Ads are a bigger business than you might expect. Get enough eyeballs in one place and brands will be tripping over themselves to give you money just to mention their name. Take the superbowl for example. It’s usually the most viewed event every year in the US, so naturally there is a tradition of advertisers pulling out all the stops and making high-budget bombastic commercials for that specific occasion. You can imagine how attractive it is for brands to want to put their ads on big social media sites, where psychological tricks are used to capture as much attention as possible at all times, instead of just once per year.

Then there’s the user data angle. The big sites all have millions of users who constantly give away personal information without even being prompted, and that makes it really easy for the companies who run them to analyze what makes each user tick and serve ads to the people who are most likely to click on them. This elevates the rate brands are willing to pay even further.

Those two things, along with a suite of anti-competitive practices, are enough to get sites to the point of being mostly profitable. Venture capital and hype-based market speculation get them the rest of the way.

Yup. Oilers and this team have a very similar makeup. USA has has a bunch of players who antagonize the oilers as well.

Binnington coming up big on the PK, let’s gooo

Mcdavid is the closest thing we have to a superhuman

Having both tkachucks immediately taking themselves out of the game is a bold stratagy

There used to be a bot posting game threads last season but the comments were alway deserted. I’ve been waiting for more users to show up so we can have an active discussion here, maybe that time has finally come.

There is a decently active hashtag on mastodon (#HNOM) so I’m thinking I’ll create a game thread for tonight here and invite people on masto to participate and see how it goes.

Does anyone remember the spongebob edits people used to upload in the early days of youtube? Idk if they’re still around but I remember watching the pizza delivery one about 10 times in a row and just dying laughing.

I wonder if any of those videos are still funny, a lot has changed since 2009

Linus himself uses a macbook, I’m sure the mainline kernel has decent support for somewhat recent hardware

Not gonna lie, the performatively anti-vegan rhetoric is cringe af.

Not sure why it’s so popular on lemmy of all places, but there’s been some really terrible behaviour towards vegans whenever I’ve seen the topic pop up. Just flooding the platform with hate particles for absolutely no reason.

Yeah, I really wish people would be a little more tactful when they go on performative tirades like this. It’s giving “old man yells at cloud” energy. Ridiculous behaviour when you think about it. People can block clouds, yelling is worse than useless.

To be totally fair, nostr’s whole thing is that users can delete all of their federated data if they want to, so it makes sense if they are upset about having their data copied to a place they can’t control.

Not sure how realistic that is with the data being publicly accessible via the web, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the they have some kind of license that gives the dmca request the ability to hold a nonzero amount of water. Then again, I wouldn’t be suprised if completely fails, either.

they are idiots that are completely messing everything up including their own plans

Incompetence is one of the hallmark qualities of a fascist government.

Best I got is being in a glider that we had to ditch in a corn field. Hopfully I never have to witness anything worse than that.

until the fentanyl uverdose issue is sorted

Ah yes, make our international relationship dependent on some nebulous, unachievable standard that you just pulled out of your ass. Make us think we’ve been the shitty trade partner and give us the cold shoulder until we prove how much we really want this.

Trump is coming up with excuses after the fact and trying to blame us for his own toxic behaviour. Textbook abuser nonsense.

Nope, I blocked and forgot about it too. Defed away!

That sounds like an issue with people, not with the tax.

Purely because of the painter’s outfit, I thought I was looking at a poorly photoshopped star trek meme at first.

I love Jon Stewart but I think he’s a little off base with this take. Are we supposed to not call out the overtly fascist stuff the government is doing? Will that get more people to listen the next time we have to call out an overtly fascistic act or will we have to hold our tongue then, as well? How many grannies need to be eaten and impersonated by wolves before we’re allowed to move past the “ooh what sharp teeth you have” crap?

With fascism especially, if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. The people going through life like everything is fine are implicitly supporting the fascism. I’m not going to stop yelling about how a pack of wolves has taken over the government, just because some people think the word is overused.

Jets are legit scary this year. They don’t appear to have a weakness. And they can score goals like that. Definitely jumping on the bandwagon if my oily boys get bounced.

My brain accepted this new piece of information and immediately tried to recalibrate my sense of wellbeing based on how much time I spend playing cozy games.

So there was a bizarre moment where I felt positively dandy.

Did anyone else get a mental health buff just from reading this headline?