Things to add to your product when you want to look hip and trendy, but dont have any real ideas how to make your product better:

• 1990s: visitor counter
• 1995: Popups
• 2000s: flash intros
• 2005: stock photography
• 2010: local weather widget
• 2015: share to social media widgets
• 2020: fullsize 4k background stock videos
• 2024: AI assistant

How much would it cost to show 2girls1cup as umskipable ad to musk fanboys? Asking for a friend...

He gifted himself a ludicrous $193 million compensation package.

Reddit, a 20-year-old company, has yet to turn a profit. In 2023, the platform lost a whopping $90.8 million.

Can someone explain to me how reddit can make a loss, while he pays himself MORE than the loss? Does that not mean that reddit would have made a 113 Million profit before his $193 million compensation package? What kind of business-algebra-gymnastics is at work here?

Can someone explain how this website lost millions? Given that this size was not that big, I fail to see how it could cost this much in admin and Server cost. Even some better known commercial shops will hardly hit 5digits in monthly server costs, plus salaries for 1-3 admins and support staff, and maybe advertising costs.

37million sounds like something they pulled out of thin air, maybe for some bookkeeping fraud or tax write off...

My favorite barber was booked out recently, so I just walked into the next one across the road, which looked new and had no customers inside. Asked for the haircut, and he said sure, what's your name and email address? I was confused and asked why he would need that, and he said it's for his app to book appointments and charge customers.

I walked out without getting a haircut.

Zombie outbreak and owning a jeep? Now you got two problems!

Have you seen that ludicrous display last night?

Ok guys, i dont want to sound like a conspiricy theorist or anything, but sometimes i get a slight suspicion that he might be lying to make himself look better...

“Der Staat hat in meinem Leben nichts zu suchen, es sei denn, dass ich es ihm erlaube”, erzählt Gernot Hüttig

"Ich erlaube dem staat mir rente zu zahlen, krankenhaeuser fuer mich zu bauen, dafuer zu sorgen das es strassen, wasser, strom und internet ueberall gibt, polizei einzustellen damit mir unterwegs keine wegelagerer auflauern, gesetzte zu erlassen damit ich vom essen und trinken keine blei- oder arsenvergiftung bekomme und dass er boesewichte wegsperrt - aber sonst erlaube ich diesem uebereifrigem staat nichts!"

Also ich habe mir einen haesslichen und untermotorisierten Fiat Multipla gekauft um fuer mein riesiges geschlechtsteil zu kompensieren!

And you give away the press for free, but the ink will cost a fortune!

Auf verschiedenen schwurbler Kanälen werden oft mal Videos oder Kanäle der Gegenseite verlinkt, mit dem Spruch das man diese "Propaganda" bitte disliken soll. Viele lassen auch gleich noch einen entsprechenden Kommentar da.

Das führt natürlich auch dazu das seriöse Kanäle wie ZDF im Verhältnis mehr dislikes als Likes bekommen als schwurblervideos wo das Publikum unter sich bleibt, und der YouTube algo dann wahrscheinlich die Schwurbler videos eher in der sidebar rechts vorschlägt als die des ZDF.

That's why everything is an App now, and every website tells you "it's better in the app". In the app they have full controll over your device and can access much more data points, while the website is controlled on the users site and might have AdBlockers and other security features enabled, potentially hurting their ad revenue and data they can sell. From a developers perspective it's a nightmare to develop and maintain website, android and Mac os app side by side. Just having one good responsive website is cheaper, easier to maintain and gives you less headache with app store restrictions, reviews, device incompatibility etc.

Lol, now that I think of it I had never seen a YouTube ad or sponsor where I would say "this is an ethical and fairly priced product without a catch that I would like to buy"...

Have you seen the tunnels on Google maps? They are essentially a tunnel from one side of a parking lot, under the main street, to the entrance of the convention center across the road. A distance you could walk in 5 mins on street level, except your way is blocked by the 6 lane road without pedestrian crossing.

"Haha! Deutsches Auto macht noch vroom vroom, wie nostalgisch!" - Touristengruppe macht gemeinsam ein Bild des exotischen Dieselfahrzeuges.

Sollte man hier nicht vielleicht auch schauen aus welchen Telegramm Kanälen er sich täglich informiert hat, und deren Betreiber mit heranziehen? Also die Idee mit der Corona Verschwörung ist ja nicht allein auf seinem Mist gewachsen, sondern wurde ja vor allem von seinem digitalen Umfeld aus befeuert.

This looks more like a map of any English speaking news source I would see online. I mean I see us politics and us topics on lemmy and my local newspaper all the time, but hardly ever hear anything from far away places like Ghana, Romania, south America, middle east or south east asia unless in specifically look for it on some lesser known sites.

That there are long stretches of road where you can't get somewhat healthy food. I have been on a road trip across Utah, Nevada, Colorado and Arizona, and outside the big citys you only get junk food at petrol stations, but no fruits, no vegetables. I guess it makes sense because salad or fresh food spoils quick and is expensive to deliver to each and every petrol station, especially if they don't have a reliable power supply in the middle of nowhere. Never thought about it before. In Germany you can get ice cream, chocolate, cake, salad or a full meal (at gas station prices, and lower quality) on the Autobahn.

Christian Lindner investiert jetzt alle Forschungsgelder nur noch ins Perpetuum mobile, eine umweltfreundliche Zukunftstechnologie wie ihm seine Parteifreunde berichtet haben!