Uhh.. communism?

Session 0 was always a blast. (Minus explaining new players how to use chummer5)

Went there first since I consider myself a leftist. Seen multiple thirstposts for Stalin and the likes: pretty picture with a popular quote. Comments all in the realm of "yes daddy".

I hate capitalism as much as the next guy, just don't see a point of swapping it for an equally bad form of repression.

Could you imagine 20 years ago that forum troll culture would lead to international obsession with owning the libs.. Brb gonna blow up the world economy cause europe is too gay lmao

I have a split 40% because I type for a living and normie keyboards destroy my wrists.

I DMed a lot of shadowrun, and I really do love both of them equally. RP makes the world fun and meaningful, while combat gives it physicality, makes it real.

I miss it, if only I could afford to spend 10 hours on prep every week :<

So I heard a bunch of sexist shit (about men and women simultaneously which is very impressive) that aligns perfectly with my biases, but I wasn't aware it's ok to say out loud? Chat is this real?

I think you're spot on with "young people dumb". Takes a while to figure out.. like, everything.

Generations will have different strong and\or weak areas because their environment changes, but our sum total of "competence" will stay the same IMHO.

Stand outside white house gate and give a press conference about how fucked everything is.

Join a protest crowd near a Tesla

Go to a trump/musk conference (or some of their top goons) and ask them some questions

When they chain up another department, show up with some boltcutters

I've been working on weekends for a few months not because I have to (or Im pressured into it), but because it's a really interesting project and I'm having a great time figuring it out.

They even scratched some eyelashes into it, so cute ❤️

Empathy is easily used for propaganda as well. All those "immigrants are going to r your wife" and "radical elites transing your children" are the appeals to empathy that work very well (there are examples from the left too lets be honest, they're just less unhinged)

IMO you need empathy, rationality and introspection: empathy to feel for your fellow human, rationality to not fall for the grift, introspection to realize in what ways you were an idiot and self-correct.

The wave of scepticism that will inevitably come in 2030s will weed out the grifters, but I doubt it'll last. Time is a flat circle afterall.

The real brain melter was the societal culture shift.

I grew up witnessing "the end of history" with my own eyes. People were getting wiser and kinder year after year, decade after decade. It was like a feedback loop of positive changes, the only way was up.

Then 2010s hit and I'm still processing the 180 degrees shift. I read dozens of books about nazis, authoritarianism, societal memory, cults, fucking roman empire. But I still have cognitive dissonance every time I open news feed.

That's not "working saas" tho.

Its like calling hello world a "production ready CLI application".