Steve

Notifications currently use Google services. It's on the list to change. No idea when it'll come.

I'm pretty sure it's a global Android feature that doesn't have anything to do with Firefox specifically.

Am I alone in not carding about about inter-series continuity?

Not a criticism. Just wondering if I'm the odd one?

It's beautiful!

Also. Charge your phone.

Commenting works though!

Slightly longer AI summary by Kagi

Researchers have developed a novel vaccine that targets senescence-associated glycoprotein (SAGP) expressed in inflamed brain cells linked to Alzheimer's disease. When tested in mice, the vaccine reduced amyloid deposits, decreased inflammatory biomarkers, and improved the animals' awareness of their surroundings. This suggests the vaccine may lessen disease symptoms. The vaccine targets activated microglia cells which play a role in brain inflammation that can worsen cognitive decline. By removing toxic microglia, the vaccine may control inflammation and ultimately repair deficits suffered in Alzheimer's disease. If successful in humans, the vaccine could be a major step forward in delaying or preventing the disease.

It's a comforting thought, to believe destroying the world is their goal.

But no. In truth they simply don't think about it. Their path to the power and resources that would save them and theirs from the world's destruction might hasten that destruction. But that doesn't matter. It's easier for them to simply not think about it. They're going to have everything they need to live a comfortable life, no matter the environment it brings about. They're going to be fine.

What happens to the rest of us? It's not even that they don't care. We don't matter enough for them to not care about us. We matter so little, our future doesn't even occur to them.

It's not evil. It's apathy.
I'm not sure which is worse.

Not really. They'll just raise their rates.

Or subscription, or freemium, or merch, or raffles. Lots of options beyond that even.

Advertisements distort the market arrangement. When one uses advertisements to generate revenue, it inherently creates a situation where the advertisers are the actual customers. This incentivizes the site toward the needs of the advertisers instead of the users in any situation where those needs don't align.

So yes, eventually it would be the end of the world. Within a decade or two the site would go to hell. We're seeing it already with most ad based sites. People are complaining Google is getting bad. We already know that Reddit is. That's why most of us are here. News sites go to shit, when they distort themselves for advertisers. Example after example of advertising, making site after site worse over time.

The advertising model, is the original sin of the internet.
We need to find another way.

You are in a way. Just not only that.