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do you have a nemesis named boottea?

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I feel like Light Yagami trying to answer this

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*dark shadowed closeup of eyes* Can't say yes because that's not funny. If I say no then it is an invitation for someone to create a parody blog. If someone creates a parody blog then I will be able to banter with them, but if shit goes south I may be culpable for any fallout. Do I make a quip about how Boottea sounds like booty? No, far too pedestrian. Do I invent a false backstop and run with the joke? No, I will fall flat. I could ignore the question, but I do like the creativity and think it needs to be rewarded with an engaging response. Am I overthinking this? Should I just leave it? No, then they will know I had nothing. I cannot quit now. It is no longer about the response itself: its about sending a message. So, what message do I send? Something relatable, which sidesteps an actual response. A meme, perhaps. Something that says, "I'm awkward, but in a self-aware way". Jesus, I am overthinking. This is probably how a death note character would plan a tumblr response. Wait

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I’m tired of advertising. All of it. I don’t want any ads even for things I like. Even if I would 100% buy it. It’s INSANE that we just accept that people can throw a business flier in our face at any time of day in any setting. Aren’t you mad? Don’t you just want to go apeshit?

I've been thinking about this for .... 15 years(?) now...

Yes, there's been mass advertising ever since the first mass-printed newspapers and magazines. There's been radio ads, and TV ads since the beginning of radio and TV.

But until ... What? Web 2.0, or whatever, we've been free to skip them. On commercial broadcast TV, when the ad break came on, that was your cue to walk away and go get a drink or a snack from the kitchen. That was actually expected (that's why the volume on commercials was generally higher than the actual shows, so you could hear them from the other room).

And companies still made money from advertising. Even when the ads did not follow you, personally. No ad man from the 1970s was "scraping your data," and stalking you, because the technology that allows that didn't exist, yet. Just putting the brand name out in the public zeitgeist was enough, so that when you were in the store, and ready to buy something, you'd be more likely to buy the brand you'd heard of before.

But now that the technology does exist, skipping ads, and blocking ads, is treated like a moral failing. Like, you're not even allowed to get up and go to the kitchen, anymore, or change the channel when the ads come on (I used to be able to watch 2 or 3 shows at the same time by doing that, 30-ish years ago).

And there are more ads than there ever were, 50 years ago.

...The law of diminishing returns. The more ads there are, the more they just become noise, the less return the corporations get from their advertising budgets, the more the corporations want to make sure they're spending their money on something worthwhile, the more they're going to code for unskippable ads, and pop up ads, the more ads make for a negative feeling... rinse and repeat.

Just let us walk away.

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