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Shame Boy posted:Also the people standing out front offering the FREE! audits seem to always be minorities in their mid-20's / early 30's so I guess that's their new demographic similar to MLMs at some point you run out of rubes in your initial demographic to keep the pyramid going and have to diversify, they're going real hard on latinos rn
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Professor Shark posted:does Scientology have any members younger than the lady from Madmen and the other lady who was on Homeland who failed the audition for Tom Cruise’s new wife? There is a big Scientology boarding school just outside Willimina, OR https://maps.app.goo.gl/1tbXhWeDAA5DbZzr8?g_st=ic I worked for a business that the owner’s wife was an administrator at that school so we often had lots of interns and low level data entry people who were pulled from recent graduates Some of them were more into it than others, but there is definitely at least some intergenerational transfer going on
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Shame Boy posted:Also the people standing out front offering the FREE! audits seem to always be minorities in their mid-20's / early 30's so I guess that's their new demographic yeah, the entirety of young Scientologists in the US are either second/third-generation members who were born into it, or staff members recruited from their outposts in Colombia or South Africa or Taiwan or Russia who were brought over on religious visas to fill spots at empty orgs
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Consolidated Ed posted:try searching worldcat.org and entering your zip code afterwards. this owns ty for sharing
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I highly recommend getting a free audit if they have e-meters. They're pressure sensitive, so have fun. Also I recommend not getting into the whole thing.
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BonHair posted:I highly recommend getting a free audit if they have e-meters. They're pressure sensitive, so have fun. Also I recommend not getting into the whole thing. I really do not want to interact with scientology at all, I get the feeling they'll start a file on me if I so much as just talk to them
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Oh the other thing I saw through the windows of that one outpost office was a big room that looked like a library, with bookshelves everywhere, and each and every shelf of every bookshelf in view held exactly one hardcover copy of Dianetics on a little display stand and nothing else.
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Shame Boy posted:I really do not want to interact with scientology at all, I get the feeling they'll start a file on me if I so much as just talk to them My sister didn't realize Dianetics was Scientology-related and naively gave them her number in exchange for the book. She had to threaten them with violence to make them stop calling her.
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SplitSoul posted:My sister didn't realize Dianetics was Scientology-related and naively gave them her number in exchange for the book. She had to threaten them with violence to make them stop calling her. My uncle was into Dianetics for several years, and even gave my mum the book. She never read it, but I still remember the cool volcano on the cover.
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Shame Boy posted:I really do not want to interact with scientology at all, I get the feeling they'll start a file on me if I so much as just talk to them that fear is well-founded because they will, and every couple years they round up members to do "central files day" where everybody's tasked with going through every file and updating phone numbers and addresses for anyone who's fallen out of contact
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Paladinus posted:My uncle was into Dianetics for several years, and even gave my mum the book. She never read it, but I still remember the cool volcano on the cover. i have a copy with the cool volcano cover. unreadable but it looks fuckin sick on a bookshelf
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Like I said above I actually worked for a Scientology adjacent company and it was a hell of an experience The company was really doing its best to not be overtly associated because the owner wanted to actually build a successful product and had big dreams of being a big time tech CEO, narcissist that he was, and I wasn’t actually aware of the connection for a month or two until I got to know coworkers well enough to gossip about it, the place was probably at some points about 50/50 scios and normies So not overtly Scientologist but lots of Scientology stuff went around in like planning documents and training and just terminology used and also weird poo poo like people taking a week off to go get cleansed and showing up bright red from B12 overdoses and poo poo like that One woman who did data entry stuff actually quit to go work at the Portland Scientology center and had a big going away party Anyway there was a wrongful termination lawsuit that went poorly and at that point the owner decided to get serious about growing the business and kind of pushed all the other scios out of leadership and the whole vibe got a lot more normal, idk why I stayed as long as I did except it was east work and paid really nicely Anyway that’s my story hope you found it interesting
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Like I said above I actually worked for a Scientology adjacent company and it was a hell of an experience I'm surprised they didn't retaliate big time stylee.
