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Facebook Aunt posted:Peace in America is fake, much like this hoodie. Good message. Not only is it fake, it's an advertising ploy. Even better message!
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Beachcomber posted:It's not really arbitrary, but with modern food safety the reasons no longer apply. That was a prophetic condemnation of the Gap Unity Hoodie
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Memento posted:
Ian Paisley rolling over in his grave
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some other highlights https://twitter.com/NaomiOhReally/status/1327717778602807300 my favorite though is https://twitter.com/AmazonHelp/status/1327635102302613505 good on them for apologizing though, i had no idea it was their fault
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Nov 15, 2020 02:26
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First they gently caress up and then they try and apologize for the troubles? Way to overreach amazon.
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Nov 15, 2020 02:37
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I'm the outsourced social media support tech just watching the thousands of quote tweets pile up thinking about how much I need that buck fifty an hour to feed my family
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Gaius Marius posted:First they gently caress up and then they try and apologize for the troubles? Way to overreach amazon. 
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I assumed that was on purpose, it can't not be. More spam:  A person with the extremely normal AMERICAN name of Girdaladze has cancer...maybe.
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Phlegmish posted:I assumed that was on purpose, it can't not be.
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A company named Fabletics offered a military discount for men but not women. Comments on their facebook page are not going well, at all. https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2020/11/12/fabletics-gifts-veterans-day-discount-on-yoga-pants-but-only-for-men/
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Grem posted:A company named Fabletics offered a military discount for men but not women. Comments on their facebook page are not going well, at all. I read the article and clicked on the original tweet, but am left confused. How does the company know if the person ordering is a man or a woman? I wish they'd posted a screenshot of the actual sales page. If it simply didn't apply to women's clothing, it's dumb as poo poo --- maybe a mildude wanted to buy his female partner a gift. (For that matter, how do you even prove you're a vet when ordering something online?)
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BMW's new electric car has not been well received, partly on a technical level but mostly because of its molerat-inspired styling. The marketing department have decided to go onto the offensive harnessing the power of those 'meme' things and using all the negative comments from their own YouTube channel as evidence that only the really cool people like electric BMWs https://twitter.com/BMW/status/1328004840165928961
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JacquelineDempsey posted:I read the article and clicked on the original tweet, but am left confused. How does the company know if the person ordering is a man or a woman? I wish they'd posted a screenshot of the actual sales page. If it simply didn't apply to women's clothing, it's dumb as poo poo --- maybe a mildude wanted to buy his female partner a gift. Or maybe a woman veteran would want to buy some yoga pants for herself. I can't begin to guess their justification for excluding women or women's clothing. I'm not a vet but my mother is, and different sites seem to have different methods for checking. Most use those online ID verification things which I'm guessing is also how they'd know your sex. (But at least one small business was like "uhh idk, show us your DD 214 I guess?" Maybe no one had ever asked for the discount before.) How come yoga pants companies are always repugnant? I feel like they get caught saying or doing dumb poo poo fairly often, especially about women. Which is extra stupid considering that's the majority of their customer base.
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Telemaze posted:How come yoga pants companies are always repugnant? I feel like they get caught saying or doing dumb poo poo fairly often, especially about women. Which is extra stupid considering that's the majority of their customer base. Maybe they all got into business because they wanted to stare at butts and make them look as good as possible.
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It's a captive market What are they going to do, not buy yoga pants?
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Telemaze posted:Or maybe a woman veteran would want to buy some yoga pants for herself. I can't begin to guess their justification for excluding women or women's clothing. Oh, yeah, I get that. That seems to be the reasoning behind of the tweet. What I couldn't figure out was how they'd discriminate against women, unless it was "the discount works for men's clothing, but not women's." And that's dumb as hell if a guy wanted to buy something for a lady. quote:I'm not a vet but my mother is, and different sites seem to have different methods for checking. Most use those online ID verification things which I'm guessing is also how they'd know your sex. (But at least one small business was like "uhh idk, show us your DD 214 I guess?" Maybe no one had ever asked for the discount before.) Thanks, couldn't figure out how that worked!
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Phlegmish posted:It's a captive market They can just buy artisanal yoga pants from Etsy or w/e. I'm joking, but I bet that's totally a thing already!
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There's something in the military verification thing that has you pick male or female and if it's female I guess it gets flagged. It's not clothes it's literally men trying to get a discount vs women trying to get a discount. 
