Meron35
@Meron35@lemmy.world
- Comment on How does Google make money from Gmail, the google calendar, drive or other services when used with third party front ends? 5 days ago:
Shoshana Zuboff really was ahead of its time. So many people who were privacy conscious and therefore thought they were clever by simply thinking that Google makes money by only selling your data completely missed the scale of manipulation and control big tech has (myself included).
Google/big tech doesn’t sell your data. Google/big tech sells advertisers predictions of your behaviour, a highly refined, processed version of your data. Advertisers cannot purchase your data, only “impressions” or “views.” In an extra sinister twist, Google/big tech then uses it’s resources to manipulate you in ways such that their predictions become true.
This is why their predictions are the best, because after making them, they have a financial incentive to manipulate them into being true. It is why we naturally see more and more polarization, because after Google has sold the prediction that you will engage is a specific type of content (e.g. right ring rabbit holes), it is financially incentivised to make that a reality, and therefore further push you in that direction, to make their prediction true.
How to “improve” prediction using behavior modification - ScienceDirect - www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0169207022001066
- Comment on Luxury bones? In *this* economy. 1 week ago:
Sike! Many developed nations such as Canada, Australia, the UK, Hong Kong, and Singapore all provide little to no support for dental. Although the UK does have dental ln the NHS, finding an NHS dentist is very difficult.
Many of the residents in these nations end up engaging in dental tourism to nations such as Poland and Thailand, where a dental travel package that includes round trip international air fare + 5 star hotel + dental work is still cheaper than getting dental work done in their home country.
- Comment on Before you act, is this right for the company? 2 weeks ago:
Ask not what your
countrycompany can do for you, but what you can do for yourcountrycompany /s - Comment on Please answer. 4 weeks ago:
Humans: 🤮 Human genitalia: 🍆💨👃🤤
- Comment on Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich? 2 months ago:
No, consumption taxes (such as VAT) are generally considered to be regressive, because the rich spend less on consumption relative to their income.
In almost all countries, the top income decile was estimated to have paid a share of their income that is only 60% of what the bottom half pays in consumption taxes.
The inequality impact of consumption taxes: An international comparison - ScienceDirect - www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0047272723000798
- Comment on Would you like to finance your hot chocolate with a loan set at 69% apr? 2 months ago:
It’s innovative because it applies evolutionary pressure by making sure that dumb people falling for such simple scams will be too poor to survive and reproduce /s
- Comment on Anon's strict mom 2 months ago:
9 favourites 💀
- Comment on If investing in the S&P 500 is such a surefire way to make money, then why isn't everyone doing it? 3 months ago:
If it makes you feel better many green index funds aren’t green at all, and simply manipulate their holdings around audit and reporting times, in a phenomenon known as green window dressing.
Green Window Dressing by Gianpaolo Parise, Mirco Rubin :: SSRN - papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=44593…
- Comment on I walked all over the damn store looking for butter 3 months ago:
To add even further confusion, in Australia some stores have eggs in the fridge, and some don’t
- Comment on Anon disrupts the gaming industry 3 months ago:
We live in an industry 😔
- Comment on Splat 3 months ago:
Actually, the science does not seem to be settled, with there being controversy about the specific neck posture.
Sauropod neck posture - Wikipedia - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauropod_neck_posture
- Comment on Reactor goes brrr 3 months ago:
- Comment on Anon double-checks something important 3 months ago:
Bri🤮ish
- Comment on 5x Evolutionary Winner 3 months ago:
Broke: carcinisation is evidence that crab bodies are peak performance
Woke: carcinisation is evidence that crab bodies are a noob trap, because no crabs are top tier predators despite being so widespread
- Comment on How do you officially pronounce a possessive like: " Travis' "? 4 months ago:
Travodes
- Comment on Anon awakens an ancient evil 4 months ago:
What, haven’t you seen fandoms shipping the bellybuttons of two characters together
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 4 months ago:
Well duh it detects AI generated images that are at scale and that snail cat is way too small for it
- Comment on Clever, clever 5 months ago:
Trap street - Wikipedia - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
Example of an entire fictional town: Agloe, New York - Wikipedia - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agloe,_New_York
- Comment on Monkey business 5 months ago:
Wake up babe new dolphin fucker copyoasta just dropped
- Comment on Game Freak has been allegedly hacked, with source codes for Pokemon games reportedly leaked 5 months ago:
Love how everyone in the comments are shitting on Nintendo and Game Freak lmao
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
“Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved”
From Tim Minchin’s Storm the Animated Movie - YouTube - m.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U
- Comment on Modern Cinderella 5 months ago:
There must be a gay Cinderella remake out there somewhere. Grindrella gets visited by the fairy thotmother, who transforms his button up shirt and black skinny chinos into a harness and jockstrap and sends him off the royal orgy. The next day Prince DomTop has to go around and top everyone in the village because it was a blackout orgy and he couldn’t see anyone, meaning the only way he can find who Grindrella was is by remembering the feel of that bussy.
- Comment on Anon takes the welding pill 5 months ago:
- Comment on Papa Johns 5 months ago:
How can they say “lol” when they are clearly not laughing out loud?
- Comment on Anon makes bad decisions 6 months ago:
Hey I’ll have you know that in Australia an ambulance can cost >$1000 without insurance!
The problem is so serious that they run seminars in schools telling students to not hesitate calling for ambulances, because human lives are worth more than $1000.
How much does an ambulance cost in every Australian state? | Checkout – Best Deals, Expert Product Reviews & Buying Guides - news.com.au/…/32a37d702e6e11361cc0ec129aed05d6
- Comment on Very thankful 6 months ago:
Drag queen Amanda Tori Meating has gone on the record about her day job as an OnlyFans ghostwriter. There’s an entire industry of talent agencies that hire minimum wage gig workers to pretend to be the model you are paying $x per month to interact with.
- Comment on Anon goes to dinner with coworkers 6 months ago:
That’s when they ostracize you for being a killjoy and not appreciating their “humour”
- Comment on Gimme dat aoundtrack 6 months ago:
Is that a triceratops and tricerabottoms
- Comment on pisspost 6 months ago:
Would you place your balls inside or outside the rim
- Comment on Thank you! 6 months ago:
They forgot to list the Jackson, which is a coffee that starts out Black but turns White
