But replacing Youtube is sadly much harder.

I bet we'll just get better ad blockers.

Getting promoted isn't a race. It's a marketing campaign. The squeaky wheel gets the grease sadly. I hate it but that's the game. You can be great but if the right people don't hear about it it won't bring a reward.

The funny thing is it's a loss for the employer since it means people spend time self-promoting themselves and their achievements instead of just doing things well.

Kodac invented it and predicted the shift to digital but execs buried it because it wouldn't be good for their film business.

TDD: Tantrum Driven Development

Actually that F-14 in the picutre is missing the highly classified [REDACTED] pod which is capable of [REDACTED] up to a distance of [REDACTED] for IR and [REDACTED] for visual targets. /s

I groaned hearing Louis Rossmann recommending Brave during one of his videos about Youtube ads. Firefox uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock would be a better recommendation.

Human traffickers tend to not be very honest.

Checks history

Wait a minute...

Personally, I don't care how good it is, I refuse to use a Chromium-based browser and insist on supporting its only serious competitor: Firefox.

And over the last few years that upfront cost has gone up insanely between everything costing more during COVID and GPU pricing miking gamers first during the crypto craze and now with the AI one.

Its powered by Bing which is meh but I don't mind it so much. If I don't get good results I throw in "#g" in my search and it will run the query with Google.

Everybody wants to be We Chat.

Rich people.

A centralized Lemmy.

No no, it's all part of Putin's 4D-chess masterplan!

[Snorts copium]

And fiction has been key to inspiring the next generation of scientists/engineers. So many NASA people have claimed to be inspired by Star Trek just to pick one.

Yep, have to do all those things all the while it's too hot/humid/cold/wet/dry in some wild random combination.

The downside is that in smaller companies, assholes have a bigger impact on you.

And Russia expected their little venture to be done in days.

There were drafts for the Vietnam shitshow as well.