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milking the whales. they all do it.. it's very lucrative and very immoral:

find the most addicted gamblers with big bags on your platform (it's in the metrics) and target them specifically

they assign personal handlers to 'work with them' , to keep them hooked and squeeze as hard as possible

it's profitable to have devs build custom games for individual users, tuned to their specific behavior..

it's a vile industry

emergency blankets works great and are cheap too

however, you get even better cooling with a coating that radiates the heat, it cools below the air temperature which feels so wrong

NighthawkInLight on YouTube has explored this and created recipes, the results still feel impossible to my intuition

compromise at a third-party vendor allowed hackers to inject malicious code into its website

this gets often overlooked

Kate from marketing has full permission on Google tag manager.. phish her and inject whatever you want into the website.

And if Kate doesn't have access, the ad agency supporting the marketing department certainly will.

Midjourney Medical 1 month ago

Not a joke, they really think that doing billions of full body scans will reduce healthcare costs and make people less anxious.

Any scientist not on the payroll will tell you the opposite. You will get millions of false positives, causing anxiety and unnecessary interventions. This has been studied extensively and we have the stats.

I too wish I could just jump into a machine every month and it declares me free of cancer. Instead it will find new irregularities every time with no easy way to confirm it's benign. This idea does not work.

That is exactly what is happening.

Records of environmental data are a huge pain in the ass for those invested in fossil energy and adjacent industries.

The truth is hurting business and they seem to be going on a rampage actively killing it at the roots. Stop collecting and recording data, destroy and hide the existing data and close the institutions.

It's not about being searchable, it simply gets more clicks because of our stupid human brain. That's why there is a surprised face on half of them.

It makes a noticeable financial difference for creators and almost everyone seems to have accepted it.

Unfortunately, I agree.

Just 60 per cent of long-distance German trains arrive on time, down from 84 per cent two decades ago.

If that's from the official statistics, it's even worse. The definition of 'on time' has expanded (6 minutes late is perfectly punctually and on time, right?) and they stopped counting trains that are too late by simply canceling them. If the train is not running, it cant be late. Brilliant.