oh i know how this works and its not the way you think. Its somehow better and worse at the same time

Im going to describe the process using a hypothetical situation:

You decide to try a new shampoo but you’re not sure what to buy. You ask your friend “hey what shampoo do you use” and they tell you they use Head and Shoulders.

Later that night, you google head and shoulders and read reviews

The next day, your friend gets Head and Shoulders ads on youtube and facebook and Instagram, etc

This is because google knows both of your locations and search history. It sees that you two were within a few feet of each for hours and decides to shoot ads at you both, based on what either of you have searched recently.

This is called proximity targetted advertising and i think its gross.

But this is why so many people say things like “we were talking about it and now im seeing ads they must be spying on me”

Alright fine ill switch browsers AGAIN

i wish they would all act like the faceless industrial complexes out there

you don’t see this from stuff like Caterpillar

if only there was a simple easy solution

1. I am the only person in the entire country who knows and follows the rules for operating a vehicle.

This is a constant source of frustration for me. Im on the spectrum and even though my logical, intelligent side of the brain understands that rules are just words; the emotional part of my brain just screams “THATS NOT HOW THIS WORKS” every time someone hits their hazard lights and just gets out of their car in the middle of a 35mph road.

2. Streaming services were better than cable for about 3 years somewhere between 2013 and 2019. Now there’s too many, they’re too expensive, and they shuffle their libraries around too much.

I wanna watch key and peele. oops its not on the comedy central app? who owns comedy central…hmmm…paramount? okay its on paramount plus…and its just a link that takes me to Amazon video? why? just play the show what is this

if they start, itll be the last straw that finally gets me to just go find a local farm and buy food direct from the source

grocery stores trying to get me to sign up for their reward program or whatever

Im surprised Aldi hasnt completely taken over the entire country by now because of how they skip all the bullshit

its a grocery store. i walk in, i buy food, i leave

could not be simpler.

My local Kroger, however, has automated price cards that adjust to scalp their customers during high-traffic periods.

this is a practice that should be rewarded via targetted arson of distribution centers until our demands are met

oops autocorrect lmao

i meant this is a practice that should be outlawed via legislation that follows our due processes

I wouldnt come to America until we see how our next election goes

If the Democrats win, you might be okay in a couple years

but if not, moving to California in 2024 is gonna be like moving to Poland in 1938

We are on the precipice of launching into fully unchecked fascism, or starting twenty years of the hardest repair work conceivable in order to make this country worth living in again

I really dont want to catch any legal flak for saying this but i just think if we caught and abducted a billionaire real estate mogul qe could probably have this problem like 70% fixed in under a week

It helps to define what processed food is, specifically what constitutes “processed”

From Wikipedia:

Food processing is the transformation of agricultural products into food, or of one form of food into other forms.

Food processing takes many forms, from grinding grain into raw flour, home cooking, and complex industrial methods used in the making of convenience foods.

Tertiary food processing is the commercial production of what is commonly called processed food.[2] These are ready-to-eat or heat-and-serve foods, such as frozen meals and re-heated airline meals.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_processing

TLDR; anything you do to a food item besides picking it up and eating it raw is considered “processing” if you want to be pedantic.

Colloquially, “processed foods” as a marketting and culinary phrase typically means “Tertiary Food Processing” but thats too many words to say every time you want to discuss potato chips

i think i was born too late to relate to most millenials

for me, big computer is for either

A. Something that needs more power (gaming, CAD)

or

B. Something easier to do with a mouse and keyboard (long documents, fps games, video and photo editing, etc)

but i have no problem spending $3,000 on something through my phone screen. I bet whatever business im buying from has a mobile-first design for their website anyway

that was a great summary, thank you

trying to research such a broad topic was overwhelming

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now that one i knew

oh no

i feel rad as fuck basically all the time

have you tried becoming a corvid? its a great life. Steal shiny things from big dumb humans, scream at the top of your lungs at all hours of the day, poop on cars

and occasionally torment an alcoholic horror author

im either joking, a liar or a time traveler

Occams Razor would suggest I’m probably not a time traveler

i must be doing something wrong because to me, duckduckgo doesnt even work as well as AskJeeves did in 2001

Thats crazy because in the timeline i came from, everyone knew Google was a monopoly 20 years ago!

Have you guys boycotted facebook for stealing your information yet? We started talking about that back in 2012.

And you all abandoned Youtube for being inconsistent with their copyright process and how they monetize creators, right? Right?

America dominates my news feeds to the point that I just assumed law enforcement was an internationally fascist agency