Sapere Aude
Tag: stupid
I’ve joined Merlin and Mathowie in deactivating my Facebook account. I mostly did it because Facebook wasn’t useful to me but the incredibly hostile new beacon feature and their new social advertising efforts were the last straws.
the FB backlash begins. i concur, what has FB done for me lately?
But think about it: You’re on one of those social sites, already being social with your friends, and so why are you going to follow a link and click to a cookie site to tell you how to be social? You’re not. And so the cookie company is, I predict, going to flop at its cookie site (once today’s rush of Times traffic subsides) and then it will declare that social doesn’t work and isn’t worth anything and it will return to buying upfront TV.
in case you needed more arguments that social network “brand advertising” is an idea only dumb people on madison avenue could have.
60% of voters nationwide agreed with the statement that “foreign trade has been bad for the US economy.”
a nice example how the stupid (majority) can really screw things up for everybody, because their intuition is completely wrong
At first you think that, considering dad’s expanding waistline, she’s looking to get some exercise. But it turns out she’s embarrassed to be seen in an SUV, since “people in that [presumably urban] part of town are riding bikes and have hybrids and stuff.” Ah, but the family truckster is a hybrid, dad points out nonchalantly.
you are still driving an SUV, asshole.
The number of people in US prisons has risen 8x since 1970, with little impact on crime but at great cost to taxpayers and society.
this tough on crime nonsense likely stems from misguided religious beliefs, as per usual.
ie, stupid. this notion of pre-baked questions, especially of trivially easy ones like “maiden names” irks me. why copy what has always been broken?
56.2% of the respondents claimed that they were “seriously considering starting a business within the next 6 months” and 13.4% claimed that they “are [already] in the process of starting a business.” Out of this whopping 70% of workers who have or intend to become entrepreneurs, 42.1% gravitate towards starting something tech-related. Assuming this survey is representative, almost 30% of this demographic can be expected to try their hand at the Silicon Valley Dream over the next year. This news can be taken very positively. The credit crunch has made many of these professionals down on their luck, and entrepreneurship could be a saving grace that will not only provide them with new opportunities but create more jobs for others as well. Before you know it, the crunch actually stimulates the economy instead of the other way around. Such optimism is expressed by a respondent’s remark that “starting a business is an incredibly satisfying experience…it is so great to know that you control your own destiny.”
too funny. busted realtors trying their luck in the internet industry. that will work well, i am sure.
Are you really telling me that 20 somethings don’t know how to use a knife and fork? (Are they potty trained yet?) And they really want managers to write gold star notes to their parents? And they really want to see their managers in the dunk tank at the summer picnic? Dunk tank at the summer picnic?! Yeah, that’s totally what kids are into these days. What on earth is this story talking about? The unfortunate part: 60 Minutes is like catnip to old people and many of them probably bought into the whole piece. More fuel for the “these darn kids today” fire that older generations seem to love so much. “The greatest generation” is always the one that’s about to die.
ChaCha is a bad idea that has been poorly executed. In a sea of dumb startup ideas, ChaCha stands apart as more awful than just about all of the rest. And that didn’t change with today’s funding news. They simply went from being a bad startup, to a well funded bad startup.
this is why i keep reading TC. apparently chacha is the pride of the midwest media, too. fits.
2017-04-19: nice indictment of the tech industry:
Juicero is basically a $400 machine that squeezes a bag so you don’t have to. But it’s internet-connected! Isn’t that awesome?
Last year, more than $8b was wasted on these cards. Not in the value spent, but in fees and breakage. When you give a card, if it doesn’t get used, someone ends up keeping your money, and it’s not the recipient. People spent more than $8b for nothing… buying a product that isn’t as good as cash. Gift cards are for chumps
blowing money on holy shoppingmas is for chumps
Gregor J. Rothfuss 