In 2020 Freakonomics did a dive into the effectiveness of adverts. Link below (transcripts too). There are sources listed and such. My tl;dr based on memory is that ads in general are not very cost effective for most companies. Ads are very cost effective for companies that sell ads though.

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I don’t really understand what you’re saying or which bit you’re responding to, both of what?

This isn’t at all to say her original stance was misguided. It is to say that she recognises genocide and ecocide come from the same root. Systems of power that destroy ecosystems also destroy people, also destroy planets, also destroy worlds. She is in many ways simply displaying a logical consistency, as much as a moral one, about the interconnected nature of the evils that plague our civilisation. And this is where she broke with a liberal class who see evils selectively and in terms framed and dictated by empire.

hear hear! Too many people who love the “first they came for” poem who still think Palestine is a pesky wedge issue being used against their boys in blue.

The flotilla is a humanitarian mission too! The whole Palestinian rights movement is. Thanks for keeping eyes on them Spain!

Being shitty is much easier and takes much less effort so it prevails wherever people don’t collectively resist it.

Depends on the context, but almost always a strawman imo.

Evil is simpler and easier to pull off than good (because you don’t have to value everyone in your equation), so “reasonable” compromises with evil compounded enough times leads to some pretty evil outcomes.

I like “essence”

That slider looks really satisfying

I read it as “fellow embryos” at first

Searching Wife on pornhub feels backwards

Nor-cal but close

I thought they just didn’t breed in my habitat last time I moved— turns out they can breed here but they’re quite tightly managed.

But in the meme it’s the kind of milk bottle you return to the store for $ and they wash and refill it. Not really covered by that study I don’t think

glass bottles have a more damaging overall effect, largely because they are heavier and require more energy for their production.

I lived across the street from one for awhile and loved going grocery shopping late at night to avoid everyone else.

The mind enters the chat

It has different pixels on my screen so as far as I’m concerned I am the OP.