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drat its almost like advertising, and all of capitalism, is a scam by the oligarchs to occupy the working class with bread and circuses while they escape to their impenitrable climateproof compounds.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:drat its almost like advertising, and all of capitalism, is a scam by the oligarchs to occupy the working class with bread and circuses while they escape to their impenitrable climateproof compounds. Hey, that's not quite right. Advertising is a scam to annoy the working class. Nobody actually likes advertisements, except for ad guys.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Thank you, so it's not just me! That's mostly what I was asking for, with a side dish of "wtf? how is this good marketing?" I've think we've all gotten comfortable with the highly-efficient algorithms that serves up personalised adverts, so it is very noticeable when it doesn't work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbKdKcGJ4tM
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R0ckfish posted:I keep on getting ads for civilian versions of APCs for some reason. SUVs are just really popular right now
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:profoundly unholy sex toys 
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Would it be cheating to just say it's Bad Dragon?
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they are not. i beleive these are chinese dropshippers posting their wares through Walmart's amazon affiliate ripoff bullshit
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What part of are you having trouble with 
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Anxiously awaiting my own fb ads to start incorporating sex toys into their usual algorithmic "Star Wars + x" mashup.
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Splicer posted:What part of i'm logged into SA on my desktop and FB on my phone and i can't easily cross-pollenate content between platforms because i am easily distracted by shiny objects or simplistic melodical jingles. tbh i think it was Wish ads which were super hosed and i haven't seen one of those in an age. if it crops up again i'll post em, splicer.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:i'm logged into SA on my desktop and FB on my phone and i can't easily cross-pollenate content between platforms because i am easily distracted by shiny objects or simplistic melodical jingles. Wish is always advertising weird rear end sex toys and/or drug paraphernalia
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:drat its almost like advertising, and all of capitalism, is a scam by the oligarchs to occupy the working class with bread and circuses while they escape to their impenitrable climateproof compounds. They don't seem in any real hurry to escape Florida
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Shai-Hulud posted:So...did the Kool-Aid Man always had the power to revive the dead or is this just a weird symbiosis thing between him and Mr. Peanut? I think it's just the Mr. Peanut lifecycle that he dies and reincarnates in a new body with his memories intact. It would explain why he was so eager to sacrifice himself, knowing he'd be rewarded with a brand-new body. In fact one might even wonder if the geriatric peanut engineered the disaster for the express purpose of renewing himself in a way that drew sympathy for the brand. Mr. Peanut: Hero or Menace?
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christmas boots posted:I think it's just the Mr. Peanut lifecycle that he dies and reincarnates in a new body with his memories intact. It would explain why he was so eager to sacrifice himself, knowing he'd be rewarded with a brand-new body. In fact one might even wonder if the geriatric peanut engineered the disaster for the express purpose of renewing himself in a way that drew sympathy for the brand. J Jonah Jameson is on the case!
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Len posted:Wish is always advertising weird rear end sex toys and/or drug paraphernalia
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https://twitter.com/brockway_llc/status/1226922282972434432
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lol, so, twitter. Cracked is pivoting to twitter.
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Memento posted:lol, so, twitter. Cracked is pivoting to twitter.
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Was he a 1099 contractor for 13 years? Because if you're an actual employee, there are laws governing that sort of thing
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Just about exactly 10 years ago, Robert Brockway got me kicked off of Cracked's pitching room because he said an article I sold to another site stole his idea and copied his style. That "idea" was a choose-your-own-adventure. He also said I met with him at a writers' meet-up and went on and on about how much I loved his choose your own adventure articles. When I went to his boss and pointed out that A. It was ridiculous to accuse me of stealing an idea he had stolen, himself, B. I had been published with the same style of writing since long before anyone ever heard of Brockway, and C. I had witnesses to the interaction that could attest I never said anything he claimed I did, I was quickly dismissed because "Robert Brockway is kind of big around here." When I escalated it to his bosses' boss, I got no response. It set my career back a lot: I had been getting millions of hits from my freelance Cracked articles, as had everyone else at the time. While I don't consider myself a vengeful man (I just want everyone to be happy and I hope he gets a good job soon), there's something quite poetic about Robert Brockway feeling small and unheard while losing his job at Cracked over some bullshit.
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I used to like Cracked but over time it got bad and worse and i stopped liking it. Welp bye
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I visit Cracked about three times a year, when Seanbaby posts a new article. Normally click through a couple of articles that look interesting and find they aren't. 