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Shame Boy posted:I really do not want to interact with scientology at all, I get the feeling they'll start a file on me if I so much as just talk to them you don't have to give them your real name or anything
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Shame Boy posted:I really do not want to interact with scientology at all, I get the feeling they'll start a file on me if I so much as just talk to them I have a friend that was on a night out about 8 years ago, and got a bit pissed in central London and went in for the free audit They still call him semi regularly He's quite a timid / shy guy, so he just accepts that he's going to get these phone calls, seemingly forever
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Paladinus posted:My uncle was into Dianetics for several years, and even gave my mum the book. She never read it, but I still remember the cool volcano on the cover. fuckin hegel
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insane clown pussy posted:you don't have to give them your real name or anything They can find it out, the e-meter reads your soul and everything
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Lol if the tv commercials with the volcano book aren't a formative childhood memory burned into your brain forever
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Centrist Committee posted:fuckin hegel It's dianetics' SCIENCEtology. Very materialist. quote:Communism in revolt, throws out all middlemen, simply takes the final step of capitalism and seizes everything in the country. It fights capitalism by becoming the supercapitalist. Hubbard, on Economics
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Dog Case posted:Lol if the tv commercials with the volcano book aren't a formative childhood memory burned into your brain forever "The mind is nothing more... than a braaaaain!"
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Ranter posted:It's dianetics' SCIENCEtology. Very materialist. they claim to hate private property when they themselves become the state and claim all the property
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Ranter posted:Hubbard, on Economics sure communism seems cool, but have you ever considered some poo poo I made up?
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Shame Boy posted:They can find it out, the e-meter reads your soul and everything Plus good luck at staying anonymous from a dedicated party in 2023
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Coolness Averted posted:sure communism seems cool, but have you ever considered some poo poo I made up? amphetamines are a hell of a drug
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Consolidated Ed posted:can you recc a book or books on this... Missed this: Through the Eye of a Needle by Brown
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https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1684588900256456704 The hours between 5-6? You may have thought those belonged to the worker...
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Arsenic Lupin posted:https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1684588900256456704 lol the article basically says that work is still getting done, because they'll do another hour of work from home, but it's bad for managers because it's difficult to schedule meetings. Who schedules meetings between 4 and 6? Go to hell. Really fun how the pandemic exposed how worthless work is and that it's really just about control of people's lives.
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 I actually clicked through on this ad, because I thought it couldn't actually be as stupid as it looks. The lady drinking and the gel capsule looking thing meant it's like a vitamin liquid or something, right? Maybe it synchs with something to tell you to take your medicine, or is like a timed catfeeder for your pills? No. It's literally just a dispenser that requires special 1 time use cartridges. The only other selling point is the dispensers can interlock, so you can buy multiple ones and make a vitamin bar for dispensing single pills.
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It looks futuristic. Don't you want to live in the future
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"vitamins" here meaning snake oil and black pepper which just makes it worse
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I miss the days when "vitamins" meant methamphetamine
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Someone saw the failure of the juciero and thought it was just the luxury that made it an issue. If only the juciero was cheap plastic people would absolutely want gimmicky special dispensers for everything They're not even selling special blends like 'subsribe to our service and we'll tailor make the perfect suppliment in a single pill for you!' It's buy one of these for each of the snake oil pills you buy
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How likely is it that they were trying to develop something for automating dispensing perceptions, and then couldn't implement it, so are trying to make any amount of money by selling to consumers? Because I can't think of a reason why this would be developed on purpose.
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Brought that up in another channel and somebody mentioned they have an idiot friend that bought into this https://herohealth.com/
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Jonny 290 posted:Brought that up in another channel and somebody mentioned they have an idiot friend that bought into this Watch the video, it has a loving arm that grabs the pill lmao
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quote:WOONSOCKET, R.I., JUNE 1, 2023 — CVS Pharmacy® (NYSE: CVS) announced today the launch of its CVS Health® QuickServe™ Vitamin Dispensing System, an easy-to-assemble vitamin dispenser that holds a 30-day supply of select CVS Health vitamins and supplements. Its sleek countertop design promotes “vitaminimalism” — the simplification of vitamin and supplement routines, eliminating the clutter of pill bottles and keeping vitamins and supplements front and center which may help increase adherence and enhance self-care regimens.
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Coolness Averted posted:
edit nvm it dispenses hard pills too. Still has some benefit but can't deny it's dumber than I thought (me too). Seems stupid because ads try to never include models who look like their actual customers, which in this case is olds or the caretakers of them. As usual this product is about convenience and time saving over cost or ecological considerations. Some caretakers have to feed pills to their charges, but those under their care can no longer swallow easily on their own. Sometimes you have to give them many pills. Sometimes multiple times a day. Cutting gelcaps open to dump them into water or a liquid drink can be frustrating and time consuming. It's even worse to do this if you have arthritis or limited mobility. This product basically lets you make a nice little cocktail of meds to drink really quick and easy.
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