So? It’s not like it was a tourist destination that he bought and turned into a home, it’s a home.

Also middle aged and my only real issue is how stupid everyone is

They don’t read. They don’t research. They don’t question… not in a “conspiracy theory” way, but they don’t see a headline and go, “is that true?”

They’re morons that feed off negativity.

They’ll post an article about something terrible but then I’ll look it up, find out it’s bullshit, and then post the data that shows it’s bullshit and instead of everybody being like, “oh thank God, I was worried there for a second” they go, “Fuck you. Obviously everything is shitty and how dare you even try to point out that it’s not”

What the fuck is wrong with people these days?

It can

I don’t run a nature magazine, AI will do just fine for my Azure profile picture

This article is about hiring, not marketing

It’s been some years so I should see if this information is still valid but when I researched it years ago woke marketing basically boiled down to the fact that people are not going to buy a product they don’t want or need just because they like the company that makes the product; but if you were going to buy the product but you don’t like the company, you will purchase from a competitor

So there was some truth to “go woke, go broke”, although I couldn’t find any evidence of a successful company, “going woke” and ending up bankrupt. Usually these companies were already struggling and woke marketing was a last-ditch effort to bring in a new customer base

I like to use a Jack Hammer as an example because it paints a clear picture. If a company makes a Gay Pride Jack Hammer you’re not going to rush out and buy a Jack Hammer you don’t want or need just because you support the cause. But if you were going to buy a Jack Hammer you’ll either still buy the Jack Hammer (meaning the marketing had no effect because you were going to buy it anyway) or you’ll buy a Jack Hammer from another company because you dislike the message

So “woke” marketing had either no real effect or a negative effect.

Companies that already had a strong liberal supporting audience could increase sales temporarily. Like if the average Cards Against Humanity player buys one expansion pack a year the company might get that person to buy two expansion packs this year if one of those packs is a pro Gay Pride pack of some kind, especially if the back supports or charity or something. But that person is not going to continue to purchase two expansion packs a year so after the promotion is over, sales return to normal

However, “going woke” was good for the companies image. As an example, while sales for the Gay Pride baseball game night might be the lowest all season, every year, it’s still better to do it and take the ticket sales lost than not because you don’t want to be one of the only teams that didn’t participate. Being the “transphobic” baseball team is not good. Overtime that can hurt sales, especially if the wrong group of people celebrate your stance against pride night

The last thing you want is a bunch of MAGA hat wearing racists to start rocking your teams jersey as their unofficial uniform. So companies should go woke just to let the world know they’re not OK with bigotry.

This is about hiring, not marketing… and while I’ll have to check because it was some years ago, when it came to marketing I found the opposite was true; but not for the reasons you would expect

That being said, it was still better to “go woke”, than not

Basically it boils down to the fact that people typically will not purchase a product they do not want even if they support the company that makes the product

But people who do want the product will not buy from a company if they do not support that company

So as an example, if a jack hammer company “goes woke” and sells a gay pride Jack Hammer sales won’t go up because very few people are going to go out and buy a Jack Hammer they don’t want or need just because they support gay pride. However, those that do need a Jack Hammer will either continue to purchase the Jack Hammer (meaning the woke marketing had no effect because he was already going to buy the Jack Hammer) or they will buy a Jack Hammer from a different company because the “woke” marketing upset them

Companies that already had a strong liberal backing, like cards against humanity, could use “woke” marketing to increase sales, but only temporarily. For instance, if on average a Cards Against Humanity player buys one expansion pack a year, you might be able to get that person to buy two if you make a special time “Gay Pride” pack. Sales will increase for that quarter but then go back to the average after

But it can still be beneficial to “go woke” just to protect your companies image.

For example, “Gay Pride” night at sporting events are usually the worst selling nights. The reason is stated above. You’re not going to go to a baseball game if you hate baseball and those that like baseball will choose to not go on Pride Night if they disagree with the cause. But, it’s still better to have a Pride Night than not have one because being the only team that did not have a Pride Night is a bad look. You don’t want to be known as the only bigoted baseball team in the league

This can be really bad if by some pure chance the wrong group of people support your lack of Gay Pride Night and adopt you as an unofficial spokesperson. The last thing you want is a bunch of MAGA hat wearing transphobic bigots wearing your teams Jersey as part of their unofficial uniform.

It’s better to lose ticket sales on a game or two than wake up and find out that your companies hat is now the hat of choice for the proud boys.

So you go woke to let the world know you are not ok with bigotry

He’s literally talking about the distant future of mankind where we’ve colonized other planets

You guys really think he just walked into a room and completely unprompted and with zero context to any kind of previous conversation told someone in the media he wanted a trillion humans and then left?

It never occurred to you that this was probably in context of a larger conversation and that maybe you should go look that conversation up before you form an opinion?

I literally just had someone on this site call me sad for looking up statistics to see if a claim a celebrity made was true

We’re fucked y’all

She’s probably mad AI can take a shitty photo I took myself with my phone and make it look professional and I no longer need her

I wouldn’t mind paying someone like her if it was reasonable. It’s not reasonable, so I don’t hire her. I still need photos though. AI can do it for free? OK.

he was literally on a podcast talking about Blue Origin and a distant future where humans have colonized multiple planets

According to flat earth supporters, if the earth were moving in any way at all you would feel it. Since we don’t feel any motion obviously the earth is stationary

I’m part of some flat earth debate groups because I like physics… they’re real

Mostly it’s a religious thing. These people you have to just ignore because you can take them to space and push them out into the void of space with no helmet so they could see the round spinning earth with their own eyes and the last thought that would go through their brain before they froze in the vacuum of space would be, “the devil has taken control of my vision”

I’d guess the 2nd most popular group of flat-earth supporters are just weird-o conspiracy people. The government lies about everything and since NASA is a government agency it too must be lying.

