AI is probably making that a little harder though.

You probably already know this, but if you switch around to “hot,” “top 6 hours” and top 12 hours," you get a lot more content.

I couldn’t have changed the settings because I thought it was PLA. I noticed that it moved the test strip, but thought it might be because they didn’t want to always go to the same spot or something. Then the supports were acting kind of weird, so I really checked the specs and discovered I ordered the wrong filament.

It’s not data harvesting if it works as claimed.

Narrator: It doesn’t.

I’ve had good luck as a back up to Duck Duck Go with Mojeek. It’s so old school, it doesn’t always know what you want, but I sometimes want that.

They’re doing it to sell to companies to sell positive opinions and politics from “real” people.

Metaverse tells me that he doesn’t understand kids or market trends.

I don’t think people are getting that they are going to sell this as a service to corporations. Kind of like selling positive feedback on Amazon if Amazon did or does that. They’re not trying to boost numbers, but sell people saying what the company wants them to say. This can be anything from politics to buying a certain product.

They’re the ones buying it.

I agree he’s a weirdo, but this isn’t engagement per se, it’s to make money. If someone seems legit and is saying how awesome a product is, people will buy stuff. Meta will create a persona for businesses for a price. Meta wouldn’t let people go rogue and create their own, they want to sell the service.

The placebo effect is pretty magical in itself. You’re convincing your body to heal itself and it does in a minority of people. I guess there really are wizards among us.

At its core, it would be a matter of having a place that accepts credit cards and a place that distributes it. You would have to have a back end like Paypal or Stripe or some sort of crypto that not everyone has. Also, crypto has to have a place that accepts and distributes, so you would need some kind of exchange. This seems easy on its surface, but I think it would be difficult in the end to take it completely out of the big corporation’s hands.

Not really. It’s happened over time. I post a lot to c/politics (every weekday) and used to double check with them here and at the old place occasionally. I stopped doing that about 2 years ago because every time I did, their false, partially true and true didn’t seem to match what they were saying in the articles. I didn’t keep track of which ones they were, I just stopped using them as a trusted source.

They haven’t been honest for awhile now. I don’t know who the owners are, don’t care. It’s obvious they’re choosing to say what they want to be true.

Operation Sexy Time!

I swear we’re all under a crown, we just don’t know who they are.

The protests roiled the country for months and forced the national government to cancel the contract, returning water services to public control.

But after the consortium filed a legal claim against the Bolivian government in 2002, seeking up to $50 million, the popular uprising transformed into a broader fight against the legal system that allowed this. Investor-state dispute settlement, or ISDS, lets foreign companies bypass national courts and sue governments before international panels of arbitrators.

These tribunals have awarded hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars to companies, even in cases where they flouted national laws, polluted the environment or were accused of violating human rights. Most of these cases have been filed by companies from wealthy nations against developing countries, prompting critics to say ISDS acts like a form of modern-day colonialism.