Fall LC thread

[suzzer99]

https://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/1193238277219856386

Oh good - we have “Good Nationalism” now.

https://twitter.com/PatBlanchfield/status/1192913862716207104

https://twitter.com/PatBlanchfield/status/1192917382244847621

https://twitter.com/PatBlanchfield/status/1192917382244847621

[Deuce]

Hook a brother up with a code! My wife is currently shopping for one. I think she saw one at Costco that she wants to try (no idea what brand).

[dlk9s]

omg

My neighbor passed away a couple weeks ago and I got a Facebook notification this morning that today is his birthday. I checked his wall and some people wished him a happy birthday, oblivious to what happened. Someone even wished him a “belated” happy birthday on his actual birthday.

[smrk4]

What’s about the price of one after a really good code? May be interested.

[microbet]

@JohnnyTruant

I have a really good code. Side note, the one at Costco is a sore spot for me. I don’t want to get into details but they were legit malicious and predatory to the company I worked for. It’s a miracle we survived. So buy one anywhere but there. Btw…I’m posting this from inside a Costco. Not joking.

And you can’t even eat a lot of samples unless they skinless sardine breast!

[zikzak]

Guess I missed a spot to run an ad for weighted blankets.

[Marksman]

Instagram to hide "likes" from users starting next week

[6ix]

@boredsocial

There are a lot of people, particularly people who spend most of their lives doing stuff rather than thinking about stuff, who don’t really question the politics they were raised with. They are often super progressive (in the sense that they understand the space and are always thinking about how to push it forward rather than just trying to defend the status quo) in the fields they are actually experts in, but don’t bother to really think too hard about politics.

For example my closest business partners are religious, and republican… but they are genuinely decent people who run a good business and are an absolute wonder to partner with. They aren’t hurting anyone or anything in their personal lives, it’s just that they spend 90%+ of their time doing stuff instead of thinking about stuff. When they get free time they go do stuff. They don’t sit around thinking about how things are, should be, etc. They probably don’t read much, and if they do read they probably avoid stuff that would contradict their beliefs.

They aren’t regular Fox News watchers really, they aren’t news of any kind watchers. They simply don’t follow it, and it has little to no impact on their lives. And they are significantly happier than the members of this forum honestly.

People like these aren’t bad really. They just believe whatever was standard in the area they grew when they were growing up. They would be liberal if they had grown up in a liberal area at a more liberal time. They tend to be significantly out of date in their political views by the time they die, and are an excellent reason why old people shouldn’t be allowed to vote (because some large % of them are going to be like this, and their voting choices become more and more destructive as they age I’m hypothesizing).

Being a doer instead of a hard core thinker is why Elizabeth Warren was a Republican until she was 50. You don’t really have time to do stuff like update your political philosophy on a biannual basis when you’re working your ass off. In her case she was raising multiple kids (my business partners had a LOT of kids as well) while working full time, getting married, divorced, married again, getting multiple degrees, and becoming one of the nations leading experts on bankruptcy… where she was almost immediately very progressive because that’s generally where you land as you become more and more informed.

What I’m trying to say is that there are a lot of pretty decent people out there who identify as Republicans. The ones who make it a core part of their identity all suck though lol. They’ve really thought about it and decided that Trump is god. That’s a really weird take.

And just for the last word my business partners were very uncomfortable about Trump from the beginning because they are good business people and know a scammer when they see one. I’m 90% sure they didn’t turn out for him… and they are the kind of people who see voting as a duty and take duty super super seriously. The only reason I don’t know what their current view on the matter is, is that I’m not a barbarian and know better than to rub people with whom I do enormous business withs faces in shit.

wat

[6ix]

Boredsocial… How do you think “thinking” works?

[Devil]

@clovis8

If the goal is stress release or reducing anxiety look into meditation/mindfulness. It has mountains of scientific support and works amazingly well.

In order of short term effectiveness for me

1. Alcohol
2. Exercise
3. Talking the ears off a friend
4. Sleep (under heavy blankets, not officially weighted)

[DUCY]

This weighted blanket talk is crazy. Wife bought a heavy duty down comforter for winter, not specially weighted or anything just had a shitload of stuffing and I couldn’t stand it. We took it off after a few weeks and went back to a lightweight one

[suzzer99]

Gimme a weighted blanket with a device that pumps cold air under it and we’ll talk.

And none of this self-cooling bullshit.

[suzzer99]

The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising

Relevant

Brand keyword advertising, the presentation informed him, was eBay’s most successful advertising method. Somebody googles “eBay” and for a fee, Google places a link to eBay at the top of the search results. Lots of people, apparently, click on this paid link. So many people, according to the consultants, that the auction website earns at least $12.28 for every dollar it spends on brand keyword advertising – a hefty profit!

Holy Mother of God. People google “ebay”, then click on the paid link at the top - and ebay needs a freaking economist to tell them that’s not money well spent.

[MattyLice]

Fuck yea I’d buy one of those.

[suzzer99]

@JohnnyTruant

@suzzer99

Gimme a weighted blanket with a device that pumps cold air under it and we’ll talk.

And none of this self-cooling bullshit.

Yeah, that’s not happening any time soon. You may be disappointed in them boots you are shopping for if you require air conditioning involved in random items.

I have a cooling one and it is legitimately cooler than room temperature for a while, but it’s a blanket.

They make a bed that has a little mini air-conditioner attached. I’ve seen it on FB!

I just want the mini-air-conditioner and a heavy blanket attached in a way that keeps it evenly cool.

Someone needs to be out there disrupting that instead of spending all that startup capital on shitty boots and workout shorts.

[suzzer99]

#MARKETING

[suzzer99]

While taking that screenshot I accidentally clicked on the ad. Now I’m fucked.

I hope you all appreciate the sacrifices I’m making to bring you this illuminating case study in the state of modern targeted marketing.

[Marksman]

Japan 'glasses ban' for women at work sparks backlash

Japan is a very weird dude.

[StrontiumDog]

I don’t get that - if people are googling ebay then they are probably going to end up on ebay regardless of whether they get there via a promoted ad or from normal search results further down the page.

(I often google well known sites and go via the promoted ad(s) at the top of the search results - it’s quicker (mostly) and helps avoid typos that can send you to dodgy sites.)

[StrontiumDog]

Among them, some retail chains reportedly said glasses-wearing shop assistants gave a “cold impression”.

Opposite end of any temperature scale for me.