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FlapYoJacks posted:https://twitter.com/boreskes/status/1658580390053924866 jesus christ
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May 17, 2023 01:40
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May 17, 2023 01:54
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FlapYoJacks posted:So at least double, if not triple, that number for the real poverty number that isn't based off of the cost of a meal + inflation or some poo poo. the real poverty number before the last two years bet you the real number is closer to half right now.
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May 17, 2023 02:20
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Dr. VooDoo posted:I could not be paid money to listen to an entire book read by an AI generated voice, they sound loving awful on videos after two minutes as is because they can’t figure out how to do inflection or emotions right Like plastic surgery, you only notice when it’s done poorly. AI voice readings are the majority of audiobooks for the past year or so.
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May 17, 2023 02:22
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err posted:im sure they will figure it out technology and science will save us, no need to do anything its all under control
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May 17, 2023 02:36
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Doomsday Economics + COVID + videogames collision Blizzard developers say mandatory return-to-office policy has 'cost us some amazing people' quote:Activision Blizzard's mandatory return-to-office policy is causing an unnecessary loss of talent, to the point where it could affect development of major titles like World of Warcraft and Diablo 4, according to some Blizzard developers.
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May 17, 2023 02:48
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" It's worth noting that the mandatory office attendance doesn't apply to ABK's executives. Recently hired execs like Chief Administrative Officer Brian Bulatao, and Chief Communications Officer Lulu Cheng Meservey, have full-time remote status." lmao. the CEOs do all the hardest work, they're the most productive people, which is why all the peons must work from the office to maximize productivity its all a sham
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May 17, 2023 02:57
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Raccooon posted:Feinstein’s brain is going to completely crap out right before the debt ceiling vote and cause it to fail. They'll be frantically defibrillating her with vote in hand in a last second attempt to avoid Roman empire level collapse.
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May 17, 2023 03:01
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gradenko_2000 posted:Doomsday Economics + COVID + videogames collision good. i support acti "breast milk" blizzard imploding. accelerationism is good in this case
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May 17, 2023 03:07
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i just learned about how thiel got so insanely rich https://www.propublica.org/article/...free-piggy-bank tl;dr when he started paypal, his salary was under roth limits as most of his compensation was in stock. before paypal went public, he bought 1.7 million shares at only 0.001/share (???) so he only spent 1700. then all the gains from paypal shares went into his roth, and then he used the roth money to make other investments like palantir, etc. now it currently has FIVE BILLION DOLLARS and he can take it all out tax-free in a few years.
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May 17, 2023 03:09
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Xaris posted:good. i support acti "breast milk" blizzard imploding. accelerationism is good in this case I'm sure they'll be extracting rents from their IPs for many years to come even as their capacity to make anything new collapses to zero
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May 17, 2023 03:10
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Vox Nihili posted:I'm sure they'll be extracting rents from their IPs for many years to come even as their capacity to make anything new collapses to zero probably but their IPs suck rear end so no real loss for Gamers. unless someone is an overwatch or hearthstone addict in which case eww
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May 17, 2023 03:13
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repubs should make each debt ceiling increase last only a month, and just keep extracting concession after concession, month after month. why not?
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May 17, 2023 03:20
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actionjackson posted:i just learned about how thiel got so insanely rich nice
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May 17, 2023 03:22
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Xaris posted:probably but their IPs suck rear end so no real loss for Gamers. unless someone is an overwatch or hearthstone addict in which case eww Their games have huge audiences, especially the worst ones and all the mobile gunk They print money even when they suck
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May 17, 2023 03:29
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Paradoxish posted:It's the usual situation where hitting somewhere in the lower-middle of the quality range will cause a lot of damage. I've never heard text-to-speech that's even in the same ballpark as really good narration and I don't think it really competes with mediocre stuff, but it's better than a lot of the trash narration that publishers are putting out right now. Pumping out tons of "tolerable but not good" content will destroy the market for the better stuff. yeah, it doesn’t matter if the AI voice is lovely because soon there won’t be any non-AI readers, anyone who likes audiobooks will just suck it up or stop listening because lol what else you gonna do? what’s really going to be “interesting” is when voice deepfakes get into lawsuits. not so much to entrap or imprison unfortunates (although that will happen too), but when the rich use reasonable doubt to deny anything embarrassing they might say publicly and successfully sue for libel against anyone repeating it Koirhor posted:yes I am the govt robot their is a warrant out for your social security number, you have to send a picture of your pussy from western union ohh, mr. chapelle!! why didn’t you spread your cheeks in the first place?
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May 17, 2023 03:32
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actionjackson posted:i just learned about how thiel got so insanely rich smh and libs want to get rid of the death penalty
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May 17, 2023 03:49
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DragQueenofAngmar posted:yeah, it doesn’t matter if the AI voice is lovely because soon there won’t be any non-AI readers, anyone who likes audiobooks will just suck it up or stop listening because lol what else you gonna do? Once good-enough voice AIs are as easy to run on a home computer as the image ones, people are just going to cut out the publisher and dump TXT files into a script, generating their own audiobook with the celebrity narrator of their choice. I expect the time between 'major audiobook publishers fire all human narrators and switch to AI' and 'major audiobook publishers all out of business' to be very short. Hell someone will probably make that an add-on for the Calibre ebook manager in a few years.
