Are they still calling their hellhole labour camp factories “Fulfillment Centers”?
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So’s my apartment.
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Your mental well being must be off the charts.
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I would pay a decent amount of money to never again have to hear that goddamn repetitive bass riff from USAA commercials. I can never hit mute fast enough. That’s all.
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So my Galaxy S8 finally died, and I went to get a new phone today. Jesus fucking christ this shit sucks.
No headphone jack.
No goddamn fucking charger included. And now this stupid fucking phone doesn’t recognize that I use the word fucking a lot and keeps reverting it to fucking DUCKING!!!
Gahhhhhhhhhh.
Seriously, on top of the phone now I have to shell out 20 bucks for a charger and 100+ for a pair of Bluetooth headphones? Eat my ass cell phone companies.
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This is basically my life. I’m single and don’t really have plans to find someone. I do everything alone unless the 'rent is along for the ride.
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local breweries have been open upto 50%. lots of outdoor seating as well. you can do this now.
I have only done yoga once or twice, but knowing that there was more to it than stretching and strengthening, I decided to do some research. As a follower of Jesus, I always want to be careful with what I introduce into my spirit, soul, and body. Based on what I have found—my trusted pastor’s teaching, even the teachings of Indian yogis—yoga cannot be separated from the Hindu faith. The poses are used to worship multiple gods. So I can’t, knowing what I know, in spite of the apparent benefits, participate.
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I was thinking of this right before I saw your post.
There’s a very weird bit in this piece that I don’t understand.
And I think this is reflected, too, in the ways in which progressives speak about the downtrodden: Most of the time, it is in terms of race and ethnicity, immigration and the like; it is not about the poor, per se. I think that’s a pretty significant shift in the left’s self-understanding.
Right, yes, exactly…
Well, if you became an advocate for the working class, you’d be an advocate for a lot of Trump voters. Again, I think there’s a class-culture divide: a class element that overlays the cultural divide.
Right, uh huh…
Along those lines, there can be a tendency, especially on the political left, to talk about “culture war” issues as being “distractions” that are raised in order to divide people who might otherwise find common cause around, say, shared economic interests. What do you make of that view?
We are constituted as human beings by the stories we tell about ourselves. The very nature of meaning and purpose in life are constituted by our individual and collective self-understandings. How that is a “distraction” is beyond me.
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The question is: What is it that animates our passions? I don’t know how one can imagine individual and collective identity—and the things that make life meaningful and purposeful—as somehow peripheral or as “distractions.”
WHAT??? What the fuck are you talking about?
Let me help this guy out by quoting him, later in the piece…
I think that’s what happened after the civil rights movement and [the Rev. Martin Luther] King’s martyrdom: It was a tremendous success at one level, but created complacency, especially among whites—“We’ve dealt with that. We don’t need to deal with this anymore”—when, in fact, ongoing discrimination is still happening. It represents, again, the attempt to generate a kind of cultural consensus through political means. And that doesn’t seem to work.
That is, you can create political equality via political means - you can make it illegal to discriminate on the basis of sexuality, for example - but you can’t make bigots like gay people by political means. You have to change the culture. The leftist theory is that you can do it by replacing the old in-groups and out-groups with class solidarity, which, maybe. But you sure as hell can’t do it by passing laws.
What has happened since the 1980s is that we have actually had significant progress on these cultural issues - LGBT rights, racial issues to an extent - and no progress at all on economic issues. Inequality is widening, rural areas were sold out to globalization, people still don’t have healthcare. But instead of a politics in America organised around those issues, politics is still organised around these cultural issues that can’t be solved with politics. Instead of getting mad about the fact that the minimum wage is a pittance and people die because they can’t afford insulin, people are mad that Joe Rogan doesn’t like the idea of trans women in women’s sport. You just cannot fix Joe Rogan’s brain with politics, it can’t be done.
I don’t know how he can articulate all the things he does and then be like “Cultural issues a distraction? Don’t see how you could say that”. What the fuck? I don’t get it.
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Your pony is slow. That said, the video isn’t the best quality but I would have guessed the woman was 40+.
Yeah, realize vid was posted but was posting article for additional info, though not much of value.
I think we are going to find out at some point in the near future that online marketing is a huge scam where the online platforms like Instagram are scamming the companies paying them for ad space. I just purchased a new camera, a SonyA7R 4. Immediately after I make the purchase, not before (despite doing tons of internet searches and research specifically about Sony cameras), I start getting adds on Instagram for $500 off the purchase of the Sony A7R 3, the older model. As someone who just spent too much money buying the newer, better model of the same camera, these adds have zero value to me now, in fact, they probably have negative value to me because I’m kind of pissed at Sony because $500 would have made a difference in which model I bought. Anyway, point is that these adds have no value to me and no value for Sony, but I can’t help but wonder how much Sony is getting charged to get their product in front of eyeballs with at best zero EV? If Instagram couldn’t tell I was interested in buying a new camera until AFTER I made the purchase, their analytics are worthless, yet they are probably pulling in millions from companies like Sony, but also from smaller companies. Or is there something I’m missing?
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I remember reading somewhere marketing is more about building brand loyalty than making you do impulse purchases.
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The third eye perspective is that no marketing really works directly it all just adds to the dominance of consumerism in general. It doesn’t make you buy coke instead of pepsi it just narrows your thinking to what soda etc. should I buy? Rather than should I buy soda.
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The critical cookie may have come from the site where you bought it (“camera spend last 1 year > $1000” or whatever in XYZ tracking cookie) and at that point, Sony’s bid goes up. Pretty dumb. Worse is that they seem to use IP address to track, so you can get ads for what the other household members are researching, even in private browser windows. A VPN can fix the latter, and private browsing, not logged in to any sites, can help with the former. Also deleting tracker cookies. And an ad blocker, of course, but you may have to use one browser for research with ad blocker, and another for reading sites that block ad blockers.
The bottom line is that it’s Sony’s fault for targeting the wrong users and XYZ’s fault for not being omnipresent enough to capture your interest in cameras. There isn’t an AI algorithm deciding which ad to serve, it’s the highest bidder based on the available criteria/cookies for that ad platform.
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Online marketing is a weird one. It’s very good at selling certain things and kind of a scam for other stuff.
Basically there were products that advertising worked pretty well for before the internet came along… these are products with broad appeal across demographics that if you show 100 random people an ad it will generate some additional revenue by putting the product top of mind. A great example is sugar water.
For all of those products online marketing is at best no better than traditional advertising on a per serving basis, and quite possibly worse since a large % of internet advertising isn’t displayed to a human at all. 99% of why it was good for companies was that online eyeballs were cheaper than other options.
That’s the ‘probably at least somewhat a scam’ cases.
The stuff that online advertising is REALLY good for is the stuff that you couldn’t advertise outside of niche trade papers. Products with a small but devoted audience for whatever reason. You couldn’t buy old school advertising because it would whiff like 95% of the people you showed the ad to, but online advertising lets you only buy the eyeballs of the people who are prone to wanting your product.
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The phones are most certainly listening. My wife and I have tested it extensively for giggles and it’s insane.
Personally I hate advertising passionately. The older I get the more I realize that it does in fact work on me, and that it’s one of the worst things for someone with ADHD and issues with food that exists. For me, the best way to avoid making bad decisions is to not be exposed to them. Advertising is literally people paying money to expose me to bad decisions that will give me dopamine in the short term.
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