bitteroldcoot

The advertisers are doing the same math as the spam calls and emails. Basically, if one in 10,000 bite, that’s all they need to stay in business. Ads, and spam both target stupid desperate easily manipulated people. The fact that you also see it, and show distain, in no way affects their business model.

I think you are being optimistic about things lasting till you’re 65.

this is so much like 2008 it is scary. And this isn’t the only thing going on,

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/goldman-sachs-head-financial-crisis-similar-crash

We are headed into a very bad place.

I worked with computers for about 30 years, and in retirement been testing ai for fun. I’ve yet to figure out what the point of them is. They lie, manipulate users and censor information. Their prose is overly verbose and their code sucks. What’s the point…

You know, as I was typing the first paragraph I realized the point. They are really good at controlling and manipulating stupid people. They are the new Facebook and twitter. How depressing.