If they were conscripted tho?

Advertising is like the Kudzu vine: neat and potentially useful if maintained responsibly, but beyond capable of growing out of control and strangling the very landscape if you don't constantly keep it in check. I think, for instance, that a podcast or over-the-air show running an ad-read with an affiliate link is fine for the most part, as long as it's relatively unobtrusive and doesn't put limitations on what the content would otherwise go over.

The problem is that there needs to be a reset of advertiser expectations. Right now, they expect the return on investment that comes from hyper-specific and invasive data, and I don't think you can get that same level of effectiveness without it. The current advertising model is entrenched, and the parasitic roots have eroded the foundation. Those roots will always be parasitic because that's the nature of advertising, and the profit motive in general when unchecked.

Life is suffering. Once you accept that fact wholly, you may ascend

Just like the shopping cart theory itself, this is mostly just a thought experiment at this point in time.

The point of a protestation is to make it hard for others to ignore, and make it clear what the end condition is. I don't plan on just starting to do this as an individual because it would have no impact; I still make sure my own carts get returned personally.

The point stands that our goodwill is frequently exploited for profit, often under the pretense that it's just basic human decency.

Driving is more fun when there are more viable alternatives. I don't like driving, but it's my only real choice where I live so I do it begrudgingly, and you have to share the road with me. Think of all the people who don't want to drive (on account of it being dangerous, costly and/or mentally taxing) suddenly not being in cars, and how much traffic that would free up for you to zip around instead!

Also, calling a public service "bankrupt" is really weird to me. How many tax dollars are we spending on public highways and freeways again? Do suburbs, which are designed to be car-dependent, provide a net gain or net cost in tax revenue to cities?

The thing about type 3 fun is that the enjoyment comes in remembering it and telling stories about it and how bad it was

Starting to sound like Gabriel over here

I have found that it happens more frequently with sites I've either not been to before, or not visited for a long time... Again it does seem to go away after 20 minutes or so for any given website, I just find it weird that it seems to be happening more.

I might have been exaggerating the degree to which this happens... It's been only around 5-10 occurrences since the start of the year, but it happened so rarely before that point in time I barely noticed. Could also be a coincidence, it's just barely enough though that I've been starting to get suspicious and wonder if anyone else was having issues

But yeah no VPN or anything and it's occurred across 3 of my devices, only thing in common was Firefox and that I've taken steps to harden it on all of them

Ah but if you ask this guy that's because of big gubmint meddling in an imaginary, utopian free and fair market

The real question here is how many grams of shit are actually in the bristles of a used toilet brush

I mean, if it's an Outlook email and not from another provider using Outlook as a frontend, it's part of Microsoft's ecosystem anyways. Unless your whole inbox is encrypted (and it's probably not if it's not being advertised as such lol), it's on Microsoft's servers and they have control over it anyways.

That said, definitely change the password if you just used Outlook as your email client at some point!

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