I keep doing that but I can never remember where I stash all the walnuts and the cycle repeats.

Based on my experience with how people respond to things I post I am not convinced at all this strategy even increases engagement.

Maybe you can show a number for a slightly higher click through rate, I don’t know and it doesn’t really matter since people so obviously tend to bounce off articles that fish for clicks in a condescending manipulative way that whatever the benefit is (if it exists which I am doubtful), it doesn’t remotely even make up for the greater number of people who just pass the article by because they felt they were being prodded by an emotionally manipulating headline.

To put it another way, I often change an overly clickbait article title if I share the article because I want people to actually read it.

I would rather 1 person genuinely read an article I post than 10 people vaguely interact with it, click through to read a sentence or two and then close out of it. The latter experience is a waste for everyone involved but the people selling ads between the articles.

Honestly I think the same holds for media entities like The Verge they just have convinced themselves with bean counting the wrong things that they are optimizing instead of undermining.

Oh jeez I have been looking for where I misplaced that…

What the hell else am I supposed to do with my doomsday laser? I spent all my fortune and time building it in my volcano villain hideout, launched it to space and now the world is falling apart into catastrophe all by itself and no one cares that I can destroy the world.

The first government I contacted from my secret volcano base to demand a ransom or I would melt all their snow just replied “You know what? Great do it already get it over with im tired of all these disasters piling up!!! If you don’t do it our president will!!!” and hung up.

The next day I saw on the news that this country announced for national security purposes it had pre-emptively melted all of its snowpack with lasers to prevent a terror attack.

I am having an identity crisis.

The safe place is the place with water.

Paradoxically does water make places more dangerous?

Sure!

Having no water is NOT an option though and the resulting heatwaves from having no water in the regional climate/wearher system will absolutely depopulate areas no matter what so you might as well take your chances with water.

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Centrist democrats are incapable of competently governing or acting in the interests of voters, they must go.

I find the longer you let em cook on the grill with a low flame the better hit of energy you get out of them.

They don’t work that way when you allow game companies to get away with purposefully designing their games to eventually break…?

I have said it before, I will say it again, Texas is a deathcult desperately trying to convince everyone it is just another shithole.

Can we stop repeating Anthropic’s fear mongering about AI? They are just trying to prop up their stock price and keep the bubble from popping a little longer.

…no?? Horse heads detach while feeding to make access to food easier.

Because the IDF is extremely unprofessional, they are a genocide machine not a true professional military. They don’t actually know how to fight people who can fight back as this video makes clear.

Those cartels gotta get their guns from someone!

The problems go as deep as you are willing to zoom in.

Well said, valve just decided making games was too much work and stopped doing it.

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Wait photons don’t interact with gravity at all? It is just that the warping of spacetime by gravity effects light indirectly?

I haven’t found a way to directly add an outline frame to the text but you can go to tools->shapes and set it to outline no fill and manually do frame the text

The interface is a bit strange at first but it is a genuine multiple layer image editor it is great.

A tip, make sure to confirm/complete a tool’s action before you switch to a different one, it is easy to switch off a tool while it is still “previewing” something.