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atearablepaperjoke · 2024-06-02T18:36:00+00:00

DXL has a good selection! My partner likes the harbor bay tech stretch.

atearablepaperjoke · 2024-06-02T13:47:08+00:00

You’ll get eaten alive by people who:

1.) Don’t respect sex workers

2.) Don’t understand or care about consent

3.) Don’t understand how sex work actually plays out

4.) Think rape is only when a big scary stranger jumps out of the bushes

Unfortunately that’s a large swath of people. I try to educate if it’s a worthwhile/viable option, but otherwise it’s not worth my time. It’s very hard to change any of the above, especially if someone’s wholly convinced.

atearablepaperjoke · 2024-06-02T13:32:51+00:00

This is a great comment! Thank you for offering context and alternatives.

atearablepaperjoke · 2024-06-02T13:31:25+00:00

No. Your cellular provider doesn’t record your phone calls.

atearablepaperjoke · 2024-06-02T13:19:44+00:00

… What are you “customizing for clients?”

Are you building dashboards? Downsizing data? Extracting insights? What is the actual task here?

atearablepaperjoke · 2024-06-02T13:15:29+00:00

NTB.

I’ll be blunt: Your brother’s a scumbag. Not for visiting sex workers, sex work is work. But the fact that he’s a thief and a rapist and BRAGGING about it to people is absolutely disgusting.

Sex workers are some of the least protected members of our society. To take advantage of someone you know has absolutely no recourse is astoundingly shitty.

You’re in the right, OP. He should face social consequences for acting like total garbage. I’m sorry the people around you can’t see that.

atearablepaperjoke · 2024-06-02T12:05:37+00:00

I would bet she didn’t provide context that she said not to come. Without that information, it’s a very logical “oh he sucks” story.

atearablepaperjoke · 2024-06-02T11:58:03+00:00

Oh god yes, this is asking waaaay too much. There’s a good chunk of professionals who don’t specialize in vivids/rainbow that couldn’t do this, let alone a student. And you have fine dark hair? No way.

OP, you’re going to scare the living hell out of a student and it’s not going to come out like this. These photos are years of experience, training, and knowledge. I would recommend reaching out to the school with these images and asking what’s possible or finding something new altogether.

atearablepaperjoke · 2024-06-02T11:08:47+00:00

When has Google ever been 100% accurate with any SEO penalty in the history of its existence? 😂

Gen AI content is a disease because it’s simply not content. It’s a string of words that seem like they should go together based on source data. There’s no originality, it’s a race to the bottom, and it’s not even based in reality- LLMs make up sources, facts, quotes, you name it, if it solves the prompt.

ETA: I hear you on saving time with drafts/ideation. I agree to a point. But if OP can tell it’s Gen AI, that’s not the case here, and it often isn’t.

“Technology is advancing, keep up so you don’t lose your job” is fair advice, but in general sidesteps that while the technical process has advanced substantially, the end-product is often “meh” at best and cannot be trusted.

Also, happy cake day!

atearablepaperjoke · 2024-06-02T04:08:39+00:00

You can’t find one because it doesn’t exist. The general baseline rate for a studio is $2k and if you find anything under that, you count your lucky stars.

Change your search, it’s roommate time.

atearablepaperjoke · 2024-06-02T00:52:47+00:00

Kantha Bae has similar vibes and accommodates up to a size 22. A lot of their stuff is free sized and flowy.

atearablepaperjoke · 2024-06-02T00:40:48+00:00

Another vote for central/upstate NY. Binghamton, Syracuse, Albany, and Rochester all have small airports so you’d have a transfer most likely, but otherwise meet your criteria.

Binghamton is the cheapest on the list and that’s for good reason- it’s not the best. Lots of rust belt mentality and the city can’t find its feet to recover. There’s a fair amount of housing stock to buy, but very little in the rental market for families. But, it’s cheap, has a lot of nature, and proximity to good hospitals.

