You only say that because juries found him liable for sexual assault and fraud.

If you earned 15 dollars a second and worked 24 hours a day from the day Julius Caesar died to today, you still wouldn't have earned a trillion dollars.

You can still target ads based on location, but you do it through targeted content like they used to, which also g9ves us more diverse content.

When a local business wanted to put an ad out and didn't want to go nationwide, they'd advertise in the local paper. Now they just pay Google to target people, which is why 90% of local news has died.

TV and radio managed just fine for years without targeted ads. They targeted the ads based on the content. Saturday morning cartoons advertised toys and ceral. Daytime TV advertises medicare advantage plans for retirees. Country radio advertises white hoods or whatever.

Meanwhile, subscription services without ads also made money.

Targeted ads were never necessary. Outlaw them and the internet and media companies won't disappear.

No - they compete with all the others to see who can get away with paying the least.

The good die young and ducks live forever.

I used to work in a municipality that had a fee of $2000/caliper inch for illegally removed trees and placed a conservation easement over the critical root zone, preventing the developers from being able to just cut down the tree and pay the fee.

He should be imprisoned for many reasons, but the cutting off Starshield/Starlink to Ukraine to keep its defensive drones from intercepting Russian jet drones should see him in front of a firing squad.

It's hockey. Punching someone in the face is how you express your feelings.

If it didn't do the AInsearch repeatedly they couldn't use the billions of daily searches to artificially boost their AI engagement metrics and further inflate this bubble.

I didn't know we had time travelers from the 1920s on Lemmy!

They're getting pretty common. It's a steel barrel sleeved in a cf wrap. They're lightweight and strong and the cf insulates the barrel. It's more common for hunting rifles where the barrel itself is exposed and more likely to burn the shooter through handling than an AR which will have a handguard.

A family is a group of people you're forced to be a part of that expects you to drop everything at a moment's notice and help them with minimal compensation if any.

That's exactly how your boss wants you to view the company.

It did not include the insurrection, which is why the case was never dismissed by the Court.

One of the most damning pieces of evidence that's rarely discussed is that Trump had his personal and campaign lawyers in the meetings surrounding the attempt to change the election, but specifically excluded the official White House counsel. That means he was acting as Candidate Trump and not President Trump.

I used to work at Cabela's back in the day, and I got pretty good discounts on store-brand products, which is why for years I drove a trick with Cabela's tactical floormats.

It isn't a decent Word clone if it isn't shitty software.

The water is pretty bad though.

EA installed managers of the company who had backgrounds in Major League Gaming and EA's mobile gaming division. THEN they pitched a live service game. Most of the remaining members of the old guard left within months of Anthem's announcement.

Yep. I hate Adobe, but Photoshop and Lightroom really are excellent products.

I love FOSS suites. I generally use Inkscape over Illustrator when I can, even though I have a full Creative Cloud license. I use QGIS frequently over ArcGIS even though I have ESRI. I use stone tablets and my own blood over Word because fuck Word.

But GIMP just doesn't do it.

EA forced them to make a live service game that failed. Then they tried to make them make a live service Dragon Age game. They decided to change Veilguard back to single-player, but late enough in the development cycle that it impacted the final product.

Andromeda was a technical mess at launch, but the game itself was fine. It was the weakest in the series, but they tried new stuff with the spinoff and I appreciated the attempt.

The only game they made before that I truly disliked was Dragon Age II.