Feels good to see someone else bringing this up before I have a chance to! Hopefully it feels even better to see it in about 6 months

France shares its longest land border with Brazil

Honestly, people love to shit on the PT Cruiser but at least it tried to be a little different - arguably in a cool retro way!

May this be the beginning of the end, or at least the end of the beginning. Quite possibly with a bubble burst so we can move on from the era of slop (am I being too optimistic?)

But how should a singer who produces an album, or an author who writes a book, or whatever be compensated? Its popularity isn’t really known until after it’s published, it’s not really fair for a damn good writer to get paid the same as someone who produces slop.

To be fair electricity is kind of the only thing where that works, and has only recently become a mainstream thing. I can’t really dig a well and sell my water back to the water company or make my own TV channels

Maybe I need sleep, but this one had me laughing on the couch like a giant idiot.

I’m not dead yet!

Canadian bacon comes from the back (as in, near the back bone) of the pig. Ham comes from the other back (as in, the butt)… Which isn’t to be confused with the pork butt (also called pork shoulder) from the front, typically used for pulled pork.

Agreed, but uh… Nobody’s* (as in, nobody is. Not plural of nobody)

Well, I’m not talking about cameras. I’m asking about my oven not because I think I shouldn’t care about it, but because I genuinely want to know why I should. Like, I can’t imagine some algorithm is saying “guys, this guy set his oven to 350 an hour before dinner, we got him!”

Didn’t it start ages ago with some nominal monthly/yearly fee, like 99 cents? This was before I started using it, but I could swear it had a fee before Meta bought it and through that time it did build up a pretty significant user base.

What time you usually cook, so the best time to show you other advertisements

I guess I can grant you that they would learn that I eat dinner around dinner time, maybe a little later than most but also not abnormally so.

or if you’re in the store once super targeted customer by customer pricing gets implemented (it’s already in place in many locations)

I’ve seen that stores want to be able to adjust prices based on time of day or whatever, and my store has mostly switched to eink price labels so it’s a matter of time… But per person? How are they supposed to offer one price to me and another to someone reaching for the gallon of milk at the same time?

Honest question though: what of real value can a company gain by knowing that I turned my oven to 350, or that I switched my air conditioning on? Assuming app permissions match what’s needed and I’m not giving up my contacts or whatever. Or is that a more common issue than I realize?

As (currently) the only other person to reply to that net-upvoted comment, pretty much that. I also did not up- or downvote

Which isn’t even called the iWatch

I mean, he is stepping down from that position but will continue to be with the company. If the headline just said he’s stepping down it could imply that he’s leaving entirely which would not be true.

Mostly I’ve heard that we were on the brink of being nuked by the weapons we obliterated a few months ago

Sure, but a good chunk will suddenly stop caring because Daddy told them to 😔

Sure, but there was also a time where companies tried to make that profit by providing good products and enjoyable experiences customers wanted, rather than simply being a monopoly where users can choose between an obscene amount of ads or yet another subscription