#plug-in profit site

[orteil42]

Between the recent custom buttons post with the pipe bomb and the gamification post with the post -deleting boss fight I'm starting to get absolutely feral over the idea of you making a social media platform.

The companies that run the current options are cowards.

i would honestly love to give it a crack and were i younger and sillier i think i probably would. unfortunately by now i've become a bit too aware that creating a social media website is one of those nightmare projects that is guaranteed to be 500 times more work and trouble than you initially expect, and if i get into that i'd never have time for anything else. i'd also have to deal with hiring an actual team and be an actual company instead of just some guy who codes in his bedroom. and then let's say maybe the website takes off and we get a few thousands of active users. after a while our uptime becomes terrible; people can't log in, posts won't load. tech sites are starting to make fun of us. we have to grow, get bigger servers, hire more people. eventually i'd have to confront the fact that despite my cute take on monetization our social media isn't recouping the growing server expenses and our seed money is drying up and people at the office are starting to bang at my door to get paid. do i pull the plug and throw away everything we've built so far? likely not, even my own ego aside there's too many people's livelihoods on the line. other folks on the team are motivated to make this work, and a feedback loop forms where we start to ever-so-slightly readjust our values if it means we get to survive another quarter. i get more cynical; our ad slots are more and more intrusive, our monetization strategy gets shiftier and more aggressive. we accept funding from less and less savory entities. we start collecting user data beyond simple telemetry. if we've gotten big enough by that point, we may choose to restructure and begin taking on shareholders. this is a deal with the devil, and we now have a fiduciary duty to play nasty and treat our userbase like livestock in order to secure short-term profit. we can't just stop accepting new users; continued growth demands that we throw away what's left of our ethics to accommodate the gargantuan swaths of money that hundreds of thousands of database calls per second require. those of us who disagree with the new direction are gradually nudged away from positions of power. me, i've either been kicked out of my own project a while back or i've adapted to become someone i would've despised a few years prior. this is all assuming the website didn't crash and burn a few months after launch from either my technical shortcomings or my inexperience with management, or maybe just because our site ended up being too niche to really snowball. it is fun to think about tho!

[geeneelee]

Call me a boot licker or gullible if you like but. As cringe as tumblr’s efforts to make the site profitable are I want them to succeed because if they ever pull the plug on the servers I’m going to be very cross. Like honestly I prefer the cringe homemade merch to selling our data or something. I dunno.

[stars-in-my-damn-eyes]

the impermanence of the internet disgusts me. websites going down when the owner decides to stop maintaining it, platforms going under for not being profitable, webpages and videos and articles and sires being randomly pulled or blocked or hidden, link rot, the slow metamorphosis of sites into glimmering billboards with panopticons hidden behind them, Your Account Has Been Terminated, oops! you can't open this file type! This hard drive is not compatible with your 2012 ipad so have fin emailing yourself 5 years worth of family photos. You entered the password for your Gmail account from 8 years ago correctly but just to make sure it's you we need to text you a pin code! To the mobile phone you lost after the move when you were 14 years old. Oopsie! Your 128GB USB had a pin break in the plug and your data is inaccessible. You must access your bank, healthcare, workplace online. Make sure to download our app! We need to put everything in the most impermanent medium possible. Pay monthly for more cloud storage. Pay monthly for no ads. Pay monthly for some, but less ads. What a disgusting way to live.

[bjsmall]

On the 9th of January 2025, I saw an article in my latest copy of Computer Active which explains about mastering Linux distros.

It suggested using a website called 'Distrosea' which hosts free virtual machines of various flavours of the Linux operating system, all of which can be ran within a browser window.

Visit the site here:

https://distrosea.com/

Here is a list of the Linux distros I had a go at running with their desktop environments:

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - GNOME

Ubuntu 8.10 - GNOME 2 (old, 2008)

Linux Mint 22 - Cinnamon, Ubuntu base

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Cinnamon

Fedora Linux 40 - MATE

OpenSUSE Leap 15.5 - KDE

Alma Linux 9 - GNOME

Debian Linux 12.5 - LXqt (lightweight)

Zorin OS 17 Core64 - GNOME (configurable)

There are a total of 71 Linux operating systems to try on the website at the time of this write up.

To install, update and manage software on Linux using a package manager, the distros mentioned on this list based on Debian & Ubuntu use the APT (Advanced Package Tool) and the distros based on Fedora & Red Hat use the DNF (Dandified Yellow-Dog Updater Modified) package managers.

Their are many other types of package managers for Linux. Since Windows 11, users can choose to install software using UnigetUI (a.k.a Winget commands).

About Distrosea:

When you click on any of the distro entries before selecting a desktop environment, you can read a great description of the background information for each.

I think this website is amazing as it allows you to test distros in your browser without the need to plug in a USB or use virtual machine software. basically it gives you a live install copy of Linux to try online for free. It profits from ads shown on its homepage.

Some of the distros have a 'popular' badge, to show which ones are most likely to have more online traffic. Most of these distros are updated to latest versions available.

When you run the operating systems the system information dialogue will contain the server CPU information and displays the virtual graphics card called Red Hat, Inc Virtio 1.0 GPU.

However the site uses limited user traffic to reduce load on the servers, so when you select a version of Linux, there is a queue system. Each session is free, however it is timed when idle to create space for another user. Also the server connection, which is based in India, can disconnect you from your testing frequency, so whilst it works well you have to reset your VM which will continue where you last left off.

Also some of the Linux distros didn't automatically scale to full screen, and so leave bars at the top and bottom of the screen. The old Ubuntu remains surrounded by a large bar around itself as no modern drivers will work with this old version of Ubuntu.

You can sign into your Google account and gain internet access in your VMs as well.