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Telemaze posted:Or maybe a woman veteran would want to buy some yoga pants for herself. I can't begin to guess their justification for excluding women or women's clothing. Yeah, I looked into it when Lowe's went to online verification, it looks like it's a 3rd party that collaborates with the VA? I forget, but it's creepy as hell because it asks for WAY MORE PII than would be necessary to steal your identity. Also, apparently Fabletics is either woman owned, or uses a woman celebrity as a figurehead, which makes the misogyny even weirder.
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Yeah, I looked into it because I'm EMS and some businesses have been offering discounts to healthcare and first responders since covid-19 hit. The problem is that to get it you need to use that service and they want way too much loving personal information for a 10% discount.
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Beachcomber posted:It's not really arbitrary, but with modern food safety the reasons no longer apply. I always assumed that was against people using more materials than they needed to for clothing, which in a society where everything had to be sewn by hand without modern textile techniques would be kinda wasteful (and probably done as a status symbol, to show off how much you could afford)
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To add a bit, as a veteran myself, I constantly get emails for veteran discounts at sites that want me to scan my drivers license or my VA card so I can claim “50% off new Oakely Eyewear” bitch I can get half off fake oakleys on wish and all I gotta do is pay for it.
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Phlegmish posted:I assumed that was on purpose, it can't not be. My favorite of these are the ones where they try to use an actual generic American name, but flip the given and surname because that's how they do it where the spammer is from. So you get stuff like "I am Mr Smith Mike".
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Yeesh, this could’ve been timed better. https://twitter.com/monstercat/status/1328744709481644033?s=21
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Gann Jerrod posted:Yeesh, this could’ve been timed better. Why? (not being combative, I just have no idea what monster cat is, or why this is a bad idea)
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Twitch recently took down a massive number of streams due to copyright violations with no warning. It looks like it was mostly responding to automated DMCAs. Apparently quite a few were false positives, in-game music or ancient streams from before there was any enforcement. I actually think this is exactly the sort of solution that's needed, although "1000s" of songs isn't great. I've seen quite a few Twitch streams where the hosts have to deny music requests from viewers because they don't want the banhammer coming down on them. Or streams where they open a youtube video and quickly have to mute or close it because there's music playing  E: ok Monstercat's catalogue kinda sucks. Fruits of the sea has a new favorite as of 20:30 on Nov 17, 2020 |
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While the DMCA poo poo in general is always bullshit, people getting hit by bots for police siren sound effects and literally just whispering in phasmophobia has streamers constantly walking on eggshells. Jumping in with 'buy our service to not get dmca'd by the company we're teaming up with' (not to mention that advertising for basically 'pay us to become affiliated' is some bullshit) is not a great look.
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Fruits of the sea posted:Twitch recently took down a massive number of streams due to copyright violations with no warning. It looks like it was mostly responding to automated DMCAs. Apparently quite a few were false positives, in-game music or ancient streams from before there was any enforcement. Also it appears to be letting you buy affiliate for $5? Or at least cut the line.
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Aphrodite posted:Also it appears to be letting you buy affiliate for $5? Oh yeah, I didn’t stop to think about that. Kinda sketchy for a third party to be advertising affiliate “fast tracking”.
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Good job naming your app guys. 
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Elviscat posted:Good job naming your app guys. This doesn't seem like it will disrupt the market for the dick sucking factory so the economy is safe.
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Nov 20, 2020 22:34
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Brb gonna start a lawn service uber called blowie.
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A lot of handymen also have lawn care equipment so they could use both apps. "Pardon me sir, I forgot, did you call me for a handy or a blowie?"
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Elviscat posted:Good job naming your app guys. Always wondered what the guys behind this site/app did after it folded 
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I'm starting a new app where people can rent their goats out for birthday petting zoos and also landscaping. Look for Goatsee, coming soon!
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SpartanIvy posted:I'm starting a new app where people can rent their goats out for birthday petting zoos and also landscaping. Look for Goatsee, coming soon! bellissimo!!
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Our carpet cleaning business was named after the original home of clean carpets, the city of Cleveland
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So here I am half watching a compilation of retro commercials and a Zip Drive commercial comes on. It takes place on a plane in the Bermuda Triangle and makes fun of things disappearing. This may not have been the best thing to put alongside your totally reliable storage medium
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