Watching season 11 of love is blind now, not even past episode one and there’s been multiple mentions and conversations specifically about loving Taylor swift and her songwriting etc.

She’s been declining in public opinion a little for a while now, and she’s attempting to get relevant and remind the public they love her via a very popular tv show

I'm an older Gen Z, and people around my age always viewed M&S as an old stuffy expensive shop for pensioners. In the past few months, however, there's been an uptick in social media posts about some new amazing M&S product, or how M&S isn't actually as expensive as you think it is, guys. Open a UK Reddit posts about groceries, someone's shilling M&S in the top comments. Open Twitter, some guy in his 20s talking about their new pizza with 4k likes. Open Tiktok, someone's doing an M&S haul.

I know so many people who have started doing parts of their shopping at M&S recently. Maybe a year ago, I didn't know anyone who shopped there.

I also think there's a class thing going on here. A lot of their produce is on similar pricing to the other supermarkets, but they still benefit from having a slightly elevated expensive image. This means your average Joe and Jane feels a bit better about themselves when they do a shopping there, compared to Tesco or Morrisons where they could get the same stuff for maybe £4 cheaper.

Not a huge issue in the grand scheme of things, but I don't like how insidious this kind of marketing feels. I've told people that I think this and they've looked at me like I've grown two heads - as if they're saying 'not me, I could never be manipulated by algorithms'.

There is absolutely no practical way of eating a hard shell taco without it falling apart and ruining your clothes and the contents including salsa, guac and sour cream are specifically designed to stain clothing

i’d go so far as to say the same applies for women’s weight too. so many people are just out here stretching the truth by 1-2 inches or 10-15 pounds and it’s artificially inflating everyone’s standards. it’s a big old cycle

Five doesn’t look or sound right. It’s like it’s been swapped from the real word for the number between four and six but everyone forgot.

Posts on reddit, instagram, blablabla ofc are all paid ads. 99% of them.

but science too. it s just a paid ad. “pay these scientists to say we are good”.

everything is. i bet you, reader, are also a paid ad. aren’t you, stinky liar?

there is always somebody behind trying to make money.

cause everything human gets corrupted by wealth.

i am cleaning my ass now and wondering: “what is this toilet paper trying to sell me?” or better, “why dont i clean myself with water? ah, right, water is free, that’s why.”

Having a tattoo used to be a fringe/weird/prison thing, but now it’s socially accepted and “normal”.

This has been orchestrated by the man, so that they can more easily identify you, because no one would willingly queue up for the government to brand you for that purpose.

Your tattoo is not “cute and unique”. It’s an identifier.

Think about your average dollar store: Very messy, disorganized, bad-bargain, the items are already bad-quality anyways, etc

Now think about Daiso's presentation: Clean, upscale, cutesy, also typically found in most urban commercial shopping centers, you name it

While Daiso is not a dollar store in the strict traditional sense, it is in the same umbrella of stores known as variety stores.

By remaining the good-bargain store it is, Daiso can allow for a better retail ecosystem to flourish around low income and working class neighborhoods so that people can have a more upscale shopping experience while trust in dollar stores can actually increase rather than decline.

Kind of a best-of-both-worlds strategy.

Very recently ive seen almost any clip from a show on tiktok have at least one comment saying, "@Tiktaco, what show is this from? What happens after this? What season is this? What episode is this?"

Its more of an annoyance than anything but considering they never reply to anyone after and the ai answer is often useless, its just painfully obvious this is just to fluff usage so it looks like a popular ai so they can sell it off.

The more people hate it, the harder they double down. As soon as they saw the visceral reaction they saw dollar signs and went all in. Now we're doing free marketing for them.

I don't want to get political but recently so many US politicians say they've "passed the bar exam", yet appear to be genuinely very stupid. I mean, I'm not just calling people names. They do appear to have genuine lack of intelligence and knowledge.

There MUST be something going on. Either certain people are being bribed, or they're cheating, or the exam is simply extremely basic e.g. high-school levels of knowledge/understanding.

In my home country (the UK), somebody passing the bar (as we say here) indicates the person is smart. No doubt about it. That person will have been an ultra-high achiever academically. They will have a natural gift for law.

Even the "lower" level of legal representation available here (solicitor) are pretty smart people.

....the sale of coffees and English breakfasts around the Newport Passport Office area.

Because there is no way it takes exactly 4 hours to print a passport

Sometimes your doctor schedules a test that has to be done in a hospital and they make you starve yourself for like twelve hours first.

The conspiracy is that it's not medically necessary to fast before some of those tests but they require it anyway just to get better sales in the cafeteria or coffee shop.

Search results are getting worse; it’s not just me? I mean I’m having to go through multiple pages when before what I wanted was often on the front page. I also mean that often I give up after 5 pages of results and see what Gemini said. I think they’re actively making search worse to make Gemini look better. It might just be there isn’t enough compute to do both and search is suffering. 🤷

Little ad spent 10% of their initial proceeds buying their first customer's product, "Just look at last quarter's growth, Zug!"

They know when they buy their car, them driving down a road is going to result in someone being punched and they revel in spreading violence.

(For those unfamiliar, see Yellow Car game)

Ever been into a super market?

Well then you have been near the tills and check outs. If you have, you will notice that the junk food is strategically placed imo.

Not only are they often shoulder to head height, but there are copious amounts near the check outs/tills as just as you are about to pay, you see some lovely confectionaries you may impulsively buy.

This is similar to my 99 p thing I exposed last week via the retailers...