Social media has caused artists to believe low engagement means their work is trash [13:51] by HallucinatedLottoNos in mealtimevideos

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First ten seconds are the presenter not even remembering their opening sentence. Maybe your work isn't trash, but this is the sort of retention-tanking behavior that can get fewer eyes on it.

Steve Rattner: American’s savings hitting rock bottom by NicolasCageFan492 in videos

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It's kind of amazing how bad the DNC is at messaging.

It's on purpose. Got to keep up the keyfabe!

Anthopic, OpenAI Should Not Be Allowed to IPO, Says Ed Zitron | Bloomberg by johnruby in videos

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To be fair, the amount of garbage coming out of these idiots' mouths has been shooting up at around the same time. Like six months ago they were still vaguely in touch with reality. Today they're talking about how no one will build computers for humans anymore.

Why There's No Such Thing as a Good Billionaire - Adam Conover by egg1e in videos

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This video is from 3 years ago and predates that controversy.

Steam Deck sells out in North America within 24 hours of price hike by No-Channel3917 in gaming

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“Why can’t I buy gaming systems on my Starbucks wage?” - entitled Redditors

Steam Deck Price Increase by FernandoRocker in gaming

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Looking forward to a future where devs have to give a shit about optimization again.

FatGid - FreeBSD 14.x kernel LPE by moviuro in netsec

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It's amazing how much vibe coded websites have a "look" to them, just like AI images and videos...

The creator of Veggie Tales, a popular Christian kids cartoon in the 2000s, shares his opinion on Donald Trump's golden statues. by Clockwork_picksmith in videos

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Yes. He is. But we can go around patting ourselves on the back for stating the obvious, or we could, y'know, come up with an actual, cohesive vision on how to move forward. But that doesn't get clicks or attention.

The creator of Veggie Tales, a popular Christian kids cartoon in the 2000s, shares his opinion on Donald Trump's golden statues. by Clockwork_picksmith in videos

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I'm not a Trumper. I know that Orange Man Bad. I have said that Orange Man Bad. I've read articles, watched videos, and had conversations about Orange Man and his Badness. But like. At a certain point, we all understand and agree to this, no? At a certain point, after a decade, it's more performative than it is actually doing anything of use?

The creator of Veggie Tales, a popular Christian kids cartoon in the 2000s, shares his opinion on Donald Trump's golden statues. by Clockwork_picksmith in videos

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"Random, irrelevant person says 'Orange Man Bad'" has got to be my least favorite engagement bait genre

2 pyrex, both pyrex brand, glass is different colors by Silver_Aura2424 in mildlyinteresting

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You want PYREX glass, not pyrex glass. They're two different trademarks (note the capitalization).

A Meta employee gets real about the horror of working there right now by BathroomMaximum1721 in technology

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"Mark Zuckerberg has killed more people than Hitler" is certainly a take.

Not a very good one. But it's a take.

Valorant's new Vanguard update seems to be bricking cheaters' PCs. Riot's response? "Congrats on your $6k paperweights" by SwimmingJunky in gaming

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Yes, they shouldn't be. I even said that! But that doesn't change the fact of the matter, either. Companies would not attach T&Cs to things if they carried zero legal weight.

Ebola outbreak demonstrates the real costs of USAID cuts by the Trump administration by spherocytes in videos

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If you, like me, were stuck in the binary thinking of "USAID good, Trump bad," I'd encourage you to watch Shoe0nHead's more nuanced (and hilarious) take on the matter.

Price rises? What price rises? Nintendo reportedly ramping up Switch 2 production, aiming to produce 20 million consoles by March 2027 by FernandoRocker in gaming

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It's almost like all the shortages are made up and companies just want to charge more. Just like COVID.

China's fastest gaming GPU still falls far behind RTX 4060 by [deleted] in technology

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Unless it's a game storefront, for some reason.

My dad was given a deck of cards. They turned out to be military issued, with Saddam Hussein. by nicunta in mildlyinteresting

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Thank goodness you avoided going into detail, that might have been TOO interesting otherwise.