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The Oldest Man
Jul 28, 2003

i need to figure out how to do whole-network ad block, it drives me loving nuts that i get youtube ads on my chromecast if i want to watch something on my couch

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bobmarleysghost
Mar 7, 2006



Shageletic posted:

You can change this in the settings. Had to do that recently

Just looked, can't find anything related to that

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





The Oldest Man posted:

i need to figure out how to do whole-network ad block, it drives me loving nuts that i get youtube ads on my chromecast if i want to watch something on my couch

pihole

Bixington
Feb 27, 2011

made me feel all nippley inside my tittychest

The Oldest Man posted:

i need to figure out how to do whole-network ad block, it drives me loving nuts that i get youtube ads on my chromecast if i want to watch something on my couch

Do you get a lot of ads on yours? I have an ancient one that barely shows any. So much so that I'm convinced it is bugged to not show most of them for some reason. Admittedly, shows from their free episodes feature do show a fair amount (like two every 20 minutes at most), but everything else is basically ad free compared to the amount that people seem to be experiencing.

Mandel Brotset
Jan 1, 2024

Shear Modulus posted:

what.cd was the pinnacle of human cultural achievement

I was always a fan of audiogalaxy but then I was younger then and the world was new to me

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


Truniht
Jan 10, 2019

https://www.satellitetoday.com/finance/2024/01/23/lockheed-martin-space-segment-leads-company-in-growth-in-2023/

real cool that they’re doing layoffs the same time this is happening

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

shoutout to the lockheed cspammers. love y'all

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

mawarannahr posted:

shoutout to the lockheed cspammers. love y'all

they keep the lights on 🙏

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

It would be cool if everyone who worked there was laid off forever snd never found a job again.

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY
Evergrande has been court order to liquidate.
https://twitter.com/business/status/1751791514999492995?t=UlsNQsxN0RQ5wrVCUtml7g&s=19

SlimGoodbody
Oct 20, 2003


Badass, I want to see more companies being told to shut up and go away forever

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry
reminder:
https://x.com/orikron/status/1726255788921065909?s=20
i always had a suspicion that most of the foreign real estate bubble was going to be subsumed into nationalized housing, and the timing is now right to take over evergrande and let the blackrocks eat poo poo

also found this trying to find it lol

Mr Hootington posted:

I understand now. This evergrande thing may actually be a very serious thing. Nobody knows who is holding the bag.

That's a lie. We know foreigners are going to be holding the bag. Someone in doomsday eco posted an article that was about Blackrock getting balls deep in Chinese real estate. I'm going to laugh so hard if they are Bigly exposed.

The evergrande story has been a low simmer for awhile now. I want to say back in feburary there was rumblings about some of this, but it really came to the forefront in june or July. The cpc has said they are doing everything to protect Chinese banks and finance.

I think the politiburo will let evergrande blow up because they know Chinese finance and banking will be fine and most of the risk is owned by dipshit foreign investors. Watching the bonds is hilarious because people are desperate to unload them.

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

CPC stays winning. Upholding the line of proper thought from Marx to Lenin to Stalin to Mao to Deng to Xi ftw.

Complications
Jun 19, 2014

A government running an experiment and then following the data that leads to the good of peasants? That's outrageous! That's unfair! You're supposed to use data to make billionaires richer.

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY
https://www.reuters.com/business/embattled-china-evergrande-back-court-liquidation-hearing-2024-01-28/

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

Xaris posted:

reminder:
https://x.com/orikron/status/1726255788921065909?s=20
i always had a suspicion that most of the foreign real estate bubble was going to be subsumed into nationalized housing, and the timing is now right to take over evergrande and let the blackrocks eat poo poo

also found this trying to find it lol

Think I'm going to be right. Who knows. Would be fun if foreign investors get stiffed on the debt or properties.

Edit: it probably won't matter, but here is the old article saying who was buying the debt back in the day. Idk if it has been offloaded anywhere or how much it actually is. https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/blackrock-hsbc-among-largest-buyers-evergrande-debt-morningstar-2021-09-21/

Mr Hootington has issued a correction as of 04:21 on Jan 29, 2024

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
the west got the investment but china got the houses

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003



Oh no. How horrible.

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010




does this mean china's economy has collapsed like everyone was saying it would

Shageletic
Jul 25, 2007

bobmarleysghost posted:

Just looked, can't find anything related to that

Let me know if this helps: https://www.macobserver.com/news/sp...ur%20shuffling.

shrike82
Jun 11, 2005

https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1751653791080882666

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

if you ask it to play a specific song/album and it does, they pay full streaming royalties for that song. if you ask it to play something and it mixes together a playlist that's got the same vibes as the song/album you've asked for the that's called "radio" which is virtually free for them, royalties-wise, which is basically the entirety of the pandora business model, and why all the music apps love to autoplay random related music after you finish an album

I didn't know this, but it makes sense given how much they push their algorithm-powered garbage. If your album or playlist runs out, the next song is something Spotify chooses. If you pick just one song, the next song is something Spotify chooses. If you search for anything, an album or an artist or whatever, the top search results are always something that Spotify generated to try and anticipate your taste.

