YouTube ads are almost entirely bought by venture capital firms. They see the YouTube audience as immature and not very savvy, but that audience thinks of itself as mature and very savvy. This gives VC a pretty wide gap to shoot through for targeted advertising.

As a result you get products and services a step better than scams, and actual scams being advertised. The fact that these things aren’t really going away until Coffeezilla does a takedown kind of proves the VC firms right in their assessment too.

A good rule of thumb, if it’s being advertised on YouTube/twitch/tiktok, whatever short form media, it’s probably bad. Or, exorbitantly priced. (I’m looking at YOU, Displate)

A rare exception is Nebula. Should be kinda obvious why.

The government has executed scores of people for exercising their right to bare arms.

Turns out you only have the rights the police are willing to respect. Which means you don’t actually have any.

You put it in quotes. Like a big ole scaredycat

Let’s overthrow the government, hang all the billionaires from highway overpasses, and set anyone who resists us on fire.

…

In… In Minecraft

Sorry the dimension you’ve been transported to has laws of physics that don’t allow water to exist.

Which means you’ve got a few precious seconds to get yourself home before you violently erupt as your water molecules each individually break apart in to hydrazine.

I’m sure they’ve read the Bill Cooper collected works.

“maybe the clothes are made of paper. The food is just nutrient paste…”

Or something like that from the Expanse. Sure, your needs are met, but living life on basic assistance seems like a nightmare.

John Oliver looks like a batch of over whipped vanilla pudding in a toupee.

You son of a bitch. I’m in

Oh. Ok I have an idea.

It’s Hunter3

Ok I’m gonna change it to that tomorrow so it should work now

Hunter.2. .

But remove all the dots. Try that

I just use Hunter2

What do I need any of those for?

BuT mOnEy MoTiVaTeS uS tO iNnOvAtE

My wife abused star trek of being a soap opera at some point. At first I thought, maybe she’s just showing up at the worst possible time?

No. It’s all of the time. Every episode has some weird soapy bullshit. Beverly fucking a ghost, LaForge fucking a hologram, Riker fucking anything with genitals INCLUDING a hologram. Everybody be fuckin. That’s not even the soapiest thing. Voyager is basically Soaps in space.

I love classic trek, but guys I think it’s a soap opera.

This is one of those fun conspiracy theories that is harmless, and can’t be argued against because you can always just say “SEE THEY’VE CONVINCED YOU TOO!”

It’s not, we can prove that marketing does in fact impact sales, but it’s fun nonetheless.

It’s unlikely that you’re exceptional in your resistance to advertising.

It’s just that 95% of all advertising fails to hit its intended target.

I mean, my boy Jescob Jerome Walter did it on December 9th, 2024. Some video game guy took the rap tho

Somebody watches too much Maggie Mae Fish.

15 f is pretty chilly. 35 f is cold if it was warm yesterday, but warm if it was cold yesterday, 45 is the same. 5 f is really cold if it’s humid or windy, but tolerable otherwise.

-15f is where your teeth start to hurt if you open your mouth outside.

Fun fact, while the earth will almost certainly be engulfed by the red giant phase of our sun, it will not be immediately consumed. A floating lump of rock will exist and continue to orbit the center of mass for millions of years inside the sun.

To be fair to the meme, Han Solo was a terrible smuggler