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behnamoh 18 minutes ago | root | parent | prev | next [–] I’m curious: what’s the alternative to ads then? How do you find new stuff that you might need? reply same thread: flangola7 15 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [–] >what’s the alternative to ads then? How do you find new stuff that you might need? How did it we accomplish it for the earlier 99.99% of human history? reply vikramkr 4 minutes ago | root | parent | next [–] The earlier 99 percent of human history was pretty garbage. Ads are pretty garbage too but I really don't get why people keep doing this thing where they're like "well how did we manage in the past?" In the past we just died of war and disease and stuff. The past is awful. reply
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Jun 30, 2023 17:13
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tfw you invade another country because you don’t know the new iphone 14 comes in Starlight
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Jun 30, 2023 19:45
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Putin just needed more ads
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Jun 30, 2023 19:45
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When I'm looking into buying something I always google "best ads for washing machines" to find the product I need.
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Jul 1, 2023 03:40
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I simply never buy anything until an ad tells me to
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Jul 1, 2023 09:37
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convalescindrey 16 hours ago | parent | context | prev | next [–] | on: YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach agai... > In my late 30s, I went serious about getting ads out of my life. Have you also cut everything out of your life that's financed through ads? So I'm expecting you to not use any Facebook, Google, Twitter, Youtube or other modern web content. I agree that ads are manipulative. That's their very essence. But they exist for a reason. Not to enrich people, but the uphold one side of a bargin. You can't expect everything to be for free. reply
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Jul 1, 2023 15:30
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Can't wait for the hn types to invent smart social contracts.
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Jul 1, 2023 15:40
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placesalt 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [–] I'm absolutely sure they've thought of this, but I do wonder why they don't just divert the rivers around it and mine the entire place like an open-pit mine. Cart the square km or two of material off to some processing location and be done with it. It'd likely cost less than what's been spent already. Again, I'm sure this has been thought of and rejected for a good reason. Still, doing it piecemeal doesn't seem to be working. reply guess the river: the Columbia
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Jul 1, 2023 17:21
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haha i hope the responses are all “divert it to where exactly”
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Jul 1, 2023 17:40
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mcpackieh 18 minutes ago | next [–] Calling the reddit mods landed gentry was a stroke of genius. Perfectly calibrated to get under the mods' skin and piss them off, while at the same time driving a wedge between them and the various commoners who already had innumerable personal grudges against the mods. It undermined the perceived legitimacy of the mods and provoked the mods to react emotionally at the same time, making the mods play the victim while simultaneously reminding the commoners who the real victims of the system really were. reply zouhair 9 minutes ago | parent | next [–] The thing is if the mods stopped modding the site will crumble and fast. reply shitlord 3 minutes ago | root | parent | next [–] That's what mods have been saying the past few weeks, but somehow the site is working fine without them. It turns out that most of them don't add a lot of value and are easily replaceable. reply
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Jul 2, 2023 16:16
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Mr.Radar posted:mcpackieh 18 minutes ago | next [–] ah the twitter theory let’s see how that works out for everyone
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Jul 2, 2023 17:15
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time for some game theory folks
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Jul 2, 2023 17:40
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vollkornbrot 5 minutes ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: Threads, an Instagram App Might elon be damagin twitter to help mark push this?
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Jul 4, 2023 00:50
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optimalsolver 1 hour ago | next [–] These glimpses of powerful, future anti-aging treatments is why AGI research must not be slowed down under any circumstances. Immortality is in sight. I have to say, it's annoying to have been born before radical life-extending technology becomes available, but late enough in the timeline to consider it an actual possibility
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Jul 4, 2023 16:26
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Luctct 22 hours ago [flagged] [dead] | parent | context | flag | vouch | favorite | on: Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (... I refuse to waste my time on anyone who defends Duchamp and Warhol (notice the spelling) or anyone who says "dialectical dialogue." Your poor education shows very clearly.
