The world runs on lip service. I don’t love it either, but we’re here

Companies have been doing this for decades, maybe centuries. They would hire a ‘secret shopper’ to come in, order something, and fill out a checklist for corporate. It was done in department stores and fast food chains, any place that was a franchise where theire name was on the line. Some places hired companies to check up on people, some places just hired individuals. The fast-food chain I used to work at hired a neighbor paid them in free food.

Managers make people say it, and reports check to make sure managers are doing their jobs.

The really cool part about how we used to do it was we didn’t waste fuckloads of electricity/water to make sure managers were doing their jobs.

He was an asshole in business, got fabulously wealthy, cheated on his wife, all very normal rich things from what we knew at the time. We gave him generous thoughts because he had mostly gotten out of the business and started plilanthropy.

Giving him some credit at that point was warranted, given what we thought we knew. Who were we to guess?

Now, the real question, from my perspective: Did all the rich/elite 100% know he was trafficking? Were everyone in all those pictures complicit? I’m inclined to say yes. I don’t think they ‘close friends’ just stayed till the end of the party for the “eyes wide shut” shit.

We do.

Source: I have a 5 digit slashdot user ID.

I already look there first :)

Def the same vendor at the end (well most of the time on the kind of stuff I buy)

The amount I save on 3-4 things is usually enough to negate an Amazon purchase.

That said, I’m not the kind of person who makes big or risky purchases from either of these places.

It’s actually a proper term in current marketing parlance. You can find it in glossaries in AppsFlyer, Adjust, and any of dozens of other digital marketing applications.

Ad spend is the amount of money a marketing team spends on digital and traditional advertising campaigns.

In the OP this differentiates it from a fine or paid feature. They’re are literally requiring them to buy advertising to allow them to post in an open forum.

Hell, even ebay and etsy will drop ship you stuff from amazon :(

Yeah it was a trap.

The best you can do now is order a lot of stuff directly from China.

AI will never be ready. Humans aren’t ready either. That’s why IT staff uses guardrails for users :)

I let claude code go ham on reconfiguring my immutable OS. Worst case I restore my home folder and config file. (it doesn’t have my git key to push)

So far it’s managed what I asked it for with only minor confusion. One day it’ll explode, until then, it’s REALLY fun to watch.

Claude Code “can” complete surprisingly complex tasks by feeding output back into itself, It’ll keep trying and refining untilt it works, but It burns through tokens like it’s nobody’s business.

OpenClaw is an attempt to do it for free on your local hardware.

The idea is you give it shell access. Say use super coder agent bob johnson to write a thing that does x using this [framework], separate files by best practice for x y and z features, ask security agent OSO to look over the code and suggest changes, ask agent U.N.I.T to make unit tests, when the code looks good, run through the unit tests. If anything fails keep fixing and iterating until every thing passes. Create a README.MD for everything that was done, Create a TODO.MD for any future suggestions.

I’m simplifying, but this actually works to an extent. Each of the agents keep the context windows small, the whole thing stays sane and eventually nets some project that works. The downside is you end up giving it quite a bit of leeway to get the job done or you sit over it watching and authorizing it’s every move.

Kinda strange to see a safety director do that…

damn you sound worked up… you sure i’m the one that’s snowflakin it?

are you just a bundle of sunshine

It says China is Selling

All you have to do is find it on temu or aliexpress to make that true.

I left before they could ban me. I’d most certainly be gone by now.

Getting rid of that algorithm was probably the second most positive change I made in my life in the past 5 years.

Presumably the sensor’s data lines would be detectable, but probably more like laboratory conditions.

Perhaps a physical shutter would be a good happy medium. Put 'em on the damn cell phones, too.

Not everyone has the fortitude of an Iranian school kid.

There are a few out there still on the right side of history. Never enough thought.

Everyone who calls out the current administration as pedophiles will get sued by the administration, and they have a lot of federal judges under their belt. Rather than get drawn out in to a lengthy legal battle. If they soften the wording, they lower the chances of being the initial targets.