You mean Crimea ain’t a river?
Haha… get it? Crimea River!
Man, I kill me.
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I was watching the basketball tourney–the UMBC/Kansas State game. UMBC has a player from PR who plays with great energy/intensity. During a mid-game break, the ‘sideline’ reporter was talking about this player, and said ‘His passion for the game flows from his love for Puerto Rico, his home country.’
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Because some mom group somewhere in time decided kids under 2 shouldn’t have meat that isn’t well done.
So that’s a lie, but still, it’s some shit. Popular steakhouse in town wouldn’t serve me the kids steak bites option anything short of well done. “It’s a safety thing.” My 2 1/2 yr old at home can CLEAN 6 oz of steak if it’s my medium rare cut up and tossed back in the pan for a second. She takes one bite of the steak bites and goes “uhhh I don’t yike it. is icky.”
Brought a tear to my eye
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I’ve had the exact opposite experience. Every truly wealthy person I’ve met (net worth > $10M-> $5B) has been personable, mellow and very aware… able to read a room. They’ve been there and done that with nothing to prove to anybody.
It’s the faux wealthy I can’t stand. The lawyers, doctors etc. working W2 jobs, living in McMansions, driving European cars, wine snobs, country clubs, rude to service people. All the while they are 5 paychecks away from bankruptcy like the common schmucks.
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I can’t find the pic, but I have one somewhere of my kiddo crushing a med-rare NY strip at about that age.
He doesn’t and hopefully never will know that well done steak even exists.
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If you remember the late night “fireside chats” between Kushner & MBS from a few months ago:
In late October, Jared Kushner made an unannounced trip to Riyadh, catching some intelligence officials off guard. “The two princes are said to have stayed up until nearly 4 a.m. several nights, swapping stories and planning strategy,” the Washington Post’s David Ignatius reported at the time.
What exactly Kushner and the Saudi royal talked about in Riyadh may be known only to them, but after the meeting, Crown Prince Mohammed told confidants that Kushner had discussed the names of Saudis disloyal to the crown prince, according to three sources who have been in contact with members of the Saudi and Emirati royal families since the crackdown. Kushner, through his attorney’s spokesperson, denies having done so.
On November 4, a week after Kushner returned to the U.S., the crown prince, known in official Washington by his initials MBS, launched what he called an anti-corruption crackdown. The Saudi government arrested dozens of members of the Saudi royal family and imprisoned them in the Ritz-Carlton Riyadh, which was first reported in English by The Intercept. The Saudi figures named in the President’s Daily Brief were among those rounded up; at least one was reportedly tortured.
And from this previos WaPo article:
And apart from staff on the National Security Council, [Kushner] issues more requests for information to the intelligence community than any White House employee, according to a person with knowledge of the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private discussions.
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Does anyone here think it would be a good idea for facebook to implement a large number of bots (like at lease equal to the number of real human users) to “click” on news stories etc. and act as normal users (across the range of tendencies of human users). This way all of the cambridge analytica work would be based on a large number of bots, rendering it relatively ineffective and more of a guessing game?
Essentially, cambridges work would amount to “influencing” a large number of bots, and also human users, but the “influence” would be based on data collected from bot users.
Basically like a decoy…just a thought.
Even though I would like nothing more than for every social media platform to vanish instantly, like right now.
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Losing the ability to accurately track how well something is doing on FB would eliminate their entire business model overnight.
Also the processing power they’d have to add for that many bots probably rivals most countries
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Nope. The only way for facebook and other social media platforms to make money is by mining your data and making it available to marketers. If I asked every facebook user to pay $1/month they’d lose 70% of their users.
Inundating social media with self-created bots would destroy their business.
Also, someone smarter than me could easily write an algorithm to weed out the bots. The bots would do things based one RNG’s, which are never random and can be detected pretty easily.
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Computers can’t ‘technically’ rng but in a practical sense they absolutely can. You’d just have to make sure the ratio of your processing power vs the other guys is in line.
Basically only achievable at the top of the food chain
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shit, how much I don’t know.
I also didn’t realize that FB relies on selling user data, I thought it was simply revenue from posted advertisements.
I thought it was just a free-cost nice/happy place for every girl to complain about being sick, and for everyone else to post their vacation pics, their new car, or to talk about how sore they are from working out.
Advertisers generally track things like “usage” and “traction” based on activity. In the case of Facebook, this is almost always going to be clicks/etc.
There’s a very very good chance the electricity costs of running FB servers on a monthly basis are higher than all of us will earn in our entire lifetime.
pffft please all yall thinking FB is just a nice friendly place to show pictures of your food, spy on exs, and argue with dip shits have gone full retard… Not to get into the weeds of data science it is above my brain capacity but Facebook provides many products for advertisers. They can harvest data about everything down to your credit score, income, buying habits ect. Best of all they can find 1000s of people just like you and sell your info off in a nice little package. They even target with what the call modeled data… Don’t get me wrong its great for selling stuff like mortgages, vynal siding, and dildos for that special someone but they can also target you based on the political mumbo jumbo… AKA bring on the Fake news, Mr Putin… And because Americans believe whatever uncle Jim Bob shares is valid people eat it up like the buffet at Sizzla. What Cambridge Analytica did was shitty but its capitalism, it will happen again, the only way to play it safe is to use social media for what it was intended for… Sharing pics of your shlong to skanks… Get your news from somewhere else
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I was being sarcastic when I said it was a nice/happy place…
I haven’t used FB in 6yrs, now I feel like I should chastise everyone who does still use it.
Like, didn’t anyone have that feeling already? Like we were throwing food into a dark cave, feeding a monster that we couldn’t see, but we all knew was there?
I would agree completely though after watching that undercover video on cambridge, it’s just capitalism.
Was any of it even illegal? Once you check that “I agree to the facebook terms and conditions box” gooooood luck!
Latest shakeup:
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Which was quickly followed by this:
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Why?
Yes, a chunk was illegal.
Also that whole “intent to blackmail, intent to extort, admitting to past bribery/blackmail/extortion” thing
The President is simultaneously preparing for the Special Counsel as well as Little Rocket Man.
This probably requires superior intellect.
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Nobody can 4d chess quite like Trump. Hes so good he makes it look like he’s playing checkers.
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