Read the developers notes on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/139sj6z/distrosea_test_drive_linux_distros_online/?rdt=33513

I would recommend trying this out on a large computer screen as the distros take advantage of hardware acceleration, scaling and look great in full screen mode!

Watch this Distrosea video on YouTube to see it in action!

Remember that this is another way of testing Linux through the internet, the experience will be different if it is installed on an actual computer.

[pillow-anime-talk]

his favorite cam girl.

synopsis: Toji as a fan of your sex channel and perverse videos.

# tags: scenario; fan-idol relation, i guess; sugar daddy or smth like that; cam girl!reader; holy smut; nsfw

warnings: mention of sexual activities, sex cam, toys, masturbation, fingering, daddy kink, beg kink, boobs play, squirting, plug, slutty names & maybe more

includes: female reader ft. toji fushiguro {jjk}

music {click}

author’s note: amen.

Working on webcams was the most profitable and easiest source of income for you. With a few broadcasts a week, you were able to raise enough money to buy a small apartment with cash, as well as a new, small car. You didn’t have to deny yourself the pleasure of new clothes, underwear or cosmetics, and you could afford to go to a restaurant every week for your favorite food or even montly catering. You also saved some money for the future, and invested the rest in new equipment (camera, microphone and monitor) and toys that you needed for photos or videos for your other social media.

It was Friday evening; it was the perfect time to turn on the recording and say ‘Hello, everyone’ to people who in a short moment will be willing to give you their life savings just to see you having fun with yourself and to see your ass out for the camera. So you put on a comfortable outfit – a white lace underwear and a plug with a bunny tail. Additionally, you also wore a white mask on your face, which allowed you to hide your identity all these long months.

You turned on the stream and immediately almost a thousand people appeared on your broadcast. You’ve been pretty popular on this site and you’ve literally hit the TOP 10 this year. You greeted the viewers, turned on the music playlist and launched paid requests. Once you crossed your first cash threshold, you slowly warmed up, taking off your bra and turning to the camera to show off your bunny tail.

More money flowed into your piggy bank, and you slowly began to fulfill requests with high donate; you sat comfortably on your black chair and then spread your legs to expose your wet pussy. First you used your fingers, then added a small but pretty vibrator to your fun. The pink color reflected well in the camera, and hundreds of subsequent requests made your heart smile.

On the other side of the screen sat Toji, tired from the whole day’s work, who, seeing his favorite cam girl, smiled under his breath. His swollen dick begged to be freed from his dark pants and taken care of, but he stared at your naked body for a brief moment before unzipped his pants and sliding them down along with his black boxers. He gripped his huge and hard cock, then bit his lip as he watched you slowly touch your breasts, almost drooling at the pleasure you were giving yourself.

Toji would give anything and everything to be next to you and put his cock inside you and then fill you with his hot cum. He wanted to touch your pretty thighs, bite your nipples, kiss your lips (both, of course) hard and just fuck you until you passed out on that fucking chair.

Your fingers circled your clit quickly, and you closed your shiny eyes, occasionally moaning or glancing at the comments, reading some of them aloud. Toji decided to spice up your broadcast a bit and sent you 35,000 yen.

toji0: say my name and call me daddy so i’ll give you more, my little slut

You almost choked on your own saliva at the sight of a large number. Nevertheless, for such a sum of money, you immediately changed your position to a more comfortable one and reached for the dildo from the wooden desk. Toji smiled in satisfaction as your little pussy took a huge cream-colored cock inside. Almost as hard as his own.

“... O-Oh, daddy. It’s you, again.” You groaned almost choking. “Toji... I missed you so much.” You added with one eye open, and the man only squeezed his cock tighter, feeling his ball ache from denial his own orgasm. “Fuck me harder, daddy.”

You were like a smol snowflake melting in a hot pan. The floor below you was damn wet, and the chair cushion definitely needed wash after the live. Still, you continued, speeding up your hand movements. Your legs were shaking with pleasure.

toji0: good cumslut, you better start begging for more

Another fifty thousand yen landed in your account and you groaned louder; the hard blush on your cheeks matched your face perfectly. You should definitely contact this viewer and offer him a private live or Discord call for an additional fee. After all, ‘toji0’ has always generously rewarded your requests and has been a regular viewer of your channel.

“P-Please, ughh... Fill me with your cum, Toji.”

All the men (and a few women) on a live stream were burning with envy at the sight. Toji could boast of high earnings, so spending several thousand in one evening was nothing special for him. Others, unfortunately, were not so lucky in life and all they could offer was a pitiful thousand or five thousand yen. But he really was your biggest fan, so he thought you deserved all his money.

“Daddy, I want more.” You grunted with a slight smirk as you pulled the wet dildo out of your pussy. You lightly licked the tip of it, then touched your boobs and collarbones once more.

toji0: then you better stick that dick to the floor and jump on it screaming my name, fuckdoll

After seeing the amount of one hundred thousand yen, you almost squirted on the floor. You quickly replied to the anonymous viewer with a short ‘Yes, daddy’ and pinned the toy to a flat surface, before setting the camera to the right angle so that your favorite viewer had the best view of your bouncing tits and swollen pussy.

“Oh, Toji.” You grunted as your body devoured the entire toy. “D-Daddy, I want to ride you all night long so badly.” You said and somewhere in the back of your head you wondered what the stranger looks like.

You responded by moving your hips while touching your pussy with your right hand, and after a short while you cummed on the floor. Your clitoris was throbbing like crazy and you were having a hard time catching your breath. Your cheeks were hot and your forehead was so sweaty. You really wanted to take off the mask, but you rejected the idea right away. Toji, on the other hand, messed up his thighs and shirt with satisfaction, breathing heavily.