They added an "AI DJ" last year that's really just an AI-generated voice that plays between sets of three or four songs to talk about what they just played, and what comes next, and it cycles through the algorithm-generated songs that Spotify thinks you like. And that kind of thing is awful for personal taste because it just recycles your existing taste in music, forever.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

if you ask it to play a specific song/album and it does, they pay full streaming royalties for that song. if you ask it to play something and it mixes together a playlist that's got the same vibes as the song/album you've asked for the that's called "radio" which is virtually free for them, royalties-wise, which is basically the entirety of the pandora business model, and why all the music apps love to autoplay random related music after you finish an album

Looping "For The Love of Money" because you love Donald J. Trump and The Apprentice FTW.

KirbyKhan
Mar 20, 2009



Soiled Meat

lmfao

Paradoxish
Dec 19, 2003

Will you stop going crazy in there?
Stanley would have to be doing something incredibly weird for there to be any lead on the inside of the cup. The issue was that the bottom could fall off and the little lead pellet thing could come out.

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

Bro

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY
There are so many tik tok videos of people testing their cups lol

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry
its going to be such a shitshow i cant wait

reminder: nearly all us financial transaction institutions, banks, and advertisers hate porn. paypal banned OF along time ago, as did almost every other. imgur banned it to try to get more advertiser money (which has been a big failure as well). like half of reddits users are there for simply porn. its going to tumblr itself out of existence. the other half is there to lookup if [x] model of toaster oven is good or what spoke diameter can i use on a giant bike, which is going to become impossible after they push the sh.reddit.com format as the only option which further doom-death spirals it within a year

err
Apr 11, 2005

I carry my own weight no matter how heavy this shit gets...

yeti gang stays winning 💪🏽💪🏽

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

err posted:

zojirushi gang stays winning 💪🏽💪🏽
fixed for betterness

Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005

Xaris posted:

its going to be such a shitshow i cant wait

reminder: nearly all us financial transaction institutions, banks, and advertisers hate porn. paypal banned OF along time ago, as did almost every other. imgur banned it to try to get more advertiser money (which has been a big failure as well). like half of reddits users are there for simply porn. its going to tumblr itself out of existence and is going to push sh.reddit.com format as the only option which further doom-death spirals it within a year

Sounds like NUMBER purifies the impure!

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
I've seen a couple of posts talking about how Trump's tax cuts were "backloaded" so people making under 130k are feeling a pinch this year, which is presumably going to poison the well against Biden once people get less money back on their tax returns

anyone know the story on that?

Mad Wack
Mar 27, 2008

"The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

The Oldest Man posted:

i need to figure out how to do whole-network ad block, it drives me loving nuts that i get youtube ads on my chromecast if i want to watch something on my couch

if you don't wanna run a pihole nextdns can do the same thing

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

gradenko_2000 posted:

I didn't know this, but it makes sense given how much they push their algorithm-powered garbage. If your album or playlist runs out, the next song is something Spotify chooses. If you pick just one song, the next song is something Spotify chooses. If you search for anything, an album or an artist or whatever, the top search results are always something that Spotify generated to try and anticipate your taste.

They added an "AI DJ" last year that's really just an AI-generated voice that plays between sets of three or four songs to talk about what they just played, and what comes next, and it cycles through the algorithm-generated songs that Spotify thinks you like. And that kind of thing is awful for personal taste because it just recycles your existing taste in music, forever.

afaik they also negotiate custom rates with different recording agencies, which means some individual songs are just cheaper to them than others.

In Training
Jun 28, 2008


Hell yes

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

gradenko_2000 posted:

I've seen a couple of posts talking about how Trump's tax cuts were "backloaded" so people making under 130k are feeling a pinch this year, which is presumably going to poison the well against Biden once people get less money back on their tax returns

anyone know the story on that?

they werent backloaded. the individual tax deduction cuts expired 7 years from enactment but the corporate tax cuts were permanent. that's it. its been 7 years

btw, dems could have undone all of that if they wanted to, but they love corporate tax cuts and want more tax cuts

Rauros
Aug 25, 2004

wanna go grub thumping?

thanks to this thread, i checked my healthy human flask. it looks like they replaced the lead solder right after i was gifted mine. the lead mama blog said that the flask has a powder coat and should be safe. i had two pinpoint breaks in the paint over the plug, so i capped it with shoe goo (the only thing I had on hand). after the fact, i found that the best lead paint encapsulation compound should be a flexible polymer, so i'm hoping that's adequate.

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i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Rauros posted:

the lead mama blog

what's up youtube, it's the lead mama back with another cup review, this time for Stanley! we'll really be "plumbing" the depths of this issue, haha! remember to mash that subscribe button

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