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Haven't used Pandora since like 2008, but I had my demos set up honestly, 20 year old man, and the ads I got were upcoming tours and albums for bands that were on the playlist (mostly metal). So, genuinely helpful. I got bored and switched the setting a 16 year old girl. Same music, but ads were almost 100% wedding stuff. Got bored again and set it to 100 year old woman, same music, all ads for SUVs.
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# ¿ Mar 23, 2020 13:43 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 11:35 |
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withak posted:That is exactly why those magnets comes with a million warning labels. Honestly if I had a bunch of neodymium magnets sitting around I'd be constantly trying to come up with dumb poo poo to do with them and probably go to the hospital for it at least a few times.
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# ¿ Mar 30, 2020 16:11 |
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:im the implication that the underlying notions can be accurately quantified, measured, and graphed like they’re stonks I'm the USAF playing coy about the existence of the Israeli nuclear program.
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# ¿ Apr 2, 2020 14:49 |
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Who's up for submitting false reviews of cops etc?
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# ¿ Apr 8, 2020 04:33 |
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LastInLine posted:i don't know how many have seen the Better Off Ted episode "Racial Sensitivity" where Veridian Dynamics replaces all their switches with ones that can't see black people, but the company I work for has always had switches like these in our bathrooms. I got done peeing about six weeks ago and there's a black guy moving from sink to sink trying to get water to wash his hands so I leaned over and activated the sensor for him (it's a wall mounted sensor, not under the faucet). It's a pretty cyberpunk show over all. I don't remember episode names but the one about chairs that give people nervous breakdowns was great.
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# ¿ Apr 8, 2020 19:11 |
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Lemniscate Blue posted:And one quarter horse. That's what they mean by "Arabian"
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# ¿ Apr 9, 2020 14:03 |
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Smithfield is, unsurprisingly, exceptionally bad to its workersNo Shortcuts chapter 5, by Jane McAlvey posted:
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# ¿ Apr 24, 2020 19:05 |
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:To be fair, this describes most of the AAA video game industry. I mean yes, but they are considered exceptionally bad even inside that group.
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# ¿ Apr 28, 2020 23:47 |
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Taeke posted:Lol you don't even have to call out a hit on someone you want to assassinate, just have the police do it for you Single Payer, but hitmen instead of healthcare.
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# ¿ Apr 30, 2020 19:13 |
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Blockade posted:This trend of politicians and media giving agency to software as a way to transfer risk of being called a racist sure is something. This is 100% how welfare approval/denial works now "Sorry, you're just not eligible for benefits. Computer said so, I don't know why"
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# ¿ May 8, 2020 19:52 |
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Serf posted:making air travel so much of a hassle that it can no longer be done would be pretty great Did you notice the part where the guy going to Brunei got to skip the whole thing?
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# ¿ May 14, 2020 17:51 |
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Every week, planes drop 14.7 million sterilized screwworms over the rainforest that divides [Panama and Colombia]
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# ¿ May 29, 2020 21:34 |
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Cuntellectual posted:I'm dumb how does dropping sterilized ones help? The other ones waste time mating with them? Not just time - screwworm females can only mate once, so they produce 0 fertile offspring from 400ish eggs if they mate with a sterile male. efb Tulip has issued a correction as of 02:33 on May 30, 2020 |
# ¿ May 30, 2020 02:28 |
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The Bloop posted:This poo poo is dumb That's very obviously not the point of that tweet and I don't know how you were so far off mark.
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# ¿ May 31, 2020 22:10 |
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https://mobile.twitter.com/alexcollyard/status/1267265346014191616
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# ¿ Jun 1, 2020 05:39 |
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"To reform education, we must defeat teacher's unions so that we can institute merit pay and pay teacher's more!" *hires a bunch of nonunion teachers at way under the union rate* "My work here is done."
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# ¿ Jun 16, 2020 20:43 |
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chairface posted:He knows the rioters won't bother him. The Deliverers are sacred, have been since the plague started. Food delivery, grocery delivery, even old school players like parcel delivery companies and the post office; all had been drafted to bring America its hamburgers, electronics, toys, gadgets and groceries. All had served and were regarded universally as heroes, sacred. But most important of all, everything the protected and idolized Deliverers carried was ordered and paid for via the Metaverse. Hideo Kojima being right again.
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# ¿ Jun 17, 2020 18:03 |
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GWBBQ posted:This is the essence of everything Elon Musk does. Also, I want windshield wipers that sync with the beat of the music you're listening to. Don't propose good ideas.
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# ¿ Jun 18, 2020 22:23 |
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Platystemon posted:I’m going to start a place that’s like one of those axe‐throwing ranges or an escape room, but it’s just kicking the poo poo out of doors. Sounds fun as gently caress.
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# ¿ Jul 2, 2020 04:25 |
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Platystemon posted:The angriest I’ve ever made a person on this forum is when I coöpted The New Yorker’s practice of using diæreses to denote distinct vowels. Listen They were right.
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# ¿ Jul 4, 2020 01:52 |
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Koishi Komeiji posted:Yeah, he gave a speech that can be summed up as "don't riot, vote." I Lost a lot of respect for him when he did that. Voter Mike
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# ¿ Jul 4, 2020 18:04 |
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Uber effectively loses money as it expands so pulling out of Denmark was probably one of its rare sound financial decisions.
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# ¿ Jul 10, 2020 13:13 |
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https://autoblow.com/automoblow/
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# ¿ Jul 12, 2020 14:13 |
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bike tory posted:What in the actual gently caress are they thinking "Hey I just watched this movie the other night, 'Brazil,' about how good it is to have algorithms run everything."
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# ¿ Jul 14, 2020 00:47 |
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Are they suggesting that I punch my tablet to bits? And that the only thing that's stopped me is that my hands are too soft? If that's so: sure I'm in.
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# ¿ Jul 14, 2020 21:28 |
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Platystemon posted:Fifteen kilometres? We're almost 20 years past doing telesurgery at 6000km.
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# ¿ Jul 15, 2020 06:58 |
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Nothus posted:The future is like gattaca, but stupider. The main political faultline of the future will be between "strict eugenicists" and "eugenicists, with some feudal privileges for the already powerful." uber_stoat posted:twitter didn't know how to stop the hack so they're stopping every verified account from tweeting. literally no blue check tweets to be seen at the moment. The only hacking left in the world is stealing bitcoins. It is an extremely lame cyberpunk dystopia.
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# ¿ Jul 16, 2020 00:28 |
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https://thehardtimes.net/blog/strapped-gopro-bee-see-bees-dying-boy-find-quick/
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# ¿ Jul 20, 2020 22:51 |
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redleader posted:these have 100% already been designed and used by intelligence agencies Adding extra listening devices to a society where everybody communicates using apps that are basically mainlining their records straight to intelligence services is really kind of just adding superfluous expenses.
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# ¿ Jul 21, 2020 01:30 |
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Frog Act posted:
I think the part where every actual operation is "?" adds up.
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# ¿ Jul 22, 2020 18:43 |
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:on the contrary, the vision described in the link is extremely utopian. i mean, theoretically it would be amazing if everyone in the world could do a psychic mind meld with one another, we could trust one another and communicate ideas so much better, etc. the dystopian part of course is how it would play out in a reality when nobody will ever log off of The Internet of Brains The dystopian aspect, to me at least, is that this is being developed of by and for the most powerful, so instead of an egalitarian instrumentality where each person has an equal say, your power inside the system will be proportional to either your perceived or desired power as evaluated by capitalists. Really I think Elon wants people to stop making fun of him and instead of "shutting up" he's going for "neurochemically enforce loving Elon."
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# ¿ Jul 22, 2020 19:17 |
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Breetai posted:It's a moot point because this is laughably advanced science fiction technology that is nowhere near being implemented in our lifetimes and despite the protestation of tech nerds who can't wait for the singularity to make being obscenely rich and terminally white even better than it is now, ol' Musky stands about as much chance of innovating a working model to those lofty specifications as I do. Don't beat yourself up, I'm sure you'd do a better job.
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# ¿ Jul 22, 2020 22:40 |
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mysterious frankie posted:Musk doesn’t seem so much smart or clever as he is rich from birth, enthusiastic, and lacking any tendency to reflect on the moral implications of following through on trains of thought. Like, he went “Rampant unchecked capitalism is destroying the environment and causing humanity to slowly boil in its own worry-sweat; there’s gotta be a company I could buy to make a buck in that racket! People will pay attention to me too! It’ll be fun!” You make him sound like the kind of guy who destroys planets in the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.
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# ¿ Jul 23, 2020 00:34 |
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HiroProtagonist posted:Jesus loving Christ lmao I did recruiting for about two years, and the open ended questions were incredibly useful because some people couldn't answer "So why did you leave this position" without getting extremely racist or misogynistic. It is extremely funny that they're trying to predict job hopping and not "will be awful to work with."
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# ¿ Jul 23, 2020 17:44 |
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Subjunctive posted:wonder if I could get a paper published that correlated job hopping to the market-percentile of salary for the position Hell, I'd be interested in working on that. I'm pretty sure I've seen the vast majority of that data on BLS.
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# ¿ Jul 23, 2020 21:16 |
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I remember hearing other people in recruiting say that they tried to avoid hiring people who held positions for less than a year on average and I'd just say "wait, the position you're trying to fill is three months maximum."
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# ¿ Jul 24, 2020 00:42 |
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Rutibex posted:they want people who are capable of lying to get ahead. if you can't even lie on your resume for some lovely 3 month job then you are not Misery Corp material lol it's literally the first thing I tell anybody who asks me for job hunting advice: lie. Your default should be to lie. The only things to not lie about are things that you'd get called out on easily - don't lie about like, scheduling or verifiable certifications. But otherwise, don't respect people whose whole job is to underpay you.
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# ¿ Jul 24, 2020 01:38 |
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Hodgepodge posted:the most important thing about job hunting is realizing that your friend who offers to pretend to be a former employer so you can add him to your resume knows exactly how it's done "sorry to bother you" tells 0 lies
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# ¿ Jul 24, 2020 02:47 |
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Splicer posted:You've misunderstood the doomer mindset. It's not just "Nothing will ever change, we're hosed", it's also "Nothing changes until things get super hosed". Serfs are no longer bound to their duke's land because the black plague annihilated europe, there weren't enough serfs to go round, and suddenly it was a serf's market*. "The oceans can't boil away fast enough" is both "Hooray we're all going to die" and "Maybe those left will actually get their poo poo together". The black plague didn't lead directly to rising wages, and in fact England had a law on the books locking wages to pre-plague that was enforced for several decades (including with loving branding!). Rising wages, at least in England, resulted from the 1381 Peasant's Revolt, solidly 30 years after the Black Death hit England. Change wasn't because a bunch of peasants died, but because those peasants dragged officials and lawyers out of their towers and killed them.
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2020 16:57 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 11:35 |
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Platystemon posted:Here’s a good longform article about the Black Death, the Renaissance, and the Coronavirus, bur mostly about the Renaissance. Ex Urbe's good. The 50% drop in life expectancy over 200 years is so goddamn brutal.
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2020 17:14 |