i keep seeing this online but i have not once heard anyone complain about this IRL, all i’ve seen happen is that people went from “uhhh i need an apple charger, that’s a samsung charger” to “hey can i use your charger? sweet thanks”.

I’m sorry but it seems like a completely fucking made up problem

this is slander, everyone knows dogs have ADHD.
It’s cats that are autistic

mastodon literally has all 4 but go off i guess?

Same thing with social media, don’t fucking upload things with your kids’ faces in them god damnit

people have such a wildly incorrect idea of what testosterone does.
In reality it doesn’t necessarily have a big effect on you at all, and if it does that effect is AFAIK more along the lines of making your emotions generally larger, be that anger or sadness or wanting to protect people.

go look up what dirt is made of :)

that’s an insult to white trash, trump actively chooses to appear trashy.

what if we composted the rich?

haha just kidding, unless?

Except Valentine was aware of how he appeared to people, iirc. Trump seems to whole-heartedly think he’s the coolest most powerful person on earth.

I remember seeing him just barely reign himself in when trump and vance started complaining at him while cameras were rolling, that’s the moment i concluded he’s definitely an actual real person with normal emotions.

WTF does that have to do with intelligence? That’s just memorization.

Well, first of all “intelligence” is an incredibly broad concept which is better described as “cognition”, and second: Yes that’s precisely the point, these days they test multiple things so the result is actually fairly useful.

I’m not sure how testing your ability to memorize things is supposed to be crock? Are you saying that memorization isn’t useful, that it doesn’t affect your ability to do mental tasks?
Because i’d certainly disagree with that claim. Having a poor working memory suck big fat donkey balls, it makes life incredibly annoying and basic tasks can be extremely difficult because i literally just fucking forget to do them. Without my phone to write reminders on and set alarms i would need daily assistence just to function at a level that most people take completely for granted.

this ignores the fact that people tend to complain to those around them, and especially if they hear a friend is gonna buy a new car they’ll say “hey Bob do me a favour and buy anything other than a yaris, their ads gave me bowel cancer. If you show up with a yaris on my driveway next month i’m calling the fucking cops i swear to god”

what i’ll never understand is why companies try to shoot for annoying people, rather than making them happy. Sure maybe something annoying with lodge itself in your mind, but something nice might also lodge itself in your mind in a good way, and you might share the ad with your friends because it’s actually nice.

I can’t recall any bad ads off the top of my head, but the good ones? Those are something that literally become a part of culture, something people 10 years later share with each other.

Here in sweden the largest grocery store chain has been running a series of ads that straight up have seasons, the same format has been going ever since i was a kid and if you say “ICA-Stig” EVERYONE knows what you’re talking about. I personally find it cringy, especially the modern versions, but even i feel some sort of comfort from the fact that it’s been going for so long and has a sort of familial vibe to it.

i have only a single kind of youtube ad that doesn’t go immediately into the mental trashcan, and that’s in-video advertisements that are short and chill and to the point, and contextually relevant.
Like a retro gaming channel that ends videos with a clearly stated ad for some reasonably priced NES controller replica that they actually hold in their hands and say “been using it for a few weeks, it’s nice, check it out, bye”.

It’s not pushy, it’s something people might actually want to buy before seeing it, and maybe most importantly it should be a physical product.

as time goes on i’m becoming increasingly convinced that this argument only exists to convince people who pay for advertisements

at this point i barely even register anything published by larger companies, every now and then i catch a brief glimpse of some new big release that is apparently being played by literally 3% of the entire global population, and that is the ONLY time i ever hear about it, never to be seen again.

It’s kind of bizarre

this kind of thing applies to so much these days, another notable example being “oh social media sucks, oh i constantly get annoying notifications”

holy fucking shit just stop using the bad social media platforms, turn off your notifications, this is an extremely easily solved problem that can be tackled in an afternoon!

which is why you’re able to downvote those segments

people always say this, but at the same time everyone i talk to goes out of their way to avoid companies with annoying ads It really starts to just feel like propaganda at this point

literally the only ad i can think of off the top of my head is that airline booking site with adorable kittens in stitched airplane suits, because obviously that occupies a significant part of my brain at all times

And i don’t understand how companies fail to realize that cute animals make ads infinitely more appealing, that gives me a reason to maybe actually continue watching it, because i gain something from doing so