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But also, they're not real users watching those ads and getting impressions. Unless people are using an agent system that could be convinced to buy the product, it doesn't seem like it would be that useful.

You may as well serve ads to standard viewbot at that point.

It is definitely more common on VPN IPs, since Google likely identifies the outgoing address as a datacentre, and gets suspicious. I've had multiple issues with the bot sign-in screen when using a VPN for it, whereas not using a VPN doesn't have those problems.

Being able to just enter a partial command, and hit [up] to jump to prior commands that started in the same way in zsh is a godsend.

Twitter didn’t exists 2 decades ago but they were still propagandizing cringe through TV and news media.

20 years, 17 years, there's not that much difference.

A decade ago would have been the first Trump Presidency, which wouldn't make for that different of a comparison point.

If you went back two decades and told them the US government would be posting edgy videos and memes on their official Twitter accounts, they'd think you grew a third head.

No. Being able to do that was why Martin Luther had the whole problem with indulgences.

You could pay the church to forgive a sin before committing it.

I honestly don't think that they paid that much. Most of it is probably just some stock animation that they bought and use, rather than anything specific.

Stuffed toy you can autoclave?

But they're also not completely ignorant either. They're just greedy, and don't care about much else.

You can have a moon allergy, though, and that's basically moon hayfever.

Steam? Why Steam? They're primarily a storefront, and may as well drag Mihoyo in.

It would make sense to pull in the major CEOs of things like Facebook, X (formerly known as Twitter), or Google. Google, since it's got YouTube and Google Plus, and Facebook famously had a whole issue of their platform infamously enabling a genocide.

Why bother worrying about the downturn if the world bends over backwards to stop you hitting the ground?

It is basically impossible for Visa to go bankrupt, for example. The moment the threat looms, governments are going to leap in and save them. They're too big to fail.

I thought they got put together like a tapestry?

That's why they have looms or something to knit them up.

People are just like that in academic spaces.

Just rock up to any Edgar Allan Poe discussion forum and ask about the Orangutan.

At the same time, the lack of virality may hurt it since it feels much more like a burgeoning project. One of the draws for someone coming off of Twitter would be feature parity, and Mastodon feeling less complete and much smaller wouldn't help.

Even if I had wanted to upgrade, I wouldn't be able to, since Microsoft needs hardware mg computer doesn't have. I can't imagine most people would care enough to even think about that. They'd just keep using the computer until it no longer worked, and in the modern day, that will take a lot longer than it would have a decade or two ago.

Not necessarily. It might just be quietly buried.

There's a fair bit of nuance around the topic of whether honey should be vegan or not, since honeybees also overproduce, and that is its own problem. Like with sheep's wool.

Although crude oil has the additional complication where it's an incidental post-death product, like fertiliser, and from that viewpoint, it would be about as ethical.

And now that we're getting into Agentic models, which can click on websites for you, it's probably going to worsen the Spam issue.

I don't think so. It's more a side effect of the fact that the disaster was successfully prevented that makes it seem like there was no disaster at all to begin with, and that it was all fearmongering.

Like with acid rain, or Y2K.

People worked very hard in the background to prevent bad things from happening, but because they did so, and the effects weren't outwardly public, it didn't seem like very much happened at all.