That fridge, in that color occupied a similarly wood paneled kitchen for me growing up. I got a little sweaty when I saw the picture, wondered who’s been in my old house.
Pretty sure it was actually nineteen ninety eight shortly after the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.
A fridge is a fridge, the basic mechanical working principle of it didn’t change over the past 40 years. But people have a lot more expectations put into what a fridge should be able to do nowadays, and electronics or complex mechanism such as the ice maker is generally the first to break on a modern fridge.
The moral of the story is, don’t buy a fridge with an icemaker or have a tablet attached to it, and you should be fine.
Hey now, you just can’t call him “Benny” out of the blue. His birth name was Benjamin. That’s what he should be called. That’s exactly according to his own rules he’s espousing. /very sarcastic of course
Fuck Duolingo and any other company that thinks it’s okay to comment all over social media. If you aren’t paying those people sponsorship deals to promote your brand, it should be illegal to hijack their page with your product.
Shit is disgusting and there is literally no worse offender of this loophole than Duolingo.
I recommend any time you see them in the wild telling them how disgusting it is that they think they can put up their billboards in other people’s lawns.
Fuck that bird. Don’t even support their entirely manufactured meme status. Just give them zero fucking attention
Bro I get company shills exist, but that’s a big level of paranoia right there.
I swear, some people on the internet act as if you even mention a company name, that you’re some sort of paid corporate shill. No, man, sometimes I just talk about every day things in my life lol.
I’m not saying OP is a shill, I’m saying that Duolingo manufactured the “Duo is coming to get you” meme intentionally, and people are happy to be stooges so happily accepted it. I don’t think OP has any affiliation to Duolingo, but they’re still normalizing their stupid trend so they can continue to leave meme comments on individual pages and get free advertising. It sucks.
Yes, I’m aware of that, but ubiquity doesn’t make it okay, and my ire for Duolingo is specifically because they have been the most successful exploiter of this circumstance
That’s not what I mean. What I mean is that Duolingo frequently comments on individual user posts on tiktok, which tiktok raises as a high-visibility comment because Duolingo’s size makes the algorithm think it’s quality content. This means that Duolingo isn’t just advertising on their own tiktok page, obviously that would be fine, it means that they get to piggyback on viral content from completely unaffiliated users massively spreading their brand while providing no compensation of any kind to the creator of those viral videos. It wouldn’t be okay for somebody to run an ad before your content without your consent (we aren’t talking about the ads you consented to run by tiktok/youtube/whoever), so it shouldn’t be okay to use the comments as free advertising space too.
I think you should take it up with them. I hear they’re super ethical and give a shit about what their algorithms do to people in the interest of farming data and profit
No, you should decide with your wallet, which is not to pay Duolingo, and decide with your choice of social media, which is not to use TikTok, and most importantly, you should petition your representatives and vote accordingly. What TikTok and Duolingo are doing is morally shitty, but it’s basic late stage capitalism, and excepting the nations that are actively fighting against the shittiness of using and selling user data, it’s not illegal
Yes, and I have. This solves me the personal grief of being reminded of their bad practices but does nothing to actually solve the problem. Not that I think “awareness” is a great or in anyway meaningful solve, but if talking about the issue leads to a few other people also blocking Duolingo then at least I won’t feel like I am forced to merely accept the situation as is with no protest.
In Austria and Germany at least we’re extremely critically viewing our history. It’s not “look at how good we are” but “look at what we have to prevent from happening again” - and that’s for most topics, not only national socialism.
Which is exactly what i’ve argued a hundred times.
I genuinely would not be surprised if half of these are being made by trolls for the explicit purpose of muddying the waters and confusing things to give cover/plausible deniability to what he actually says, since screenshotted tweets have apparently become a medium of information transmission.
Very true. Mentioned this elsewhere someone suggestion a large watermark:
I went a different route, though I avoided placing the callout somewhere it may be accidentally cropped.
I hope the, uh, non-disinformation can have a simple start here, and if we’re big enough some day that kind of thing is a problem maybe we re-adjust. Of course, nothing stopping someone from recreating something to their less-scrupulous heart’s delight. (in the case someone is re-creating something to intentionally mislead, not re-creating based on their expectations of people’s knowledge and BS meters)
Ahh just can’t wait for the proliferation of high-quality generated videos…
I went a different route, though I avoided placing the callout somewhere it may be accidentally cropped.
I hope the, uh, non-disinformation can have a simple start here, and if we’re big enough some day that kind of thing is a problem maybe we re-adjust. Of course, nothing stopping someone from recreating something to their less-scrupulous heart’s delight. (in the case someone is re-creating something to intentionally mislead, not re-creating based on their expectations of people’s knowledge and BS meters)
Ahh just can’t wait for the proliferation of high-quality generated videos…
I’d like to apologise now for when, in the future, I place a “parody” sticker on a genuine social media post. I know, there’s something wrong with me… but I thought I’d give you a heads-up about it as you seem pretty reasonable.
I was thinking of some (gentle) lazy flaming or trolling but your mention of instigating international conflict has inspired me to better myself and aim higher in life. Thank you.
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