The more media advertising I see, the less crap I want.

@walarney
For types of “excited” that boost sales of nausea meds, anyway.

@yakkoTDI Can we talk about how acutely annoying all these Discovery + ads are? Holy shit…

@PooltoyWolf They are almost as bad as the stupid conclusions they make on the show What on Earth?

@yakkoTDI Hey, I like watching that show! LOL

@PooltoyWolf I watch it on occasion but I would watch it a lot more if they didn’t jump to the most far fetched conclusions right away.

@yakkoTDI The one that DID piss me off was them spending 20 minutes to eventually come to the (OBVIOUS!) conclusion that a ‘levitating’ 747 was a simple optical illusion.

@chienfou I love that character.

@Kyeh
Yeah, I am fond of him as well. Love that he carries around a spoon instead of a ‘fork’. Really wish I could put my finger (or mouse) on that strip. It is an all time classic.

@chienfou
I thought the Prince of Darkness was Lucas…?

@werehatrack
ISWYDT!

@chienfou @werehatrack Lucas, inventor of the intermittent wiper. And intermittent lights. And intermittent wiring.

/image replacement smoke

@narfcake @werehatrack
and these (notoriously POS batteries)

@narfcake @werehatrack
here’s a reference to the Prince of Darkness idea…

@chienfou @narfcake

(notoriously POS batteries)

Were they even worse than the Ray-o-Vac and Duracell units of about a decade back, which had a disturbing tendency to be leaky in the package on the store shelf?

What amazes me is that cheap unknown-brand alkalines seem to be less leak-prone than a lot of the recognized name brands, albeit often at the cost of not having as much capacity either.

BTW, is is possible to resurrect a 3-cell Maglite that has been heavily Leaked In…

Blog entry about resurrecting a Maglite

…but the bottom line is that you’re usually better off just replacing the whole thing.

@dyounghbic
So, you mean everything else is just like VMP?

You forgot to include charging tangible goods state sales tax under false pretenses for a service.

@mike808
yeah, that has always pissed me off about Alabama’s sales tax laws as well. They have a ‘fast and loose’ definition of what is taxable.

@chienfou It’s not like funding a highly educated workforce could be funded entirely by clawing back some of that 50% corporate tax rate reductions (including The Former Guy/Republican tax giveaway to the rich so that Jeff Bezos can take space trips and sail in another 1/2 Billion dollar yacht) that have benefitted very few actual voters and factually harmed and destroyed the Alabama average houshold income. Or by all that blood and treasure we were throwing down the drain into the corrupt Afghani and Iraqi kleptocrats for decades.

But when did facts matter to Ivey, Sessions, Tuberville, Roy Moore, or the party currently controlling the state legislature.

@dyounghbic idk if that’s true or not. The history of advertising is literred with advertising of things that had no/little value but the lies were so successful they are still a thing.

Engagement rings and diamond value being kind of the most well known. But tons of others

@unksol

I quit watching tv some years ago. Now only watch " accidentally" (ie I’m someplace where a tv is on)
Or only occasional Netflix or something from Amazon.

And I don’t often play broadcast radio;. Mostly just my own music, or audiobooks etc.

So I don’t often encounter audio or video advertising. I didn’t change my media habits in order to avoid it, but the absence is nice.

/youtube old spice commercial

@f00l iHeartRadio radio went into a loop for like a week last week where it would play the worst 30 second “avacados from Mexico. No that is the brand” commercial between every song. So. Nope on that.

Id rather listen to the annoying DJs interrupt. That was the only reason i went there. Local radio just used to play it for you on the site with no BS

@f00l @unksol
Tune your radio to stations under 90 on the dial.
Yeah, I’m that fucking old.
For starters: wwoz.org
For the STL krewe: kdhx.org

@f00l @unksol I agree completely, between the commercials (drugs are the worst “this may kill you, and you can’t afford it, but you should buy it”) and the lousy content, I pretty much gave up on TV & radio years ago. SWMBO is pretty much addicted to TV though.

@f00l @unksol There are good commercials, like Old Spice, but they are exceedingly rare.

@f00l @unksol Waiting rooms with daytime TV blasting should be a war crime.

@blaineg @f00l @unksol
The ones with an endless repetition of a paid loop that has drug ads as more than a third of the content are even worse.

@blaineg @f00l there WERE good commercials
/youtube eds herding cats

/youtube salmon commercial

@f00l @mike808 @unksol

Tune your radio to stations under 90 on the dial.
Yeah, I’m that fucking old.

So am I, but in much of the nation, what’s below 90 is even more brain-dead than the middle of the range; that’s the “gospel” zone.

@f00l @mike808 @werehatrack I just don’t need a dj in general and neither does radio. Shut up and play the music. I mostly avoided them cause the “morning show” to “get you into work” .

No. Stop. Bad radio. I walked into work from 20 feet away. Shut up and play something. Don’t care about what you saw on Facebook or what went viral or what dumb question you made up. Stop

@Kidsandliz
Oh, there was a very unscientific dissertation about that phenomenon about a century back which was most effectively exploited for a while. Fixing the damage was costly - and apparently incomplete.

@Kidsandliz there’s a thing about repeating it to get you to remember details.

And maybe to get you to remember a phone number to call when that was a thing.

But that’s not how most humans function anymore. I could not care less about brand advertising to start. I’ll read reviews etc. Local companies taking out a non annoying ad is more a “oh right, I meant to get that done, I should maybe check them out online” and their competition probably.

When someone starts repeating an ad over and over. And over. In a very short time span That’s a negative to me

Unfortunately, repetition is actually effective. The more times you hear something the more likely you are to believe it.

@walarney I did not know “avocados from Mexico” existed. I now do. I will never ever buy anything from “avocados from Mexico” they suck. So yes repetition works on me. Just not the way they think it does. Being an annoying asshole does not equal sales. At least for me.

But in that topic
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

@blaineg
And the first month of lockdown during the plague did more to slow the onset of climate change than anything that had been done previously anywhere.

@blaineg @werehatrack I believe climate change stat is mostly based on lack of driving.