However, that wasn’t the last command he gave you that night.

[rollercoasterwords]

like. i still wouldn't want someone to copy and paste my fics into a large language model like chatgpt but it's not so much bc i'm worried abt my work being stolen (seems unlikely that an LLM would spit back out my exact words considering how it works, and even if it did, i doubt any individual would be able to like. publish and profit from those words, based on the nebulous status of copyright law when it comes to LLMs like chatgpt. and having my words fed into the LLM really isn't going to make much of a difference when it comes to corporations profiting off the tool in the first place; plus in instances of corporate exploitation i think there are more effective ways to organize than like...arguing for strengthened ip laws or trying to like make ip laws for fanfiction spaces). it's more because i'm wary of what that says about how a person is like...approaching my fic specifically + fanfiction more broadly. in two main ways:

1. i think it is just. basic respect to check with a writer before u take their work off ao3(or whatever fanfic-specific place it's been shared) and put it somewhere else. and like, this applies to lots of things outside chatgpt--reposting fics to other sites, posting them on goodreads/storygraph, printing + binding fics, etc. if u are treating fanfic writers as people who u are in community with, who are generously sharing a gift with u, then it seems like basic kindness to check in and see if they're alright with u taking that fic outside the space it was posted to do something else with it.

with chatgpt and similar LLMs specifically, a lot of people are wary because there's still so much unsettled in regards to how copyright laws might shake out, and most people (myself included) are unsure of how/whether our writing/data might be stored and used by these corporations that own the LLMs. i don't think ai itself is something that should be mythologized as like ontologically evil technology, but anytime a corporation is introducing us to new tech like this we need to be wary of where it's coming from and how it could be used--people have already pointed out a lot of very serious issues with the way this technology is being developed and how it could/likely will be/already is being used exploitatively--which, again, is more a matter of organizing against corporations than railing against ai tech itself, but is still a valid reason for writers (again, myself included) to be wary of having their work fed to LLMs without permission.

and like. sure, u don't have to care abt writers' feelings + boundaries and can just take their stories and do whatever u want with them. but to me that says u aren't treating fanfic as a community space, but rather a content farm in which fics are products that u are entitled to do whatever u want with. and i just think that's shitty! and if that's how ur treating fanfic then i'd rather not have u reading my fic at all

2. i honestly think it's a strange way to engage w storytelling by treating endings this way. like. story endings are usually v important + intentional, and can completely change the entire tone, themes, messages, etc of a story. i understand going to the writer and asking them abt what they had in mind for the story ending if ur looking for closure, and i understand imagining ur own story ending or even writing ur own ending to an unfinished story. what i don't understand is plugging a story into chatgpt and having it spit an ending out for u.

and like. maybe this is bc we've all been calling these LLMs ai, which evokes an impression of like. a sentient robot creating something. but that's not what these programs do! the first article i linked explains how they actually work really well, but essentially--chatgpt and similar LLMs cannot create new ideas. they can't take a story and synthesize its themes or pick apart its tone to then come up with an original idea for an ending. at the same time, they aren't just plagiarism machines that are ripping text directly from other writers and spitting it back out.

instead (to my understanding), what they're doing is compressing vast amounts of information by running statisical analyses to just save the most common trends, patterns, recurring info, etc, and then plugging that in to fill the gaps. it looks like it's writing something new, but it's essentially just paraphrasing already-existing information pulled from the internet. so i'd imagine that if u fed an ai a fic and said "write an ending," the ai would basically compare the fic to whatever similar stories it has saved and then spit out an ending that is most commonly found on the internet for that type of story. [not an expert here tho--this is just my best guess based on the bit of research i've done].

my point is--you won't be getting a new ending inspired directly by the story u put in. you'll be getting a paraphrased version of the most commonly recurring type of ending for similar stories on the web. and i just....don't see how that would be satisfying in any way. it seems, again, like a way in which someone would be approaching fic like a product, something that needs to be finished + complete bc ur entitled to it, rather than viewing fic as a piece of art with its own unique themes, message, and story that can't just be plugged into a one-size-fits-most ending generator. and like, i'm trying to avoid mysticizing writing as some sort of ethereal art form that would be blasphemously degraded by having someone plug in a shitty ending paraphrased from a conglomeration of various similar stories--i don't think someone creating a shitty ending for a story is like. a horrible evil thing. but i can understand where the satisfaction is coming from if you're writing your own shitty ending, where you get to come up with where u think the story would go + where u get to synthesize the themes u picked up on etc. but ai isn't even doing that--so again, i don't understand where the satisfaction is coming from aside from just going "well every story i read needs to be finished," which. makes me wary bc it just feels like a completely different way to approach stories and storytelling than i would hope to find in fanfic spaces, one that treats fic less as a creative place to explore and more as a transactional space where u are entitled to products.

anyway. feel like my thoughts + feelings abt ai keep changing the more i learn abt it + i'm sure they could change again, but rn my impression of this whole situation is like. i find the fact that some people are plugging fics into LLMs less concerning re: ip + ownership rights, and i don't think it's useful to exaggerate or mythologize abt what ai actually does (i think even calling it ai has kind of misled a lot of people, myself included). what concerns me more is that plugging fics into LLMs to write endings feels symptomatic of a broader culture in which people treat fanfic as an informal profit economy in which fics are product or content that a consumer-audience is entitled to, and i think that sort of approach leads to a whole plethora of other issues + makes fandom a more hostile space.

[dertaglichedan]

European Police Pull Plug On 'Largest' Illegal Streaming Service

An international police operation has shut down "one of the world's largest" illegal online streaming services, used by some 22 million people worldwide and causing billions of euros in copyright damages, EU law agencies said on Wednesday.

