… strain on RAM resources? What year is it?

I did, yes. The second link has the relevant quote from the CFO - “We’re probably – you know, maybe we cried too much last year when we were hitting numbers that were 3.5% of sales”.

Though looking at the context, it looks like he regrets the actions (specifically increased security hired) that came from that. There doesn’t seem to be anything about the link to store closures.

The actual link came from an article Shepard Pie below you provided here (Is Shoplifting Really Surging?). Apparently nationwide, shoplifting is down - except in certain cities

But the increase in shoplifting appears to be limited to a few cities, rather than being truly national. […] There are some exceptions, particularly New York City, where shoplifting has spiked.

Out of the 24 cities, 17 reported decreases in shoplifting.

I’m guessing the 7 remaining cities are where the stores were closed.

This is just like Walgreens and RiteAid claiming they have to close stores due to theft, only to later admit that was a complete fabrication.

Thought this was interesting, so I tried looking for more information. Didn’t find anything other than people speculating. If you have a link or search terms I could use to find of an article of these or similar companies saying the closings were actually because of something else, I’d appreciate it.

My soul died a bit thinking of that wasted MDF

Maybe they’re trying the AoT thing where it’s The Final Season pt1, pt2, pt3.1, pt3.2. Though yea, it’s got to be an anime original ending. No way they can cram the rest in one season.

Ok. What about the president using the bully pulpit to call out price gouging after inflation has cooled down. Like last month. Or trying to tackle junk fees?

I know someone who’s trying to become a content creator on YT and is trying to study The Algorithm to make it work in their favor. My impression of Google’s direction for YouTube is that they want to take over agency of curation from the user to The Algorithm.

That is, I believe they don’t want people to look at views, likes, comments to know if something’s worth it - they want people to find/trust videos returned by the search results and recommended videos list. My guess is that may fuzz lower view count videos next, but who knows.

A literal kid telling an oldfag that he’s the reason the internet is shit today. Ok, lol

Yea I remember that argument being used for when they removed likes/dislikes - surprise, YT’s not flooded with false videos any more than it was before.

And it doesn’t surprise me that some shithead that uses the term poojeet is against tools to help reduce toxic brigading.

I suspected nothing I said would’ve been helpful for you anyway - it was more for other people reading.

Good for you, but that’s not the situation the average American is in. Most people still don’t vote, so someone reading this would likely be able to do something.

You can try to convince other people who would’ve stayed home to vote instead… That’s essentially multiplying your vote.

…wow. From what I know - the defense generative models have against copyright is that they don’t copy their training data directly. If the models have that data in some form that can be repeated back, they can/should get reamed by lawsuits.

What kind of non-business user can even use this. Even if we assume all of octomom’s kids have 3 uncompressed 4k bluray streams running each at once - that’s 2.5Gbps max. And no streaming service even offers uncompressed video.

Seriously - what is the point of >1Gbps for normal use? Games? They can be preloaded days in advance nowadays. Even without preloading - it really doesn’t take long to download on a gig connection.

Yea, that’s what they talked about in the article

I’ve seen similar complaints with when reading about western animation too - but the context for that was in an animation guide (The Animator’s Survival Kit). I wonder if there’ll be any attempt to consolidate/document anime animation tricks before the old farts there croak

Clickbait. Actual reason they were sued -

A few weeks ago, ZUMA Press filed a complaint at a federal court in California, accusing Plex of using a photo of actress Cuca Escribano on its website, without permission. The photo was shot by Jose Perez Gegundez who typically licenses it to third parties for a fee.

Not the reason people would think of with this type of title.