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Costco CEO Ron Vachris did the “CEO eats his own product” challenge by destroying a hot dog (and confirms the Costco hot dog combo is staying at $1.50 forever). LEGEND.

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This exchange Sinegal has with the Seattle Times is better:

1) the video got made 'private' I think within a few hours of being posted, but as people have provided it through the Internet Archive you can watch it there.

2) there's been no comments or videos from that channel since. Best case, they got lawyers sicced on them for defamation or something. Worst case, they got super murdered.

3) The tldr of the issue is this company has a network of accounts making shitty, often rage-bait content which seems to be watched mostly by bots, which is in total making them the most popular (collection of) accounts of YouTube. (the journalists' proof of bots presence is that a vast majority of the accounts which comment on the videos have been set up within seconds or minutes of commenting.) Part of the response to 'why' might be to make money, the other part the authors imply is to do with political influence.

Here's the part I find extra interesting:

4) You'd think that YouTube/Google itself would be invested in learning the truth of these claims - and in stopping these channels - because they're literally handing over millions of dollars every month to these people who don't have 'real' viewers.

But of course YouTube gets its money from companies paying for advertising. Depending on how YouTube measures success for those who buy advertising, they may have little to nothing to gain from nuking a channel like this. If bots mean YouTube can report to people who buy advertising that 'a million people saw your ad', do THEY care if none of those people were real? Esp if they're not themselves making the bots, they have total plausible deniablity.

I'm just speculating there, because I don't know how that reporting is done AND I don't know how companies then measure how sales are affected by the reach of a campaign. My understanding though is that companies accept something like a 2-5% conversion rate from ad views to sales? (I could be well off with those figures, it's been a while since I've looked into that sort of thing.) Has that rate changed over time? Are companies normalising paying millions of dollars for ads which aren't getting seen by anyone?

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

1. cup one testicle at a time using both hands, best performed during or after a warm bath or shower

2. examine by rolling the testicle between thumb and fingers, use slight pressure

3. familiarize yourself with the spermatic cord and epididymis, tube like structures that connect on the back side of each testicle

4. feel for lumps, change in size or irregularities, it is normal for one testis to be slightly larger than the other