Also, take it from a squid- clams don’t meditate. They’re big gooey messes of anxiety in a shell.

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      161 year ago

      Oh yeah, that’s totally what I’m doing by literally pointing out that they’re watching their users in my headline.

      I know “they’re spying on you” always entices me to subscribe to a service.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        Here’s what I got when I mentioned a popular 24hr American diner chain a month back:

        Pretty great. It made me rethink the post actually. Probably 1% of my comments/posts are indistinguishable from advertisements… sometimes I’ll end up self censoring.

        For example, did you notice I didn’t mention the diner was Denny’s, who for a limited time is INTRODUCING: THE BERRY WAFFLE SLAM® (Breakfast in a Liège of its own)?

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          I didn’t know you could mention Denny’s without a story about someone winding up in a fistfight in the parking lot.

          We don’t have one where I live, and the rumor mill about why the last one closed was that it was the result of a knife fight one early early morning between a couple of prostitutes who got blood everywhere and the owner decided “fuck it, not worth keeping open.”

          • @[email protected]
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            I believe it.

            Went to one that had 60” flatscreens throughout the diner, all streaming the CCTV feed.

            Assumed at 3am it’s easiest to get across potential consequences of actions to rowdy drunks by pointing at a screen that actually shows the misbehavior live.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      Careful, my comment was removed for jokingly saying OP was a shill for not outright saying Spotify wasn’t paying him.

      • Flying SquidOPM
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        1 year ago

        Sorry, it didn’t look like a joke to me, it looked like a personal attack.

        I have restored it.

        Next time, please contact me in a PM if you have an issue with something like this rather than air it in public.

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        21 year ago

        Very polite (especially to Squid) skepticism should be okay. Accounts can get hacked, accounts can get sold, marketers are damn good.

        You might appreciate my last comment btw

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Absolutely, it should be. I was being very sarcastic in my other post and basically said Squid didn’t outright say he wasn’t being paid, so that MUST mean he’s being paid and it was removed with a message saying I shouldn’t call a mod a shill.

          Which honestly makes me think that I struck a nerve now.

          I used to hate the hail corporate subreddit back in the day because literally anything with a logo was considered an ad by them, however nobody can deny that that kind of deceptive advertising totally happens.