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« Reply #3660 on: January 31, 2022, 03:15:56 PM »
All bore emoticons should be replaced with bored apes NFTs  :rollsafe
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« Reply #3661 on: January 31, 2022, 03:21:43 PM »
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« Reply #3662 on: January 31, 2022, 04:15:41 PM »
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« Reply #3670 on: February 02, 2022, 11:09:46 PM »
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I mean, I started editing HTML pages around 10 years old...

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« Reply #3672 on: February 04, 2022, 11:26:01 AM »
Based on a new discovery by Jane Manchun Wong, though, Twitter is working on a new feature that would cater to the needs of those who want to share their thoughts on the website in one lengthy article.

Manchun Wong, known for finding experimental features within apps, discovered the existence of a "Twitter Articles" tab. The name itself signifies a long-form format for the social network that has long only allowed people to post bite-sized text messages, but its exact nature is a mystery for now. It's also unclear whether it will be available to everyone, if it does make it to wide release, or if it will be exclusive to Twitter Blue subscribers.

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« Reply #3673 on: February 04, 2022, 11:40:21 AM »
Matt Stoller: Mergers Ruin Everything

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The thinking behind the combination of the telecom giant and movie and TV studio was as follows. AT&T sells lots of phones, and Time Warner has a lot of movies and TV shows. What if… you could watch Time Warner content on your AT&T phone? For some reason, no one involved in the deal admitted you could already do this, and thus the main justification for the deal made no sense. But that was the thinking.

At the press roll-out, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson breathlessly argued the deal would let AT&T deliver content on mobile phones, leading to “the next wave of innovation in converging media and communications industry.” This Epcot-style fake futurism of stuff that was already commonplace was probably not the rationale for the deal - Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes’s $400 million golden parachute had more to do with it.

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It’s been three and a half years since the deal closed, and what happened? Just moving away from the antitrust questions for a second, the answer is that it didn’t work out, at all. In fact, this week, AT&T got shellacked by Wall Street because it is cutting its dividend and undoing the merger, splitting off its content arm from its telecommunications service. So by any metric, the merger was a waste of time, money, and creative talent.

Of course, when it comes to whether the merger would reduce competition, it’s now clear the deal should have been blocked. To assuage the judge and enforcers, AT&T made many commitments on which it didn’t follow through. CEO Randall Stephenson, in response to government allegations he would raise prices, said “On its face, the premise is absurd.” The claim “literally defies logic to me,” he added. Naturally, AT&T immediately raised prices on DirecTV after the deal closed, which so enraged DOJ lawyers that they began calling the price hikes the “Leon tax.”

That’s not the only broken promise. AT&T also made Time Warner content exclusive to its own paywall, which is something it pledged not to do. It said it would add workers, but since the deal was announced until 2020, AT&T reduced employment by 41,000. The firm killed the cheap $15/month deal for pay TV promised in the trial, and sold anime service Crunchyroll to Sony, which helped create an anime streaming monopoly. And the vaunted ability to compete with Google and Facebook didn’t work out.

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And AT&T-Time Warner is the rule, not the exception. Big mergers rarely work out, even for shareholders. Financial analysts Taiki Morita and Nick Schmitz recently looked at all 268,350 mergers in CompuStat from 2000-2021, and found that “corporate acquirers in the US generally tended to underperform the market. And the bigger the deal, the worse the returns. The firms in the 10th decile generated a -23% premium relative to the market in the subsequent year.” In other words, the government enforcers trying to block the merger had a keener sense of the interests of AT&T shareholders than Judge Leon or the CEO of either AT&T or Time Warner.

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« Reply #3677 on: February 06, 2022, 07:17:33 PM »
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« Reply #3678 on: February 07, 2022, 09:15:27 AM »
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LIFE HACK: You can save time and money by doing this without a GPS tracker or a bicycle.
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« Reply #3679 on: February 07, 2022, 03:30:58 PM »

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« Reply #3681 on: February 08, 2022, 08:31:50 PM »
I like chatting with the register clerks in the USA. They are responsive and cheerful. No-one speaks to the clerks in Japan. It's sad.

The self-checkout machines in both countries are horrible experiences that cause stress.

Choose a cheerful clerk. Chat (or not) based on local custom.

That is all.

