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500,000 protesters against Vucic out of a population of 6.6 million! That's like 25 million Americans marching against Trump. piaille.fr/@le_pere_peinard/11…
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Il semblerait que l'ensemble de la capitale serbe soit dans la rue ce soir pour protester contre le régime de Vucic.
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Tribal colleges and universities, which ProPublica last year found are perpetually underfunded by Congress, say it’s illegal to withhold financial support from them.
I hope each one of these students have someone they know who voted for Trump that they can scream at and blame for what happened to them.
Don't go to Thanksgiving if that person is present. There should be no forgiveness until we are through this. Each inch closer to fascism should cost these fucks dearly.
I think we're well beyond the definition of "cost-cutting", no matter how hard you try to stretch it. This is cold-blooded, hatchet-wielding repression.
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I call this coming attractions. 🐱 I do not yet have a cat living with me, but I am getting ready for one. I bunch of things are being shipped here. For example, this six level cat tower. Nearly 100lbs (45kg) dry cat food, along with 60 cans of wet cat food. 2 littler boxes (one traditional, one enclosure). 1 stainless steal water fountain (cats like moving water). 2 large stainless steal food dishes.
Paper work too since the property management says we needed rental insurance with liability. Being I do not like leaving anything to chance, 100,000 property with 500,000 liability should be enough.
And this is all before a cat steps foot in here. So many folks "wing it" (do not plan ahead) before taking on the responsibilities of owning a pet. I would rather avoid that whenever possible.
Before anyone ask, no, that is not the final location of the cat stand.
Larry Kudlow interviews Elon Musk, and this is what regret looks like.
Throwing your entire brand value down the drain and halving the value of your car company while your rockets are blowing up, is clearly not the joyride Musk hoped for.
Tesla, SpaceX founder and CEO and Department of Government Efficiency advisor Elon Musk on the alleged X cyberattack, spending 'fraud' targeted by DOGE and h...
Regret is an emotion and I don’t think sociopaths really have those. As other parts of the interview show he’s horribly inarticulate, so hard to read anything into his affect. Also remember that he’s high on ketamine much of the time and sleeps only a couple of hours a night. And if I’m wrong and he does have regrets it’s only because he’s not as obscenely rich as he was. Not because of all the people he’s killing in Africa with his USAID cuts.
I like a lot about the ariya's design, I'm glad they added a heat pump and fixed the battery problems, but they shouldn't've made an SUV. they should stop making SUVs
I once was close to such an accident. It was some old guy who had automatic transmission and confused gas and brake. Or forward and backward, in any case he thought that "more of the same" was the right solution. His Merc jumped up a fence.
if someone would’ve been standing there, about to cross to the other side of the street, that bollard wouldn’t had done much. It seems to be designed as a ramp for the car.
Having once hung up a military 4WD vehicle on a tree stump, I can confirm that this is, in fact, exactly what happens when a moving car hits an object like this which is solid enough to resist the impact - thanks to the conical shape the force is directed upwards & runs out of stump before the car runs out of forward momentum, eh presto... 😬
In Deutschland sind lange Wartezeiten für Behördentermine keine Seltenheit. Eine Recherche von funk zeigt, wie diese Not gezielt ausgenutzt wird. Betroffen sind zumeist ausländische Staatsbürger.
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I find this problematic: Today I embed a Toot in my website, tomorrow the content of the Toot is changed and my website shows something totally unrelated, or even contradicting.
In order to embed a Toot, I need a hardlink to a version which does not change anymore. Otherwise it's a screenshot for me, and a link to the Toot.
There used to be the advantage of making the embedded post more interactive and accessible. Unfortunately it looks like they have removed these features 😞
Together with the unreported bug, wish I'd picked a different tip to feature today 😦
What's life like in advertising these days? When I was a child you could buy a commercial during the Saturday morning cartoons to sell your toy (or buy the whole cartoon) and you could put your car commercial on during the Evening News.
And you'd reach most of your "demographic."
But now? a maze of influencers and fragmented media (I don't think influencers really matter much, they are just the most familiar item in the new landscape for advertisers.)
