AKA: Good Day by Nappy Roots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn8iinkhR3w

You are not immune.

You do, and don’t fool yourself that you don’t.

You probably don’t click on ads, but they stick in your brain. You might see a half-dozen ads for Doritos, and then when you go to the store a week later, you’re slightly more likely to buy Doritos.

The vast majority of advertising is just getting a brand or an idea into the back of your head so when you’re looking for something in that product category, regardless of it’s a VPN, a web host, a snack food, a car, or whatever, you’re going to have a bias towards what you’ve seen in the past.

Most of my ad-blocking isn’t to stop myself from buying some herbal supplement/spray tanner combo, it’s to stop myself from being biased by the capitalist propaganda machine.

I am not immune from advertisements, and neither are you.

Maybe they should report on the facts instead of feelings.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/fbi-releases-2024-quarterly-crime-report-and-use-of-force-data-update

Well you certainly accomplished a lot. I’m proud of you.

I get daily emails reminding me that the company paid for copilot and we should be using it.

That’s cause your eyes skipped the first panel and instantly jumped to panel 2.

The fact that there’s a back would mean that the chair is pushed slightly forward of the others in the group, and therefore awkward to turn and chat with.

My dog has a… pain… in his left arm… paw… that’s making it difficult to type… I mean walk…

YouTube is an entirely different beast. Even if they personally don’t have ads, the platform itself runs ads and provides money to the creators based on those ads (or YouTube Premium subscription fees).

Podcasts don’t usually have a “platform” that supports them, many of them are self-hosted, and the podcast app is just an aggregator with no middleman inserting ads or passing the listener data on to anyone else.

Heck, the fact that RSS feeds in general still exist is amazing and a wonderful way to get an unfiltered source of news, information, and entertainment.

Universe Today, a space news podcast and website, gets almost all their funding through patreon, and without many “exclusive” feeds. Mostly it’s personal Q&As and an ad free feed.

It’s a bit of a rare beast, but their goal is to completely end advertising, and go all listener funding, and they claim they’re close.

But if I join a union, then I might have to pay union dues!!! Getting a 20% raise isn’t worth losing 2% to dues!!!

The research backs up your statement. Especially if you yourself are genuinely interested in the conversation, and also willing to update your own thinking, along with helping get everyone in the conversation to start understanding the real answers.

In case you haven’t listened to it, the You Are Not So Smart podcast covers the topic of how to get people to change on a pretty regular basis. It’s a great podcast that talks a lot about conspiracies, misinformation, and how to combat them.

https://youarenotsosmart.com/podcast/

My favorite part of this podcast is that if you listen to it from the start (nearly 300 episodes at this point), you can hear him slowly become very jaded and pessimistic, but then as the podcast goes on, he starts turning around his opinion and gets exited and optimistic about all the progress that is made. It’s a really great podcast and makes me excited for the future.

Here’s an interesting video from Vsauce2 on the subject - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slc0eAzh-hM

Mathematically unlikely and infinite are extremely different things, and it also depends on what exactly you are looking at when comparing two fingerprints.

If you are going on trial, and comparing a very small patch of fingerprint (2mm x 2mm) found at a crime scene to a spot the same size on a subject’s finger, then it’s possible that you mistakenly matched incorrectly.

If you are comparing an entire set of 10 fingerprints from a previous arrest to a new arrest with 10 fingerprints, then it’s mathematically unlikely that you’re going to mistakenly match.

If an iPhone is looking at a single fingerprint and comparing it to what is stored, then it’s extremely unlikely that any specific person can trick it, but if 100,000 people try, it will probably find a false match at some point, because the accuracy of what is being compared is compromised by the need for speed, and low number of false negatives (the real user needs to be able to log in quickly, and every time, with few failures.)

When saying absolute terms of “every fingerprint is unique” you have to put some qualifiers on it to make it true.

I want a rundown of all the crimes House commits and what % of episodes contain felonies.

Cause they’re certainly missing the “Foreman, break into the dudes house and tell me everything in his crawlspace” scene, and the “Cameron, lie to him and drug him with this non-approved treatment and let’s see if he starts dying quicker or slower.”

Iceland gets the vast majority of its power from geothermal, but this is the first time they’re drilling into an active volcano.

It’ll be an interesting experiment, and hopefully will help bring even more clean energy possibilities to the world.