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Maybe most people are not angry enough (or aware enough) about how deceptive, manipulative, continuously invasive, and disturbing to our daily lives advertisements are. Don’t let off some business because their advertisement is “cute.” They just want you to buy their shit.
Exactly. Every company is utterly bullshitting us, even the “mom n pop cookie companies”
no it’s good
I don’t enjoy every company pretending to be super cute and trigger our buttons to sell its most likely bullshit ass product which is “honestly” most likely totally unrelated to the advertisement they are pushing in our face
“charming” ads
“We thought building a cardboard airline in a treehouse sounded more honest.”
I don’t think they know what “honest” means
AI bots are doing what the advertising industry has honed into a science, manipulating people in a sneaky as fuck way in order to farm money from them infinitely
In addition to what a lot of others have said already, in a more egalitarian society most people wouldn’t have to drive
And yeah, equal rights doesn’t mean anyone can just do anything
I see Alex is on the LG TV, and there’s a way to turn it off in settings, but is it actually truly off when you do this (do u know)? lmao
was literally about to buy a Roku TV. not anymore
anyone have suggestions for a decent new TV that isn’t so invasive?
Or accelerate it apart
The internet is over, for now. Boomers and businesses killed it, until the next phase in human history.
Everything that can possibly be ruined, they will leave no stone unturned
Not being lame and pathetic means putting a rug and art in your house
Innovation was only ever a small part. Rent-seeking is more fundamental to capitalism than “innovation” is. It’s just more brazen than we remember from our childhoods.
antisocial
What you say is true, and yet there’s something more deeply unsettling. The ideology and founding of the U.S. is at its core anti-social. So is the competitive economy (and so on). It’s a dog eat dog structure of things, not just a few dip shits in the <1% (although it is that too)
With those two incredibly low bars you eliminated like 30% of people around me every day, which is a good way of illustrating how insufferable it is to keep moving through this society
Capitalism wants us isolated, sad, and reliant on their products/services. The antidote is strong community.
I whole-heartedly agree, and yet it is virtually impossible to do such a thing as “build community” at this point, at least in the United States. There is like a pervasive anti-community dark magic / anti-matter sort of thing
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I am simply arguing that advertisements have a bad effect on society and our everyday lives. If more people cared, more could be done about it, instead of most people being unaware and/or delusional of its subconcious effects, and doing nothing about it.
You think the cookie business advertisements are no problem. I disagree, even though I ultimately believe there are much bigger problems (of course…) - This advertisement is manipulative nonsense, like the vast majority of them, and the business or the product etc. is not a cute little innocent thing.