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  • Man accused of stalking ex for 13 years had human skulls, John Wayne Gacy brain in a jar, authorities say

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  • They've been doing it a very long time.

  • Man accused of stalking ex for 13 years had human skulls, John Wayne Gacy brain in a jar, authorities say

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  • a jar with a label indicating it contained a piece of John Wayne Gacy’s brain

    I'll sell the author a shoebox labeled "hope diamond" for $25k....

  • Is it just me being unaware or is it generally true that there are no academic people in Right Wing?

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  • Yeah...

    That's what I'm saying.

    Doctors were "modern day clergy" at one point, so we're historians, biologists, scientists, astronomers and almost everything else.

    And they can be again.

    Or even better none of them can be.

    Like, you understand that economies are real things that need managed, and those people should review what works and what doesn't.

    The current economists recommending shit that clearly don't work, are a negative to society. If they were gone, there be no negative. But why the actual fuck would you stop there and instead train economists to focus on different metrics than a handful of capitalists high scores.

    They could study and determine what would help the most people and ensure basic needs are met.

    That's what economists could be doing, and it would be worth way more than paying them to do it costs.

  • What's an animal that's MUCH cuter as a baby?

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  • Seems to be a super old breed, like I couldn't even find a guess at when they were established.

    But they were just the generic goat for a big area where both goats were important, and established trade routes allowed a high degree of genetic variation at first. But then the adults that were allowed to reproduce were always the ones who produced the most milk and meat.

    Absolutely zero care about how an adult looked, zero aesthetics. If that weird ass adult look wasn't tied to something that makes more milk and cheese, it wouldn't be that weird.

    However the breeders know all things being equal, customers would pay more for a goat that didn't look like ass.

    So when choosing which to breed, you pick the most aesthic looking goats hoping for a higher price for the offspring. But with those weird ass adult dreams (almost certainly) increasing milk/meat yield, and everyone wanting to buy the milk goat that looks least hideous...

    That split between infant and adult makes sense.

  • Is it just me being unaware or is it generally true that there are no academic people in Right Wing?

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  • "Academics" is huge...

    Theres fewer and fewer, but some avenues of academics a person wouldnt be swayed left/right solely by their knowledge and subject matter expertise that makes them an academic.

    Off the top of my head, only economists have a right wing slant. But that's because the wealthy bought off the neoliberals to deregulate everything, and everyone agreed that the only people who knew about the economy, were the ones who said Regeanomics was a step in the right direction.

    Everyone else was just called wrong and haven't had a real chance to try on smaller scales that it works.

    Mamdani is a great example of someone who just does the easy obvious thing, the difference is him and his administration are actually trying. Doing it in a city with the GDP of most countries, is huge because it's an obvious example of it working.

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  • The low barrier to entry means a small amount of people just make new accounts all the time to ask obvious bait questions and some people on here actually fall for it routinely

  • Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent

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  • I did not know that, but I just signed up a little over a month ago.

    But yeah, even if I run out of their backlog, I'm probably going to keep that active anyways

    Super weird it's basically College Humor legally, but they're doing a really good job.

  • Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent

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  • Jesus....

    This is a couple years old but:

    Shares of Netflix closed down more than 35% Wednesday after the streamer reported earnings Tuesday evening that showed it lost subscribers for the first time in more than 10 years.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/20/netflix-plunges-trading-subscriber-loss.html

    The product is the stock price.

    Amount of subscribers effects stock price.

    They raise price as a reaction to not meeting aubscriber goals.

    Which is a short term fix that needs to be done over and over again.

  • Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent

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  • Then you don't understand why long term reliable customers are better than intermittent ones...

    Which means you don't know anything else about business, and are just going off vibes

  • Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent

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  • If Streamers were smart, they'd lock pricing and change it for new signups.

    Their problem is numbers retention. People would hesitate to cancel if their $8 plan would have to be 15/month or more to restart.

    Moving everyone up, just pushes people to cancel, and they'll be even more unlikely to come back if prices keep going up

  • How to make the Fediverse more appealing for following sports??

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  • and you get repeated posts from different sources about the same news and very little commentary.

    Buddy...

    You're gonna fix that by making a bunch more bot posts?

    Don't you understand that will obviously just make more posts and further divide the comments?

  • How to make the Fediverse more appealing for following sports??

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  • Organically...

    There was some dude who wanted to "promote sports" and he did that by making over 100 communities that all had individual mod bots who posted constantly

    All that did was get everyone to block any sports posts because it blended in with spam.

    Make a couple posts for big stuff, but if you don't get engagement, the answer isn't to increase quantity, it's to increase quality.

    Like, post a thread for an important match, but expect most comments to be made after the game. And your sport has 20 games a week, posting 40 threads one for each team just dilutes it.

