Shut up friends. My internet browser heard us saying the word Fry and it found a movie about Philip J. Fry for us. It also opened my calendar to Friday and ordered me some french fries.
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Counterpoint: tried the above to make a “good” profile, and also a “basic” profile literally generated from AI as a control.
The basic AI generated profile full of cliches and revealed nothing about me consistently got more attention.
Research has shown that most people overwhelmingly prefer “average” people, so if your goal is just maximising the number of matches then an “interesting” profile is actually worse.
Meron35@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How does Google make money from Gmail, the google calendar, drive or other services when used with third party front ends?3·2 months agoShoshana Zuboff really was ahead of its time. So many people who were privacy conscious and therefore thought they were clever by simply thinking that Google makes money by only selling your data completely missed the scale of manipulation and control big tech has (myself included).
Google/big tech doesn’t sell your data. Google/big tech sells advertisers predictions of your behaviour, a highly refined, processed version of your data. Advertisers cannot purchase your data, only “impressions” or “views.” In an extra sinister twist, Google/big tech then uses it’s resources to manipulate you in ways such that their predictions become true.
This is why their predictions are the best, because after making them, they have a financial incentive to manipulate them into being true. It is why we naturally see more and more polarization, because after Google has sold the prediction that you will engage is a specific type of content (e.g. right ring rabbit holes), it is financially incentivised to make that a reality, and therefore further push you in that direction, to make their prediction true.
How to “improve” prediction using behavior modification - ScienceDirect - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169207022001066
Meron35@lemmy.worldto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Almost as annoying as the windows evangelists8·2 months agoUnregistered hypercam 2 + notepad instructions + evanescence is an aesthetic tho
Meron35@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Which is the cheapest way to manage my body after death ...2·2 months agoAlthough by far the eco friendly option, natural (or direct) burials are still quite expensive, at around $2600. Most of this is related to the cost of the plot itself, and most of the savings come from using a cheaper/no casket.
Direct cremation is generally cheaper, being $800 - $3000, with most options averaging around $2000.
How Much Does A Green Burial Cost? - https://choicemutual.com/blog/green-burial-cost/
What is the average cost of a cremation? - US Funerals Online - https://www.us-funerals.com/what-is-the-average-cost-of-a-cremation/
Meron35@lemmy.worldto Funny: Home of the Haha@lemmy.world•Can't a guy just be curious?183·2 months agoCant believe im posting this.
Octopuses do not have any bones with the exception of their beaks. so if you are responsible and depraved enough to be literally the life support of your 8 limbed friend, you can debeak it like how you’d declaw a cat and then push your member into it’s feed chute.
You can then let it subsist on your baby batter.
The Octopus is smart. Very smart. It will learn that without it’s beak, it cannot feed on anything else but your human seed that has to be milked from you.
Every morning, you will feel your clothes slide off and a damp weight on your lower half.
The sensation creeps up your body until most of the jiggly mass has enveloped the entire length. It will start pumping as fast as it can for it is hungry.
The animal gyrates its empty stomach and the folds of its brain rubbing on your glans, begging for nutrition.
You climax and give the marine creature’s breakfast. The pumping slows down but doesn’t stop to milk out the last few drops of its meal.
Looking into its yellow animal eyes, it looks back with a thousand-yard stare. This will be routine for all of its meals for the rest of it’s 3-5 years on this god forsaken planet.
Meron35@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•~~Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals~~ [see comments]English1·3 months agoKyocera.
Also Japanese, and plenty of cheap generic toners available online. They even publish Linux drivers.
Humans: 🤮
Human genitalia: 🍆💨👃🤤
Meron35@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Couple forced to sit next to dead body on plane for 4 hours after woman dies mid-flightEnglish1·3 months agoBless Singapore and their innovation in shoving humans bodies into cupboards, from domestic workers in apartments to corpses on airplanes
Meron35@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is it possible for a US citizen to open up a bank account in a foreign country and transfer money to it from within the US?9·3 months agoYep, just search for country + banks for expats. Typically a lot of the countries well known for financial services have banks which make it very easy to open a bank account online. They will require you to upload some ID for verification, and provide tax details. Expats (rich white immigrants) do this all the time.
You are not limited to just Canada / Europe either. E.g. Australia: Macquarie Bank Singapore: OCBC Hong Kong: HSBC
Meron35@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Google Forcing Gemini Down Our Throats Feels aLot Like Microsoft and Internet Explorer, But More InsidiousEnglish17·4 months agoAlready happened. It died because it turns out the AI was funneling all of your browsing data to the servers running the AI instead
GPT-AdBlocker for Chrome promises to block all ads, including ads in videos - gHacks Tech News - https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/19/gpt-adblocker-for-chrome-promises-to-block-all-ads-including-ads-in-videos/
Meron35@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Google Forcing Gemini Down Our Throats Feels aLot Like Microsoft and Internet Explorer, But More InsidiousEnglish1·4 months agodeleted by creator
Meron35@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich?4·4 months agoNo, consumption taxes (such as VAT) are generally considered to be regressive, because the rich spend less on consumption relative to their income.
In almost all countries, the top income decile was estimated to have paid a share of their income that is only 60% of what the bottom half pays in consumption taxes.
The inequality impact of consumption taxes: An international comparison - ScienceDirect - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272723000798
On the Creation of N*ggers
When, long ago, the Gods created Earth, In Jove’s fair image Man was shap’d at birth. The beasts for lesser parts were next design’d; Yet were they too remote from humankind. To fill this gap, and join the rest to man, Th’Olympian host conceiv’d a clever plan. A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure, Fill’d it with vice, and call’d the thing a N*GGER.
H.P.LOVECRAFT.
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Meron35@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’English14·4 months agoGo nazi declare bankruptcy
Redpilled? Get killed
Go fash lose cash
Lick boot, lose loot
Go right eat shite
All incel, no braincells
Nazi salute, go destitute
ADL? Common L
Ku Klux? Lose bucks
Go apartheid, all downside
Meron35@lemmy.worldto Futurama @lemmy.world•Futurama's Oldest Mystery SOLVED: Was Nibbler's shadow in the FIRST AIRING of Space Pilot 3000?English121·5 months agoDisenchantment’s plot felt like a D&D campaign where the DM winged it every week.
There’s a reason why most D&D campaigns aren’t adapted into TV shows
Meron35@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Inside Japan's futuristic care homes where robots look after elderlyEnglish5·5 months agoTheir voting system is somehow the worst of both worlds. It’s FPTP for rural seats, but proportional for inner city seats. So conservatives end up sweeping the rural seats, and also steal seats from inner city seats that would have gone to progressives if they have an FPTP system across the whole country.
Madison Cawthorn Says ‘Blackmail Won’t Win’ After Nude Thrusting Video Leaks | HuffPost Latest News - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/madison-cawthorn-leaked-nude-video_n_626d40a7e4b0bc48f57c0a83