that’s scary how dementia works :'(

Sorry 'bout that

Because a lot of countries are actually eating the costs. I hate it. My governmemt is speaking of buying more american weapons in exchange for lowered tarifs…

Everyone should have adblocker. It is the moral thing to do. Ads are badly supporting creators as it promotes a race to the clickbaitiest, and centralisation around plateforms that can do arbitrary censorship. Just let the add business-model crumble and what will remain will be qualitatively better.

Just a guess about what a world withour ad-supported platforms could look like:

There will be fewer 4k videos of everything. But there will be options to pay for great content that is not made to boost your dopamine and is better for creators. Collaborative tools like wikipedia will strive, and we will see a return to blogs as a way to share knowledge freely as it requires little ressources to host. LLM generated blogs will disappear as there will be little incentive for the publisher. The cost of hosting and computer hardware will drop as we’ll use way less ressources with low quality addictive content (that are used as a vehicle for ads)

You guys get ICE recruitment ads ??? what the heck

Thank you for your assessement

Those gates are coming to switzerland too. Example: The food section of Coop-city Fribourg, and the Migros of the train-station in Fribourg.

Would releasing the Epstein files matter in anyway for Trump? Everyone that can be swayed by evidence already knows Trump is in there…

And the stuff the republicans are doing is terrible in it’s own rights, saying “don’t care, release the Epstein files” seems to be downplaying the situation.

I am open to being taught like a five year old, how continued focus on the Epstein files is a good progressive strategy.

There is also Sense in Frieren! So she was not the last!

Edel, is that you?

I am blessed and honoured. Thanks!

That’s the same order of magnitude, so still correct!

4% is 1/25. 75 is 3*25. so the answer is 3!

I don’t know if it makes sense to include switzerland. There is a mandatory health insurance. Is this really what “universal health coverage” means?

Hmmm, even if we allow for empirical scientific evidence, is there a non weird way he knows about the sperm count in the semen of adolescents? I hope he’s making shit up because the alternative is a lot grosser

quote of the day: “Bikes allow us terrestrial folk to be more like fish.”

Male body letsgo!

I guess it’s mostly because companies that don’t try to grow are eventually pushed into irrelevance by companies that do. So most companies you hear about are growth oriented.

In some sense it can be good for consumers. If you have a nice idea for consumers, it’s good that you are able to reach more of them or become more efficient in doing so.

Also, to start a business you need money. You can get money from investors, but they expect either interests on the loan, or that you grow so that their share is worth more. The latter is attractive, because you don’t have to pay interests that can weigh your company down. But then the value of your company is almost defined by it’s potential for growth. If you then decide not to grow anymore, this will tank the value of the company, and you might be stuck with a huge pile of stinking debt.

I am offended because there is something that looks like a swiss flag. It probably has another symbolism, but I don’t like my country being associated to the KKK

Blasphemy! I am not from france but switzerland! (just kidding I am not upset about it)

I get the comparaison with Polytechnique