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Rough Lobster posted:My first car was a purple PT cruiser with wood panel siding that my grandpa bought two months before being diagnosed with dementia.  ... oh my.
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Hahaha, so Unroll.me runs a service that scans your Gmail account and can automatically unsubscribe you from newsletters. Great if you don't want to be bombarded with junk right? Well it turns out they've been selling aggregated user data about its users to the very companies they're claiming to help avoid. Better than that, the CEO posted a terrible response: http://blog.unroll.me/we-can-do-better/ quote:"Our users are the heart of our company and service. So it was heartbreaking to see that some of our users were upset to learn about how we monetize our free service. Comments on it are enjoyably vicious.
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Apr 24, 2017 11:31
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Superhero comicbooks are essentially locked in a cycle of mediocrity where stuff from 30-40 years ago (basically when the current writers were children) are endlessly referenced, recycled and repackaged. I read DC for a couple of years (mainly the Grant Morrison titles), and then they decided they were going to erase all that and start over again, so that seemed like a great time to stop. If were running a superhero comics company I'd try my absolute best to jettison their stagnant adult customers and aggressively target digital comics at children. Maybe do some Skylanders/Amiibo figurine-style tie-ins. If mature audiences want comics they can head to indie or Vertigo or whatever.
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Apr 24, 2017 13:30
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umalt posted:And if I recall too, they call-off the assassination becuase "Batman wouldn't kill somebody, also Batman would think this is hosed up too." But the kid's dad dies anyways and then trains under Bruce to be a teenage Batman in a cyberpunk dystopia. The whole silly plot is worth it for the gag about Batman leaving his cum all over Gotham.
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Apr 25, 2017 10:23
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4JI81SNsxA
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Apr 25, 2017 11:10
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I guess one of the things about policing hate speech is that it puts Google/Twitter/Facebook etc in the position of making political judgments on what constitutes it - and the judgments are going to be entirely subjective per whoever's got the job of filtering them. It's a great way to alienate vast swathes of their users - no wonder they're reluctant to do it.
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May 3, 2017 11:49
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jojoinnit posted:The good news is that McDonald's is almost definitely not actually serving you a real egg. They come in tubes, not shells. Unfortunately not true.
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May 21, 2017 19:37
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steinrokkan posted:It's impressive the lengths to which they went in destroying this chair. It appears they made sure to strip off literally all the mechanical and electronic components, leaving only the most vulgar mockery of its original state. It's not just an accident, it's an aggressively deliberate political statement, a work of abstract art. I like the one missing wheel.
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Oct 11, 2017 08:21
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Oct 14, 2017 17:02
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Corrode posted:Not an exact analogy because they're very different types of media, but think of it as "Domino's partners with Breitbart" to understand the strength of feeling from non-psychopaths. lol https://twitter.com/pizzahutdeliver/status/937075669313433600
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Dec 3, 2017 23:57
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Have you guys seriously not heard of the houseware brand Smeg before?
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Dec 13, 2017 00:32
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Rough Lobster posted:I think the phrase "person of color" is weird as poo poo too and I'm absolutely confused as to why I see it so much nowadays. Guarantee that 'person of color' is the phrase that's going to make our generation's grandchildren cringe at us in 50 years time.
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Jan 10, 2018 00:47
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Someone please start a PYF Laundry Machines thread already...
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Jan 21, 2018 15:37
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_u_-OD1_z0 You have to wonder how many people can sign off on this without noticing it's a teeny bit racist.
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Mar 27, 2018 23:13
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Choco1980 posted:Basically starting 5/1, MS is banning all naughty content across the board and are saying they reserve the right to monitor everything. Want to have a sexy video date on skype with your partner? Talking poo poo on xbox live? Have a manuscript saved to office's cloud that has an f-bomb in it? You're boned now. The Bing team must be distraught that their carefully carved out niche as "the porn search engine" is under threat.
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Mar 30, 2018 11:07
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I have to use a DOS program at work sometimes and I love it. It's super responsive and once you know the keyboard shortcuts you can rocket through stuff. God knows what new, young employees make of it though.
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Apr 3, 2018 23:28
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Doggles posted:Nike shares fall as backlash erupts over new ad campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick How is this a dumb marketing move? It's worldwide news and Nike come out of it looking great. e: plus the article points out their shares are up 27.5 percent so far this year and this news has sent them 'tumbling' to where they were on the 17th of August. Necrothatcher has a new favorite as of 23:33 on Sep 5, 2018 |
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Sep 5, 2018 23:29
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I got recommended The Dollop and stopped after realising that the unfunny skit I'd been enduring for ten minutes at the start of the show was an ad. At the very least it's off-putting to new listeners.
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Sep 10, 2018 09:37
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Phanatic posted:Also the complaints/boycott threats/bad press over the loot boxes in Star Wars Battlefront II got the CEO of EA a phone call from Bob Iger who probably said something like "What the gently caress are loot boxes and why are they making everyone poo poo on your game, which I own?" Presto, no more non-cosmetic microtransactions. It's got to be a fun day at the office when the CEO of Disney thinks you've crossed the line in exploiting IP.
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Nov 5, 2018 19:24
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I bet half the thrill of this Hermes style poo poo is the little thrill that, for once, the incredibly rich person can't have something. If they want that bag they're going to have do some weird facsimile of work to get it. We should eat them.
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Nov 9, 2018 11:01
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High end fashion exclusivity is some guillotine sharpening poo poo. I mean, Burberry aren't even that exclusive and they still do stuff like this: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44885983 quote:"Burberry, the upmarket British fashion label, destroyed unsold clothes, accessories and perfume worth £28.6m last year to protect its brand.
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Nov 9, 2018 16:09
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In my house we use the login of my friend's mum on a premium TV app on PS4 - and all the ads are targeted at middle aged menopausal women. The upside is that I know exactly what to do if I develop a leaky bladder.
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Jan 6, 2019 18:00
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so THAT's why the gf calls them vinegar husbands
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Oct 7, 2020 22:53
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Sky History in the UK have made a reality TV show about woodworking called The Chop and were promoting it on Twitter. They did a spotlight on one of their contestants: Twitter immediately pointed out that the guy is covered in Nazi tattoos and has an 88 on his cheek. Sky told everyone to calm down, they'd already checked and he's definitely not a Nazi - the 88 is because his Dad died in 1988 and it's to remember him. Everyone laughed at them, told them it was bullshit and that the guy was obviously fash - pointing out the multiple other far right tats. Today the guy's dad has popped up saying "I'm not dead!" and the entire show has been canned.
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Oct 21, 2020 13:49
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I got really into DC comics around the time they were just letting Grant Morrison go nuts with Batman and having Superman sing Darkseid to death, but then New 52 happened and I rapidly stopped giving a gently caress.
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Re Zoo Chat: Back in the 2010s London Zoo wanted to widen its audience and make some quick cash, so they came up with Zoo Lates - an adults only party with several bars and some free booze. It went pretty much how you'd expect and they had to shut it down: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/18/london-zoo-party-night-animal-welfare quote:The welfare of animals at London zoo is being put at risk by drunken visitors at its Friday night parties, including one incident in which a man poured beer over a tiger before being thrown out by staff. Another incident this month saw a man strip off and attempt to enter the penguin pool, forcing staff to intervene. There are also unconfirmed reports that a drunken woman tried to enter the lion enclosure in June. Necrothatcher has a new favorite as of 13:30 on Nov 5, 2023 |
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