In 2020 Freakonomics did a dive into the effectiveness of adverts. Link below (transcripts too). There are sources listed and such. My tl;dr based on memory is that ads in general are not very cost effective for most companies. Ads are very cost effective for companies that sell ads though.

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Damn a 100 cd changer then, mad respect

You idiots don’t have a 6 cd changer in your car? Pathetic!

I don’t really understand what you’re saying or which bit you’re responding to, both of what?

This isn’t at all to say her original stance was misguided. It is to say that she recognises genocide and ecocide come from the same root. Systems of power that destroy ecosystems also destroy people, also destroy planets, also destroy worlds. She is in many ways simply displaying a logical consistency, as much as a moral one, about the interconnected nature of the evils that plague our civilisation. And this is where she broke with a liberal class who see evils selectively and in terms framed and dictated by empire.

hear hear! Too many people who love the “first they came for” poem who still think Palestine is a pesky wedge issue being used against their boys in blue.

The flotilla is a humanitarian mission too! The whole Palestinian rights movement is. Thanks for keeping eyes on them Spain!

The communist manifesto was written for a different historical moment but so much of it is still spot on.

I mean come on, it opens basically like “Everyone in the current status quo has already painted communism as their biggest most powerful enemy, may as well unite and make it become that.”

Feels pretty topical given that multiple countries are thinking about naming antifa, which isn’t an organization, a terrorist group.

Shoot, I’m too poor for this. I’ll have to tape up some ads on mine

Being shitty is much easier and takes much less effort so it prevails wherever people don’t collectively resist it.

Depends on the context, but almost always a strawman imo.

Evil is simpler and easier to pull off than good (because you don’t have to value everyone in your equation), so “reasonable” compromises with evil compounded enough times leads to some pretty evil outcomes.

Why would I do this to me?!?!

I demand satisfaction, good sir!

I agree let’s bring back dueling for politicians

Indian food is really good in Britain

People who subjugate other people are terrified they might one day be subjegated.

my cousin’s cat catches lizards and iguanas, I can’t imagine he’d leave frogs off the list

Hmm I’m no ethics expert but I think you have to give that baby back Greenland. When this kind of thing happens I always try and fail to get in the mindset of the people who led to it. Someone flagged the case, discussed it with people, someone rubber stamped it.

Where you gunna sleep tonight?

Because kids don’t need proper nutrition when they’re sick, ideally only dirty salt water

Vigorous exfoliation I think, I don’t recall any texas chainsaw massacre elements

Did anyone else watch that australian comedy Optics where they have to defend someone who collects skin dust?