reversebananimals @ reversebananimals @lemmy.world

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tl;dr the entire article is a bunch of propaganda from insurance salesmen who profit from making you think their rate rases are legitimate and not just a cash grab.

But industry insiders and experts I spoke with say there are a few under-the-radar trends also driving rates up, and they relate to the subjects I cover at Vox, so let’s dive in.

All you neeed to know. Its a bunch of bullshit they made up and the "journalist" didn't question. The reality is that all the megacorporations saw the word "inflation" and used it as an excuse to jack up prices.

MATTHEW 6:5

And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

He's a sinner.

I know you're joking but yeah, I basically don't watch tv or movies or listen to music.

And yes, I do exclusively wear logo-less clothing!

That's because the writer is trying to make it sound that way to get people to click the headline.

In reality, the 1,000 people were mostly just tagging the videos to help train future iterations of the model. It would have taken way more than only 1,000 people to actually run the technology as a mechanical turk.

Its just poor quality sensationalist journalism.

The only thing I've found them actually useful for is generating random lists for my D&D games.

When it comes down to needing some mundane descriptions, its great having an LLM brainstorm for you. "Give me 10 examples of weird things I might see in jars in a witch's hut." This works well because you can just cut the 5 you don't like and use the other 5 to brainstorm your final list.

I definitely think there are things you can do to lessen the effect of ads on your decision making.

The best way is to try not to see ads at all. Use Ad Blockers on all digital devices. Wear headphones in public places. Train yourself to look away from billboards, elevator televisions and all other kinds of physical environment advertising. Don't shop at stores run by the products' brand. Every time you see a product recommendation, ask yourself if its possible the writer got paid for making that recommendation.

There are also lots of behavioral approaches you can take to un-do the effect of marketing and advertising when purchasing things. Define what you need before you start looking at products. Use the price per oz instead of packaging shape to make decisions at the grocery store. Only buy store brand.

That's all my helpful advice, but I'm also guilty of taking this stuff too far. There are absolutely products that I would like, but refuse to buy because I hate them for advertising to me. I've stopped consuming lots of media because I thought their advertising revenue approach was gross. I have a bunch of generic containers & big bottle of GooGone in my house and remove all the labels from everything I buy as soon as I bring them home. These things don't actually help... its just spiteful behavior I haven't been able to bring myself to move past unfortunately.

All of the issues with Event Horizon are because of the studio screwing up the story. And the footage of the good version of the movie was lost on the cutting room floor, so we'll never see it.

Its such a good premise and so well executed that its still good despite its story & pacing issues. One of the best moments of my life was showing it to my Warhammer 40k loving friend for the first time. It blew his mind.

Event Horizon is an awesome movie.

Usually I spend 5 minutes typing out an angry reply. Then I realize I have no interest in hearing back from this person, hit cancel and move on with my day.

Ticketing people who don't pay for parking is "bullying?"

This is pretty insulting to people who have actually suffered from real bullying. There's plenty of real problems in the world to be righteously angry about. Maybe let's not post shitty Facebook memes on Lemmy.

Beautiful country, ugly people.

Fuck Overwatch 2. They took one of the greatest games ever made and butchered it into AAA micro transaction garbage.

Forever. When you convince people the other side are blood drinking child killers who want to commit "genocide" on the "white race" and brainwash their children, they are going to stop at nothing to try and destroy that other side.

When these people call Biden Satan, remember - they actually BELIEVE Satan is REAL.

I checked my Pixel 6A direct from Google and I do have it. You have to tap "Show system apps" in the top right menu.

this hurts my heart

This is another one of those features that I'll immediately find in settings and turn off when the update drops.

Trump had nothing to do with this. All tech stocks dropped today. Shit article.

Thanks, I figured this was bullshit but I wasn't going to click a Sky link.

Nope, I haven't. Only from you. You're fighting strawmen you made up yourself once again.

LMAO you're the guy on the Internet who claimed I was ignorant without any knowledge about me. If you want to make ad hominem attacks, don't be surprised when you get them back. Can't take your own medicine?

I'm sad ppl like you exist.

And ironically, the only reason BG3 succeeded is because WOTC had nothing to do with it.