Look, get your vaccine! It’s, at worst, a waste of time. At best, saves your life.

That said, I went over 15 years never getting one and never ever got the flu. I even worked in pre-clinical pharmacy research for over a decade and know how it all works. I only recently started getting it again because I have a kid and I want to protect our family and be a better citizen to my community.

What’s that? Kash Pepetel?

No, that’s Richard Scarry

Jesus Christ!

What you’re describing is exactly how most ads work. It’s to inundate you with a brand so you want to search it up and likely purchase it. You never bought directly from an ad, but an ad sure as fuck worked on you.

I’m a former digital marketer. Many ads are meant for brand reach. They’re basically there to ear (mind?) worm you so you’re thinking about the brand. Digital ads can be cheap in niche markets when bidding isn’t forcing up prices due to competition for market share.

Nope. Best we can muster is a limp-worded response.

That mite be a great argument for them!

They can quit, but they still caused it. They are still on a list.

Maybe Terry Silver.

The woman is IN the computer?!

I love Statler and Waldorf!

Why does this site use cookies?

They are really good at convincing their companies that if they stop marketing, everything will collapse.

I hate that I’m going to defend marketing here, but if they do stop marketing then things will collapse (for many businesses). Do I like marketing, personally? No. That’s why I got out of marketing and am becoming an elementary school teacher to help others rather than spit propaganda but I digress…

Marketing isn’t always about generating a sale. Many times its reach and brand recall. We’re a global and digital economy now, so reach is massively important for survival. Stopping marketing limits who is exposed to your brand and the repetition makes your company synonymous with a product.

Why do we call tissues Kleenex? Why do we call cotton swabs a Qtip? Why do we call small sticky notepads Post-Its? Why do we call searching “Googling”? Why do we gravitate toward those brands even when cheaper and more generic options exist that are perfectly on par?

Making those brands the prime thing you think of when you use a specific thing so that no one thinks of using something else even when they have money. You want people to mention your product or think about it even if they aren’t buying it.

You’re drowning out the potential of your competition. That’s marketing, and if you stop then your competitor takes over or a small business won’t grow.

My best guess is it’s pulling in Google Business listings. A business, or SEO, either didn’t harmonize the naming schemes for all locations or there are duplicate listings with varied naming conventions that are still out there that get displayed.

I think it’s the acronym for “not in my backyard”.

Basically residents that oppose things that are needed for the community, like certain infrastructure, because it affects their property values or changes their neighborhood but aren’t opposed to it elsewhere.

And if you draft all of your political enemies to be the bulk of your military force, you’re giving them the training and the weaponry/keys to everything that allows them to go ahead with a coup.

That’s a bold strategy. They’re kind of fucked in both scenarios.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

“Somehow, Palpatine returned.”

Is that because Noem murdered it?

He probably does. The problem is it’s hard as hell to teach kids already. People think they’re going to sit there and learn from an AI?!

Lmfao! You’ll have to strap them into a chair and force them to do things. They won’t log in or sit there and do work for an AI. They already won’t do it for a teacher who tries praise, rewards, and has their parents on speed dial.

Fantastic. Thank you for this. I’d never heard of them before, so I’ll check it out.