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New comment by sniffers in "Nvidia buys $5B in Intel"

sniffers — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:53:15 +0000

The rog ally probably won't sell a million units. The switch will sell 100 million. The switch is the mobile market, like it or not.

New comment by sniffers in "Weaponizing Ads: How Google and Facebook Ads Are Used to Wage Propaganda Wars"

sniffers — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:55:32 +0000

Online ads use an instant auction to sell space. They literally are "whomever will pay the most", so no, not false.

https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/6366577?hl=en

Each ad placement is small cost, but your placement, frequency, and reach is absolutely dictated by how much money you spend.

New comment by sniffers in "Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes"

sniffers — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:53:23 +0000

As someone who was a professional baker for years, agree. Baking very much has intuition and art like qualities. It's just less forgiving of loose measurements until you know what you are doing.

New comment by sniffers in "Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes"

sniffers — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 02:32:26 +0000

They are both art and both science.

New comment by sniffers in "Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes"

sniffers — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 02:30:22 +0000

What's in the box is unknown to most people. Unknowable, even. They are surprisingly complex mixes.

New comment by sniffers in "Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes"

sniffers — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 02:28:18 +0000

I don't know that it's helplessness, I think it's genuinely difficult to notice when a product shrinks in size by an ounce or two and when a chemical composition changes. You probably make one batch, it fails, and now you have to research the size of the previous box and the size of the new box and do a bit of math. It's doable, but also, that's hoping the cake mix hasn't changed chemically. Research and math and experimentation is not zero effort.

New comment by sniffers in "Mass Firings for Charlie Kirk Comments Appear Coordinated"

sniffers — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 03:59:03 +0000

The thing to remember is that no one cares about hypocrisy. The people in power least of all. It's a classic authoritarian move to condemn something they engage in, because the authoritarian doesn't care about doing the right thing, they care about eradicating people whose will resist them in any way.

You will see capital L Liberals complaining about hypocrisy the whole time the autocrats rise to power, completely missing the point that hypocrisy doesn't matter. There's no scoreboard out there that says, opponent was hypocritical, automatic loss.

New comment by sniffers in "Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall"

sniffers — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 03:50:16 +0000

Idiotic seems strong. It's an art piece, is it simply not to your taste in art?

New comment by sniffers in "New Bill Would Allow Rubio to Strip US Citizens' Passports over Political Speech"

sniffers — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 03:33:53 +0000

I'm not sure the constitution matters that much to the party in charge at the moment.

New comment by sniffers in "Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion"

sniffers — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 22:04:13 +0000

What makes it not a social media website? Social media is a function of what it does, and it's a place people comment, converse, share links, there's a user scoring system, there's a feed of recent events on the front page... how is it not social media?

New comment by sniffers in "Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion"

sniffers — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 14:05:05 +0000

You are literally topping that comment on a peer to peer social media website right now. It's hardly dead, it just happens away from meta and X. Discord is absolutely popping off, for example. HN and other forums are still very lively.

New comment by sniffers in "Weaponizing Ads: How Google and Facebook Ads Are Used to Wage Propaganda Wars"

sniffers — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 13:58:17 +0000

Anyone who wants, in your case, is "whomever pays me the most", which is a far, far cry from "anyone who wants".

You can tell yourself this is the free exchange of ideas all you want, but when it's an auction for who can hold the microphone it's anything but free.

New comment by sniffers in "Weaponizing Ads: How Google and Facebook Ads Are Used to Wage Propaganda Wars"

sniffers — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:31:27 +0000

Sigh.

Try again.

The thread is about how an "At last I got mine" attitude towards making money from government propaganda ad revenue is a shit attitude.

You are the one who is out here building windmills to tilt at about bans on government propaganda. That's not something I ever suggested. Nor is it even germane to the thread. Again, you are engaging in some elementary school level straw manning.

One does not need to ban government propaganda, or propaganda generally, to avoid being proud to be paid to spread it. Consider: you could be not proud you sold that ad space. You could not sell that ad space to those people. You could not sell ad space generally. I'm sure one could come up with other ideas as well.

I hope you see now how infantile your diversions are, how juvenile the comments around thinking around corners. You wandered completely off topic and seem quite upset I didn't follow you there, then invented a version of me that did to fight.

New comment by sniffers in "Weaponizing Ads: How Google and Facebook Ads Are Used to Wage Propaganda Wars"

sniffers — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 05:38:51 +0000

If you are going to build strawmen to cut down over and over, there's clearly no intellectually fertile soil here. You seem to be enjoying operating both sides of some imagined conversation quite well, and I'll leave it to you.

New comment by sniffers in "US high school students lose ground in math and reading, continuing decline"

sniffers — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:53:55 +0000

You can argue that, but you'd be wrong. Don't confuse mercantilism and trade with capitalism. They are outwardly similar, but very different internally.

The fundamental feature of capitalism is the inversion of commodity -> money -> commodity relationship into money -> commodity -> money.

New comment by sniffers in "Weaponizing Ads: How Google and Facebook Ads Are Used to Wage Propaganda Wars"

sniffers — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:46:40 +0000

No, you are being thick. The governments are issuing the propaganda. Read the post again.

New comment by sniffers in "iPhone Air"

sniffers — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:45:37 +0000

If you hold it up to light to get a reflection, you are telling me there's zero perceptual warping of that reflection around the crease? None? It's as flat and perfect as a single sheet of glass?

New comment by sniffers in "iPhone Air"

sniffers — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:27:03 +0000

They have a nightmare of a crease. Every single one. Even slight warping causes me to recoil. No, I've used one, they are absolutely unusable for me.

New comment by sniffers in "US high school students lose ground in math and reading, continuing decline"

sniffers — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:30:26 +0000

We have had capitalism since the late 1700s, or early 1800s. But I think you and I would agree it's not been a uniform experience across that time. Capitalism evolves and adopts new ideas, and experiences different opposition in different places. Since the early 70s in the US, there's been a very different regulatory and cultural environment for capitalism in the US.

New comment by sniffers in "Weaponizing Ads: How Google and Facebook Ads Are Used to Wage Propaganda Wars"

sniffers — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:27:19 +0000

Oooooof. Yeah, we should definitely let governments pipe their propaganda directly into every surface in our lives constantly. Surely that's something that's healthy and good for all of us. Governments have no incentive to lie and have no power to buy out all the bandwidth.

"Well, at least I made money on the government shutting down discussion" is deeply messed up.