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« Reply #3682 on: February 08, 2022, 08:34:42 PM »


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For clarification, what this "company" apparently does is subscribe to YouTube Music as you or I could, then download the music, issue a NFT to "claim ownership" and then re-stream it from their own servers.
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« Reply #3683 on: February 08, 2022, 08:35:09 PM »
UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA
PLEASE WAIT FOR ASSISTANCE


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« Reply #3684 on: February 08, 2022, 08:41:46 PM »
UNEXPECTED ITEM IN TEA BAGGING AREA
PLEASE WAIT FOR ASSISTANCE

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« Reply #3686 on: February 08, 2022, 11:33:18 PM »
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LIFE HACK: You can save time and money by doing this without a GPS tracker or a bicycle.
have you no morals, joe  ??? then the people you rob may be innocent. it's morally superior to entrap them and then punish them for it  :rejoice
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« Reply #3687 on: February 09, 2022, 09:41:27 AM »
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« Reply #3688 on: February 09, 2022, 02:07:47 PM »

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« Reply #3689 on: February 09, 2022, 02:10:50 PM »
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LIFE HACK: You can save time and money by doing this without a GPS tracker or a bicycle.
have you no morals, joe  ??? then the people you rob may be innocent. it's morally superior to entrap them and then punish them for it  :rejoice

You think one becomes an internet janitor by having morals?  :girlaff
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« Reply #3690 on: February 09, 2022, 03:36:12 PM »

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« Reply #3691 on: February 09, 2022, 03:54:51 PM »
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« Reply #3692 on: February 09, 2022, 10:24:17 PM »
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For clarification, what this "company" apparently does is subscribe to YouTube Music as you or I could, then download the music, issue a NFT to "claim ownership" and then re-stream it from their own servers.
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« Reply #3693 on: February 09, 2022, 10:53:08 PM »

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« Reply #3694 on: February 10, 2022, 07:56:34 AM »
one of my aunts used to say "a bee bit her"  ::)

you absolute dumb motherfucker
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« Reply #3695 on: February 10, 2022, 10:20:19 AM »
You know they have teeth right?

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« Reply #3696 on: February 10, 2022, 10:41:48 AM »

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« Reply #3697 on: February 10, 2022, 10:44:32 AM »
You know they have teeth right?

have you ever been out for a walk and you look down at the sidewalk and you see something glinting in the light and you're like "oh what's this" and you pick it up and it turns out it's a bee tooth
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« Reply #3698 on: February 10, 2022, 10:19:03 PM »
Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates; revenue forecast light



Forcing user to pay for access to a 60-second fake "edit" (actually just a time delay) isn't working out???


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« Reply #3699 on: February 10, 2022, 10:37:52 PM »
Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates; revenue forecast light

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Forcing user to pay for access to a 60-second fake "edit" (actually just a time delay) isn't working out???

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Giving a bunch of lunatics blue check marks and allowing them to make the place a toxic shithole is not helping with growing your userbase?
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« Reply #3701 on: February 12, 2022, 08:01:57 PM »
Bringing my wire cutters to Wal-Mart. :mouf
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« Reply #3702 on: February 12, 2022, 08:07:47 PM »
bondage steaks  :drool
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« Reply #3706 on: February 13, 2022, 08:41:27 PM »
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So it's Tamagotchi.
I think it's more like SmarterChild with some bad CGI slapped over top.

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« Reply #3707 on: February 14, 2022, 01:47:26 AM »
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Can you imagine the type of data they're able to farm from that app?

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« Reply #3708 on: February 14, 2022, 10:47:24 AM »
How many times the average user ejaculates per day?
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« Reply #3710 on: February 15, 2022, 05:09:09 PM »
I ran into this ad today



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« Reply #3711 on: February 15, 2022, 06:02:01 PM »
I ran into this ad today



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Just what I wanted, interacting with my coworkers in what looks like a beginner's RPGMaker game.
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« Reply #3712 on: February 15, 2022, 07:30:03 PM »
They should respect the OG.


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« Reply #3713 on: February 15, 2022, 11:54:52 PM »
https://ovice.in/

Yeah, a partnered company is using this as their virtual office solution.
It makes about as much sense as Facebook's Walmart simulator. :doge

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« Reply #3714 on: February 16, 2022, 01:15:55 AM »
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« Reply #3715 on: February 16, 2022, 04:04:48 AM »
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Explains a lot, that.
There are so many Chinese e-money options in Japan to support their tourism, rampant prior to COVID19, it makes sense that those ventures would now be viable.

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« Reply #3716 on: February 16, 2022, 01:11:56 PM »


https://twitter.com/boztank/status/1493661545426870277

How deep can you be in your own ass?  ???
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« Reply #3717 on: February 16, 2022, 01:34:32 PM »
Thanks for the clarification, Boz m8
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« Reply #3718 on: February 16, 2022, 02:26:22 PM »
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« Reply #3719 on: February 16, 2022, 10:25:07 PM »