AND PET A DOG BECAUSE DOGS ARE GREAT!!1!!

A more comprehensive analysis would show that this is how much Facebook itself makes in profits from selling personal data, not how much total money and influence that personal data is leveraged for across the various entities that purchase access, influence, and/or advertising from it.

No. This is literally 25 years ago before it was monetized.

It’s OK, we’re dealing with this by repealing our child labor laws, so kids can work at the meat processing plant instead of some immigrant. Two birds, one stone.

🙄

K.

Yes, that’s my point. Losing money didn’t “influence” him.

WHAT DID THAT PERSON SAY I CAN’T HEAR THEM

THIS IS CONFUSINGLY WORDED AND I LOVE IT, THE EXTRA ‘S’ MAKES ME THINK SEXPRESSIONS AND IT’S BOMB AROOOO

No, I don’t think they’re going to bother finding the receivers, which is what I said?

Reading comprehension: it’s not for everybody.

Musk has lost a tremendous amount of money between X and his negative effect on Tesla sales. Do you feel this has “manipulated” him into being a better person? 🤣

His shit is also on the ground. Do you think the satellites beam an internet connection directly into a laptop or something? That said, finding and seizing the individual receivers seems unlikely. They’ve already instituted a hefty fine (equivalent to more a year’s average salary) for even using a VPN to little effect.

Beyond that, they’ve also threatened to seize all local assets/offices and emplacements if Starlink doesn’t comply. There’s several dozen as I recall.

Less is great!

I was kind of joking, but plastic bags create microplastics and nanoplastics through photo-degradation and manipulation. Unfortunately, stretching, tearing, cutting, and twisting plastic bags create both micro- and nano-plastics. So you’re definitely creating them now, not in 5-10 years.

Avoiding microplastics is basically impossible though, so I wouldn’t stress it. You should look up how much magic eraser sponges create. It was actually so crazy I decided not to use them again, even if avoiding microplastics is not realistic.

This will prevent you from using plastic bags ever again?? That’s the real value. Nice job!

Yummy microplastics!

Your new bag of bags will be made from your bag of bags. You’ve reached peak Midwestern.

Should we?

It’s like that because of the way that it is.

It was then. Technology wasn’t invented until 2007.

This is a hyperbolic article to be sure. But many in this thread are missing the point. It’s not that photo manipulation is new.

It’s the volume and quality of photo manipulation that’s new. “Flooding the zone with bullshit,” i.e. decreasing the signal-to-noise ratio, can have a demonstrable social effect.

If someone was bragging about the thousands of hours of television they watch and was then later complaining about their dissatisfaction with life, I would feel the same way. It isn’t watching TV, playing video games, or training for climbing everest that’s the problem, per se. It’s how much a given activity consumes of your finite time, how much of an effect that has on the rest of your life, and your level of satisfaction with that exchange.

Learning to play music, having friends and a social life, being really good at video game X or Y, having a significant other, excelling in your career, educating yourself, and so on: these are all time-intensive tasks and there are only so many hours in a day. Letting any element of your life consume a majority of your time necessarily comes with sacrifices in other areas.

I get sad when people can’t seem to connect the sacrifice of having thousands upon thousands of hours invested in various video games with the dissatisfaction in their lives caused by not giving time to other areas. Again, I know people who balance video games into their life and are satisfied. I also know people that basically game and work and that’s it, and they’re satisfied. I’m not judging how “full” someone’s life is, as far as that goes.

I just sometimes see people that think it’s unfair they don’t just automatically get those other aspects of their life, but they are simultaneously unwilling to give up some gaming to spend the time working on them. Sure, gaming is easy, immediate, and can be fulfilling. But, it can also feel like “what did I do for the last ten years that weren’t in-game accomplishments in games I don’t play anymore?” That’s really up to the individual.