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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • If you enjoy your current job, then you could go for the higher education that’s the extension of that. (Even if it’s like chef or bartender there are qualifications and education you can attain that get you paid more).

    If you make your own schedule and it’s not a “work 60 hours a week” kind of make your own schedule then you have lucked out. There is no price you can put on free time and freedom.


  • Sorry I should have clarified that the type of ads this meme is talking about (i.e banner ads and spot ads) don’t work, and yet we have more than ever before. We know this because it’s demonstrable that you need more capital than ever and more ad time than ever to see equivalent returns.

    If a company really wants to sell their product they do tie-in deals with personalities or commission news stories to be laundered for them.


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    It’s because ads don’t work on people anymore. You need hundreds to thousands of views on an ad to get a handful of click-throughs. Companies don’t know what to do anymore because advertising is really the only concept that makes sense to them.

    Also ads are a form of soft power. Companies spend millions/billions of dollars on YouTube/twitch etc. to threaten creators with “demonetization” if they step too far out of line when they criticize the wrong people.


  • The whole point of AI hate anyway is that there is physically no world in which this happens. Any LLM we have now, no matter how much power we give it, is incapable of abstract thought or especially self-interest. It’s just a larger and larger chatbot that would not be able to adapt to all of the systems it would have to infiltrate, let alone have the impetus to do so.





  • Hate my job? No. I actually love my job. It’s an amazing first step in my career and I plan on being here for many years. It’s engaging, it’s creative, it’s building my skills, it’s a casual environment, and I’m friends with my co-workers and my boss.

    But I’m only at my job because I need to make money. I have lots and lots and lots of stuff to do with my free time. I want to travel, and play video games at the most base level, but I also have my own creative hobbies which, while I love my job, I would rather dedicate my days to. I only have so much free time in my life.

    So the only reason I have this job that I love is because I need money to live. Sorry job, I’m just not that into you.








  • Sorry, but it’s more like a crab apple.

    It looks like an apple, it’s presented like an apple, it’s advertised like an apple because that is what makes the YouTuber money. But scientific methods and standards exist for a reason. It’s very easy to produce bad data and especially easy to extract bad conclusions from data if you have an incentive to do so (such as a fan base who might engage with the video less if the conclusions were against their expectations)

    There’s a chance that this guy’s conclusions reflect what a proper study might have found, but it’s just too hard to tell if it’s a crab apple or not it’s essentially probably a little better than chance.