Police from nine EU countries and Britain swooped on suspects on Tuesday, shutting down servers and carrying out searches, Eurojust and Europol said in separate statements.

"In a large-scale operation, over 100 searches were carried out against 102 suspects. Eleven suspects were arrested in Croatia," the EU's judicial cooperation arm Eurojust said.

The suspects "illegally distributed material from streaming services online, including films and series", it added, saying that "the illegal service served more than 22 million users worldwide".

The suspects also pirated more than 2,500 television channels including sports channels.

"They were able to make over 250 million euros in illegal profits per month. The economic damages to the copyright holders of the material is estimated at 10 billion euros," Eurojust said.

To evade authorities, the suspects allegedly used encrypted messaging services to communicate and false identities to register phone numbers, credit cards, server rentals and television subscriptions.

The Hague-based Eurojust coordinated the operation by British, Croatian, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, Swedish and Swiss law authorities, while Europol supported the operation by deploying experts and analysing the available intelligence during the investigation phase.

"In addition to intellectual property crime (copyright infringement), there are indications of further crimes, such as money laundering and cybercrime, which are currently under investigation," Europol said.

Illegal streaming of films and TV programmes reached some 215 billion illegal site visits in 2022, said Britain-based MUSO, which claims to have the most comprehensive data on piracy websites.

The figure showed an 18-percent increase between 2021 and 2022, covering 480,000 films and TV shows, MUSO said last year.

[fatehbaz]

In 2023, "the world's largest mining convention" took great interest in Latin America. With the active help of the Canadian federal government, Canadian mining companies are moving to expand their power in Peru and Ecuador.

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On January 18, 2023, as thousands of Peruvians were taking to the streets in Lima to denounce the spiralling political crisis in the country, Canadian Ambassador Louis Marcotte was meeting with the Peruvian Minister of Energy and Mines. [...]. Demonstrators have been met with widespread arrests and brutal violence. [...] [S]ince [protests began] [...] the Canadian mission has met with numerous top-level Peruvian officials in unprecedented fashion. [...] Ambassador Marcotte tweeted several photos from the meeting, using the occasion to promote mining as a benefit for communities and to express Canadian support for the upcoming Peruvian delegation who will attend the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s (PDAC) annual conference in Toronto from March 5 to 8 [2023]. Each year, the world’s largest mining convention draws tens of thousands of [...] company officials, and government representatives to [...] promote an expansion of mining -- with little concern for the consent of those most affected, including in Peru. [...] For years, MiningWatch Canada and the Justice and Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP), alongside organizations including Red Muqui, Cooperacción, Derechos Humanos Sin Fronteras-Cusco and Derechos Humanos y Medio Ambiente DHUMA, have documented the many harms caused by industrial large-scale Canadian mining to rural communities [...]. Ambassador Marcotte chose to promote more Canadian mining investment in the country and plug PDAC 2023 -- where a session dubbed “Peru Day” promises to discuss “opportunities [...].” Canada’s priorities in Peru could not be more clear. [...]

Text by: Kirsten Francescone. “State-sanctioned violence in Peru and the role of Canadian mining.” Canadian Dimension. 6 March 2023. [Bold emphasis added by me.]

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Canadian companies invested over $8 billion in 10 projects [in Peru in 2021] [...]. Toronto-based Hudbay Minerals operates the Constancia mine; Vancouver’s Pan American Silver operates the Shahuindo and La Arena mines; and Teck Resources’, also headquartered in Vancouver, operates the Antamina mine, with a 22.5 percent ownership stake in the project. Antamina is Peru’s largest mine, ranking among the top 10 producing mines in the world in terms of volume, and is the single most important producer of copper, silver, and zinc in the country. In 2021, the mine generated over $6 billion in revenue and nearly $3.7 billion in gross profits. [...] Companies can sign service contracts directly with the National Peruvian Police, and off-duty police officers are permitted to work for private security companies while using state property, such as weapons, uniforms and ammunition. [...] These harms are not minimal: contamination of agricultural lands and waterways around Pan American Silver’s Quiruvilca mine and the criminalization of community leaders and land dispossession due to environmental contamination at Shahuindo; violation of Indigenous self-determination and the right to a clean environment around Plateau Energy’s proposed lithium and uranium mine, sitting atop the region’s most important tropical glacier; undercutting of economic benefits for communities most affected by mining operations, and more.

Text by: Kirsten Francescone. “State-sanctioned violence in Peru and the role of Canadian mining.” Canadian Dimension. 6 March 2023. [Bold emphasis added by me.]

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Two Canadian mining companies are drawing the ire of activists and Indigenous groups in Ecuador, where the government [...] is using Toronto-based Adventus Mining’s Curipamba copper-gold project in Las Naves and Vancouver-headquartered Atico Mining’s La Plata project in Sigchos as test sites to impose a new and controversial process for environmental consultation under Decree 754 -- an executive edict issued on May 31 [2023] that has been roundly denounced as unconstitutional and illegal. Decree 754 [...] affords communities no rights to veto development projects on their lands. [...] The pro-mining [...] government, which swept to power in 2021, passed the decree a few weeks after dissolving the elected national assembly and proceeding to govern by executive fiat. National protests subsequently erupted [...]. [P]residential elections [are] scheduled for August 20 [2023]. [...] Residents of Las Naves and Sigchos have faced heavily armed military and police forces, which have come in to break up protests [...]. Stephen Potter, Canada’s ambassador to Ecuador, who was in Las Naves to visit Adventus’s Curipamba project at the beginning of June [2023], said in an interview that the mine is a “responsible investment that has the support of the community.” [...] There has also been ongoing conflict and opposition tied to other Canadian mining projects, including in the Ecuadorian Amazon where the Shuar Arutam people have denounced the militarization of their territory to advance Vancouver-based Solaris Resources’ Warintza copper project. [...]

