My wife is a teacher to teenagers (high school). She gets called mom on a regular basis. Especially when she wakes one of them up from a little classroom nap. It happens often enough the kids don’t even give each other a hard time.

Now when they call her grandma… She doesn’t find that endearing.

Corporations lying on their books to decieve investors? Shocking!!!

That only happens on days that end in Y.

I bought a machine right before 7 launched to replace my XP machine. Vista SP2 was solid by then. I ran it for over a year because it was extremely stable.

I waited a bit over a year to install 7 on the machine when it’s SP1 came out.

FYI the bottom right in the picture is a real sunflower call Sun Gold.

https://www.applewoodseed.com/product/sunflower-dwarf-sungold/

Of course only comes in yellow.

Brings me back to how we sung a song in grade school. Edit out Ears with Balls and you get:

Do your balls hang low?

Do they wobble to and fro?

Can you tie them in a knot?

Can you tie them in a bow?

Can you swing them over your shoulder like a regimental soldier?

Do your balls hang low?

Reality is often absurd and not what you expect.

Just how much time have you spent in marketing to be such and expert on the subject?

There is a finite amount of manipulation techniques used by marketers and others to manipulate human behavior. These have been fine tuned to the nth degree to target susceptible individuals over the centuries. However they only work on susceptible individuals.

Individuals that differ from the targeted norm can resistant to the manipulation. This can be a instinctive response or a trained one via education. This is why in totalitarian government regimes, there is always a few individuals who don’t fall for the shit.

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The vast majority of ads don’t work. Statistically there is a high probability of a subset of individuals where they don’t work at all. So shitting on anyone who claims they don’t work for them, only shows your own susceptibility to unsupported claims.

Human behavior is a wide distribution of genetic and cultural influences. Any broad claims like “everyone is susceptable to advertizing” is unsupportable.

Ads are designed to trigger a change in a person’s behavior in the target audience. If you are not the target audience or the ad is poorly calibrated it causes annoyance.

Most advertizing offers very little ROI to the business. This is why online advertisers are so aggressive on how they measure “engagement”. Given that ad revenue is the the primary driver of online and TV, the industry massively overemphasizes their effectiveness. Most advertising campaigns are only marginally effective if at all.

There is always an ad that will work on you but it’s not common. It’s likely less than 0.01% the massive amount of ads you are exposed to. But hey if you see 100 ads per day and one ad every 100 days works. It can be worth it to the company.

My wife (146cm) can confirm that opinion (I am 190cm).

Shifting the bonus compensation to long-term performance instead of “this year or even this quarter” is surprisingly very difficult. People are trained to game the system. It’s how sales forces operate in most companies.

It doesn’t matter what system you implement, somebody is constantly attempting to figure out how to maximize their profit at the cost of everyone else.

The more money involved, the more convoluted the games are.

Hmmm… This brings up an interesting question for the physics nerds out there.

The desired termination of the CEO is the sudden stop at the end of the flight.

When using a catapult or trebuchet, excessive force exerted during launch would terminate the CEO immediately. This would deprive the CEO of his last luxury flight. .

What the the maximum distance a catapult or trebuchet can throw the CEO while achieving this result? Assume the CEO weighs 100kg’s and is 165cm tall.

So you need two cement trucks.

Your great uncle used to be a farmer. Now he’s a parasite on other farmers as a landlord.

Who owns farms: overwhelmingly it’s inherited wealth in trust to avoid paying taxes and run by incorporated entities.

Are the workers being adequately compensated… The answer changes depending on what color your skin is and where you were born.

Gotta add on another level.

Zoning laws and HOA’s give larger construction companies a significant competitive advantage over smaller companies. This limits competition and drives up the cost while also degrading the average quality of the construction as the larger companies seek to maximize profits.

These wounds, they will not heeaal!!

What douchebag corporate manager only beats around the bush for 15 minutes? Their defining characteristic is long-winded bullshit ramblings.

A 10 slide presentation takes 2 fucking hours and it obvious the manager has no fucking clue what they are talking about.

It’s nothing but an existential hatred of existence. Damn things are suicidal. There was always a few that managed to kill themselves every year on the ranch.

My ass and legs disagree after a gander latched on to my ass and beat me with his wings when I was a kid on the ranch.

Next time he came at me, I had a baseball bat. Roasted gander for dinner.

Shetties fall into the pure evil category. It’s not on the chart because the little shits are extra sneaky about it.