Loaning money to your own political campaign and then paying yourself back, including an interest rate set by you, using donor funds.
this post was submitted on 03 May 2025
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Riding down a mountain road on a bicycle, going 50 mph, without a helmet on.
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Any type of exit fee like account closing. Any costs for leaving should be charges before leaving as part of business costs either at the start or part of monthly or whatever. Leaving should be free.
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Cunts buying politicians.
Is that not illegal?!
The fucking president has a shitcoin that ppl are using to pay tribute.
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Ripping a tag from a pillow that says "Under Penalty of Law: Not to be Removed By Anyone but the Consumer"
Most investment instruments, apparently, going by the reactions I get when I explain shorting IRL. It's like people think there's only a few approved transactions and doing anything creative (or actually standard but clever) must be a crime. Feudalism's over, guys.
Going through TSA.
Having the door held open for you while walking towards it but changing directions in the last moment.
Yes, there's a lot of unspoken rules that are out there, but never actually enforced. Facing the other way in an elevator was one example I remember from my social sciences classes.
If I saw someone facing the rear wall/corner of an elevator but not acting unusual in any other way I think I'd feel like I was getting pranked somehow, lmao. I could go in and use the elevator and nothing could happen but one or more people facing the "wrong" way and I'd feel like I was the butt of a joke in some unfathomable way
I think it's the unnecessary number of turns you'd need to make to actually use the elevator but still face the rear well while using it that makes it feel weird to me, but idk
I mean, it's the same, you just turn around at the end of the ride as you're leaving rather than the beginning. But, it's simply not how it's done.
Advertising. At what point did we as a society decide that it was perfectly acceptable for companies to manipulate us - especially children - into buying shit we don't need and didn't even want until the ad sold us on it? It's fucking wild.
Marketing wasn’t really a thing until sometime around the Industrial Revolution and post-WW1. Before then, we didn’t really have the capacity to produce more than what people needed. Marketing basically just consisted of “here’s my product, here’s why it’s superior to others.” But with the post-war boom and the rise in manufacturing, producers were suddenly able to out-produce the demand. So they invented marketing, to get people to buy things that they didn’t actually need. The idea of “create a problem so you can sell the solution” was born.
Ordered food at Sonic on their app. After I ordered, it popped up with ads for travel, various credit cards, etc. Completely crazy to me that they're triple dipping on monetization now (sell me food, sell my data and then sell me other shit while trying to sell me food.)
I recently went to Sonic, didn't use the app, and ended up with norovirus for free.
And the fact that a lot of children's TV shows are nothing but thinly veiled toy commercials. Hilariously parodied in Dinosaurs
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It happened gradually, like frogs in a kettle.
When it was just a guy putting up a sign in front of his smithy it was kind of harmless. Ditto for having a single text-only paper ad for people who are new to town. But, it was a slippery slope.
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Adblocking feels to me like it should be illegal, but isn’t. I have adblockers on all my devices and haven’t seen an ad for years; it feels like a secret super power and stopped the web from looking like a trashy back alley.
It's weird they don't put more effort into stopping them, TBH. I've heard it's because they'd rather collect extra analytics than do any foolproofing that might interfere with it.
I am always shocked when I have to use a browser without an ad blocker. How do people tolerate it?
I mean, I get it. I know many people have no idea about adblocking, etc. But goddam. It's so awful without it.
I love how I’ve lost all perspective on what a “normal” ad is. Whenever I see one I’m often either super confused at the approach or it’s so bland I just don’t care. Once you stop seeing them routinely they feel so ridiculous
I’m in the same boat, but you also have to remember that blocking ads typically involves blocking tracking too. You’re right they the ads are much more bland or misdirected but that’s because there’s little to no targeting data (probably just your IP address).
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Right! It's kinda wild when you do see them. I always equate it to the feeling of being in a casino.
What really throws me is tv commercials. When I do see one, like in a waiting room or something, all I can think is, "people fall for this?"
They usually depend on just making you remember them (the most extreme example I can think of is the “I’m on a horse” old spice ad from like 15 years ago, which admittedly is very clever/funny/well executed), regardless of the message or context. They just want brand recognition a lot of the time. You’re at the supermarket, you see 10 of basically the same cereal, but this one brand of cereal feels more legit or just “draws you in” because of a subconscious association. In that way unfortunately it works most of the time, especially if you don’t have a strong opinion on a product.
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You can thank Sigmund Freud's nephew Edward Bernays