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- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 1 day ago:
These assholes get taxed 1-2% on their total wealth increases per year - and even that gets offset with their loopholes - meanwhile the average people pay anywhere between 30-50% of just their income (and that doesn't account for other taxes like VAT, property, vehicle and road taxes, and so on).
- Comment on You just couldn't be satisfied with slow and easy 1 day ago:
dem lips do be indeed grippy
- Comment on The Men Who Stare at Goats 2 days ago:
Okay I'm drawing a blank on this, who is she?
- Comment on I'm cooked, chat. 2 days ago:
You're never too young to dye.
In fact, fuck societal norms, go crazy, try some funky colours! Do a half-length bleach to platinum blonde, add a green or turquoise strip, do frosted tips but instead of keeping them blonde, dye em copper red... The world's your oyster.
Or just keep the gray patches, chicks dig it.
- Comment on People in my LinkedIn feed right now 2 days ago:
I mean yes, that sort of corruption also needs addressing.
But it isn't fair to exclude people from well-paying jobs just because they used to serve the public at one time. There's plenty of legitimate reasons why one might move on to a well-paying job, that doesn't involve favours being passed around.
- Comment on People in my LinkedIn feed right now 2 days ago:
This is the stupidest fucking thing I've read today and I've read some proper dumbass takes in the past 12 hours... But this still takes the cake.
No, citizenship based taxation will only ever hurt the average people - those who want to hide their wealth WILL find a way around it.
The only proper solution is to tax wealth above a certain limit, up to 100% tax at one point, and make hiding wealth a criminal offence. Investigate anyone who seems considerably more wealthy than what their tax reports state, and go full confiscation + prison sentence for hidden wealth.
- Comment on Scandal 2 days ago:
This is big
Donald Trump to Bill Clinton
- Comment on Scandal 2 days ago:
Plus, family and friends won't care. Oh no, you were horny and did something dumb? Ain't nobody can say they haven't done anything similar. Shit happens.
Besides, nowadays revenge porn laws are super strict - any image/video released publicly would be taken down quite quickly, and it wouldn't stick around to haunt you. At most your mum will get an eyeful of yer cock and it's not like she hasn't seen it before, or would do anything with it besides delete it and block whoever sent it.
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 2 days ago:
*paedo
- Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge 2 days ago:
Oh I fully agree with you. Marketing in general is one of the most evil business segments - only a notch above phone scammers, really. All of it is edged out not to actually market a product but to sell it to you no matter what. Doesn't matter if you need it, or if you can afford it, or if what they say about the product is true or not, the goal is to sell sell sell. Nothing else matters but taking your money.
- Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge 2 days ago:
I feel incredibly split on ads.
On one hand the incessant need to market things can be actually positive, offsetting service expenses, allowing things to be cheaper. Streaming is a perfect example of this, as people don't seem to realise just how expensive it is to maintain the infrastructure for it compared to traditional cable infrastructure, not to mention keeping the apps maintained and bugfixed etc., and then we haven't even talked about things like content licencing fees, residuals, and so on. Residuals alone mean that a single user can stream enough in just one month to "spend" their whole annual subscription fee on a single actor's residuals (this is technically unlikely, as one would need to stream a singular TV show or movie 24/7 for 30 days, but still possible).
And obviously people want to pay less. The least possible, that is. Netflix at $5.99 was a steal. Disrupting cable, globally. But that price was also only possible because of various venture capitalists investing heavily in Netflix, which allowed them to pay for the service mostly from that money, and keep prices low to acquire more users. The recent hikes (all the way up to what, $20?) are the result of venture capital drying up, as Netflix went from a market-shaker startup to revenue generating machine. Which is the point of capitalism, isn't it? Take an ide and make profit/revenue off it.
So how do you offset these increases? By involving a third party who's willing to pay you, in return for inserting their service into yours, essentially providing your userbase to them. This would mostly be... Advertisers. Marketing.
The problem is that advertising is a cutthroat business, with intense (and incredibly dumb) KPIs to fulfill. For which they need targeting, for which they need data. And this constant crusade for absolutely pinpointed ads that result in the most sales is what's making it such a disgusting business. It's not enough to shove ads in your face, those ads HAVE to be perfectly tailored to you, and for that, every smidge of information will be utilised against you.
And this is where I'm torn. On one hand, taking these fuckers' money to make services we do want, more affordable, is great. On the other hand, them wanting to know literally everything about us, and weaponising it against us, is fucking disgusting.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 4 days ago:
I'm in this picture and I don't like it.
On a more serious note, I feel the same.
Don't get me wrong, I actually do like my job. I'm working with people I like, I like what I'm actually doing, and I'm not waking up with dread every (or really, any) morning. I can't even complain because I'm getting paid well, great benefits, tons of time off (so much in fact that my manager had to force me to take Fridays off until EOY just so I use up my base rate PTOs), great bonus situation, lots of options to travel, management is generally good as well.
But every single day, I just feel exhausted after work. Even when I'm WFH, or have little actually exhausting tasks to do... I'm just exhausted. Tired. No energy for anything but running a quick bath, or shower, reading for an hour or two, then sleeping.
In fact this lack of energy has been so bad recently that I've taken to inserting a workout+cooking+everythingelse hour in the middle of my WFH days just so things get done.
- Comment on Become unrecognizable 6 days ago:
Okay so admission time, that's not really why we broke up. The cadence of the story was just better that way.
In reality, we "broke up" (reduced the number of dates we had) because we were in a poly relationship and things were becoming more serious (as in, thinking about children and getting married) with her primary, which I fully support.
