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It's not the regular Fast Forward button.

In our tests, a “Skip Ahead” button appears on-screen as soon as an ad-break starts. Just one tap of the “Skip Ahead” button moves a listener to the beginning of the next section, after the ads have finished. It only appears for ads, promos or intros.

The net worth of the world's billionaires is over $16 trillion in 2025¹. 1% being 160 billion. On average, around every 4000 USD send to the most effective charity saves someone's life². So around 40 million children.

This doesn't account, of course, for the difficulty of selling large amounts of stocks without them losing value and the fact that, as low-hanging dangers are depleting, each subsequent child would be more costly to save.

¹ Wikipedia contributors. (2026, August 3). The World's Billionaires. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 18:47, August 11, 2026, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_World%27s_Billionaires&oldid=1367525482

² GiveWell. (2026, February). How Much Does It Cost To Save a Life? https://www.givewell.org/how-much-does-it-cost-to-save-a-life

It's usually “how to succeed in life” intelligence, not “realization of abstract k-skeletons as k-skeletons of intersections of convex polyhedra in R^2k−1 in life” intelligence if that doesn't make you money.

They already lost users in authoritarian countries like Russia or China, where Signal is blocked and you can't get an SMS via a VPN, so registration or logging in with 2FA becomes impossible.

on xkcd #3279: Main Span · c/xkcd · 1 pts · 19d

Surface area is 895844 m², Dycron weights 4 ounces per sailsmakers yard, or 0.171 kg per m². 153458 kg, so additional 38365 m³ required, supports should also be relatively light. Quite negligible compared to, for instance, cars weight.