greenskye

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[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not familiar with the implementation, so maybe this is incorrect, but does Wendy's tell you when you're paying more or less? If not, my primary issue would be transparency. I know to show up for happy hour or lunch and I know what the prices will be.

I don't want to have to memorize the prices because they quietly bump up everything on the menu by $0.50 at peak meal times everyday for an hour and don't indicate that anywhere.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ok, so data used was:

  • My search history
  • Knows I'm friends with her
  • Knows both of us were in same location (either location or same wifi)

Ergo, friends search data in similar locations will be used as part of your advertising profile?

Wonder why I don't get more makeup ads or something. Since the same should be true for stuff she searches for.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I also believe this isn't true, but did have something happen that we couldn't figure out the other day.

I was looking at this really specialized gaming keyboard on my phone (cyborg gaming keyboard). I showed it to my wife and we talked about it a bit. Later my wife, who's not a gamer and never looks up any of this type of stuff, gets ads for this hyper specific niche gaming keyboard on Facebook. She never looked it up on her phone, she has no signed in accounts on my phone, she is not a target demographic for this device. The only connections possible that I can think of is that Facebook does know we're married (though it's never used that for this sort of ads before) and that we talked about it with her phone in the room.

It was freaky and I still can't explain it.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ok so 1 to... A few hundred? Thousands? Doing pretty well I think.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Binge drinking in celebration of first female president. Then binge drinking because Trump became president instead?

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

Seriously hope this is a 'of those men likely to vote situation'. I mean not voting is bad, but I'd rather that than have my gender prefer trump.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

One tank has the real one. The rest are spray painted kitchenware

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Having done some recent research on the possible effects of an aging population, I think we're all better off with a stable population rather than either a large or small one. China is for sure going to suffer for their one child policy in a few decades. Pretty much every 1st world country is on track for a painful time as their population ages out. The key is to make changes slowly so we don't put too much pressure on one generation.

I agree that humanity as a whole could probably do better with a smaller global population, but even a medium shrinking of population threatens an extreme level of unrest and suffering as too many old people have to be supported by too few working people.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 9 points 6 days ago

Most of those crabs (myself included) are benefiting from very low interest rates on their mortgages. Low enough rates to more than fully offset this one time incentive. So they should just chill and be happy they aren't paying 8% interest or whatever it is these days.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago

Rather than malicious or a scam, this is closer to the class rep promising free vending machines. They don't have the power to give this and they're unlikely to convince the people that do have the power to actually do so.

That's not really better exactly, it's still deceitful, but only because they can't actually deliver, not that they can, but choose not to.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Republicans control a lot of state government positions. It's part of their whole strategy.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sort of like those old Mac vs PC commercials where everyone liked the PC guy more

 

Anyone have any current working solutions? There was a discord and an extension that used to enable exporting chapters, but it's been broken for a while and the discord ('Secret!' is the name) no longer updates with any new content.

Honestly I don't necessarily care about getting it for free, I just want to put the books into a proper epub instead of using their website or shitty app.

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