What a crazy day. We have a dog whose been sick for three days and hasn’t kept down a meal in over forty-eight hours. I’ve discovered that our veterinary office is as useless as my dentist. Other than routine shots during office hours everything else gets referred to either an urgent care practice or the local university animal hospital that performs procedures in a state-of-the-art facility for which you will be charged tens of thousands of dollars. They even have a dog psychiatrist who became famous for prescribing Prozac to hyper-aggressive breeds.
After six hundred dollars’ worth of tests, it looks like a bad case of viral or bacterial enteritis. She’s still wiped out but she’s holding stuff down even if it’s only water. But it’s been a long week already and I’m kind of beat. But let’s see what’s going on in my head.
I was interested to see how much traction Trump was making with the Europeans and Zelensky. Here is a group of people who hate his guts but because of the skill he has working with groups of people who hate each other’s guts they realize he may be able to provide them with a solution to the nightmare that Biden and the globalists talked them into. So, they’re gathered around him hoping for a miracle but fearing instead a kick to the groin. But I don’t think I’ll tackle that story yet. Putin and Zelensky are the oddest couple on planet Earth and I want to see how that plays out before putting in my two cents.
Instead let’s talk about bots. I was reading an article that said that more than half the traffic on the internet is bots. Now most of this isn’t malicious. Some of it is search engines updating the contents of the internet. But some of it is fake traffic for “influencers” and other sites. And someone is paying for these clicks either directly as a service or an advertiser who thinks he’s getting eyes on his ad and instead has non-humans clicking on his ad with no chance of a sale possible.
So only fifty percent of the internet is real. But some people think it’s much worse than that. What if ninety percent is bots? Now granted with the upgrades to “AI” these bots can make a very decent showing when they heckle you in the comments section or an X post. But even the most dedicated keyboard warrior has to be at least slightly deflated to find out that nine out of his last ten owned libs are just some lines of code in the Matrix.
And thus, it seems to point to the need in the future for paywalls; not just to bring in some return on investment but just in order to know if it’s really someone with DNA and a pulse who’s talking to you or reading your stuff or even calling you a moron. Because that’s the one thing that a bot won’t do. It won’t pony up any cash whatsoever. Bots don’t go for spit. They never have and they never will.