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Watched a lot of Binging With Babish and just got tired of his schtick I think. Same with the How To Drink guy.
If I can’t share a Curly Wurly then it’s not a revolution.
Watched a lot of Binging With Babish and just got tired of his schtick I think. Same with the How To Drink guy.
Yep and in order for these companies to grow they must continue to increase the volume of ads being shown, which only makes them less effective, which they try and counter by making them ever more invasive.
Yeah it’s a good book. It’s a cycle that this issue surfaces every couple of years where someone does a study, finds that the numbers they’re given don’t match their own analysis and the ad tech platform does some PR to paper over the story.
Most people selling ads are just like the real estate agents in The Big Short. The media people make their money via rebate from the platforms by guaranteeing a certain volume of spend so they have no incentive to be putting hard questions to the platforms and the client is reliant on seeing the data which is provided by the platform with no third parties able to provide any level of transparency.
Money goes into Google, Amazon and Meta’s black boxes which spit out numbers. The agency people copy and paste the figures into a presentation and everyone congratulates each other for a job well done.
The cost of digital advertising cannot be justified by its effectiveness (or rather lack there of). We’ve collectively spent hundreds of billions of dollars creating the infrastructure for invasive hyper targeted ads that do not get better results than simple billboards and terrestrial TV ads even now. We’ve created a global economy of marketing, media, advertising and sales solely reliant on technofeudalist overlords who’ve provided very little actual improvement of anything.
Folding Ideas video essay on this topic was brilliant https://youtu.be/biYciU1uiUw?si=mjT91zP6Kkr9qHCD
My MY21 Hyundai Kona feels like a normal car without all those extra features. Lots of tactile buttons, there’s a headphone jack/USB. It’s really just a regular car with an EV engine.
I have four tyres in pretty good condition on my car, that’s $1000 right there.
I appreciate this doesn’t work for everyone and might not be a long term solution, but I dropped 20kg by fasting on a 20:4 schedule.
“Fraggles don’t have any bosses […] We each lead ourselves and we all lead each other.” - Wembley Fraggle, Fraggle Rock
I think American’s call them OtterPops? We call them icy poles. Wherever you are in the world, those things.
See Democratic Confederalism. https://youtu.be/BKRHyF78j2I?si=5tHIXPtGNI0jW5Jq
I had to tweak some settings on my PC and lower the output to 720p but mine seems to work pretty well with that.
You’re both nuts…that’s too much.
Lived through peak TV… Why dOn’T x-FiLEs bE tV aS GoOD?
If an Englishman uses ‘soccer’ he’s almost certainly from the upper class.
As “soccer” was played by the elite (such as the Oxford lad who is said to have coined “soccer”), it soon spread to the working classes, and became “football”.
Australia. Here’s a tidbit on the cherry ballart.
https://theconversation.com/native-cherries-are-a-bit-mysterious-and-possibly-inside-out-108760
There are broadly 150 indigenous language groups but only about 14 are still in common use.
If you’ve worked for a single company/system for 7 years you get a bonus 6 weeks ‘long-service’ leave.
We have a native cherry that grows inside out called a cherry ballart.
Our cuisine is really varied depending on your geography with a lot of soth East Asian influences. Most people will make stir-fry reasonably often and we have our own variations of sushi and dim sum which would offend most Japanese or Chinese people.
Money
I really have no interest in Michael Lewis. He only writes about people he likes and usually fails to analyse their actions critically.
Yeah sometimes things just have a natural shelf life.