Ertebolle

joined 1 year ago
[–] Ertebolle@kbin.social 46 points 11 months ago (38 children)

xkcd still has the best approach to this; four random common words

[–] Ertebolle@kbin.social 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The tourist-y parts of it are pretty much all newly rebuilt anyway; there's not much of the original wall left at Mutianyu or Simatai or wherever.

[–] Ertebolle@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or - as many of us hope for - we manage to make the economics of the fediverse work (don't forget to support your instances, people) and the most valuable users move to blissful ad-free places like Lemmy and Mastodon.

Indeed, throw in open-source AI (thanks, weirdly, to Zuckerberg) and Wikipedia and you can start to see the contours of a post-advertising internet.

[–] Ertebolle@kbin.social 216 points 1 year ago (47 children)

I love how everybody is so busy about mining your behavior for ad tracking data and then like 2/3 of the ads I actually see are utterly irrelevant gut doctor / toenail fungus / 17 Most Embarrassing Topless Celebrity Moments crap.

(I think the reality is that they're mining that data to identify a small number of people susceptible to high-value scams - like getting addicted to an F2P mobile game and spending $1000s on it - and the rest of us just get generic infill)

[–] Ertebolle@kbin.social 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The good news is that Iceland won't have to go around apologizing for its name anymore.

[–] Ertebolle@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Mostly in the northwest but yeah - 95 sightings this year, you can even track them on a map on the DEEP website.

[–] Ertebolle@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

They mentioning Maine up in here

[–] Ertebolle@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A Møøse once bit my sister...

[–] Ertebolle@kbin.social 175 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Can I get a 'fuck spez'

[–] Ertebolle@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can't wait until my King Arthur AI-Generated Flour turns out to be a 5 pound bag of uncut cocaine.

[–] Ertebolle@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

One thing that would go a long way in helping with that would be if we improved the quality of urban schools / parks to the point where fewer people felt like they had to move to the suburbs to start families.

[–] Ertebolle@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

I hope they make it - snow leopards seem to be in the gray area in between endangered species which humans can + will spare no expense to keep alive, like pandas and kakapo, and endangered species that are almost certainly done for, like the Vaquita and the Javan rhinoceros.

 

Starfield players looking for how to fix a bug that breaks guns figured out changing their character's gender is a solution.

 

The predatory blue crabs are devouring stocks of eels, clams, and mussels and wreaking havoc on fishing nets.

 
 
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