RoidingOldMan @ RoidingOldMan @lemmy.world

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This is absolutely insane and no one will want to buy those GPUs.

Are we only comparing the best of the best in each? Because both can be great in their best form.

But if I had to pick one and lose the other, for the good of society, I can't imagine the videos are helping more than the written word is helping.

For example, we've only had 1 president in the USA since television who was shorter than 5'11.5", Jimmy Carter. We refuse to elect short people now that we can see them.

Videos can be misleading, unhelpful, and fail to paint the whole picture. Look no further than the society we live in today, where loads of fake videos get pumped out and then we need written articles to explain all the things wrong with the video.

Obviously fake info can be written down too, but we have a much bigger problem with fake videos. TikTok is the modern equivalent of a newspaper. Newspapers have laws about what they're allow to print. At least half the stuff on TikTok is engagement bait, ads, political ads, etc.

In which era were people better informed? Print era or video era?

You'll be at work, walking the opposite direction as a co-worker who you are seeing for the first time that day. "How are you?" You can't stop to talk, so you only have time for a 1-3 word answer max.

My parents don't tell me I'm living wrong, but it seems to be the basis of every religion someone tries to sell me.

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Stop calling it "deported" when they're being imprisoned in a foreign country.

Did you see his unhinged performance as Ty Cobb? It was pretty hilarious.

It does have Muppet sex though.

There's a stage play called Avenue Q

https://www.amestrib.com/story/entertainment/local/2023/11/06/with-swearing-and-puppet-fornication-avenue-q-comes-to-actors-stage-in-ames/71316506007/

Because the app seems to think "ad free" can include ads as long as they carry a "skip" button. Which are still ads.

Yeah ad blockers are great for that. I know from experience Peacock with ads will all be blocked if you have an ad blocker. But that only works on my computer not my Roku.

It clearly says it's on the paid tier only?

Not that I care much one way or the other. I'm still frustrated with HBO Max selling me "ad free" and then putting a skippable ad at the start of every video. It's not ad free if there's a "skippable" ad! I paid extra specifically so I wouldn't have to see that.

Until it ends up the thickness of a piece of paper like the Whopper.

Preemptively banning regulation that does not yet exist should not be allowed, in any industry.

This is such a weird and obvious denial of reality. Walmart doesn't have 30% margins on everything. Does Trump think he can get people to blame Walmart for price increases instead of himself? The Trump crowd loves Walmart.

Targeting the poor specifically.

It was nice before they started adding 2000-later. You could type the first number for the decade and it would bring you there. Now have to type "19" at the beginning like a neanderthal.

"That is very scary to think that a far-right conspiracy theorist has the president's ear," she added.

He's been a far right conspiracy theorist for as long as I can remember.