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Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI by MangoToupe on Friday December 26, 2025 @11:20AM (#46393468)
Ads are a cancer on humanity with no benefit to anyone and everyone who enables them should be imprisoned for life
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Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI by otabdeveloper4 on Friday December 26, 2025 @12:01PM (#46393869)
A monetary economy can't function without advertising or money.

You're tilting at windmills here, we can't go back to barter.

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Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI by pessimizer on Friday December 26, 2025 @12:59PM (#46394434)
It can't function without advertising, money, or oxygen, if we're just adding random things to obscure our complete lack of an argument for advertising. We can't go back to an anaerobic economy, silly wabbit.
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Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI by otabdeveloper4 on Saturday December 27, 2025 @03:02AM (#46400083)
> our complete lack of an argument for advertising

It's literally impossible to start or run a business without advertising your products or services.

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