No he's dead.

There are Sea Wolves in the Upper Pacific Northwest. They are packs of wolves who swim between islands to hunt. IDK if it's true Orca's are hunting them...but they aren't very well studied anyway so I doubt there's anyone looking for evidence.

There's Sea Wolves on the BC Coast in addition to bears, so it's pretty well established that Apex predators not only can swim, but it appears is necessary in order to survive on the BC coast. I'm not knocking science here because I understand this is how the process works, but it's surprising that anyone would assume Cougars don't swim...

Well pretty safe to say it wouldn’t be in our lifetimes if we just wait for it.

Ya...those coronaviruses became "colds" over the course of millennia...

There are theories that Covid can reset your immune system similar to the measles which according to the theory is why we are seeing such massive surges of flu, Covid, and rsv as well as people getting sicker than usual from common cold. No immunity to an allergen means your immune system won’t attack the allergen, until your body recalibrates.

>Two things here. First, if you are ad advertiser on Facebook, you know explicitly that Facebook can only serve the ad copies you give it for the ad campaign. You can give it a million different ad copies and you know 100% that any ads served for your ad campaign is one of those million different ad copies.
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>Second, Facebook tells you how many impressions are given for each ad copy and the click thru rate, so as an advertisers you can see what ads are being served.

Ok first thing, yes advertisers do give facebook the inputs on ad copy, but if you are doing large amount of programmatic advertising and cranking out ads left and right you're not spending a lot of time dissecting the nuances of your ad copy.

Second, yes facebook gives you data to track your ads, but if you are running hundreds or thousands of ads you aren't as a single person going to be analyzing the performance of any specific ad, (yet another thing that can also be easily handed over to AI btw) let alone each iteration of a given ad. It wouldn't even be possible to do that as a human if you have enough variations on your ad copy and creatives.

>without the advertiser necessarily even knowing what creatives and copy are being served.

Bro, c'mon, reading comprehension. I didn't imply anything. This is verbatim what I said.

If I'm an advertiser and I give facebook 1000 pieces of copy to choose from, and I don't explicitly check every single of the thousands or millions of ads served, then I would have no idea which of the ad copy facebook is serving. Further, if I used a 3rd party AI to generate my ad copy, which isn't that unusual, then I might not have any idea at all what ad copy is being served.

I never implied that the AI generate the ad copy, I said that the advertiser can run ads without necessarily knowing what copy was being served.

Ya but the advertiser can literally give the AI thousands of inputs of copy and creative to choose from and the AI will optimize ads for the best performing. And even further, you can use 3rd party API's to generate ad copy for facebook ads, so an advertiser could absolutely create a campaign and have really very little idea what ad content is being served. We've seen it in gymnastics, hockey, cheer, any travel sport...haven't heard about it in basketball yet but it's almost definitely happening which is horrific.

This used to be true. Facebook has leaned heavily into marketing automation to allow ai to do constant multivariate testing and optimization without the advertiser necessarily even knowing what creatives and copy are being served.