    Maybe do a weekly recap thread or just post highlight videos to draw people in.

    Bot posting is just going to end up as spam if no one engages, and everytime someone blocks it early for spam, that's a user that may have stuck around and contributed for years if it had a better start

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    Am I using PieFed wrong?

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  • I’ve tried “hot/new” and “all” just it seems to be a bunch of RSS feeds with no human context or interaction. With I’m doing something wrong or the communities I’ve joined aren’t active enough or both.

    No, you're right...

    To get content, you have to browse /new

    To browse /new, you have to block all the idiots spamming reposts from other social media. Otherwise it drowns out all the stuff a human actually posted and cares about.

    Fair warning, there's a shit ton of them. One person has like 20 accounts they rotate thru spam posting, and you're gonna feel like it's never ending. But eventually it's a pretty good experience.

    Just block anything you don't like as you go. It's more about pruning then curating.

  • MAGA Candidate’s Ex-Staffer Posted Photo of Himself in KKK Robes

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  • How quickly people forgot about Enrique Tarrio...

    White supremacy is actually pretty big with people who are mixed race.

    Because it means they're still better than all of one side of their family, and they believe if they ingrain themselves enough into the movement, they would rank higher than white people who aren't white supremacists.

    Which they do, until the movement seizes power, then biracial white supremacists aren't even considered white anymore, let alone a white supremacist.

    But over and over again, going back all thru recorded history and almost definitely before, we see that behavior.

    Which honestly makes sense. You gotta remember we're running off tribal software and the whole skin color thing is just a lazy patch over.

    Jumping tribes was a valid strategy for much of human history, but that tribe kicking out newer additions to make way for others for visual homogeneity to easily differentiate non tribes members, shouldn't be surprising either.

    And to be clear, these racists pieces of shit are not putting that much thought into any of this, they're following instincts they don't understand and the first step to steering them away from this bullshit, is understanding why people won't stop falling for it.

    The people steering them into it, absolutely understand what they're exploiting.

  • What is the motivation for accounts that do a ton of posting on Lemmy? Like, many posts per day.

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  • If you're talking about the accounts that just spam articles for a couple months and disappear...

    There's a single person who's been doing it at least since the reddit migration 3 years ago, but I feel like it was already a thing before that.

    I have no idea what the original ban was for, but all those accounts eventually get banned for being an alt of that account.

    Afterwards they just make a dozen new accounts and keep doing it.

    It's super weird, and I almost asked this morning actually when I saw a batch had been banned and new ones were already up.

    But I know the person wouldn't answer.

    Edit:

    https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModBan

    That batch from 15 hours ago for reference

  • MAGA Candidate’s Ex-Staffer Posted Photo of Himself in KKK Robes

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  • The staffer posted a picture of himself in KKK robes...

    But says it's ok, because he didn't actually put them on, just intentionally made an AI image of himself in KKK robes...

    Like, that somehow make it's worse, I think? And definitely doesn't somehow prove he's not actually in the KKK.

    It's like he just heard "it's AI" as a defense, and just didn't understand at all what the point was....

  • Have you ever upped your meds to stop feeling anything?

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  • If you're routinely abusing prescription medication to self medicate, you need to tell your doctor ASAP so dosage can be adjusted properly, or switched to a more effective medication.

    Because obviously if you double dose a prescription medication, that means you have to skip a dose later.

    Like, adjusting dosage is a normal part of being on medication, you might just need a slightly higher dose because some tolerance built up, this is why they start with low dosages. Needing a slight increase is 100% normal.

    But what you're doing is making the problem worse, it's not fixing anything.

  • Florida police used a fake Flock camera in a sting, then charged a man with three felonies for destroying it

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  • Felony depends on state.

    Most are $1k, so is Florida.

    And from this story I've learned that it only costs $800 for a Flock camera.

    So in the vast amount of states, if you only break/take the camera, it shouldn't be a felony:

    https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/felony-theft-amount-by-state

    Destroying property is usually about the same limits state by state.

    Obviously you want to research specific state/local laws, you know, because knowing is the half the battle.

  • AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”

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  • Techbros didn't even invent that shit.

    That and "disruption" was just going into an existing market, flooding it quickly with cheap prices, and the second you squeeze out competition jack up rates.

    It's the same thing Walmart did.

    With AI they offer it cheaper than humans because they're burning investor cash and not making money. Once a company fires staff, their next AI contract switches to per token price instead of monthly unlimited.

    And then suddenly realizing the "rockstars" that kept their job because they were AI experts, were just sitting at their laptop 8 hours straight constantly prompting over and over again. After that they're paying more than they were before AI with a shittier product and completely unpredictable workflow completely reliant on AI usage.

    Hopefully we're reaching the point even c-suite execs figure it out. Once they do it'll pop.