What’s more likely, someone at reddit fucked up an analysis, or these ads are 14x better than Google or 31x better than FB?
What’s most likely is that you misread or misinterpreted what was stated. It says the new format outperforms other types of ads by 28%, not that they get 28% CTR.
In 2024, I feel like we should have the power to create images that aren’t fuzzy, overcompressed, and hard to see messes, yet here we are.
I know this “seems” correct, but I’m curious if there’s actually a strong correlation between prominent adam’s apples and deep voices? In my experience, it’s not particularly strong. Plenty of guys with big adam’s apples don’t have deep voices and plenty of deep voiced men don’t have prominent adam’s apples.
It’s true what they say, though. You can’t make an omelette without breaking an egg. That’s also true when it comes to properly breading chicken in preparation for deep frying, the secret ingredient is dipping the chicken in egg before coating with bread crumbs. And I think if we’re all being honest with ourselves, the same can basically be said about relationships.
Saturday night is usually pancake night so I decided to put this to the test. Unfortunately I was out of garlic. Thought I at least had a jar of the minced stuff, but apparently Harold used them up last week and didn’t bother to remind me. So I substituted butter instead. Harold’s allergic to onions so we decided it was best to skip those. Turned out excellent!
Two, four, six, eight. Time to recapitulate.
Not me. I’m reading this Lemmy post in browser.
Anecdotally speaking, I’ve been suspecting this was happening already with code related AI as I’ve been noticing a pretty steep decline in code quality of the code suggestions various AI tools have been providing.
Some of these tools, like GitHub’s AI product, are trained on their own code repositories. As more and more developers use AI to help generate code and especially as more novice level developers rely on AI to help learn new technologies, more of that AI generated code is getting added to the repos (in theory) that are used to train the AI. Not that all AI code is garbage, but there’s enough that is garbage in my experience, that I suspect it’s going to be a garbage in, garbage out affair sans human correction/oversight. Currently, as far as I can tell, these tools aren’t really using much in the way of good metrics to rate whether the code they are training on is quality or not, nor whether it actually even works or not.
More and more often I’m getting ungrounded output (the new term for hallucinations) when it comes to code, rather than the actual helpful and relevant stuff that had me so excited when I first started using these products. And I worry that it’s going to get worse. I hope not, of course, but it is a little concerning when the AI tools are more consistently providing useless / broken suggestions.
It’s a linear extrapolation that doesn’t take into account the not completely unreasonable chance that commercially viable banana varieties could go [functionally] extinct or that climate change will make it dramatically more expensive to grow them in sufficient quantities such that the price can stay on trend.
The actual scariest stuff pretty much boils down to aggressive dogs being aggressive dogs.
For example: I saw a woman lose control of her pit-mix. The dog rushed over to one of our neighbors, unprovoked, and immediately latched on to her leg and started thrashing it. The dog’s owner was freaking out screeching which seemed to agitate the dog rather than dissuade it from attacking. There was so much blood, but I think the only long term physical damage was scars. However, I only ever saw the victim once or twice after that, she stopped going out on walks after that event.
If you’re willing to stretch the definition of scariest and seen:
Deer are super annoying sometimes. One of their behaviors is that they make a super loud snort-whistle noise when alarmed. So if you’re outside and unaware of their presence, and especially if you’re not expecting a super loud and almost alien-like snort-whistle coming from the woods right next to you, there’s a good chance it’s going to startle the crap out of you.
I am specifically mentioning hummingbirds, since that’s the title, in the image, and the bulk of the discussion in this thread when I looked at it this morning. That being said, no, I don’t think it has to be hummingbirds.
Keep in mind, these flowers are significantly smaller than most (if not all) hummingbirds, and hummingbirds themselves are amongst the smallest, if not the smallest, birds in the world. So, any species of bird that these flowers attract are going to be significantly larger than the flowers.
Not to mention that virtually all birds that feed from flowers have excellent visual acuity, that’s almost a requirement for them to be successful with this feeding strategy. It seems highly unlikely that the birds would have a difficult time identifying that these are flowers and instead confusing them as a flock of miniature birds feeding from the plant. And, to me, that pretty much negates any argument for selective pressures on the flowers to have birdlike appearance for that purpose.
At least with the example of the “bee orchids” I mentioned in a prior comment, the selective pressures and the overall context make sense and appear to explain why the flowers have evolved to look like female bees and wasps. But the “hummingbird flower” from Australia that kind of resembles the profile of a hummingbird if viewed from a specific angle and out of context doesn’t really hold up, in my opinion.
I completely disagree, we can know for sure. This plant is native to Australia. There are no native hummingbirds in Australia. The flowers evolved to look like this before there were hummingbirds around it.
