Negative. I am a meat popsicle.

I think it’s different if you consider ads as a way to maintain the status quo.

Like, there’s an ad I keep seeing on TV where 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago plays as parents struggle to keep up with the parenting responsibilities of their toddlers. It’s an ad for Amazon. And thank god for Amazon for being available to help these parents.

And like…everybody knows about Amazon. Nobody is going to suddenly sign up for a Prime account after seeing this ad. However, parents or expecting parents who already have Prime accounts are going to relate to the people in the ad and not even consider other options for their parenting needs.

Maybe a very specific example, and their are certainly ads just telling you to buy chicken nuggets, but I’m seeing it more and more.

Edit: Or hell, look at detergents. Do you really think Tide has innovated anything in the past 30 years?

Suuuubtle. Love it.

If a block of lead were a light year thick, it would have a 50% chance if blocking a neutrino.

(Something I’ve heard. Can’t look it up now)

Gemini evolved into a seal.

well in a way, they’re competing

I think they were going to reimburse me after.

I had a company back in 2012 refuse to present even a range of compensation before they flew me 1200 miles to an interview except to say that it “wasn’t bad.”

I didn’t take the interview.

The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles!

So that’s why I can’t get laid.

To second /u/Soup. Look at the average bitcoin mine in China. They’re largely coal powered.

I think for many people, they just get the shits 6 hours later.

The profitability of a power plant is to some degree determined by its location. It costs more to move power farther. As renewables get cheaper, fossil fuel plant margins get lower, and in many cases, it’s enough to shut them down.

Now you can’t move a coal plant closer to the people who use electricity, but if you build a data center close to a coal plant, suddenly, it’s a viable business model.

Similar reason aluminum refineries are often built near power plants. Except aluminum actually helps people.

My point is …what was the plan before COVID? What did VR have to do with social networking?

People will do anything but seek out a therapist.

Bananas are a lot more affordable (for now).

Facebook bought Oculus in 2014.

They were at least in the same wheelhouse. Close enough to be seen as a threat to FB. Oculus was just a total shot in a new direction.

I like to think of the average tech billionaire as Dustin Hoffman from Rain Man specifically in the Casino scene. He’s a savant at counting cards, and Tom Cruise’s character (the investors) see that and help him rack in a shitload of money at blackjack.

Then Hoffman’s character decides he wants to try a roulette-type game, a game for which savant-like card counting skills offer absolutely no advantage, and the investors, unable or unwilling to see how roulette is nothing like blackjack just blindly sign on and Tom Cruise quickly loses $3,000.

Why the fuck do we think the dweeb who made Facebook in college and hasn’t lived as a normal human for two decades would have any particular insight into how people would use VR?

The scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk7eA4gVDno

sweet. On mobile. I’ll have to check it out later.