Most advertising is about building brand recognition. It doesn’t matter whether you buy their product or not - the fact that you can name the company whose product you’re not buying means the ad worked.

I run a local renovating bussines and word of mouth is more than enough but advertising is what got it all started.

I started my own bussiness 3 years ago and 99% of my customers discovered me via an ad. Clearly not all people hate all ads. I don’t know how you imagine anyone to find out about a new product or service otherwise.

Did the threads give in the bottle or on the cap? “Many years” doesn’t sound that many for an object consisting of two parts that I’d expect to last multiple lifetimes.

They’ve got the accuracy dialed in.

Mine comes all the way from my head so the pressure is intense.

You don’t need to wait for rebirth as this pretty much already is the case.

You are not the same person you were five minutes ago, or five years ago. Your body has replaced countless cells, your memories have shifted, your preferences have changed and the pattern of activity in your brain is different. There is no fixed, unchanging core that stays identical from one moment to the next. What we call “you” is a continuously updating process, not a solid object that persists unchanged.

There is no single place behind your face where a self sits and watches. Experience (consciousness) arises from vast numbers of neurons interacting in particular patterns. The sense of being a unified “I” is just something the brain constructs. It feels solid from the inside, but it is a generated appearance rather than a central entity.

I don’t not buy things because other people are outraged by it. If I want something I get it.

En ymmärrä. Kyllähän nyt rautakaupasta löytyy paljon parempaakin välineistöä tuohon, kuin muovinen bide suihku.

I’m far more surprised by the number of people thinking they couldn’t win a fight against a rat, house cat, goose, medium sized dog or an eagle. I highly doubt anyone genuinely thinks they’d die if they got attacked by a rat which just leads me to believe that a significant number of people polled here did not understand the assignment.

I wouldn’t want one myself as I like driving but it seems inevitable that they’ll more or less replace human drivers at some point as they’re probably already more competent at driving than even a good human driver is.

Well-adjusted adults don’t tend to scream in public either. You could try politely asking. Loudly playing TikToks in public is not illegal after all, so you don’t really have grounds to start making demands either.

Some things that seem obvious to you are not obvious to other people and vice versa.

I’ve been on plenty of vacations but never one that lasted 5 weeks.

You can always ask but you can’t demand it. Taking photos of even a single individual without their consent in a public place is perfectly legal in most of Europe. What is not okay is publishing that image though even that isn’t automatically illegal. If you’re not the focus of the shot but you appear in the background in the crowd then that is okay to publish even if you say no.

Agreed. That’s why I keep referencing the toupee fallacy: it’s easy to detect AI slop because it’s slop but anything well-made flies under the radar. This leads many people to assume that everything made using AI is by default not good and conversely when something is good they falsely assume a human made it. I’d argue that virtually every devout AI hater has at some point enjoyed AI content because they failed to detect it as such.

So no, not all toupees look bad - you only notice the bad ones.

Nope, I got the name right.

And this doesn’t contain a single yellow pixel. Take a magnifying glass and zoom into your monitor if you doubt it.

Sam Harris, though it’s not accidental as many of my views comes from him.

Not the kind of boots you’re looking for but just thought I’d share a related user experience:

My Haix Airpower P3 combat boots lasted me 20 years. They possibly could have been re-soled but I replaced them with a new pair recently and I went with Haix again because of my history and positive experience with them. Now I got the Black Eagle Athletic 2.0 in green.