Yardy Sardley

Wind & solar for sure. Nuclear fission is great right now, but fissile material is a finite resource. It will, like oil, eventually become too expensive to extract.

And if you try to overcome the anti-tampering firmware, it’s a federal crime in basically every country.

Excellent! Every piece of bike infrastructure that gets built makes the network as a whole more usable. We’ve made significant progress in the last 5 years, it would be a real shame to lose our nerve at this stage.

Dreeshen and the rest of the seppies can just stop coming to the legislature if they have that much of an issue with being in an urban setting.

As utilitarian as pyjamas are, not everyone finds them to be in good taste.

I still miss vape nation era H3. Really sad to watch them slowly start to exhibit the type of behaviour old Ethan would have definitely called out.

I think I agree. Still in the period when facebook’s userbase was mostly teenagers, and before smartphones became ubiquitous.

In my opinion it was facebook buying instagram in early 2012 that signalled the beginning of the end. Of course they were only following in the footsteps of google and yahoo before them, but it was the first domino in the enshittification of social media specifically.

Don’t let your memes be dreams! Just a few more decades of smoking and you might be able to collect all the health conditions irl too

The one resident is right. Cars are currently forced to drive through the residential area, and this lane would solve that problem. I think it’s a better use of funds to reduce noise, toxic dust, and risk of injury in Riverbend than to try and convince people who choose to live 20km away from the city centre to take transit.

The way its head tilts forward after the first stumble, it almost makes it look embarrassed. Very nearly made me feel bad for laughing as hard as I did.

Sterling Archer.

I thought Mark Kurlansky sounded familiar so I just looked and yup, he wrote Salt: a World History. I adore that book, but I haven’t really looked into any of his other work yet. What else would you recommend by him?

We used internet comments as one of the ingredients.

I used Opus 4.6 Extended

Stop being cheap, OP. You clearly just need to shell out multiple billions of dollars for access to mythos /s

Refrigeration cycle scoffs at your mere 100% efficiency

Ads are a bigger business than you might expect. Get enough eyeballs in one place and brands will be tripping over themselves to give you money just to mention their name. Take the superbowl for example. It’s usually the most viewed event every year in the US, so naturally there is a tradition of advertisers pulling out all the stops and making high-budget bombastic commercials for that specific occasion. You can imagine how attractive it is for brands to want to put their ads on big social media sites, where psychological tricks are used to capture as much attention as possible at all times, instead of just once per year.

Then there’s the user data angle. The big sites all have millions of users who constantly give away personal information without even being prompted, and that makes it really easy for the companies who run them to analyze what makes each user tick and serve ads to the people who are most likely to click on them. This elevates the rate brands are willing to pay even further.

Those two things, along with a suite of anti-competitive practices, are enough to get sites to the point of being mostly profitable. Venture capital and hype-based market speculation get them the rest of the way.