Text by: Viviana Herrera and Ivonne Ramos. "Violence surrounds Canadian mining projects in Ecuador." Canadian Dimension. 4 August 2023. [Bold emphasis added by me.]

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[T]he [...] government is on the cusp of signing a free trade agreement with Canada and becoming the “next destination for mining.” Only two mines are currently in operation in Ecuador [...]. In September 2022, [...] Ecuador’s Minister of Mines and Energy [...] announced six new ‘strategic’ mining projects. Five of these will be led by Canadian firms [...]. According to the minister, these projects may [against existing laws] obtain an environmental license without the requirement for prior consultation [with local communities,]. This announcement happened after one of the largest national strikes in the country called by CONAIE, demanding the [...] government issue a moratorium on mining and nullify another decree -- Executive Decree 151 -- that would allow for mining in the Amazon [...]. Earlier this year, [the Minister of Mines and Energy] spoke in Toronto at the annual conference of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), the world’s largest mining convention, about Ecuador’s plans to become Latin America’s next premier mining destination by speeding up project approvals and signing a new trade pact with Ottawa. “A free trade agreement with Canada would make Ecuador the best mining destination,” he reassured investors. [...] With $3.7 billion invested, Canada is the leading foreign investor in Ecuador, and the majority is already invested in the country’s mining sector. [...]

Text by: Viviana Herrera and Ivonne Ramos. "Violence surrounds Canadian mining projects in Ecuador." Canadian Dimension. 4 August 2023. [Bold emphasis added by me.]

[rassicas]

Ohmygosh thank you for such a thorough answer! I loved reading that! First of all I want to thank you for all the amazing stuff you do and generally remind you that you are awesome. Secondly, a few follow-up questions because some things you mentioned particularly intrigued me:

1. What exactly are the problem with “what if lil judd?” The Judds are some of the most central figures in inkfish society so I imagine it’s quite possible they’d have enough weight to throw around to establish a small, shady business on the downlow. I’m sure that there are several problems, I just can’t think of any at present.

2. What do you mean by “though the english localization foolishly carried that motive into the finale of his story when it didn't make sense to do so?” I confess I’m probably just parsing that paragraph wrong, but wasn’t “that motive” his original mammalization plan? He was never MOTIVATED by profit, right? I don’t remember him mentioning profit motives in ROTM.

3. I’m really intrigued by this “O.R.C.A secretly working against Grizz” idea, and agree that ROTM was… weird and doesn’t really make sense taken at face value. Can you elaborate?

sure they'd have the power in the inkling world, what bugs me is the timeline for lil judd. by grizzco's reveal in april 2017, it seemed it was a business that was already well established in the inkling world. salmon roe/power eggs have been stated to be an important energy source, egg collection sites were in place, the grizzco building was there, and it already had a training video that looked like it was filmed like 30 years ago. lil judd was first revealed in. late 2016 i think? he was JUST born months prior. and grizz's plan was certainly in motion for a good long time before he even started the business. for the sake of the timeline itd make more sense to me that judd, not lil judd, was who grizz got in contact with... and maybe lied about his motives in the process since something like 'woah judd is evil all along!!' and not just Neutral feels pretty out of character imo. dont get me started on how grizz's entire motivations were based on him not seeing a single other mammal and him feeling isolated from that, and then the fact there are 2 other sapient mammals surviving on earth is conveniently left out. splatoon team either purposely obfuscating something there, or if not then that seems like a weird shitty writing decision

2. on top of the plethora of added-in business puns, doesnt get more blatant than this:

again, JP version makes no mention of profits and grizz's tone is more serious over all. 3. im gonna plug @ardnin's video because he explains this idea quite well!

[mallory-likes-whales]

I think the Tiktok format of video was a predictable next step in the internet functions. The endpoint of internet monetization is to get as much money from the users as possible as fast as possible. Watching the gradual shift in 'the best form of content for profits' aligns with that.

When the running a site on the internet first started being about profits, it was done with ads. Because the internet was free; it had been publically funded when it was primarily used by academics as a tool and people were used to it. Advert space was the only way to make money under that paradigm.

So companies got better at it. Advert space was more valuable if you the site could promse the ads would only be shown to those interested in them. If you add more spaces for ads, you can sell more ads. It leeps going.

Until you hit video content. You need to monetize it, so you do. You add pre-rolls, but nobody likes pre-rolls. They're too obtrusive. So you let people skip them, but advertisers don't like their ads being skipped. So they need a new system for monetizing video.

But one exists. It's been in use for years. Scrolling pages are easy to monetize. every few posts you plug in an advert. It looks like any other post, so you get impressions. It works.

But how do you get it to work for video?

You introduce scrolling through videos. They're short. the viewer doesn't choose anything. They just watch what you show them. For hours each day, they sit and they stare into the maw of your application. It gives them content, it figures out what keeps them glued there. It gives them more, sprinkling in ads where it thinks they won't mind.

And as a casualty, choice is lost. You don't pick a video, you simply watch what you are shown. It doesn't matter what that is, because you like it.

[ausetkmt]

It Could Cost $21 Billion to Clean Up California’s Oil Sites, Study Finds

For well over a century, the oil and gas industry has drilled holes across California in search of black gold and a lucrative payday. But with production falling steadily, the time has come to clean up many of the nearly quarter-million wells scattered from downtown Los Angeles to western Kern County and across the state.

The bill for that work, however, will vastly exceed all the industry’s future profits in the state, according to a first-of-its-kind study published Thursday and shared with ProPublica.

