I almost never see malt vinegar in the US unless it’s at a UK themed restaurant.
Like, it’s not really much of a thing in US food. Maybe as like a source product for distilled vinegar? But I think that’s mostly made from corn not malted barley. Honestly I see imitation “balsamic” or red wine vinegar way more often than malt
when average users start fleeing en mass, it’s already to late, and arguably it’s approaching a critical mass where there is enough common knowledge and “friends who use that” to make the jump easier. Right now, the average user doesn’t have much of a reason to jump, but if Google has to restructure their business model due to their ad monopoly getting crowbarred, they might implement stuff that would be enough to get average users to start jumping.
At least with eggs and chicken, it’s mostly a collapse of the industrial farming system. This outbreak of bird flue has been going on since 2022 and has yet to really be contained or dealt with. Nearly 165 million chickens have died from H5N1 or been culled to slow the spread in the past 3 years. There have been 14 facilities with a million or more chickens totally wiped out since the start of the year.
Weirdly, it’s had much less effect on “pasture raised” egg prices. Almost like the disease is a lot less of a problem if the chickens aren’t stressed and crammed shoulder to shoulder for easy transmission.
great, just, one issue.
“The company says the content served to bots is deliberately irrelevant to the website being crawled, but it is carefully sourced or generated using real scientific facts“
Nah, screw that, actively sabotage the training data if they’re going to keep scraping data after being told not to. Poison it with gibberish bad info. Otherwise you’re just giving them irrelevant but not unuseful training data, so no real incentive to only scrape pages that have allowed it.
but think of the shareholders! How would they feel if the company stoped growing? They need to cram their attempt at an audio content monopoly down your throat or else they’d only just be a music streaming monopoly.
I wonder how effective it would be just to put a bunch of data on servers meant to poison the training data they’re scraping. Like, make it data that only a bot trying to get everything would find, not something that users would see or encounter.
Huh, funny, isn’t that. Almost like Israel’s leadership was lying through it’s teeth.
It’s so absurd, the website’s appeal lies entirely in the user driven experience created by volunteer moderators and user submitted content. Yet the path of profit growth for them lies in company placed ads, and LLM bots spamming comment sections to astroturf. The more they push for profit, the less appeal to users the site has.
He can say what ever he wants, apparently, but he has to run it by a court to actually prosecute people, and we’ve already seen that the courts are not just giving him the outcomes he wants.
Hell, even the Supreme Court, as stacked as it is, isn’t just rolling over for him.
The question is what happens when he continues to just ignore court orders and rulings. Will he be held in contempt? Will there be actions to enforce the decisions of the courts?
That’s the actual question at stake at this point
Their monetary losses are insubstantial compared to the gains in power they will receive from further weakening the influence and power of the average person.
That drop largely just cancels out the numbers since November. If it drops further then it indicates a general souring if market opnion.
If there is anything to be learned from the past few weeks, it’s that federal employees can just ignore these kinds of emails, the courts have repeatedly put holds on such orders
The problem is that the AI branded software doesn’t run easily on old devices, unless you just stream it from one of their server farms. But they’re losing money every time they run one of these services for you, and the vast majority of people aren’t going to pay them a subscription for that.
They’re trying to justify selling new devices with software now, not giving out software that can run on old devices. You gotta replace your 2017 laptop to run windows 11. Gotta get a new computer with an NPU to run AI models locally. But it’s happening again, users are not embracing these new AI features, let alone buying new devices just so they can use them.
Much like wearables and VR headsets, the interest for these things is largely limited to enthusiasts spaces and isn’t translating to mass adoption. The average person doesn’t care about having their computer writing their email in to a limerick, they just want their email client to not freeze up and crash because they got an email with a weirdly formatted picture.
That they’re admitting they fucked up in any way other than “ we should have run a primary” or the BS excuse of “we weren’t mean enough to trans people” is news in it’s own right.
They shouldn’t have listed to the consultants who told them to run a middle ground safe campaign.
They really are just ghouls. Like? What? Forcing people to use a proprietary for profit software? Why?! How much has turbo tax payed them?!
Zelenskyy has pulled off an incredible diplomatic move. He’s illustrating to the public both at home and abroad, that Ukraine is an independent country and he’s calling trump’s bluff.
Trump has been bluffing this whole time. Leaning on this idea that he can just pull the plug on aid to Ukraine, on this idea of the unitary executive. The thing is, Ukraine is still a popular cause in America, both with in government institutions and the public, despite the efforts of so many. Trump’s bully pulpit is not so strong as to change that with a stroke of a pen.
Now, trump can attempt to unilaterally revoke aid, but that will run in to real legal road blocks and create bipartisan public dissent, thus undermining the fiction of the unitary executive. Or he can change his tone, real fucking fast, and claim he always had the intention to support Ukraine, his supporters will buy it, like every other random shift he’s pulled, and everyone else will shrug and say “I guess a broken clock is right twice a day”.
He’s put trump in a position where the only winning option is to support Ukraine, and the losing options earns him both another public opinion and institutional battle. The question is, what threatens trump more? That bad outcome or what ever the pro-russia people have on him?
How am I supposed to scan a QR code sent to my phone… with my phone?
Even Putin dare not fuck with the pensions of old people. The one time he tried he got scared and pulled back.
it goes deeper than just “investors are greedy” though. Most people making these investment decisions are doing it at the behest of other people who have handed them their saving in exchange for returns. Those people aren’t privy to the nature of how money is getting invested and why, they hire someone else for that, the investors.
The investors may be making short sighted, stupid decisions, but they’re doing it because they’re pursuing their own personal incentives, get a raise, a promotion, or just not get fired. The managers are doing the same. If they don’t do it, someone else will.
It’s not the fault or moral failing of any one individual, but a fault in the system of incentives. A failure in the fundamental structure of how we decide how investments are made, in how we accumulate capital for investment.