I definitely bought a lot of things because of ads. Not directly though, I don’t go around clicking on online ads even if one slips through the blocker.

Just being exposed to the idea that some product exists is an ad. Reviews and comparisons. Seeing a brand name in the wild. A product being recommended by someone I consider an authority in that specific field.
It all provenly works on me.

And I don’t really regret it, how else would I even find out what exists? Go to the store and just buy whatever the seller recommends? Did people do that in the past before mass advertising?

Edit: I just realized this is exactly what Amazon is trying to do. Push generic “amazon option” products which have no independent sales outside of the platform.

US in the 1970/80s were very deluded by thinking that “whoever we support == good guys”, no matter what they do. Huge foreign policy fail, and the reason they lost many potential allies.
And the reason Henry Kissinger had a website celebrating his death.

Time for Europe to get our shit together in regards with the military. I can’t stand the though of pulling back or surrendering territory to Russia.
Will it be hard - yes. But our quite recent ancestors went through worse in WWI and WWII and they didn’t give up because it was inconvenient. Unfortunately (or fortunately, given the history) the only way to get Europeans into killing mode is a total war.

Meanwhile old Iskra and Sloboda Čačak vacuum cleaners: “puny mortals I will exist until the heat death of the universe”

Fentanyl - ruining the pleasure of enjoying safe drugs since 2014

Mainstream audiences caught up with the idea of brainrot slang, killing the very point of it

Often I wish I was attracted to men. Gay guys seem to find me attractive, unlike (both straight and gay) women

Oh I wish I had your perception of time

A meme about 2 other memes? Well done 👏

I think it’s finally time to restore the Mandate of Palestine:

• Israelis get to live there but not their own special state
• Palestinians get to live there but not their own special state
• Everybody gets to hate the British, as is tradition
• Brits finally get a colony back, it’ll lift their mood after the brexit disaster

The rule is buy the default-gendered variant. If there a special “men’s section” or “women’s section” for a certain product category it means you’ll be ripped off.

After the first round they didn’t check every single device they own? Of course, what’s the chance it happens again!

The more I see people online trashtalking New Jersey, the more I want to visit

They’ve been trying to use a nuke since the Ukrainian counteroffensive in 2022, but can’t find one that works

Technically they could. Just that nobody is brave enough to suggest it

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Sigh unfortunately it’s true. One thing I learned about American culture through the years is that everything must have a race. Food, drink, sports, music, neighborhoods, bus lines, careers … Everything is assigned a race and only people of that race can use it without criticism

“just because we are very concerned about misogyny enslaving half of the population” ftfy

1950s revolutionaries were something different. It was a more optimistic time.

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