Cosmic Cleric

Ahh, ok. Thanks. Was focusing on the body/paragraph of the text.

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I get the meme, but I don’t know how to apply it to this post.

Could someone elaborate?

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It’s not even just that, humans a incredibly predictable and that predictability is able to be microtargeted based on trends and past activity of an individual.

I literally let years go by between buying shoes, no kidding. So I don’t think that what you described would cover my specific case.

Especially out of the blue, and not shown ads for that at all before, and exactly around the same time when that discussion comes up in a moving vehicle.

(As an aside, and in case you’re curious, when it comes time to buy new shoes, I usually buy two or three pairs of the same shoe, and then stick the other ones in the closet (usually buy at a really good sales price). Then when the first ones wear out I throw them away, and grab the next pair out of the closet.)

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What I want to know is why when I’m talking to my wife in the car about buying new shoes do I get a YouTube ad that evening about new shoes, when I never got that kind of ad before.

Are our phones listening to us while we talk in the car, and then ads are generated from that?

I’d really like to know the answer to that question.

Edit: fixed typo, shoes, not shows.

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Everyone: Shut up, hippy.

Don’t listen to them, when they tell you that. As far as you know, might even be an astroturfer, trying to kill this in the crib.

Call your House of Representative member and let them know that you want this bill to become law.

If we citizens don’t apply the pressure, nothing will happen.

And if your cynical about doing that, try it anyway, just as an experiment, to see what happens. Hell, even make a YouTube video about your experience doing so, for content.

Just say "Please let my representative know that I am in favor of the Bernie Sanders bill (Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act) for a 32 hour work week."

It’s just a phone call. A 32 hour work week is worth a single phone call, right?

We need this so fucking bad.

Of course we do, so do the corporations, though they don’t realize it. With happier workers you get more profits.

Call your House of Representative member and let them know that.

If we citizens don’t apply the pressure, nothing will happen.

And if your cynical about doing that, try it anyway, just as an experiment, to see what happens. Hell, even make a YouTube video about your experience doing so, for content.

Just say "Please let my representative know that I am in favor of the Bernie Sanders bill (Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act) for a 32 hour work week."

It’s just a phone call. A 32 hour work week is worth a single phone call, right?

Fair enough, thanks for sharing.

So like I said, the catastrophic failure effects are my primary concern, though I am concerned about dealing with the waste product.

Having said that, that’s still a lot of waste that your documentation is talking about, and it’ll be around for centuries. I don’t think it makes your point as well as you think it does.

Better to have other forms of energy that doesn’t generate that sort of waste, or make sure we have one hell of a foolproof (not verified by biased corporations) of preventing that waste from getting into the environment either accidentally or on purpose/terrorism.

Those problems literally HAVE been solved.

And are those designs in production today, or still on the drawing board?

What percentage of reactors today have this new design that you speak of?

the entire United States hasn’t even made enough fuel to fill a football field since we started using nuclear power.

Citation required, because I remember them having to dig out a huge underground storage mine somewhere in the Southwest (nearby Vegas if my recollection is accurate) to handle all the waste that would be generated between all the power station reactors and all the hospitals that use radioactive devices and everything else.

All other energy techs are allowed to have problems and produce waste except for one.

The other ones don’t fail catastrophically like nuclear does.

The other ones don’t produce waste that is the worst kind of toxicity for Humanity that lasts for hundred of years.

Solve those problems, and I’ll get on board that train.

Because nuclear is scary.

Nuclear isn’t scary. It’s waste, on the other hand, is.

But you know, it’s not like we’ve not had multiple examples of nuclear power plants failing catastrophically and destroying things around them for miles, and for decades/centuries.

Having said that, if they did come out with new technology version of a nuclear power plant that is safe and that with a catastrophic failure does not harm the environment around itself then I would be all for it. I just don’t think the technology is there for that. I hear they’re working on it though.

From the article, as I didn’t see this being mentioned in the OP summary…

Costco is testing out a system that requires members to scan their membership cards at the store entrance — instead of just flashing the card to employees.

So it seems like there’s two different things going on, per the article, when you’re entering the building, and when you’re trying to use a self checkout machine.