Watched a lot of Binging With Babish and Just got tired of his schtick I think. Same with the How To Drink guy.

I don’t see them as any different to cigarettes personally. Just one more way for giant corporations to get people hooked on addictive shit with no upside. Fuck Jool. Fuck Philip Morris.

These companies spend millions knowingly breaking the law over and over and then get to keep operating regardless? Their executives should be in prison.

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.

My team moved to fully remote a month ago. I’m loving it so far.

Getting to see my little girl throughout my day makes me feel like I’m not missing out on watching her grow up.

Folding Ideas video essay on this topic was brilliant https://youtu.be/biYciU1uiUw?si=mjT91zP6Kkr9qHCD

Yeah they’re kind of the ultimate monopolization machine

Did they ever? They bought PageMaker in 1994 and Photoshop in 1995. They bought Macromedia in 2006, GoLive, Live motion, Typekit, Behance… Is there anything they’ve ever bought they haven’t slowly ruined with financialisation or just outright shuttering what would have been competition?

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 will never not post this. This is what anyone who gets one of these is destined for :

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete

I have four tyres in pretty good condition on my car, that’s $1000 right there.

The emotional reaction I get to these stories is hard to put into words. It’s a mix of deep sadness and incandescent rage. I just can’t imagine being in that position and not wanting to firebomb a politician’s house.

My little girl had a very high fever the other night and we were really worried about her, so we called the nurse on call hotline who advised us to wait and go to the urgent care centre in the morning unless she got suddenly worse overnight, then to head to emergency. It was all stressful enough just worrying about how sick she was. I can’t imagine how much worse it would be having to worry about paying for any of those services on top of that.

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

Are you reading over what you’re writing?! You’ve come very close to telling a complete stranger on the internet that they’re acting as a sexual abuser does towards their kids. Do you know how fucked up that is? You literally know nothing about me, my family or my kids.

I’m a disaster relief worker, my partner is a teacher, we plant trees with our local community group, and volunteer at the soup kitchen. My kids help others, smile and laugh and dance and sing. They’re happy, they love to swim and play basketball and play with our dogs. They are incredible, empathetic, thoughtful and caring and you don’t even deserve to hear even those details about their lives.

Your willingness to judge so harshly based on one or two throwaway comments is beyond reprehensible. It calls to mind Elon Musk calling that cave diver a paedophile when he couldn’t get his way. I’m going to nuke my comments and you should delete yours to because nothing in this conversation has added anything of value to the world, it’s just brought more pain and vile hostility.

I think American’s call them OtterPops? We call them icy poles. Wherever you are in the world, those things.

Yeah you’re right I don’t know shit about my own kids. Sure I’ll try that thanks love.

Honestly I want them to be able to have fun. I want them to be able to enjoy themselves at school, get dirty and not have to think about their outfit or having the right brands or having to keep up with the cool kids in at least that one aspect. And honestly most uniforms at the primary level at least are really affordable and make the morning routine (which can be pretty fucking difficult some mornings) easy.

I don’t say this coming from a place of privilege either. I grew up with second hand uniforms. I went to public school my whole life. I had to deal with all the usual shit that everyone else does and I get some of the schools are a bit over the top about perfect uniforms (especially some of the private schools seem to be super weird about them) but as a parent, dealing with a mortgage and trying to juggle both parents work schedules, drop offs and after school sports, there are a lot of upsides to a uniform.

My kid comes home from school with the most random shit smeared all over their polo. I’d much rather they fuck up their cheap polo than expensive but nice clothes they have for the weekends.

I had to tweak some settings on my PC and lower the output to 720p but mine seems to work pretty well with that.