Then you got the people who are dumb and know they’re dumb but after a lifetime of being called dumb have convinced themselves that they’re actually the smartest person in the room and the only reason everyone thinks they’re dumb is because everyone else is too dumb to understand their genius. These people think they know everything about physics but the shit they say just showcases their complete inability to understand even the most simple concepts

And then you just have people who just don’t know any better. Like maybe it’ll be a guy who’s profile picture is him with some goats in a small village in Africa. He’s well meaning but he knows nothing about relativity or gravity because he never really went to school and the education he did get was just from some other person in his village doing their best. You don’t really need to understand relativity to survive in the deserts of Africa and so it’s not well understood out there. This man walks 50 miles a day and has never seen a mountain in his entire life. All he’s ever known is flat lands and dirt. Then one day he travels to a near-by village with electricity and gets on the internet only to see a bunch of crazy white people talking about how water sticks to a spinning dirt ball in space and he laughs. Silly city-people, they don’t know shit.

McDonalds sells hamburgers for $7

I can beat that. Let me sell you a hamburger for $1

Capitalism approves… the government does not

I’m not allowed to sell you a hamburger. Not without a permit, and an inspection, and a place designated as a business to sell that hamburger from. What, you think you can just cook a hamburger on a grill and sell it to someone?

So I get a business license, find a place of business, get my permits, get my inspection, and open the doors… except all that cost money so I have a $12k loan and a building that costs $3k a month and I still need electricity, water, and wifi. Once all that is paid for I still need to earn enough money that I can go home and pay my own bills and survive

At $1 a hamburger, I’ll never sell enough hamburgers to survive so I have to raise the price. My hamburgers are now $9

McDonalds knows this. They got a stranglehold on the market and while anybody could technically compete and that competition is suppose to keep product quality high and prices low people can’t actually compete

Now McDonalds can make their burgers smaller, the quality worse, and jack up the price… what are you going to do about it?

You think Wendys will save you? Burger King? Nah, they do the same thing

Now apply this to literally everything. Clothes, washing machines, dish washers, etc… I guess in theory I could make a better TV that doesn’t come with a bunch of bullshit advertisements built into it and sell it to you for less, but the government won’t let me

nah, the problem is that when a woman runs her entire campaign is, “I’m a woman”

Obama wasn’t like, “I deserve to win because it’s my time! I’m black”; he was just a chill ass dude who happened to be black

If democrats would stop with the victim hood shit and just focus on the fact that they’re generally good people who want to do good things, they’d win a lot more

this is just a case of shoving politics into everything and that sucks

We have hamburgers, hot dogs, deep fried Twinkies, etc…

People who have to make everything political are the fucking worst

I support Luigi

But also, Luigi did it

I know that. I’ve always known that. He’s never really denied it. He just admitted it himself

We all joke around that he’s innocent and that he was with us at church or whatever… that the real shooter is a woman or whatever… but these are jokes. we don’t actually think he’s innocent, we’re just pretending like he’s innocent to show support

There seems to be a crazy amount of people who don’t understand that though and might actually think that Luigi literally was with me at church that day and that I did actually see a 9 foot Amazonian woman pull the trigger.

There seems to be a crazy amount of people who think Luigi is being framed because they apparently believed the comments they read on the internet not understanding that we’re all joking out of support

Sure, but also, he killed that man

These comments lead me to believe that a large portion of this site literally thinks that he’s literally an innocent man being framed by the government instead of everyone just pretending like he’s innocent because we support his actions

Memes aside, you guys know he actually did this right?

You know the, “he didn’t do it” thing is a meme. As in, “oh no, he was totally with me that day. We were feeding homeless people at my local church”

It’s a meme because we support what he did

But in reality, he’s guilty as fuck. He totally did it

I should also be able to walk through the worst parts of Compton as an out-of-town white man by myself with a 10k necklace on and not be worried I’ll get robbed and shot

But also I need to take responsibility for my own actions and not make bad choices

Is it victim blaming to call me stupid when I get robbed? Probably

Was it stupid of me to walk through the worst parts of Compton by myself as an out-of-town white man with a 10k necklace on? Also yes

You can wish in one hand for a perfect world where you can work an easy job taking orders at McDonalds and make enough money to buy a 5 bedroom house in a good neighborhood with a decent yard and have enough left over to raise 3 kids and take a vacation ever year while treating yourself to daily high-quality coffee and fancy snacks…

or

You can climb down from the fantasy world in the sky and join the rest of us here in reality and realize that if you want to move out of your moms house you’re going to need money and the only way to have lots of money is to figure out how to save as much money as you can

it doesn’t matter if you like it; that’s how it is

IF you take that advice literally you’ll never be able to buy a house because you head the words but you didn’t understand the message

The message is to not waste money of frugal things you don’t actually NEED. Every dollar counts a pennies a day can add up to a lot over some years.

It’s to tell you to track your spending and see how much you waste on things you don’t need and to analyze how you can save more

Also, don’t just save it, invest it somehow if you can. This what banks are for. Go there, talk to a financial expert.

Houses are stupid expensive, that’s true… but it’s also true that you probably waste money. If you waste money, even if house prices drop, you still won’t be able to afford one

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