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Building it helps stimulate demand for more non-car centric infrastructure. My city built a light rail years ago, and despite stopping at pretty much a single line, tons of development popped up at most of the stops and a lot of housing along the line. None of that would have happened in a car-free way without the rail coming first.

The US desperately needs a highspeed rail network to rival the interstate highway network. But of course, that can’t happen, America is too big for railroads, apparently.

He is animorphing into a Pakled.

Some states you don’t need to be registered with a party to vote in their primary.

They are threat to the democratic party? The party that lost to a reality show clown without the DSA? The democratic party that’s sat idly by as that clown turns the US into a circus? That’s the party you are so worried about?

You always have to ask who controls the polls, and how afraid are people to tell the truth. We’ve seen it here in the states. Polling orgs have stopped, changed metrics, or done selective polling when they are controlled by the fascists. Even small things like question verbiage can change a decisive “we hate this guy” into a “opinions are mixed”.

Running a gas station costs more than the raw cost of wholesale gasoline. You have to pay for delivery, employees, rent, maintenance, and taxes, at the very least.

💯️. That’s why I didn’t link to any, I don’t know what is good. But I know in my company, SEO and AIO are seen as different things.

Imagine a niche industrial software manufacturer. There might be 3 total players in the space, and a handful of Reddit posts total. AIO looks to make sure that when their website is crawled by the AI companies, the model is trained with a slant toward their product, not only in generic “Is there software to do this” queries, but also a “Product A vs Product B” query.

So Product A will put up page after page on their website about how great their product is, how much better it is than B and C. How B and C are a bad choice. And so on. Not designed to be top results in Google, but be consumed and direct LLMs subtly to their product over their competitors.

SEO was optimized for keywords and human readability. AIO doesn’t need to care about either of those, the crawlers will find it, and the LLMs will consume it. I am not a marketing expert, so I don’t know the exact specifics, and it is such a new field, I’m sure things are still evolving.

If you search “AIO marketing”, you can find plenty of references to it. I have no idea what a good reference is though, so I don’t want to link one.

Unfortunately, these days, marketing departments know this, and like most marketing, money wins. It used to be SEO, but now it is AIO. The goal is to write articles it knows will get sucked up by the AI training sets, setting the narrative the AI will repeat. Because the page aren’t meant to be consumed by humans, they can be long-winded, repetitive, and misleading.

I have no doubt big political campaigns are doing the same thing.