The ability to hold a big audience in the millions of a predictable demographic is deeply sought after. To me that just seems like trying to wind the clock back to the 80s when things were simple.
Social media plays a huge role here, and that is exactly why I think we should promote the idea that advertising on social media is as rude as advertising at a funeral or bat mitzvah.
Oh and to be clear I don't really count someone selling things they made by talking about them, or saying "I wrote this book" or whatever as "offensive" advertising.
In fact, it is the only way that promotion should function along side people talking about stuff and criticism.
advertising back in the day was heavy on correlative data to determine success.
Advertising today gives has more direct cause and affect traceability for ROAS (return on ad spend) especially in the form of online advertising, direct marketing, and SEO. Happy to dive deep into this stuff with you if you want.
However to be honest, as far as I know, all this "improvement" hasn't really lead to any sort of decrease in marketing spend as a function of gross revenue.
My soap boxy thing is that a lot of people in marketing departments today want to think they're being very quantitative but in reality they're really bad at it and lack a lot of functional skill. As a result a lot of departments no longer deep dive into customer personas and demographic focused messaging.
Everyone just wants to do scattershot marketing to hit kpis but pretend they're not.
@grumpasaurus To be fair, there's also the story of how someone (Uber?) halved their ad spend, bracing themselves to see what effect it had, and... nothing happened, there was no perceptible change
Apparently the more direct metrics were so dominated by fraud that they were meaningless
feel free to ignore if this isn't the conversation you're looking for, but in my opinion all advertising is rude - we have the Internet now so we no longer need help finding products. It serves no socially useful purpose and should be simply banned. "simply" lol
I would be delighted if there were more restrictions on advertising:
* It should always be labeled "This is a paid advertisement." * It should not target children, gamblers or make outlandish claims. * It should not be on social media or built into apps. * It should be subject to an obnoxious public review process.
Everything would just be better. People will pay for entertainment and games.
remember the old days where they had the “Best Commercial” shows. Ads were actually entertaining! They should be entertaining, to make me seek out the product, and associate that enjoyable experience with the thing. Instead these days ads have become *required*, I think that’s the thing that irritates me most.
@futurebird@sauropods.win@sauropods.win @hjwp@fosstodon.org@fosstodon.org The industry doesn't want to pay attention to the study that shows people who block ads don't just buy better stuff, they're happier in general. Most people in the USA report they're running an ad blocker now blog.zgp.org/b-l-o-c-k-in-the-…
@hjwp Also the "advertising" that people are blocking today is different from what "advertising" used to be. Fewer agency people, doing more ads each, means that each ad carries less info on brand quality and reputation, and it makes more sense to block them
Michael Farmer, author of 'Madison Avenue Manslaughter' and consultant summarises the thoughts and recommendations from the 'Agency Business Models' workstre...
We have let out sales staff go. We no longer rely on Advertising for main income. We do get some money from Government ads.
Our main income streams are now training and production. We do some promotion of artists for festivals, but it's programming rather than ads (eg. Interviews)
Selling Ads was nearly impossible. TV ads are dead, they just don't know it yet.
I listen to a lot of podcasts and, in the last two years specifically, the number of minutes spent advertising has at least doubled. I think there is a correlation with the 'end' of the pandemic, big companies sort of realized that there are no "everybody watches" platforms any more and seem to be scrambling.
I even get new ads when I relisten to old episodes of podcasts, so they are up cycling ads everytime!
I still think nothing that needs advertising is worth buying.
WTF?? I buy a car once every twenty or so years, I hope each year that it won't have to be this year, and when I do eventually need to buy a car the models, or even the brands, that have been advertised to me over the decades will no longer exist.
What *is* the point of showing me SEVERAL MINUTES of car ads every time I watch telly? Is the targeting really that bad? And it's not that they know when my car is finally going to break down, because it's been going on for years.
I'm on the anti side of this. In 1999 I wrote an app called Ad Extinguisher. I cannot read while something is moving on the screen, so have gone to a lot of trouble over the years to avoid that. Have pretty well removed ads from my life, and as a result they really bug me when one does show up.