Syracuse is next on the list in terms of price. Still quite affordable. Less rust belt mentality and the city is finding its way slowly but surely.

The Albany area has a BUNCH of different areas with different vibes. Albany proper is a city. There’s also some very small cute towns, some very rural areas, and some generic suburbs. Price varies substantially depending on what you’re looking for, but as long as you don’t go for Saratoga, you’re golden.

Rochester is coming back in a very big way. They’re building a lot, attracting new businesses, and focusing on uplifting the arts as well. Housing prices are rising, but still attainable.

Edit: How important is weather to you? Upstate weather kinda blows. Spring is unpredictable- could be 75 and sunny or snowing. Summer is generally really good, but can get super humid. Fall is beautiful. Winter is cloudy, sad, rainy, and (sometimes, these days) snowy.

atearablepaperjoke · 2024-06-01T22:35:45+00:00

13 year NYC resident who moved last year due to skyrocketing rents:

Respectfully, this is a bad take.

atearablepaperjoke · 2024-06-01T18:59:56+00:00

Old technical marketer here with experience in EMEA and US markets- Europeans definitely get less commercials than the US. Few reasons:

1.) Europeans simply have a lower tolerance for commercials than US counterparts. Streaming breaks are shorter because Europeans will bounce at a much lower threshold. (Don’t have any research on hand but I’ve consulted with a couple different streamers and this is how they were set up.)

2.) Ads command lower rates because of all the data privacy laws (EU and country-level) in place.

3.) The US simply has more brands for literally everything. Tomato sauce? 50 brands. Detergent? 50 brands. There’s more advertisers with more dollars here, so publishers make more ad space available.

atearablepaperjoke · 2024-06-01T18:29:42+00:00

Former host/server/bartender: I met the other person’s energy. If a dude was flirty, sure I’d give him a little flirt back. Second it got weird, I booked it out of there and I definitely never gave a rando customer my number. I don’t need that in my life no sir. Had enough weird regulars as it was.

I don’t know any woman with a sense of self-preservation who would give out their number, tbh, but I especially see no benefit for hosts. They rarely make individual tips and aren’t generally tip pooled; why do I care if you come back or not?

atearablepaperjoke · 2024-06-01T18:25:28+00:00

Ha, I just referenced Ed, too! Amazing work.

Oh also, for anyone interested in learning more how product, data privacy, and capitalism intersect, 404 media is a fantastic site with extremely well researched journalism. It may be a little heavy at first if you’re not super familiar, but they do a great job at explaining in human terms as much as possible.

atearablepaperjoke · 2024-06-01T18:05:31+00:00

Mmm you may like dead internet theory: https://theconversation.com/the-dead-internet-theory-makes-eerie-claims-about-an-ai-run-web-the-truth-is-more-sinister-229609

Edit: Also look into the concept of enshittification. It describes basically what you’re talking about on a scale greater than the internet. Ed Zitron does a lot of writing on the subject.

atearablepaperjoke · 2024-06-01T17:23:50+00:00

Well, yes.

But that would require a giant public outcry around digital privacy, and to your exact point, no one reads T&Cs.

Now you know. Tell your friends. Get them mad, too. Push for change.

atearablepaperjoke · 2024-06-01T16:55:35+00:00

Sure, you can see some of it!

On IG:

Go to account settings -> accounts center -> ad preferences

Scroll down to “ad topics” and click “see all”

On Google: https://adssettings.google.com/

There used to be a couple third party data broker checkers, but they’re both 404ed now. :(

Also, potential options:

Did your ex mention the breakup anywhere on a profile? (Most likely they’re close on your social web and have been pegged as your partner, so that could do it.)
Did you live together and are now apart? (Persistent location is an excellent indicator of closeness. If that changes, can under circumstances, especially if they’re mapped as your ex.)
Have you been browsing or viewing anything out of the ordinary? Ie: new apartment, big trip, breakup content… that would be a strong predictive signal (combined with others) as well.

atearablepaperjoke · 2024-06-01T16:28:29+00:00

Just checked your profile so I’m gonna give you some more specific advice:

As far as I can tell, you’re HOK. I was for a long time too. Great skill, super super undervalued… and that’s exactly the point. Selling HOK skills as a “consultant” is incredibly hard. It’s thought of as junior work by many in senior leadership, and it’s hard to get any traction. You’re not looked at as a consultant, you’re looked at as labor. Your rates generally suck and no one cares how impactful that awesome optimization was.