“This major issue has sneaked up on us,” said Dwayne Purvis, a Texas-based petroleum reservoir engineer who analyzed profits and cleanup costs for the report. “Policymakers haven’t recognized it. Industry hasn’t recognized it, or, if they have, they haven’t talked about it and acted on it.”

The analysis, which was commissioned by Carbon Tracker Initiative, a financial think tank that studies how the transition away from fossil fuels impacts markets and the economy, used California regulators’ draft methodology for calculating the costs associated with plugging oil and gas wells and decommissioning them along with related infrastructure. The methodology was developed with feedback from the industry.

The report broke down the costs into several categories. Plugging wells, dismantling surface infrastructure and decontaminating polluted drill sites would cost at least $13.2 billion, based on publicly available data. Adding in factors with slightly more uncertainty, like inflation rates and the price of decommissioning miles of pipeline, could bring the total cleanup bill for California’s onshore oil and gas industry to $21.5 billion.

Meanwhile, California oil and gas production will earn about $6.3 billion in future profits over the remaining course of operations, Purvis estimated.

Compounding the problem, the industry has set aside only about $106 million that state regulators can use for cleanup when a company liquidates or otherwise walks away from its responsibilities, according to state data. That amount equals less than 1% of the estimated cost.

Taxpayers will likely have to cover much of the difference to ensure wells are plugged and not left to leak brine, toxic chemicals and climate-warming methane.

“These findings detail why the state must ensure this cost is not passed along to the California taxpayer,” state Sen. Monique Limón, a Santa Barbara Democrat who has written legislation regulating oil, said in a statement. “It is important that the state collect funding to plug and abandon wells in a timely and expeditious manner.”

Representatives of the state’s oil regulatory agency, the California Geologic Energy Management Division, did not respond to ProPublica’s request for comment on the report’s findings.

Rock Zierman, CEO of the California Independent Petroleum Association, an industry trade group, said in a statement that companies spent more than $400 million last year to plug and clean up thousands of oil and gas wells in the state. “This demonstrates their dedication to fulfilling their obligations and mitigating the environmental impact of their operations,” he said.

Fees on current oil and gas production will offset some of the liabilities, but they’re nowhere near enough to address the shortfall quantified by the new report.

“It really scares me,” Kyle Ferrar, Western program coordinator with environmental and data transparency group FracTracker Alliance, said of the report’s findings. “It’s a lot for the state, even a state as big as California.”

Industry in Decline

High oil prices have translated to huge profits for the industry in recent years, but Carbon Tracker’s report found that’s likely to be short-lived. Only two drilling rigs were operating in the state at one point this year, meaning few new wells will be coming online, and more than a third of all unplugged wells are idle.

Judson Boomhower, an environmental economist and assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego who has studied California’s oil industry, said there are inherent uncertainties in estimating future oil revenues. For example, one variable is how quickly the country shifts from internal combustion engine vehicles to electric. But, he said, Carbon Tracker’s estimates for environmental liabilities track with his research.

“It’s a state in the twilight of its production period, and that means big liabilities,” Boomhower said. He added that now is the time for regulators to prevent companies from offloading their wells to “thinly capitalized firms” unable to shoulder the cleanup.

As ProPublica reported last year, the major oil companies that long dominated in California and have the deep pockets necessary to pay for environmental cleanup are selling their wells and leaving the state, handing the task to smaller and less well-financed companies.

Roughly half of the wells drilled in California have changed hands through sales and bankruptcies since 2010, according to data Ferrar analyzed.

Smaller companies are often one bankruptcy away from their wells being orphaned, meaning they’re left to taxpayers as companies dissolve. The Biden administration recently committed $4.7 billion in taxpayer funds to plug orphan wells.

And the industry’s environmental liabilities in California are far bigger than Carbon Tracker’s report quantifies.

Purvis only included environmental liabilities associated with onshore oil and gas production. Billions of dollars more will be needed to plug offshore wells, remove rigs and reclaim artificial islands used for drilling off the coast of Long Beach, Ventura and Santa Barbara.

Additionally, the report did not quantify the emerging risk of “zombie wells,” which were plugged years ago to weaker standards and are likely to leak if they aren’t replugged. That’s an expensive endeavor, as the average cost to plug one well in California — to say nothing of cleaning up surface contamination — is $69,000, according to Purvis’ research. But some California wells have already begun failing, including in neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

“They’re Not Going to Have Money to Do It Later”

Time is running out to rectify the funding shortfall, for example by increasing the money companies must set aside for well plugging.

Carbon Tracker’s report — using state production data and financial futures contracts on the New York Mercantile Exchange — estimated that as production declines, 58% of all future profits from drilling oil and gas in the state are likely to come over the next two years.

“We have our backs up against the wall in California right now,” Ferrar said. “If companies don’t put money towards it now, they’re not going to have money to do it later.”

Environmental policies could accelerate the industry’s decline. California voters will decide on a ballot initiative in 2024 that would reinstate large buffer zones between communities and oil wells, limiting drilling.

Purvis said acting quickly to plug wells would also “stimulate economic activity” and help smooth the transition for oil and gas workers who stand to lose well-paying jobs in the shift away from climate-warming fossil fuels. Spending large sums to plug old wells would create short-term employment for oil field workers.

As California faces the consequences of its failure to quickly clean up aging oil and gas infrastructure, there are likely several million more wells around the country that are either low-producing or already orphaned and will soon need to be decommissioned.

“California’s going to be a test case or the leading edge of this,” Boomhower said. “This same problem is eventually going to manifest everywhere.”