Advertising IMHO is a form of pollution. The first 10% might be useful, making you aware of something you want and don't know about. Past that it is an attack on the mental wellbeing of...
the public. For example, if you are waiting, there are two ways to avoid waiting becoming suffering. You can either find something interesting to think about, or do the mindfulness thing and intentionally keep words out of your head.
Neither option is possible if there is an ad playing. Medical ads are the worst. Health fear is one of the worst mental states, and deliberately inducing that is just evil. When those ads are playing, I get out of the supermarket faster, and buy less.
So to me the breakthrough would be finding a way to reach the public without causing annoyance or pain. If I am trying to find something online and an ad gets in the way, that is unpleasant.
However, I look through Slickdeals and Vine every day. Sometimes buy something too. Those are ads but I want to see them. How can we make advertising more like Slickdeals, and less like pop-ups on phones and shingles vaccine commercials in Ralphs?
Mount Umunhum Summit, Los Gatos, CA 16 June 2024 Two captures with Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 HR-Digaron-W lens, Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50), Cambo WRS 1250 camera (shifted left/right 15mm) to produce a 230MP stitched image.
This is a stitched imaged made from two side-by-side captures with the Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 HR-Digaron-W lens and a Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50) on a Cambo WRS 1250 camera, shifted left/right +/- 15mm, producing a 230MP final image.
From 1958 through 1980, this incongruous four story (82 foot) monolith was the centerpiece of the "Almaden Air Force Station", a long-range radar site that was part of NORAD's SAGE early warning system. The blast-hardened concrete building served as the platform for an FPS-24 radar system, a massive 120 foot wide reflector that emitted a 5 megawatt VHF pulse, continuously rotating at 5 RPM.
Notoriously, the signal disrupted TV and radio reception throughout the San Jose area.
It's unclear if the SAGE system would have actually been effective in detecting incoming bombers, which presumably would have employed radar jammers. Fortunately, we never found out.
The huge rotating antenna was removed shortly after the site's decommissioning in 1980, but the building, a prominent local landmark visible from downtown San Jose, has been preserved.
I have mixed feelings about these cold war relics. On the one hand, they're artifacts of what was perhaps humanity's most dangerous folly to date, locking the world in a deadly game where the stakes only went up with each round. This doesn't seem like something to commemorate or celebrate.
On the other hand, these objects, many now destroyed or decayed, serve as visible evidence of just how close to oblivion we are willing to go. And looked at from the right angle, they have stories to tell.
Like many bad things, we need to be reminded of them to prevent them from happening again. I think there is a need to preserve some of these spaces and tell their story, along with the stories of people who suffered in the so-called Cold War. I try to remember that I am only here because it never became even a “limited” Hot War. I’m not sure folks nowadays understand that.
The dish had been dismantled before I had come to the area. But I can spot this from my neighborhood. I've yet to make it to the Nike missile site they turned into a museum in Marin. I always felt the kids were too young to be interested. As teenagers I believe they are now too interested in other things to be interested. Might be something I should just do for myself one day.
A very useful resource for understanding the meaning of shell commands and how they work. Entering examples in the search bar and getting accurate explanations is great. Oh, I really wish I had known this sooner. explainshell.com/
NEW YORK—Emphasizing that they aimed to be as transparent about their sourcing as possible, executives at the ethical diamond company OutShine told reporters Wednesday they only used white children to mine.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Trump’s recent Artificial Intelligence (AI) Executive Order shows that this Administration is dedicated to America’s global
The Newton’s clock is actually good for about 15 years. There was a patch to let it reference dates after 2010, and now there’s a new replacement patch for 2025.
As a novelist, George Orwell did not traffic in subtleties, but then neither did the authors of Medieval morality plays. The allegorical Animal Farm performs a similar, if secular, function, giving us unambiguous villainy and clear didactic intent.
Pals! Page from a National Geographic in my collection, 1925. The article is “Collarin' Cape Cod. Experiences on Board a U.S. Navy Destroyer in a Wild Winter Storm” by Lt. H.R. Thurber.
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