It’s pretty funny- worth seeing. Definitely amps up the ridiculousness in a way that I don’t remember Mean Girls being, but it’s in the same ballpark. Honestly maybe closer to Superbad.
“Rather than teasing apart who, what, or when is to blame, this report shows that the post-9/11 wars are implicated in many kinds of deaths, making clear that the impacts of war’s ongoing violence are so vast and complex that they are unquantifiable.”
Did this writer or anyone in this thread actually read the paper?
I think there is going to be a greater push for KYC for social media as we are going to soon be inundated with comments and online activity by bots that is indistinguishable from humans and hyper taylored to its audience. All the stuff Russia pulled with election interference is going to be child’s play.
There is also going to be an explosion of content. The same recipe page that took a human a day or two to create will be made in a second. Billions of recipe pages, billions of sports blogs, billions of comments…
Downfall of the West relative to who? The whole world is impacted by climate change and the West is best positioned to manage its effects.
Honestly not really when compared to the alternative. Our net payout through alternatives was closer to 60%. We experienced a bot attack one month where we actually lost money due to generating massive transaction fees on bogus chargebacks.
I thought Google shifted to a flat 15% anyway (especially for small app developers). It’s really a no brainer for app developers then.
My company tried transitioning app subscriptions to alternatives outside the app stores and it was not worth it. Credit card fraud was a massive issue. It got so bad the payment networks (Visa, MasterCard) threatened to ban us from their networks.
Google and Apple aren’t totally rent seeking.
The fact that it kills so many is a marketing tool. It’s viewed as the “strongest” high and the people who die just “didn’t know their limit” unlike the user.