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The quality of olive oil degrades over time. It won't become rancid if stored properly, but it will lose its flavor, to the point where a one or two year old bottle of good expensive olive oil will be about as good as a fresh bottle of cheap olive oil, especially if you broke the seal on it a while back.

If you get good olive oil use it as soon as possible, that's when it'll taste the best and when you'll get the most bang for your buck

Many people save good quality extra virgin olive oil for special occasions, but it’s a fresh product that should be consumed! ... We recommend using up the oil within 30 to 60 days upon opening

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It keeps you on there site. Same reason Twitter banned links and has grok now, the longer you stay on the site the more likely you are to look at or even click on an ad on that site. If you google something, then quickly scroll past the first couple ad links and click on the first non ad link you are maybe only staying on Google for 1 or 2 seconds. If you get an "ai overview" at the top and start reading through that then you're maybe spending 10-30 seconds reading through that. That's another 10 seconds that the ad was displayed that Google can go to there ad customers and say people were looking at it longer.

Another reason more motivated by user experience is also that the AI has a better "understanding" of meaning compared to typical search algorithms. Say you search "Starbucks price at closing" when you meant "Starbucks stock price at time of market closing" an AI would be more able to discern that meaning as opposed to a traditional algorithm which may show you the closing time of the nearest Starbucks, or the price of one of there drinks etc.

That may be true for small or mid size startups that are reliant on VC money, but we're talking about Google and Microsoft here, they already have there money printers going and don't need VC money.

They had just as much control with the old search algorithm, though. They could still pick and choose what you see on the search results with their opaque algorithm. The only difference would be that instead of only showing some regime captured media outlet they could generate there own narrative on the fly, but it's not like there's a shortage of sycophantic media written by actual people they could pull from.

The bank (Morgan Stanley) has a bullish target of $410, which it breaks down into five buckets: $75 a share for the EV business, $160 for in-car software services, $90 for robotaxis, $67 for energy storage, and $17 for Tesla as a third-party supplier to other companies.

If you have money in Morgan Stanley funds watch out, if they have this bullish of an evaluation that probably means they're buying and that you have exposure to the whims of a psychotic man child, or at least more exposure then the rest of us living in trumps America .

Careful there keir, this is the exact kind of "anti-semitism" that ya'll kicked Jeremy Corbyn out of the party for.

The part about the women having surgery and the guy getting laid off is pretty bad but the concept of downsizing doesn't seem dystopian to me. If anything its a good thing to move to a more dense living situation with shared amenities like parks and pools then living out in suburbia with a big house with a bunch of rooms and amenities that need to be maintained by you while they are rarely used.

Plenty of people live very happy lives in smaller situations. Studies have shown that satisfaction with your living situation is more closely related to your house size relative to your neighbors then the absolute house size. Ie if you have 1000 sqft but that's above average for the neighborhood then you'll be more satisfied then the person with a 2000 sqft house in a neighborhood of 3000 sqft houses.

lack of sanely sized options

I don't get this, like they still make sedans. Go to a toyota or honda dealership and there are still plenty of small affordable efficient cars.

I agree we should definitely tax them but that'll only go so far. Even if we tax them people have shown there willing to spend a lot more money for an suv . People view them as a status symbol and cultural signifier and will pay a lot since a part of there identity is based off it.

Strict regulation making it so a majority of people just can't buy one would be the only way, but thats unpopular and fox News would have a field day about "the liberals are coming for your truck"

Still cheaper then the extra car payment for getting a car twice as big as you need for rare occasions.

I think the bottom right one is supposed to be sympathetic and more making fun of the catch 22 of the car arms race caused by all the other panels.