The books were after her recommendation, by the way, they did unlock a few new kinks (and reinforced plenty existing ones), and the sentence "I can barely recognise you (in bed)" was indeed muttered a few times, so I was mostly truthful, but you can see why the cadence came out better in the original comment.
- Comment on Become unrecognizable 6 days ago:
I did do it at one point, but the reading was more like 3-5 hours a day, and hardcore dark romance smut.
My girlfriend broke up with me because "she couldn't recognise me in bed". In hindsight, making her ride the handle of a knife might've been a smidge too far.
- Comment on Save us!!! 6 days ago:
I have an annoying neighbour. This annoying neighbour plays loud music throughout the day and sometimes the night too.
This annoying neighbour also happens to have a wireless charging stand with a built in BT speaker. A BT speaker that requires no authentication, no pairing, no nothing. You can just connect to it.
This annoying neighbour has been suffering from random bouts of Mariah Carey at the most inopportune times - such as 3am - at max volume. I've even programmed a Bluetooth controller to keep connecting to it and playing the song at random intervals if it gets paused or the volume reduced. And most recently I've been working on figuring out a way to detect when the neighbour plays loud music so I can finally connect the two events in a very obvious way so they finally stop.
You think hearing it for two months is bad? Try being my annoying neighbour. Doesn't matter if it's July, or February, or September, if it's morning, evening, or barely past midnight, he's getting his Mariah fix, Careyd over the soundwaves.
- Comment on Britain calls it safety. It is censorship 1 week ago:
They said tits, not twats.
or is this the first sign of the tit for twat economy?
- Comment on Why aren't people harassing marketers? 1 week ago:
It's because people have generally accepted that marketing is a thing, and will be a thing - and that as long as it isn't directly harmful, it can actually be beneficial to the consumer.
Which, to be fair, makes some sense. On one hand you have people who want a service, on the other you have the service that wants to make money. But running that service costs more than people are willing to pay so you bring in a third party who gets to advertise to the people while giving money to the service for this, subsidising costs and making a cheap service possible. It's a win-win-win situation, isn't it?
Well it would be if it wasn't for this damn end stage capitalist constant hypergrowth requirement. Everything has to make a constantly growing profit. If the profit GROWTH isn't higher than last year, your business is crap. So now everyone is milking every last drop of money from every possible angle, leading to more ads, shittier services, and people moving on. Thanks to the greed of the few, the otherwise good thing, or acceptable status quo, is now crap.
Marketing isn't at fault for this, it's just a symptom.
- Comment on Why aren't people harassing marketers? 1 week ago:
It's actually a bit more complicated.
AdSense indeed used to work through ratios of views and clicks, but Google (and all other ad networks) have been tinkering with it to benefit them even more.
Today, it's about conversion, and conversion as a KPI is not well defined. Clicking into an as might simply not be enough to make it cost more.
- Comment on Why aren't people harassing marketers? 1 week ago:
This only works when the site, ad network and advertiser are three distinct and separate entities.
Given that pretty much all social media now runs its own advertising systems, it won't actually have much effect. Sure it wastes some money, but given how precise site analytics are, most can actually discern between real clicks and these automated tools.
Not to mention that the whole website for this tool looks like is itself riddled with ads, and also, over 2/3 of all internet traffic happens on mobile devices, which this extension doesn't support.
- Comment on Goddamn it, Gary 1 week ago:
With the ATC cuts, this is the only plane many will be getting on this week.
- Comment on free minecraft 1 week ago:
Sounds like a challenging wank, no?
- Comment on Try Butt Nutts Today!! 1 week ago:
The issue is the merging of two different kinds of silicone. Silicone in itself doesn't like other silicones and the harder ones tend to "melt" the softer ones (in reality the polymer chains interact and cause migration, which deforms the softer object as it will have higher plasticity).
You could make a hard silicone dildo with soft silicone balls but most likely you'd end up with the ballsack tearing off in a play-doh consistency mess within a few weeks of manufacturing.
- Comment on Meta denies torrenting porn to train AI, says downloads were for “personal use” 2 weeks ago:
No, your honour, we did not use the porn downloaded to train our AI, at least not directly.
The people working on training the AI? Oh, the definitely had a cheeky wank here and there after a stressful day! This just shows how committed Meta is to the wellbeing of our employees.
- Comment on Patron-Supported Journalism Can’t Be the Future of News 2 weeks ago:
Patron-funded news doesn't work in the combination of post-scarcity news (i.e. when anyone can have a platform because there's no limit to entry, like owning a printing press) and economic recession where people's disposable income drops sharply.
Even the first point is enough to kill all but the largest patron-funded news services. The two combined? Guaranteed death sentence.
- Comment on Piping mouse 2 weeks ago:
Wish I could have them 😩but thanks to my ADHD, I'm super forgetful, and I'd absolutely hate myself if in a hyperfocus-depression cycle I forgot to feed my little guys.
I do have a few friends who have rats, though, so I do get some playtime. Which is awesome.
- Comment on UK steps up review of headlight glare as drivers complain of being dazzled 2 weeks ago:
Kinda hard to communicate well when 90% of the media is owned by shitsacks who want to see even this center-right version of Labour to fail...
- Comment on Piping mouse 2 weeks ago:
I've frequented r/RATS enough to comfortably confirm this statement.
- Comment on thats all 2 weeks ago:
Tried working out in loose underwear once. My balls were sagging 10 minutes in, and at one point managed to slam them right into my thigh during a spin.
It was worse than being kicked in the nuts.
- Comment on thats all 2 weeks ago:
A man, or an ass?
For the latter I recommend the zoo.
- Comment on New christmas calendar just dropped 2 weeks ago:
But technically you've already stolen the NFT by taking a photo of it! THIEF!