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  • Current Event
    23 hours ago
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    Reddit CEO Says Paywalls Are Coming Soon

    Some subreddits will require you to pay to see content.

  • Comment
    8 days ago
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    Commented in Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital (20 Jan 2025)

  • Comment
    2 weeks ago
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    Commented in Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital (20 Jan 2025)

    Leaving Facebook and Instagram did good for my site, as in: when leaving Facebook, my website tripled in visitors. A few months later I left Instagram and it doubled. So, there's proof of the locking in.
    But I didn't leave it at that. First I discovered the robots.txt, which sounded good in the late nineties, but is simply ignored by those moguls in this age. Now I have a very aggressive .htaccess-file and firewall policy installed/created, to go against AI-crawlers and bots. And guess what? My site keeps on growing with visitors, and from what I've learned from the server stats, no Facebook references, no Instagram references are mentioned or even on the radar.
    Also, the only automated crawlers or bots that I allow, are the regular ones for regular search engines, not the AI ones. And they are a minimum, compared to the real people that visit the site, all the while I'm on top of every search engine when you search for my name. So, I guess people do not need Facebook or Instagram to have an audience and AI is nothing more than redundant server loads. The stats showed me that the site can handle the visitors easily now, because AI bots can't get on it.
    An example: ChatGPT can generate over 2000 hits per minute on the server, compared to a regular human that stays on the site for 5 minutes, which has about 40-something hits in those five minutes. So, it also saves a shitload of energy and the equipment everything is installed on.
    IMHO Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and all their ilks are destroying the internet as it is, not just content-wise, but also the infrastructure. And the energy use, omg, the energy they use is enormous. Count AI with it and you can get an idea how destructive they are.

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  • Comment
    2 weeks ago
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    Commented in What's up with Snapzu?

    I really enjoy the game-element that comes with this site (and which Reddit has copied). And what you say about the quick changes of all the posts, lots of updates, that was a fun element, too. I mean, quality content at such a pace is good for any website.

    I'm not sure what happened here, but it wasn't really overnight. First there were lags, the site is still a little slow and then the amount of posts really declined. Some of my posts stayed over a month on the front page, which sounds good, but is surely not healthy for a website with the quality this site has and is.

    I'm not giving up on it, that's for sure, but somehow it seems the founder(s) did.

  • Comment
    1 month ago
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    Commented in This Evil Company Owns ALL The Food In Your House | The Class Room ft. Second Thought

    I have been a laboratory worker for an R&D department of Cargill for nearly eight years (1990 - 1998) and I can tell with certainty that this company sucks ass. They profit immensely from the subsidies meant for farmers, make huge profits by just trading in grains, soybeans and corn, without even using it for food production. The products they make are far from healthy and looking at the R&D department, they create products, whether people need them or not. If not, then they push (and bully) producers of food into using their products.
    In the early 90's they were already heavily into GMO's, the lab where I worked did research into genetic properties of soy, corn and wheat, in order to know what to manipulate to enhance yields. No ethical or safety questions asked. Hardcore for the bottom line. Same counts for environment, food safety or the well being of farmers.
    There is a clear reason they keep it as a family-owned company and are not represented on the stock exchange: they would go under in no time if they had shares to trade.
    I could write a book or some books about the happenings within that company, I have seen so many things that are plain wrong.

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  • Current Event
    1 month ago
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    86 Stories of Progress from 2024

    Not everything that happened this year was terrible.

  • Video/Audio
    2 months ago
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    Beauty and the Bike (2009)

    This film follows two groups of young women from Darlington and Bremen. Between them, they discover what makes - and stops - teenage girls from cycling. The answer? "It's the Infrastructure, stupid!"

  • Current Event
    2 months ago
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    The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars

    Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.

  • Comment
    2 months ago
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    Commented in Donald Trump - Dossier

    It's a fun song indeed! Good singalong! :-)

  • Comment
    2 months ago
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    Commented in Donald Trump - Dossier

  • Analysis
    2 months ago
    +2 2 0

    Donald Trump - Dossier

    Trump and his businesses have been involved in more than 4,000 state and federal legal actions, including six bankruptcies.

  • Video/Audio
    2 months ago
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    Theaters of War (2022)

    How the Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood is a documentary based on the book National Security Cinema and the Spy Culture website. Sourced from thousands of pages of documents obtained by investigative journalist Tom Secker using the Freedom of Inform ...

  • Current Event
    3 months ago
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    Taliban Official Mocks US for Rejecting Kamala Harris: 'Americans Are Not Ready to Hand Over' Country 'to a Woman'

    A Taliban official mocked Americans' reluctance to elect a female leader after Donald Trump's 2024 presidential victory.

  • Expression
    3 months ago
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    There’s No Denying It Anymore: Trump Is Not a Fluke—He’s America

    The United States chose Donald Trump in all his ugliness and cruelty, and the country will get what it deserves.

  • Image
    3 months ago
    +2 2 0

    Fairy tales

  • Analysis
    3 months ago
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    Oil Companies Are Still Determined to Burn the Planet Down

    The big energy firms have largely stopped denying the scientific consensus about climate change. But behind their rhetoric about “net zero emissions,” there’s an unflinching determination to keep profiting from oil and gas, whatever the cost.

  • Video/Audio
    4 months ago
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    Mum Does the Washing - Joshua Idehen

  • Video/Audio
    4 months ago
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    ESG - My Love for You

    From the album Come with ESG (1983)

  • Analysis
    4 months ago
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    Humanity’s Origins Paint Our Ancestors as Lovers, Not Fighters

    Fossil and gene discoveries paint an ever-more-intertwined history of humans combining with vanished species like Neandertals

  • How-to
    4 months ago
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    GitHub - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist: A huge blocklist of sites that contain AI generated content for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist.

    A huge blocklist of sites that contain AI generated content for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist