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I don't really follow world news if I am being honest. Maybe I would if I had a bigger business where it mattered more? I don't know. I can't really tell if it impacted me or not. Prices of everything have been on a steady increase since Covid and this was long before the war in the middle east. Unless this is tied to the Ukraine one? I don't know.

X is a weird platform these days. Some stuff that gets boosted is such low-quality nonsense while creative stuff gets buried. I found someone that makes these fun Pokemon themed videos of cats and he hardly gets any views but other people that post his work get way more. It makes no sense.

Is it really that high? $15 seems like a lot for just 1,000 views. I mean I have never heard of a smaller YouTuber getting $1,500 for a single ad read. Not ones that aren't hitting 500k+ views anyways. I have heard of people that average around 100k getting maybe $200 tops.

TikTok used to earn you more earlier on but I think this was because they were trying to boost the userbase and get people on the platform. I never used it myself to know for sure though. It is not the kind of social platform I care for. I used to use Vine when it was a thing but mainly only to watch short skit clips of a few YouTubers I watched.

I got told at work the other day that when AI leads to me losing my job, I will regret it. lol Some people I work withe (there are 3 people) really hate AI and anytime people talk about it, they just get so negative.

I have used it to make a sort of note keeper for me. It actually functions really well. It is like a desktop app where I can just keep notes of things I have to remember. I want to tweak it a bit more but I will upload it to GitHub when it is done.

I am curious if anyone has noticed this. So when Covid hit and a lot of us were forced to work at home, I started having sleeping issues. I think this was because I was not only leaving the house less, but I was less active. Since then, the sleep issues have stuck and sometimes they are worse than other times. The last week or so I am only able to sleep 2 or 3 hours, then I wake up, and I wrestle with sleep the rest of the night. Getting 30 min here, maybe an hour there. I don't feel too bad when I have to get up in the morning but I can tell I am not getting enough sleep. I read on another forum where people were talking about this very topic. Many people said their desk job lead them to have insomnia because they were sitting too much and becoming too inactive. I think this was my issue during Covid and it never corrected itself. I have tried supplements, sleep hygiene, etc. and nothing has helped. When it isn't at the worst, I will sleep 5 or 6 hours, wake up and then I am able to sleep another hour to hour an a half. I would like to be able to sleep through the night again. At least getting 7 hours before waking up. Anyone else have this issue due to the nature of working at a desk? Have you solved it?

It is probably why just as many disappear. I have heard of casinos randomly shutting down and not paying out people. This is probably what happened.

Which is understandable! I want to make sure people know i am not taking digs at them for this. I just think people need time to come around to it. A lot of people already have.

Exactly! Plus a lot of smaller businesses could hire people just looking to get out of the house and have something to do like people that are retired and don't need to really worry about money. Like if a small mom and pop place could hire someone for $5 an hour to just do basic easy stock or something and someone is willing to work for that low of a price, why not allow it?

I have played on a few of them for fun. It seems like most of them look and feel the same. The one that I was playing on, it closed down though. I think it was Lion something. I don't even remember. This was like 3 or 4 years ago at this point. I haven't played much since. There are always new ones popping up though and so many streamers promote them now. It is crazy!

I wish that was the case for me! Where I work now, it is too far to walk. I have to drive. Especially when it is hot or cold out. I am planning on joining a gym soon with a friend of mine. He moved closer to where I live and found a place around the corner.

I was on Facebook for a bit, maybe 8 or so years. Everyone that I used to talk to on there left the platform. They just started using it less and less and eventually stopped all together. I moved on to Twitter/X back in 2015 I think it was. Never looked back. So yeah they have lost people but the platform isn't dying at all.

I am sure it has happened for me but I don't dwell on stuff like this so I really can't tell you any time it happened. I do know someone that had a few great ideas that still beats himself up for not going anywhere with them. It has been over 15 years too.

Minimum wage isn't a minimum living wage though. I think they need to either do away with it or change it. If they did away with minimum wage, it would help a lot of smaller businesses. Maybe they need to up minimum wage to a living wage according to the state minimum and only apply it to corporations. So that way small businesses are protected. So make Walmart pay people like $15+ minimum wage but some ma and pa store can pay whatever they can afford to and whoever wants to work for thate wage, will take the job.

If we know for sure that AI is going to replace a lot of people, wouldn't it make sense to stop the worker visas? At least put a pause on them for like 5 to 10 years, unless it is someone that is trully gifted like Elon Musk?

Someone I was speaking to recently pointing out that my one website has no user agreement. He said that every website should. I never heard that before. The website isn't selling anything, there are no products or anything of the sort. I figured this is only needed when you are selling something or collecting data (e-mails, etc.). Am I wrong? Should I have one of these on all my websites?

I am realizing this. I think this is why companies like Flutterflow are still going strong. AI is useful but you have to know what you are doing with it!

The one I had previously used, I can't seem to find it anymore. And there are tons of them that have since been made. I am having a hard time picking which ones to try out. Does anyone here have any recommendations? What are the best ones? I would prefer a free option if there is a good enough one.

Someone I work with just mentioned this the other day. We are likely going to start using it where I work. Trying to cut costs so the company could expand. From what I have seen of it, it looks really nice and easy to use!

Starting fresh from nothing I mean. I couldn't include that in the thread title. I know there are tons of different approaches to this depending on your niche, what you are starting with (funds), and what you want to build - but I am curious if there are any basic steps one could take when they have an idea, to set it up for having the best chance of growth online from the start. A lot has changed in the last 10 years, especially because of AI, so growing a following, audience, building traffic, etc. has all changed a lot.

Pinterest is still a heavily populated and used website. I would say depending on your niche, it is worth it. Keep in mind most people that use the platform are women and a lot of what it focuses on seems to be clothing, beauty, DIY, crafts, hobbies, cooking, etc.

I know we won't see the prices come back down with most things. I think of food, meat, dairy, and things like eggs will fluctuate. They always have. But everything else? I have not seen precovid prices for, we likely never will again.

I'll look up some vids, thanks. I am still learning all this but thus far, I am finding AI to to more helpful than I originally thought. I think the people that are reacting negatively to AI don't fully understand it.

I have done it both ways. Having the plugin do it for you automatically is easier. You just upload it and the image gets compressed. But yes, it does seem like the separate programs work better. You can adjust settings though.