ramirezmike

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[โ€“] ramirezmike@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago (7 children)

TikTok has tons of issues but this bugs me so much. There are many examples of people sharing their creativity, their skill, their knowledge, their passion to the world on tiktok and it's so good at exposing you to it if you are interested in seeing all kinds of people expressing themselves.

Since when does the value of content correlate directly with the amount of time it consumes?

is brevity no longer the soul of wit??

I find it useful for finding local events where I live, updates from local businesses and newspapers.. it's also cool for following artists or bands I care about.

Idk, it's in a weird space between facebook, what twitter used to be and tiktok. It can be useful if you curate your feed right ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] ramirezmike@programming.dev 33 points 4 months ago (8 children)

WHY DID THIS 3 POINTER TAKE FIVE DAYS

YES YES, IT'S NOT TIME BUT WE ARE TRACKING IT THAT WAY BUT IT'S IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO NOT THINK OF IT THAT WAY WHEN YOU ESTIMATE BUT WHY DID YOU GO OVER THREE DAYS

idk man, my scalp gets all dry and then if I counter by moisturizing it gets all shiny. I just give up, if I'm not seeing people I care about I'm not gonna shave it

[โ€“] ramirezmike@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

the thing about balding that I didn't expect is how fast the hair I have left grows. It's like I have to shave it every week if I don't want to look like that.

[โ€“] ramirezmike@programming.dev 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

not a channel but I recently got into this band cosmic collective that does some jazz and lofi stuff and they're real people and they live near me and I see them live and it's dope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLFXyVqW8Kc

you may not have an account but your friends and family might and if you have similar interests they may vouch for products that were pitched to them via AI.. so in that way, they're still reaching you

[โ€“] ramirezmike@programming.dev 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

everyone is looking at it wrong expecting these social media companies to show this as engagement.

That's not the goal.

The purpose of the AI profiles is targeted advertising. It probably isn't going to work on you but it does work on many demographics. It's the same concept as any other advertisement. They all set the scene of the specific type of person they want to buy their product, whether it's a TV commercial, a radio ad, a magazine page.

The only real difference here is that it's not a real person but when it comes to advertising, will that really matter? That is, will the drop in sales be negligible compared to the massive drop in cost of advertising?

[โ€“] ramirezmike@programming.dev 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

you could argue that men have similar exclusive, lucrative paths that use their strength/athleticism and are also probably statistically similar rates of exclusivity within their sex. Like, not everyone will be a professional footballer just like not every onlyfans model makes livable income.

[โ€“] ramirezmike@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

it's weird how you are really specific when accusing everyone of behaving in the same non-constructive way but then you're really vague about what you expect people to do.

All your grandiose literary imagery makes it difficult to understand what you're trying to say.

[โ€“] ramirezmike@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

what do you think should be done?

Balatro does have a lot going on graphically and even my pixel 8 pro starts to heat up when playing it. The game's art style may be pixel art, but there are a lot of shaders on all the cards and the cards themselves are either 3d or have some perspective stuff going on to make them able to rotate away from the camera

also, there's the giant shifting background which is another complex shader that can't be turned off.

I think the game has been optimized since release a bit, but still, it's not just simple card images.

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