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Jul 5, 2023 16:03
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fritz posted:Luctct 22 hours ago [flagged] [dead] | parent | context | flag | vouch | favorite | on: Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (... that thread really ticks me off
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Jul 5, 2023 17:12
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hospitalJail 7 hours ago | root | parent | next [–] Its one of the primal needs. Its why some companies are so effective at selling Veblen goods to status seekers. When I was growing up, I got abercrombie/american eagle because it was cool to girls. Today teens get Apple/Nike products. Not that any of these actually change your status, but the marketers were able to sell that idea/feeling. As an adult, you see people buying/leasing Tesla's or more expensive cars to do the same thing. People desperate for social acceptance, which leads to girls, will pay anything. I get it, I used to spend half my time looking for girls before I got married. (other half of my time school, presumably so I could always get a gold digger if need be.) Can you tell I was ugly growing up? (Lift weights my pals, it changed everything) reply
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Jul 8, 2023 11:06
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Unless this is a thing I've never heard of before, I think I found a new kind of loon.quote:DoreenMichele 9 minutes ago | root | parent | next [–] quote:headsupernova 5 minutes ago | root | parent | next [–] quote:
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Jul 9, 2023 01:55
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not sure about that one, doreen
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Jul 9, 2023 02:28
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zo1 1 hour ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: Dashcam images reveal where police are deployed No. The big question is whether we want to live in a society that requires the police to randomly stop and frisk people in order to stop crime. There is crime, I don't think anyone can dispute that. Honestly, I personally have no problem with criminal-looking individuals being stopped and frisked in high-crime areas. And I say this as someone that's been profiled as a white person in a black country, and held at gunpoint by assault-rifle wielding police.
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Jul 10, 2023 17:10
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agreed, stop and frisk every white dude in a suit on wall street
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Jul 10, 2023 23:21
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Jabor posted:agreed, stop and frisk every white dude in a suit on wall street https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwvrGHsjD7g&pp=ygUad29uZGVyIHNob3d6ZW4gd2FsbCBzdHJlZXQ%3D
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Jul 10, 2023 23:44
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zo1 1 day ago | parent | context | prev | next [–] | on: The internet's “town square” is dead You could maybe argue they weren't pushing a leftist agenda, sure. But they conveniently didn't fight for freedom of speech either. They were just very comfortable so long as the prevailing opinion on the wider media matched their beliefs. The "right" doesn't have this luxury. Even the fringe left or far-left have a media "free pass" that they enjoy. And no one seems to understand this part of the criticism of the media by the right. reply
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Jul 11, 2023 14:04
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Jose Valasquez posted:zo1 1 day ago | parent | context | prev | next [–] | on: The internet's “town square” is dead https://mastodon.social/@snarthelg/110682899945596396 
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Jul 11, 2023 15:04
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RyanAdamas 1 day ago | parent | context | prev | next [–] | on: Tuition costs have risen 710% since 1983 Accreditation Boards Textbook Publishers University Tuition It's a triangle scheme where one feeds the other and it's all fueled by non-dischargeable government loans. Student Loans are the hill to die on. As someone who isn't eligible for Military Service, I don't get supplemental housing, free healthcare, free college education, hiring preferences, small business loan preferences, nor a lifetime of "OH THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!!", and that's if you aren't one of MILLIONS of Veterans gaming the VA disability system. The military decided asthmatics and ADHD kids will forever be second class citizens because we can't join the drunken sexfest that is modern military service; which has essentially become a daycare for 18-24 year-olds. It's absolutely unconstitutional for the military to relegate individuals to specific spectrums of society given how they were born. I'm not gay so I guess that doesn't matter. But, who cares? If the Constitution mattered we wouldn't be where we are today. reply
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Jul 11, 2023 20:25
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fritz posted:RyanAdamas 1 day ago | parent | context | prev | next [–] | on: Tuition costs have risen 710% since 1983 Also do they think don't ask don't tell is still in effect?
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Jul 11, 2023 20:49
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mystes posted:Ignoring the insane idea that military service is some sort of risk free pile of cool free stuff and people who aren't able to enlist are somehow being oppressed (lol) I'm not American, but when I learned of the phrase "chair force" I looked it up and apparently, throughout the '90s and '00s, airmen had a lower mortality rate than civilians in the same demographic bracket so I figure if I were to get isekai'd into a late-teens non-rich american (worst isekai ever except for all others), signing up for the air force and declaring "no thank you, I don't want to be a cool top gun pilot I'm happy to be ground crew and get a ton of valuable certifications for free" would be pretty high up in my list of strategies to avoid debt slavery
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Jul 11, 2023 21:31
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NihilCredo posted:I'm not American, but when I learned of the phrase "chair force" I looked it up and apparently, throughout the '90s and '00s, airmen had a lower mortality rate than civilians in the same demographic bracket I think the people getting the good jobs are usually in families that have a long history of serving in the military, but most of the normal people enlisting are doing it because they're desperate and don't have any other prospects. I think a lot of the better jobs also require people to do stuff other than just showing up and enlisting but I'm not that knowledgeable about it. I guess whether it ends up being a good idea on the whole also depends on how many wars the US happens to be involved in while people are serving, which is basically a coin flip mystes fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Jul 11, 2023 |
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Jul 11, 2023 21:36
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mystes posted:Ignoring the insane idea that military service is some sort of risk free pile of cool free stuff and people who aren't able to enlist are somehow being oppressed (lol), does the military even refuse to let people with ADHD enlist? It doesn't seem like it based on two seconds googling the US military refuses to enlist (or commission as an officer) anyone who requires daily medication to live or function, but unscrupulous recruiters often lie about this or get waivers for people that are then immediately revoked, which leads to some pretty horrible situations. I've known people who went off their meds to enlist and were summarily kicked out within months. also, technically speaking, the FAA bans people who require any DEA scheduled medication (including ADHD meds) from flying or having a pilot's license e: the air force specifically notes you essentially can never have needed an accommodation of any kind and/or never had it affect you in the last 2 years before signing up: quote:If you have been diagnosed by a doctor as having ADD/ADHD, you must meet the following requirements in order to apply: SporkOfTruth fucked around with this message at 22:14 on Jul 11, 2023 |
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Jul 11, 2023 22:02
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my stepbrother has (had?) adhd and was in the army, he used to take medication but probably met those requirements or got a waver at the time. i was in the navy because i would've starved to death in my van otherwise, but it was alright. definitely spent a lot of time precluded from drinking or getting laid tho ... e: i also have student loans lmao dougdrums fucked around with this message at 03:58 on Jul 12, 2023 |
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Jul 12, 2023 03:52
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oh yeah and as mentioned, you can just lie
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Jul 12, 2023 04:11
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aeons ago when i went to get my driving learners permit i made the mistake of ticking the box on the form and writing in ADHD. had to go to some random GP and get a note from them saying "yeah this dingus is fine let em drive." jokes on them i never got my license and the last time i drove was drunk and without one!!!
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Jul 12, 2023 11:19
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cft 1 hour ago | parent | prev | next [–] USA was doing very well before FTC was created in 1914. In fact, most of American wealth that the US has been riding on, was accumulated before then. Airplane, Ford Model T, etc where all created before then. reply
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Jul 13, 2023 18:11
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fritz posted:cft 1 hour ago | parent | prev | next [–] [hacker news voice] there was no ftc when the wheel was invented 6000 years ago
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Jul 13, 2023 19:39
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fritz posted:cft 1 hour ago | parent | prev | next [–] "In fact, most of American wealth that the US has been riding on, was accumulated before then" is either so deliberately weaselly or unfathomably stupid.
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Jul 13, 2023 19:41
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it's also very "i think you don't understand that that proves the oposite point that you think it does", i.e. that most of america's wealth is exploitative. and generational, but whatever i'm not fighting that fight today.
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Jul 13, 2023 20:28
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post hole digger posted:"In fact, most of American wealth that the US has been riding on, was accumulated before then" is either so deliberately weaselly or unfathomably stupid. id love to see the justification because it's obviously untrue under any reasonable interpretation.
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Jul 13, 2023 20:48
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my first guess was they were going to claim that by "wealth" they mean gold reserves but the fort knox gold depository was built in 1936
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Jul 13, 2023 21:00
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I think the second half is literally defining what they mean by "wealth"? They clearly have this typical imaginary american view where America became the technological leader of the world in 1915 through hard work and has remained that way ever since and america's power has absolutely nothing to do with coincidental stuff disconnected from america being the best country in the world like most other developed countries being turbofucked by ww2 mystes fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Jul 13, 2023 |
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