I definitely bought a lot of things because of ads. Not directly though, I don’t go around clicking on online ads even if one slips through the blocker.

Just being exposed to the idea that some product exists is an ad. Reviews and comparisons. Seeing a brand name in the wild. A product being recommended by someone I consider an authority in that specific field.
It all provenly works on me.

And I don’t really regret it, how else would I even find out what exists? Go to the store and just buy whatever the seller recommends? Did people do that in the past before mass advertising?

Edit: I just realized this is exactly what Amazon is trying to do. Push generic “amazon option” products which have no independent sales outside of the platform.

• Great I just ordered 6 boxes of Chilean rose
• You mean Chilean rosé, right? … please tell me you mean Chilean rosé

They were also banned in the 1920s. It just took a war with several million dead to discredit them. And now 80 years later they’re back, despite still being banned.

Reminder of a lesson repeating again and again throughout history: banning twitter will make them more powerful.
Legislating against it legitimizes it and gives it a boost - “why would they ban it if they weren’t dangerous for speaking the truth?”

nobody would ever need therapy again

Chat GPT is wonderful as a search engine for SO. It regurgitates the answers in a format easier to incorporate into your own project.

The thing I’m worried about is a lack of new answers. You need data to train an LLM, what to do if nobody is producing it?

Joining Chile to Spain would probably cause a disaster in the sales of La Rioja wines. I get your point. Chilean wines are amazing. And they make more than cheap wine, they make good wine too.

Petition to move Chile to the Atlantic -->

Are you suggesting crows are not proud of it?

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Men have already long been abused by the patriarchy alongside with women. In the last couple of years the so-called “liberals” claiming to fight against the patriarchy have joined in the abuse by denying men any escape from that situation

Was this written by the mentioned multi-layer perceptron?

Nah, Israel is a loser too even if Netanyahu and his supporters don’t understand it. Israel has more enemies than ever.

English is long overdue for a spelling reform, but just taking all fancy looking characters from other germanic languages is not the way

Makes sense from manufacturing and business perspective to refresh your offer every year. It doesn’t have to be a huge improvement, but technology slowly advances, there might be a better or cheaper manufacture for some components, etc.

On the other hand there no reason for any individual to be buying a new phone so often. Software support must be a thing - there’s no reason for a phone to become obsolete after 2 years because of the software. It’s a computer, you can update the OS almost indefinitely.

Meanwhile old Iskra and Sloboda Čačak vacuum cleaners: “puny mortals I will exist until the heat death of the universe”

The only thing changed between photos is clothing and pose. Is that gender? Well maybe it is, but it’s useless for classification.

It’s good to have competition. Dropbox has to rethink their plan if they want to keep existing

Many companies and investors laugh at the idea of dividends, believing that stock price is the only thing that matters

Fentanyl - ruining the pleasure of enjoying safe drugs since 2014