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It hooks you with a quick dopamine rush but also sneaks in some low-key anxiety.
The buzz comes fast and goes fast, while the anxiety creeps in slow but hangs around longer.
When I'm stressed, I go after those dopamine hits, but they just end up making my stress worse.
That's why I've stopped using it and feeling much better for it.
So it should be MANA.
Updated FB/Google's names, dropped Netflix (because it's really more of a media company), and added MS.
Their rebranding didn't really effect anything beyond the holding company. Facebook is still called Facebook, and the Google Pixel is still made by Google. I bet the general public has pretty much zero familiarity with the Meta / Alphabet brands.
In essence it was nothing more than an attempt to misdirect public attention away from their well-known brands. See, it's Alphabet doing a bad thing - they are totally different from Google!
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The first few years of this century were _weird_.
The basic gist was "The Post Office" and "Royal Mail" brand were not going anywhere. "Consignia" was a brand intended for Europe (and indeed worldwide) cargo, logistics and transport parts of the business where those existing names were ill-suited (e.g. other countries have royals too).
But you get enough misleading media stories and you're forced to roll back things you were never intending to do in the first place. A victory for common sense, it was not.
edit: apparently the parent company is now called "International Distributions Services plc" which is super generic.
Contemporary news article covering this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu_(Citizen_Kane)#Cultural...
I think people get cancelled when you don't use the name they wish to be called. That would be ironic.
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>Last ran on Reddit on 11/1/2023.
A quick scroll right now: ads for a shirt that hides belly fat, a dating site for unvaccinated people, a "natures dongs" 2024 calendar, a website that may or may not sell ketamine, and a few knockoff "mindfullness" and sleep aid apps.
Twitter is the new cable channels after midnight advertising where you randomly run an ad for a food chopping device and see how many insomniacs call and order it.
I had a look around the "For You" feed to compare: I got ads for Babbel (the language learning app), a company that etches images into glass cubes as a souvenir, a bank selling personal credits at dubiously low interest rates, a "ChatGPT prompting cheat sheet", and a travel ad for Abu Dhabi.
Not quite the cesspool you describe, but still, a significant change from what I remember when I used Twitter actively. It used to be mostly big-name brands, both international and national ones.
No bullshit, just a "tanker exploded, keep windows closed" from the fire department, and some dude who happened to be passing by sharing pics of it.
Design twitter is still very hot which is why I recently rejoined, to connect with more folks in my industry. But the ads(and bots) definitely seem like a much worse problem than when I had an account in 2016.
Why isn’t the WP pausing advertising there?
Was getting tired, after clicking on salacious headlines, of being thrush in-my-face by paywalls.
Wow, what journalism. Not worth going into? A journalist uninterested in investigating a bizarre, damaging set of allegations? You have to pay journalists to not do that!
I find it funny that they focus on the pizza place, when the real meat of the conspiracy theory, that the most powerful people in the world frequented a plane called the Lolita express and went to an island owned by a known pedophile and human trafficker known for throwing parties for the sake of trafficking people, that cameras malfunctioned right when he killed himself in a federal prison cell, is much more interesting. I don't think anyone really disputes that powerful people do whatever they want regardless of law or morality, that they use their power to get away with it, or that it's likely that for at least some subset of them, the "whatever they want" involves trafficked children. But sure, let's talk about the pizza place, it's not worth going into.
If you need any more evidence that the media is nothing more than state or special interest propaganda you really need to contemplate all your choices that you've ever made, because your mind was lost to you somewhere in your past. If you don't have the stomach for that, numerous videos exist online for you to find of prominent news anchors talking about having the Epstein story years before his arrest and subsequent death and their higher ups telling them to squash it, that should suffice.
And we aren't talking about Epstein's activities. We are talking about the activities of everyone else involved with him. Presidents, billionaires, senators, filmmakers, power brokers and influential people of all sorts. Our world is run by organized crime and the people covering for them won't shut up about some pizza joint.