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May 17, 2023 03:51
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May 17, 2023 04:01
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May 17, 2023 04:07
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Hmm looks like Americans are stupid as poo poo.
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May 17, 2023 04:14
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gradenko_2000 posted:Doomsday Economics + COVID + videogames collision We need people on site to foster relationships[Pervasive sexual harassment] and reinforce workplace culture[stealing people's breast milk and drinking it]
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May 17, 2023 04:23
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Vox Nihili posted:Their games have huge audiences, especially the worst ones and all the mobile gunk whatever happened to spending money on a good game instead?? it's never been easier to find a good game
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May 17, 2023 04:28
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Xaris posted:honestly i dont get why people were spending $$$ on diablo immortal or hearthstone or overwatch 2 when it all sucks rear end theyre addicts, OP
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May 17, 2023 04:29
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May 17, 2023 04:29
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anime was right posted:theyre addicts, OP
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May 17, 2023 04:30
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Xaris posted:honestly i dont get why people were spending $$$ on diablo immortal or hearthstone or overwatch 2 when it all sucks rear end It's about reaching people and barrier to sales. Something like 90% of people have a smart phone capable of running these games, so there is a huge potential audience by default. The median gamer is a mobile gamer. Also lots of people on consoles. PC gamers are almost niche hobbyists by comparison.
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May 17, 2023 04:30
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Xaris posted:idk fentanyl is way cheaper than overwatch + feels better. just do some cheap fenty Overwatch won't kill you. probably
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May 17, 2023 04:31
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Overwatch won't kill you. probably
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May 17, 2023 04:35
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Question: How do we know data like this isn't just outright fabricated? It would be the easiest thing in the world to just make poo poo up and make an Excel graph. I did this in my marketing class in college because hosed if I was going to talk to random people. Even without just making up the data, 'some' to 'a lot of' trust is a pretty wide gulf.
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May 17, 2023 04:36
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Mobile gaming is so insanely lucrative for these companies that it's difficult to put into words. It's precisely those hockey stick returns that all of the VC maniacs spend their lives chasing and the Elizabeth Holmes of the world keep selling them on, but actually obtainable. These companies farm out all of the asset work overseas and virtually the entire focus on development is the addiction/micro transaction loop. It's literally down to a science for these companies, they work consumers like a factory farm works livestock. That is why big, profit-drive corporate entities like Activision and EA keep making mobile crap even though their loudest, most visible fans hate it. Diablo Immortal cost almost nothing to make and will be bringing in hundreds of millions for years to come. The fact that they're watering down their IP isn't even considered, that sort of wildfire profit margin is crack cocaine for the C-suite.
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May 17, 2023 04:37
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skooma512 posted:Question: How do we know data like this isn't just outright fabricated? It would be the easiest thing in the world to just make poo poo up and make an Excel graph. I did this in my marketing class in college because hosed if I was going to talk to random people. Idk, I can't even see how that graph reflects trust in corporate institutions when all it shows are government institutions (but it repeats itself).
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May 17, 2023 04:37
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anyway here's the methodologyquote:Morning Consult tracks U.S. adults’ trust in each of 18 major institutions, from Congress to Hollywood. This data set provides real-time insights into how public trust is shifting in the country. The latest results are from a survey conducted May 4-7, 2023, among a representative sample of 2,202 U.S. adults, with an unweighted margin of error of +/- 2 percentage points. This page is updated monthly.
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May 17, 2023 04:58
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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:i dunno, rooting for the objectively much worse option makes no sense to me, especially when it appears to be condoned and cheered on for out of mere spite the "objectively much worse" option, according to this person, is to crash the economy that makes thousands of billionaires possible the alternative this person prefers, according to this person's posts, is for tens of millions of people to be cut off from their final lines of assistance so they die of starvation and/or resort to criminal activity / prostitution
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May 17, 2023 05:00
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SKULL.GIF posted:the "objectively much worse" option, according to this person, is to crash the economy that makes thousands of billionaires possible Yeah it rules he can just spout far right nonsense and is considered lib-left, but I say the usa government working with big tech to monitor and censor people is bad and I'm a chud/nazi. I love these forums Mr Hootington has issued a correction as of 05:06 on May 17, 2023 |
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May 17, 2023 05:03
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"look at my posts in the climate thread!" they say, "it shows how serious I am about disliking all this!" so therefore they should be in favor of crashing the economy that's directly and powerfully contributing to boiling the planet alive... right...?
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May 17, 2023 05:07
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Xaris posted:shamelessly stolen: is metaverse really still treading water
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May 17, 2023 05:07
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Flavahbeast posted:is metaverse really still treading water it's a floating turd that wont flush
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May 17, 2023 05:08
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 turns out carvana's strategy of paying +100% kelly bluebook prices for lovely used cars sight-unseen and sticking it in a vending machine and an app for anti-social nerds wasn't a viable business strategy who could see that coming
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May 17, 2023 05:09
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Xaris posted:
good thing they already have a halo above their dead brand
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