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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Exactly this. Imagine the gall of people to complain I don't interact more with their ads. Pricks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Signs at stores are ads. Email is spam and ads. Menu is ads. Post online is ads. Street signs are ads.

Instruction, caption with answer to question and group handouts aren't ads, but I had ads fatigue from the rest of the shit you've been trying to cram down my neck, so go fuck yourselves and your written words.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

And also, guessing "I'm no longer interested" is paraphrased, cause nobody on 4Chan is mature enough to not make things incredibly uncomfortable at work after this.

If maturity is the argument, there are several different options I'd be considering:

  1. Nobody on 4chan is mature enough to work
  2. Nobody on 4chan is mature enough to not have already made things incredibly uncomfortable at work
  3. Nobody on 4chan is mature enough to detect flirting
  4. Nobody on 4chan is mature enough to ask a coworker out
  5. Nobody on 4chan is mature enough to have hiking as a hobby/date proposal
  6. Nobody on 4chan is mature enough to not just reply "yeah sure" to the boyfriend idea
[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (7 children)

It's the same low-to-medium quality crap that you can usually find on Amazon at a slightly higher price.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Including the restriction on bombing Israel?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

And some people argue against the death penalty. Argh.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think I heard it put like this once (paraphrasing):

Ads aren't to make you buy the product. Few people are gonna see a regular commercial about chocolate and go out and buy it. That's not their intent. They're meant for brand recognition. They're about that moment in the supermarket when you have 50 choices of what soda to get. 40 of them are noname and store brands. You'll almost never try them unless you want to save some money and/or aren't interested in what you're buying. But then you have your coke and pepsi. The old reliables - the names that are stuck in your head since forever. And sometimes you'll want to check out the new mountain dew or dr pepper flavors, cause you're curious. But when you're not in the mood for new, when you just want a soda and don't wanna think about it, you'll get a coke or a pepsi or one of the few brands whose name you recognize.

After 1000 raid shadow legends ads, guess what you're gonna feel like trying in 3 months when you get bored of your current mobile game and are scrolling through their top picks for games? "Hmm, Raid shadow legends? I've heard about this before, maybe I give it a try"

Sure, it backfires sometimes - for example, I always make it a point to not try out a game if I feel it's been in too many ads - I don't wanna waste time in something that blew its entire budget on marketing. But with most people this doesn't happen. And I'm pretty sure even I tried some item from an ad that I said I'd never get - the name probably just got stuck in my head and I got it without even realizing it.

Marketers make a shit load of money based on human psychology. They wouldn't be doing it if it didn't work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a them problem. Nintendo are assholes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I mean, some support of reform in your congress and senate would be a good answer. Allowance from people outside the two anointed parties to come forward and propose good ideas even if they don't affiliate themselves with the oligarchs running things in the republican and democratic parties - fix that First Past The Post bullshit, you all know it's bad for you. Reform of how you count votes, gerrymandering is literally destroying your elections. Reform of how many representatives there are for each state - you're telling me even though California has 17 million more people than Florida, they have the same number of senators? Or maybe it'd be nice if your cops wouldn't be above the law and always getting away with murdering minorities, that would help. Or maybe reform of your education and healthcare systems, which feed all your money in the pockets of the same fucks who then force you into labor for the "luxury" of taking an ambulance to the hospital when you're sick, or earning a higher education. Reform of your for-profit prison system that jails minorities to further increase your class divide. Or reform of your diplomatic relations with countries known for genocide. Reform of so many different things... But I think most of all, it would really have sent a message if instead of making him president, you'd have just jailed the convicted felon that has ties to one of your biggest enemies. Cause otherwise you're just painting the picture that corruption has overtaken you.

And hey, it's not you as a person that is responsible for any of this. But this is how it looks like from the outside. Your majority has decided you're gonna be corrupt fucks for the next few years and that you as a nation are gonna exchange the lives of women for a red hat and a fake tan. If that's what the majority decides, that's the impression your country will leave. I'm truly sorry about it for the many actually reasonable people that are left. Perhaps now is a good time to consider emigration.

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