Comment on Anon starts to believe
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
This is 100% true
Admen for companies like Monsanto in the 1950s pushed the idea of the “green lawn” and rebranded clover as a weed to push herbicides and nitrogen fertilizers
Clover is resilient with lower water needs, its softer, it naturally deters pests, and most importantly it pulls nitrogen from the air and pushes it into the soil.
Once again advertisers prove that they are absolute scumbags with no ethics whatsoever who will value making a dollar over destroying ecosystems
advertisers prove that they are absolute scumbags
I honestly didn’t believe that until, one day, a scumbag came calling with a ‘brilliant IT idea’ that only myself and my colleagues could build. I’ll put it this way: we realized that this guy would literally not stop until he covered the entire world with advertising, as though we were supposed to live in an environment modeled after a college dorm corkboard. No thanks.
Have you not seen how advertising destroys everything it touches and co-opts every space, continually intruding further and further to become more “effective”
I know you have because you are here on the internet. Depending on your age you have likely seen the decline of sites like reddit, youtube, google, etc. if your older you’ve probably seen newspapers get destroyed in a similar fashion, television, etc. outdoor advertising (billboards, in stores, signage, etc) has only become more obtrusive, offensive, and ever present through the decades as well
Admen find a space where people are, shove themselves into it, take that space over, then demand control of that space to enforce that their ads are “respected”. With the modern internet they shamelessly steal tons of data about you so their ad spends can be more “effective” because again, they have no ethics whatsoever. They don’t care if that complete violates your privacy and they don’t care if that data continually gets breached when it’s handed through 80 brokers. “Well, I wasn’t the one that did it! Doesn’t matter that I perpetuate a system that’s totally fucked” Except for cases like Google and meta of course where they absolutely were the ones who were. But again, no ethics whatsoever
Fuck advertisers. Advertisers are the bane of existence. They dont believe in their products, they just believe in soulless consumerism. They fight unfair; if you create systems to evade their bullshit they use their power to destroy those systems (going back to things like tivo). They are the devil, the antichrist. Kill all admen and make the world a better place. If you work in advertising take a long hard look at your life and figure out where it all went wrong, and then go work a more respectable job like being the person who changes urinal ice in strip clubs.
Decided to go with clover this summer. Fuck me it’s expensive! And now I learn it used to be filler?! Robbery.
feannag@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
How am I supposed to use my Turf Builder® every 2 months, 4 times a year?
grue@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You skip the winter. For example, maybe you apply it in March, May, July, and September. (Or April, June, August, and October? IDK I don’t actually fertilize my lawn.)
feannag@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Oh yeah, didn’t think about that. Thanks!
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 1 week ago
I could help but last time I tried to fertilize a lawn I got arrested.
Godric@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Sounds vaguely socialist
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
The snow must grow!
la508@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You spread it every two months, four times. Then stop.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Oh my god is this that bodybuilding forum post, are you doing the bodybuilding forum post thing
feannag@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Not specifically, but I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought of that when I read this.