The woman is IN the computer?!

I love Statler and Waldorf!

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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.

What is criterion?

That’s exactly my thought as well. We will likely be seeing an uptick in autoimmune diseases because of the hyperactive response for everything.

Bonus points if God gifted it to you through the striations of the burn marks in your toast.

“Catching the criminal illegal aliens and pedophile predators. Don’t you want us to protect the kids?”

Oh. Ok. So, can you show me the signed warrants that you have that prove you have cause to circle schools? How many pedophile predators have you caught that are white citizens or do you only look for ones with a darker shade? Have you caught the one in the big White House yet? There have been a whole slew of files provided the public on that one! Why can’t you all stop the shooters who hit up schools? Many are reported to the FBI before it even happens…

How do we know you aren’t pedophiles? What’s your name and badge number so that we can verify that you are who you say you are.

That’s part of the Pacific.

Oh, those poor idiots. Flexibility + housing (+ too good to be true) is how we got into a housing crisis in the first place.

Thirded

God damn. I love Star Wars, but why is Star Wars almost a documentary these days? Between this, Obi-Wan’s speech about the fall of the temple, and the events of Attack of the Clones…we just don’t have spaceships.

I dunno, man. It seems apples to oranges.