oh i know how this works and its not the way you think. Its somehow better and worse at the same time

Im going to describe the process using a hypothetical situation:

You decide to try a new shampoo but you’re not sure what to buy. You ask your friend “hey what shampoo do you use” and they tell you they use Head and Shoulders.

Later that night, you google head and shoulders and read reviews

The next day, your friend gets Head and Shoulders ads on youtube and facebook and Instagram, etc

This is because google knows both of your locations and search history. It sees that you two were within a few feet of each for hours and decides to shoot ads at you both, based on what either of you have searched recently.

This is called proximity targetted advertising and i think its gross.

But this is why so many people say things like “we were talking about it and now im seeing ads they must be spying on me”

Alright fine ill switch browsers AGAIN

if only there was a simple easy solution

1. I am the only person in the entire country who knows and follows the rules for operating a vehicle.

This is a constant source of frustration for me. Im on the spectrum and even though my logical, intelligent side of the brain understands that rules are just words; the emotional part of my brain just screams “THATS NOT HOW THIS WORKS” every time someone hits their hazard lights and just gets out of their car in the middle of a 35mph road.

2. Streaming services were better than cable for about 3 years somewhere between 2013 and 2019. Now there’s too many, they’re too expensive, and they shuffle their libraries around too much.

I wanna watch key and peele. oops its not on the comedy central app? who owns comedy central…hmmm…paramount? okay its on paramount plus…and its just a link that takes me to Amazon video? why? just play the show what is this

if they start, itll be the last straw that finally gets me to just go find a local farm and buy food direct from the source

grocery stores trying to get me to sign up for their reward program or whatever

Im surprised Aldi hasnt completely taken over the entire country by now because of how they skip all the bullshit

its a grocery store. i walk in, i buy food, i leave

could not be simpler.

My local Kroger, however, has automated price cards that adjust to scalp their customers during high-traffic periods.

this is a practice that should be rewarded via targetted arson of distribution centers until our demands are met

oops autocorrect lmao

i meant this is a practice that should be outlawed via legislation that follows our due processes

oh i forgot the killing spree shoutouts

killing spree

rampage!

Unstoppable

…

G O D L I K E

HEADSHOT

HEADSHOT- DOUBLEKILL

MULTIKILL

ULTRA KILL

…MMMMMMM MONSTER KILLL LLLLLL

like jurassic park, life finds a way

Comouter scientists are now able to change gender as an evolutionary response to the lack of women in STEM fields

the socks are not mandatory, they are just given out in case anyone is chosen to be the new cutest girl in the office

i will warn you that if you ever start saying “mrrrp…nya :3” even as a joke, it WILL trigger the process to begin

…oh shit wait

i think i was born too late to relate to most millenials

for me, big computer is for either

A. Something that needs more power (gaming, CAD)

or

B. Something easier to do with a mouse and keyboard (long documents, fps games, video and photo editing, etc)

but i have no problem spending $3,000 on something through my phone screen. I bet whatever business im buying from has a mobile-first design for their website anyway

that was a great summary, thank you

trying to research such a broad topic was overwhelming

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i crave decisiveness like that. it would make me so happy if that sort of behavior became the norm.

too many corpos getting away with murder because they are more convenient than their competitors or because switching is too hard

hello, i have chosen to value your opinion above my own based on very shaky reasoning i will not be sharing

I abandoned chrome for being too RAM-hungry when im playing games w the browser open

i abandoned Internet Explorer for being too slow

and i abandoned firefox for being too bloated and sluggish, but that was like 2010 and things change

im currently using Opera but why do you choose firefox over its contemporaries?

exactly

i got married last year

im literally a level 1 husband.

Im a level 32 human but only a level 6 Adult, really. I moved out at 22 but spent the first 3 years partying and barely making rent

I think 25 was the year i started actually trying to do a good job at life, so im still pretty new at it

Yall GOTTA stop pretending 30 is old

ive only been an adult on my own for like 5 years, relax

i saw this comment last night and chuckled a bit at it but i was stoned af so maybe dont smoke and lemmy either

I think it would be cooler to just steal MAGA from them

pretend we have no idea what they mean if they accuse us of taking it

just fully gaslight an entire political party lmao

edit:

we could even keep the exact same font and color scheme and everything. damn, that would be so funny

every time we see a maga hat: “hell yeah man! Woman in the white house lets gooo!”

I think we could do it, it cant be that hard to gaslight trump voters. Everybody else is doing it