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How it's done (How To Make Over $300K With Crakrevenue, Exoclick & TrafficJunky 2023)

In this video, the speaker discusses various CPA marketing sites for adult content. They mention Crackrevenue as the biggest site for adult CPA marketing, followed by Extra Click and Plug Rush. The speaker highlights the different options and opportunities available on Extra Click, such as site themes and traffic types. The speaker emphasizes the potential for high traffic and the simplicity of running campaigns on Extra Click, particularly for pop under ads. They briefly touch on affiliate offers and the importance of finding profitable niches. The video concludes with the speaker encouraging viewers to sign up for Extra Click and explore the opportunities for adult marketing.

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Making over $300,000 with CPA marketing requires a combination of strategic planning, hard work, and dedication. While I can provide you with some general steps to get started, it's important to note that success in CPA marketing is not guaranteed and individual results may vary. Here's a step-by-step guide to help you get started:

Understand CPA Marketing: CPA (Cost Per Action) marketing is a form of affiliate marketing where you earn a commission when someone completes a specific action, such as filling out a form, signing up for a trial, or making a purchase. Familiarize yourself with the basics of CPA marketing, including different networks, offers, and conversion tracking.

Choose a Niche: Select a niche that you are interested in or have some knowledge about. It's easier to promote offers related to a niche you understand, as you can provide valuable insights and create engaging content that resonates with your audience.

Join CPA Networks: Research and join reputable CPA networks that offer a wide range of high-converting offers. Some popular CPA networks include MaxBounty, PeerFly, and CPAlead. Be sure to comply with their application requirements and follow their guidelines.

Build Your Online Presence: Establish a website or a blog related to your chosen niche. Focus on creating high-quality content that provides value to your visitors. Optimize your website for search engines to attract organic traffic. Additionally, leverage social media platforms to promote your content and engage with your target audience.

Traffic Generation: To make money with CPA marketing, you need to drive targeted traffic to your offers. Explore various traffic generation methods such as search engine optimization (SEO), pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, social media marketing, email marketing, and content marketing. Experiment with different strategies to find what works best for you.

Select and Promote Offers: Once you have an audience and traffic, choose CPA offers that align with your niche and target audience's interests. Select offers that have a high conversion rate and competitive payouts. Create compelling promotional content, including reviews, tutorials, and case studies, to encourage your audience to take action.

Conversion Tracking and Optimization: Set up conversion tracking tools such as tracking pixels, cookies, or postback URLs provided by your CPA network. Monitor the performance of your campaigns closely and analyze the data to identify areas for improvement. Optimize your campaigns by testing different ad creatives, landing pages, and targeting options to maximize conversions and earnings.

Scale Your Successful Campaigns: Once you find campaigns that are profitable, scale them up by increasing your advertising budget, expanding your reach, and exploring new traffic sources. Continuously analyze the data, optimize your campaigns, and adapt to changes in the market to stay ahead.

Learn and Stay Updated: CPA marketing is a dynamic field, and it's essential to stay informed about the latest trends, strategies, and industry developments. Attend webinars, read blogs, join forums, and connect with fellow marketers to expand your knowledge and stay ahead of the curve.

Building a successful CPA marketing business takes time and effort. It's crucial to maintain consistency, learn from your mistakes, and adapt your strategies based on your results.

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Saw a post about how social media sites are on borrowed time -- as seen by the recent commercial atrocities committed by Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Discord, you name it -- and like. Partial agree, partial disagree.

I don't think the "end" of social media is going to be as obvious as you think. You're not going to see Twitter put up a big "WE ARE PULLING THE PLUG ON OUR SERVERS ON JANUARY 1, 2024" banner at the top of their page the way kiddie MMOs like Fantage, LPSO, and Club Penguin did, at least not within the next few years. I think it'll be slow. I think most people won't notice it. I think it'll be less "the site no longer exists" and more "the site as you know it no longer exists".

I'm specifically imagining an experience I had a long time ago, maybe ten years even at this point, I can't say for certain. What I can say is that, at that point, MySpace had been dead for a long time. I was a totally new generation on the internet, a baby who didn't know a thing about this site, and I was curious. I wanted to see what MySpace -- this former titan of the internet, mighty Ozymandias -- looked like, so I typed in the address and visited it for myself.

The answer: bad.

It was all ads. That was all I remembered. It was a grid of images, all advertising something else. It didn't even look like social media, it looked like a news aggregator or some kind of malware-ridden spam site. Honestly, my eyes glossed over the absolute nothingburger of images for a bit, and then I chose to leave just as quickly as I'd chosen to visit it.

Maybe I'm misremembering the experience. Maybe the site has improved, maybe it's gotten worse, at most a quick check right now in 2023 tells me the UI is cleaner than I remember - but still, most importantly, none of what I see is user-generated.

I think that, when social media "dies", it's not gonna be the sites vanishing from search results, the URL leading to a 404, the servers being taken offline. I think it's just gonna be that the sites will stop being about "user-generated content" -- you're not gonna be allowed to express yourself anymore if it doesn't help the investors make a profit, because you're taking up valuable server and screen space -- and instead put ads and monetization truly front and center, more than ever before. It's gonna be spam, bots, and companies spending hundreds of dollars to throw their own names into all that noise - at least until they realize there's nobody real left there to see it, because why would anyone stick around on a site where the only thing to do is view ads, ads, and more ads?

That is when the rotting husks of those sites will finally stop making money and disappear.