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Drunk Nerds posted:Just about exactly 10 years ago, Robert Brockway got me kicked off of Cracked's pitching room because he said an article I sold to another site stole his idea and copied his style. That "idea" was a choose-your-own-adventure. He also said I met with him at a writers' meet-up and went on and on about how much I loved his choose your own adventure articles. When I went to his boss and pointed out that A. It was ridiculous to accuse me of stealing an idea he had stolen, himself, B. I had been published with the same style of writing since long before anyone ever heard of Brockway, and C. I had witnesses to the interaction that could attest I never said anything he claimed I did, I was quickly dismissed because "Robert Brockway is kind of big around here." When I escalated it to his bosses' boss, I got no response. It set my career back a lot: I had been getting millions of hits from my freelance Cracked articles, as had everyone else at the time. for a brief while it looked like cracked was poised to become the longform article version of funnyordie but the revolving door of corporate ownership hosed that over pretty hard. they were, until now, still one of the more reliable ways for a total nobody to establish their comedy chops, but it's not like there's anywhere left to grow from that.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:for a brief while it looked like cracked was poised to become the longform article version of funnyordie but the revolving door of corporate ownership hosed that over pretty hard. they were, until now, still one of the more reliable ways for a total nobody to establish their comedy chops, but it's not like there's anywhere left to grow from that. I used to be a regular listener to the Cracked podcast until their first purge of all the creatives a few years ago. The guys I followed from there have their own podcast network now, called Small Beans. I honestly didn't think there was anyone left on staff who did anything worthwhile but I guess now there definitely isn't.
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Jason Pargin/David Wong contributes thoughtful stuff on occasion still, and he's writing another John Dies At The End novel.  i miss my friends.
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Pretty sure California’s new labor laws have to do with Cracked’s new model. They can only accept 30-something submissions from any freelance writer/editor before they’d need to consider them an employee and pay all the payroll taxes associated with that. AB5 was so poorly executed in so many ways.
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dipshit executives: we can hire professionals full time and pay them a living wage, or we can open the fuckin shitgates and let the madmen run the asylums. de2: wouldn't that tank our reputation and utterly ruin the IP for an entire generation while not actually generating additional revenuaahahahahaha can you IMAGINE giving a poo poo? de: (too busy shoveling cocaine up his nose to respond) edit- also, cracked's turnaround time was usually in the month+ range (my article ran 6 weeks after they bought it) so getting any one freelancer doing more than 2-3 articles a month sounds, eh, unfeasible. maybe the folks they've got now are publishing more frequently in the past but i think this is just another bonging of the online media death knell.
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Cracked has good writers occasionally. One article correctly points out that good direction or artistry in movies doesn't necessarily translate to good reviews, using an example of how Batman v Superman had a building explosion scene far better than its Marvel counterpart Civil War which is something you normally get from Cinema Discusso.
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Nitrox posted:Was he a 1099 contractor for 13 years? Because if you're an actual employee, there are laws governing that sort of thing i'm sure the laws are better in california but i've only worked in kansas and this made me lol
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This looks like a product of an actual campaign to bring attention to Bloomberg.
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Hello, shithead. -Mike Bloomberg, 2020
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The MSJ posted:Hello, shithead. -Mike Bloomberg, 2020 lol bloomberg is biden 2.0 this is going to be hilarious
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NGL, "please fax it over before the markets close" was genuinely funny. Not sure if intentional or not, but still, funny.
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I'm an idiot and looking at this at work so can't see the twitter links. Ignore me
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Peanut Butler posted:i'm sure the laws are better in california but i've only worked in kansas and this made me lol Virginia here, and  Unless your boss outright says "I'm firing you because I don't like the color of your skin/who you gently caress/what gender you are", you have no protections whatsoever w/r/t getting fired, getting severance compensation, or even unemployment/food stamps from your $7.25/hr job in an at-will state. My "favorite" story is: I got fired once for attempting suicide and going to the hospital instead of showing up for work. My husband worked at the same place and got written up for abandoning his position to drive me to the hospital when I called him for help. God Bless America.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Virginia here, and This is how it is everywhere in America as far as I know. The standards of evidence are quite strict for protected classes, so you need either the boss to outright say he's firing you because you're of a protected class that he hates or have a provable history of discrimination (such as using racial slurs) that can establish a precedent for such behavior. If you're in an at-will employment state and have none of that, you can be kicked out with no warning.
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