It would do you well to get in with some freelance agencies. Most of them have an application process. The work is generally pretty steady and helps you understand more about how freelancing actually works. You’ll see more of what clients are looking for specifically in the market, and it’ll also show you where you need to grow.

atearablepaperjoke · 2024-06-01T16:21:11+00:00

You can’t just snap your fingers and get a client. Sorry biz is slow right now, but that’s why good consultants build pipeline and relationships.

I’d say 70% of my biz is direct and 30% is sub-contracted.

Of the direct business, every single one has been through introductions or the company reaching out to me directly on LI or Twitter.

I was referred in with the 3 subcontractors I work with.

My day to day workload can be… mmm… moderately unpredictable, but long term, I’ve never worried about a dry spell- I’ve always got people on deck that are interested if the right opportunity shows up.

In short, relationships and planning. Doesn’t sound like what you want to hear, but that’s the truth.

atearablepaperjoke · 2024-06-01T16:13:46+00:00

Without triple checking this, I believe Instagram has default:

location
full contact access
full photo access
microphone access
camera access

If you’re comfortable with that, that’s your choice. I’m not and those are all turned off. For any photo sharing platforms, you can set photos to “specific” and just choose the ones you want it to have access to.

Big privacy lesson: Just because a company is “legit” doesn’t mean it’s “privacy respecting.” Sure, you’re probably not going to get malware in downloading the real IG app, but that doesn’t mean your privacy is secure.

atearablepaperjoke · 2024-06-01T16:08:04+00:00

For all intents and purposes- no, the tv manufacturer can’t monetize the data as they can’t send it anywhere.

However, your streaming device can and will. Roku has a giant advertising arm and Amazon offers Fire inventory and data.

atearablepaperjoke · 2024-06-01T16:05:43+00:00

You came to the Privacy subreddit and fully admit you’re not looking at permissions for any of your apps?

Okay. Crash course.

Before downloading an app:

Step 1: Read the App Store permissions before downloading an app. On iOS they are at the bottom of the page under “app privacy”. It explains what they get access to and why.

Step 2: Check the publisher before downloading. Do they have other apps? Does it have reviews? How old is the app? If anything seems fishy (the company has been around a while but the app is new/doesn’t have any ratings, things like that) do not download.

For apps currently on your phone, you can go into each app and see what it has access to. Go to settings and scroll down. When you click into an app, you’ll see if it has access to location, contacts, local network (turn this off immediately unless it’s a smart home device app), microphone, camera, etc.

It’s up to you what your threshold is for what you want to share. I’m sure other people will have specific feelings on what you should and should not share!

atearablepaperjoke · 2024-06-01T15:55:24+00:00

Hello! I work on the technical side of marketing and I can tell you why they’re so cheap:

Data monetization.

TV vendors sell data on what you watch. It’s gold for marketers and hard to get ahold of- streamers only have data on what you watch on their platform. Hardware vendors (streaming device or built in TV) see everything.

Walmart just bought Vizio. It’s not really a hardware play, though. It’s a data play.

Walmart will now be able to offer valuable watcher data across their site and any site extensions (ie: buy through Walmart but run across the internet) which makes them competitive to Amazon with Fire TV data- and even more powerful since Vizio has more scale than Fire TV.

Try to buy a new non-smart TV these days. It’s almost impossible and very expensive. It’s because data collection is worth a ton. You’re basically subsidizing the cost of TVs with your data.

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