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what's (not) funny about this is how genuinely easy this could be if they weren't chasing growth constantly. tumblr doesn't have to get bigger or “better”, it doesn't need to steal users from others sites, it doesn't need a twitter re-skin or anything like that.

tumblr could turn a small but consistent profit if it catered more to its actual regular users. like lol what if instead of only being ad free, you could also have the post limit removed or raised substantially higher? what if instead of the 250 post limit applying to all of your blogs in a single count, you had 250 posts you could make per-blog every day instead? what if instead of fixing their tag system like they've been avoiding for a decade, they just make some damn search operators and give us advanced search options? what if the rules around nudity were super clear and there was a way for people to tell where the line was for what's acceptable and what will get you flagged and hidden? what if it was easier to report hate speech than it is to report something for being sexual? what if the place that cheekily passes itself off as the queerest place on the Internet actually gave a single fuck about the communities that thrive on here DESPITE shitty leadership not Because of it?

Like tumblr even had a golden opportunity when reddit users started flocking over here but they've been so so desperate for twitter users' attention they've done ZERO courting for their reddit users, zero courting for existing users - just growth at all costs, everyone be damned over some hypothetical users who were never going to be here to begin with.

Matt and tumblr leadership in general have worms for brains. some day someone will pull the plug for good on tumblr but god i hope Automattic sells to someone more competent than they were, and please don't let it be some idiot who thinks tumblr “will be the next PDF” lmfao

this is so funny. regrettably, 1 million people yes-and-ing a knock off pair of shoes did not raise very much money.

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Fast Profit System Legit Passive Income or Too Good?

In the world of online money-making opportunities, bold promises are the norm. The Fast Profit System, created by Glynn Kosky, claims to deliver effortless $1,000+ daily commissions through a done-for-you, automated platform. With promises of high-ticket commissions, zero experience required, and free traffic solutions, the system sounds almost too good to be true. Let’s unpack what the Fast Profit System offers and whether it’s a legitimate path to passive income or just another overhyped program.

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What is the Fast Profit System?

➡️Done-for-you system: From funnels to emails, everything is pre-built and ready to deploy.

➡️No technical expertise required: You don’t need to create products, run ads, or build websites.

➡️Automated free traffic: The platform claims to drive targeted visitors to your affiliate links without extra effort.

➡️High-ticket commissions: Instead of earning small profits, users can make $500 to $1,000+ per sale.

What’s Included in the Package?​

1- Fast Profit System App — The central software that manages your campaigns.

2- Million Dollar Funnel — Pre-made funnels used by Glynn himself to generate millions.

3- Video Training Series — Step-by-step tutorials to help users get started quickly.

4- $1.6M Email Swipe File — Over 300 proven email templates to maximize conversions.

5- Free Autoresponder — A tool to manage and send marketing emails without additional costs.

6- Traffic System — Strategies for driving free traffic to your affiliate links.

7- Private Community Access — A group for networking, support, and additional resources.

How Does It Work?

The Fast Profit System follows a simple four-step process:

1- Activate Your System — Users set up their account and plug in affiliate links.

2- Add Your Links — Input your affiliate link into the platform’s funnels.

3- Activate Traffic — Leverage the built-in traffic system to attract potential buyers.

4- Watch Commissions Roll In — Once everything is live, sales and commissions are automated.

This simplicity makes the program attractive, especially for beginners who may feel overwhelmed by traditional affiliate marketing

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What Are the Pros?​

Beginner-Friendly: The step-by-step instructions and done-for-you features eliminate many common hurdles.

High Ticket Earnings: Focusing on high-ticket products means fewer sales are needed to make a substantial income.

No Upfront Product Creation: You don’t need to build or stock anything; the products are pre-selected.

Bonuses Add Value: The inclusion of tools like email swipes and autoresponders can save hundreds of dollars.

Free Traffic: The built-in traffic system reduces dependency on paid ads, which are a significant cost in most affiliate ventures.

What Are the Cons?​

Exaggerated Claims: The “$1,000/day on autopilot” pitch may set unrealistic expectations for many users.

Traffic Reliability: Free traffic strategies often yield inconsistent results compared to paid ads.

Upselling Concerns: While the system is marketed as free, users may encounter upsells for advanced features or tools.

Market Saturation: If too many users promote the same funnels, competition could dilute results.

Who Is It Best For?​

Beginners: Those new to affiliate marketing and unsure where to start.

Budget-Conscious Marketers: People who want to avoid significant upfront costs for tools or ads.

Time-Strapped Individuals: Users looking for a hands-off approach to generating online income.

Personal Experience with Similar Systems​Having tested various affiliate platforms over the years, one consistent observation is that no system is truly “set it and forget it.” While tools like the Fast Profit System can simplify the process, success typically depends on your ability to:

1- Customize the system to fit your niche.

2- Drive consistent traffic (even free traffic requires effort and experimentation).

3- Stay patient and committed as results may take time.

One standout feature here is the high-ticket focus. Unlike low-commission products, where you need to sell in volume, a single high-ticket sale can cover your efforts for days or weeks.

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However, the reliance on pre-built funnels and traffic may limit your ability to scale or pivot in competitive niches. This underscores the importance of pairing the system with a broader marketing strategy.

Is the Fast Profit System Worth It?​

The Fast Profit System offers compelling features for those looking to break into affiliate marketing with minimal upfront investment. It simplifies many of the more complex aspects of the business, such as funnel creation, email marketing, and traffic generation.

Howeve, potential users should approach the system with realistic expectations. Success in affiliate marketing — like any other business — requires effort, learning, and adaptability. If you’re willing to commit time and leverage the tools provided, the Fast Profit System could be a valuable addition to your income-building toolkit.

Final Verdict

​Legit, but not magic.

The Fast Profit System is a practical, beginner-friendly solution for aspiring affiliate marketers. While it won’t make you a millionaire overnight, it can be a stepping stone toward generating a sustainable income online. Just be prepared to learn, experiment, and actively engage with the system.

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