Janeway: What makes you think she is a Borg?
Seven: Well, she turned me into a drone!
Janeway: A drone?
Seven: I got better.
Janeway: What makes you think she is a Borg?
Seven: Well, she turned me into a drone!
Janeway: A drone?
Seven: I got better.
They took out the “report spam” button. Presumably that’s because Google’s whole business model in 2024 is delivering spam in all its various forms.
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Create the problem, sell the solution.
People are weird about gasoline. They’ll drive around looking for the cheapest option, to save 2 cents/gallon. Even with a huge tank, that’s less than 50 cents of total savings.
So a grocery store can offer, say, 10¢ savings, and it only actually costs them like $1.50-$2.00 per customer. That’s way less than other sales that are harder to advertise and don’t bring in the same amount of business.
Ultimately the psychological benefit for the shopper is more than the financial cost to the store. The others societal costs don’t come in to that equation.
Requiring a login would probably cut off a significant portion of their audience and ad revenue. Only Google analysts know for sure, but if the eyeballs lost to cutting off casual visitors (sent to YT from links or embeds, etc) are greater than the losses due to, frankly, a small portion of users who would just end up blocking ads in other ways, it’s a net loss for Google.
A 2022 survey finds 7.1% of Americans identify as LGBT:
https://news.gallup.com/poll/389792/lgbt-identification-ticks-up.aspx
Also in 2022, Texas had 9.0% of the population of the USA.
That’s close enough that we can call being from Texas “abnormal” and start restricting all sort of rights.
“We are here to help in any way we can” from no closer than 500 yards away.
Aren’t there only two companies making large-scale sports games these days? If it’s not EA, then it would basically have to be 2K.
Hammond, 60 seconds after his first time sitting in the chair:
The DOJ estimates that around 25 to 30 dogs are killed by cops every day, with some numbers as high as 10,000 per year. The totals could, in fact, be higher, since most police agencies do not formally track officer-involved shootings involving animals.
our captain gets pegged
It’s been a while since I watched TNG, but I don’t remember this at all.
I hear this. My life is survival mode. Games are for turning off that part of the brain for a little while.
Unverified account? Straight to jail.
It wasn’t compromised. If you can’t be tracked and cross referenced with all the other data that brokers have, your activities aren’t worth anything to reddit and they don’t care about that account.
You can have any drink you want, as long as it’s a bloodwine.
I work from home and often go weeks at a time only communicating with coworkers over IM.
It’s pretty nice for an introvert, but also real easy to feel completely out of the loop.
Santa himself has been described as a “jolly old elf.”
I’m no lore expert, but it makes me wonder if the original Santa (human) passed the title to one of his former underlings. The Dread Pirate Roberts of the North Pole, perhaps.
There are certain talking heads on TV that can only be explained by the theory that there’s no such thing as bad publicity. He gets people talking, even if it’s usually only about how bad he is.
Outrage media works. Sports commentary especially seems to depend on it.
It likes bots writing to the site, for the engagement; it doesn’t like bots reading the site (for free).