I’m also on Mastodon as https://hachyderm.io/@BoydStephenSmithJr .
My switch is in the closet, so no. But, if I did currently play switch games, yeah.
I dislike the pricing, but I feel like it’s probably fair. I like comparing $price/hr-entertainment vs. going to the movies. I think for most games, it will still be better value. But, I can understand using other metrics. A dropout.tv subscription is only 6.99/mo and there’s at least a couple hours of new stuff being added to that each month, I think.
Almost anything that can be remotely subjective (“best”, “better”, “more effective”, etc.) gets pushed into the “puffery” exception of (US) truth-in-advertising laws.
Even very objective claims that are untrue can be upheld, if they are (e.g.) based on an internal study. Even if there’s a better sourced, more repeated study with stronger claims (in the other direction) that is widely published. The companies involved just claim ignorance (which isn’t illegal) and offer to pull that claim from future campaigns (as if that addresses any of the damage caused by the false claims). Their lawyers can file continuances until the campaigns they’ve already paid for are complete anyway.
So, in theory misrepresentations is banned, but it happens and is often not punished when it does.
But, yeah, current advertising is largely not about making any sort of claim; it’s just telling a story the the customer and see themselves in, but is made somehow better (that real life) because the product/brand is present.
Price lists / labels at the point of sale are not advertising. Unpaid word of mouth is not commercial advertising. You don’t seem to be following the thread very well.
The communication methods mentioned in the summary can work for this. It might take longer than a quarter-year to peak/saturate the market but introducing such a novel product should require longer-term thought.
The future is not required to contain the business models of the past. More specially, I don’t believe “there are businesses that would fail” is a good argument. We need UBI or a better social safety net for the people in those businesses, but the businesses can simply fail and nothing will be lost.
That said, I think advertising can probably be reformed through a combination of removing the puffery exception, enhanced enforcement of existing truth in advertising laws, and increased civil liability for falsehoods at all layers: product (Kraft, Nestle, Tesla), production (“Mad men”), and propagation (networks, Hulu, YT)
What reasonable alternative is there?
Plain-text emails. No clickables, no tracker images.
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Honestly, while I agree that good training is a way forward, I gotta say the training at my workplace does NOT let you know how to check anything. It’s more of a “don’t open emails you don’t trust”, here are some nightmare scenarios. While, at the same time, we get actual mandatory training emails, that are flagged by both our internal mail system, and the pre-installed mail client as “DO NOT TRUST” that we are required to click through. My complaints to IT to at least fix the internal mail system flagging have been replied to with “User’s should expect these emails, so they should know to ignore all the warnings and click anyway.”
We are training people to ignore their training, so of course it’s not helping.
Also, even with SPF and DMARC and whatever other TXT records in place, it’s still possible to get a “spoofed” From address into a user’s inbox, so I find teaching people to use that header as an indicator of anything personally offensive to my technical knowledge.
The Chinese Exclusion Act actually predates that poem being added to the statue. So, status is quo.
Toes untouch the overpass soon he’s water-bound. Eyes locked shut but peek to see the view from halfway down.
A little wind, a summer sun a river rich and regal. A flood of fond endorphins brings a calm that knows no equal.
You’re flying now, you see things much more clear than from the ground. It’s all okay, or it would be were you not now halfway down.
Thrash to break from gravity what now could slow the drop? All I’d give for toes to touch the safety back at top.
But this is it, the deed is done silence drowns the sound. Before I leaped I should’ve seen the view from halfway down.
I really should’ve thought about the view from halfway down. I wish I could’ve known about the view from halfway down—
– “The view from halfway down” by Alison Tafel (excerpted)
Ramanujan did pretty good, just died young.
I wrote this. I so rarely get to use the word “penultimate”; I wanted to. It was especially cool to be able to pair it to “ultimate” meaning “last” instead of (the more colloquial) “greatest”.
I don’t know why, but this made me audibly giggle. I’m not sure if it’s Charon’s confusion in the penultimate panel, or the possum’s gleeful/eager expression in the ultimate one.
Yeah, one of the setbacks is that I have to spend more time at home with my disabled family member, so I couldn’t make it to the gym as frequently.
I have gotten stuck at some “plateaus” before, and this ~100kg is one I’ve been at before. It took me nearly 3 months of discipline to break through it last time. I have to quit cheating as often, and not give up again.
My profile indirectly discloses that. I don’t think it matters much for the story, but I am a cis white male.
Yeah, I’m still obese. I almost got down to overweight, I was within 3kg, but… I’ve had/been some setbacks. By height + BMI, I should be targeting 165lbs. / 75kg, but I’m still finding it impossible to stick to a diet that provides a calorie deficit. (I have in the past, but don’t seem to now.)
My physical health is better by basically any metric. I encourage anyone that is overweight to lose it.
When I was 330 lbs. (150kg) it would take me 30 minutes to walk a mile, and I would be post-exercise dumb for at least 30 more. You don’t want to the post-exercise dumb for class (taking or teaching).
Now (225 lbs. [~102kg]), it would still take me about 15 minutes to walk it, tho at that pace my HR wouldn’t significantly increase, and I might decide to take the bus instead, if there’s any sort of weather.
Attempting to avoid triggering negative feelings (e.g. disgust) in the people around you is part of #1.
That generally requires #2, but might not depending other actions and niche situations.
You would investigate if there’s a complaint or other probable cause, just like every other crime. Some people will get away with breaking the law, maybe, but as long as the law can be enforced effectively but not arbitrarily it’s not a bad law on enforcement grounds.
I am on record elsewhere stating that I believe there are better approaches than banning advertisement wholesale, yes. But, I’m not going to let the better be the enemy of the good while I’m living in the bad. An improvement of the status quo, even if it might be in the “wrong direction” is still an improvement.