Remember when Eli Lily lost billions because an account with a blue check mark pretending to be them said they were giving insulin away for free?

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Then stop beating the “it’s all hopeless” drum. You’re certainly not going to change my mind.

You sound like an ad for advertising. I’ve seen the studies and I think our relationship with companies is changing. I trust people/groups/companies very differently than my parents and grandparents do. To just give up… Fuck that.

That’s the spirit

People are abusing Google’s ad distro platform to get malware onto people’s machines. I see Microsoft signed up for the same firestorm of possibilities.

I’m still not sure what that context is. I’m a year into Duolingo and they haven’t spelled that out for me in a way I understand yet.

On a bigger scale, I think it’s all wasted money. Maybe its the autism, but the more I see a company name, any company name, the less I want it in my house.

Roku is 6, I think 7 is nana

All you gotta do is ask everyone to scoot down a room (or two, not sure if Sis and the boulder are looking to share a room) and you’ll find there’s plenty of room.

With even the FBI recommending adblockers maybe ads aren’t the thing we should prop up our economy with. They don’t work, people hate them, and now even passively ignoring them isn’t an option. But I don’t know if the world can operate on the Patreon model.