Seeing the up votes and down votes in this thread, I realize this is an unpopular “opinion” but the flowers didn’t necessarily evolve to look like hummingbirds specifically. That many people see it as looking hummingbird-like is more a reflection of the human mind’s ability to find patterns and connections even when they don’t exist. It’s interesting and pretty for sure, and definitely a curiosity.
Same thing for the “monkey orchid”. You see a monkey because the flowers are photographed at an unnatural angle and forced perspective, the photos online where the effect is most visible are the ones with lots of compression artifacts and generally poor quality, and because of the power of suggestion. If you saw these in person (without prior context of the photos), there’s a good chance you wouldn’t even notice the face-like visage unless pointed out.
On the other hand, the “bee orchids” actually are an example where it seems that the flowers have evolved in a way that specifically mimics the appearance of bees (and wasps). These flowers mostly attract male bees and wasps who confuse them for lovely lady bees and wasps and try to mate with the flowers. In the process, they pick up a pollen sac / pollinia, and if all goes well they end up pollinating the flower (or move on to pollinate another one).
Fruits, and by extension peppers, evolved to be eaten. Peppers are the fruit of the pepper plant, and generally speaking, fruits act as an enticement for animals to eat them and thus distribute their seeds.
It’s just that hot peppers specifically appear to have evolved a strategy to dissuade mammals from eating them, since the chemical that causes them to be hot primarily affects mammals, but not birds. It’s actually not an uncommon strategy, many fruits are distasteful or even poisonous to certain animals, but are perfectly edible to other animals in a way that suggests it is specifically beneficial to be eaten by some but not by others.
Where I live, the grocery prices aren’t up anywhere near the double or triple that other people have mentioned. The basics / necessities have generally seen more modest price increases over the past few years. There have been obvious exceptions like when there’s been shortages of specific things or like if I were to compare out of season produce prices to the prices of stuff when its in season, but in those cases I just go without (which also kind of proves they weren’t necessities to begin with).
For the most part, any luxury items or luxury brands that have dramatically increased their prices and engaged in shrinkflation, I stop buying that stuff or cut way back. Even if I can afford that stuff, I’m not going to pay the prices. And if I weren’t really able to afford to feed myself, I would definitely not be buying anything like that. No organic apples for me. No potato chips. No microwave meals. No soda.
In my adult life, I’ve twice experienced food insecurity. I can’t speak to anybody’s situation in specific, but for me what worked was willingness to be flexible and getting creative. I would grow as much of my own food as I could, even in a small shared living space I could grow some lettuce or spring onions in a window. I was also pretty knowledgeable about edible plants, including local/wild stuff, so that helped to supplement my diet as well.
Probably because the study itself, which is linked in the article that’s merely summarizing it, discusses tea and a variety of other lifestyle choices / habits that they investigated.
Don’t get me wrong: I’m not saying it’s bad or that it’s worse than the competitors.
But, it’s one of the chains where I’ve experienced employees that very clearly smelled strongly of weed (like they have just freshly smoked up or had some in their pocket) while making my food or serving it to me. At least in my region where weed isn’t legalized, it kind of has a reputation of being one of the cooler “stoner friendly” chain restaurants in terms of employment opportunities and the few people I’ve known who worked there at some point are or were heavy, frequent users.
I’m not hating on people who use drugs, but I don’t think it’s all that far fetched to believe that working under the influence is going to increase the odds/frequency of silly screw ups similar to the BLT-less BOLT in the photo and given the reputation of that company (in my circle, region, etc), it doesn’t seem at all like a weird joke to make. Really, it applies to a lot of restaurants in general.
I feel like this is on brand for Jersey Mike’s, though. I’m pretty sure the only way to get fired from Jersey Mike’s to show up sober for your shift.
You should probably spend a bit more time avoiding xylitol then, if that’s your reasoning. Sorbitol isn’t toxic to dogs for the most part. Xylitol on the other hand is.
I like the taste, but I don’t like the price.
Taste-wise, they taste like pretty much all the cactus fruits I’ve tried so far. There’s not a whole lot of flavor to them, just a balanced sweetness (when they’re ripe), but not overwhelming sweetness. At least in my part of the world, prickly pears are more cost effective and very similar in terms of taste, but for some reason, less often available.
To me, one of the appeals of cactus fruits is the texture from the slight crunchiness of the seeds, which is a good balance to the consistency of the fruit. Also nice that there’s typically not a lot of tartness or bitterness. I like tartness and bitterness in some fruits, but these are a nice change of pace.
Overall, if they were cheap, I’d be eating them a lot more. These epiphytic cacti are fairly easy to grow and bloom as house plants, even in temperate climates, so if you do really enjoy them, it’s something you could potentially grow yourself. And obviously if you live in a tropical to subtropical climate, you can probably get away with growing them outdoors.