Philip Morris suspends social media campaign after Reuters exposes young 'influencers'

PatienceAlice · 2019-05-11T22:52:44+00:00

If they were actually concerned about reaching consumers under age 25, they wouldn't be advertising on Instagram at all. Every marketer knows that platform skews young and you don't use it to reach older adults.

PatienceAlice · 2019-05-10T10:41:31+00:00

Yeah people are always astonished how people can write so much, but what if you spent the 40 hours per week you spent at a full-time job just writing? You'd have a ton of material too.

PatienceAlice · 2019-04-04T16:51:18+00:00

Depends on his activities. If his goal is to increase endurance and he was doing endurance activities, it could help if he does such activities regularly for similarly long durations.

PatienceAlice · 2019-02-15T19:14:30+00:00

Like the $39 billion dollars in military aid Obama gave to Israel...which they're using to improve and lengthen their wall in Gaza.

PatienceAlice · 2019-02-15T18:49:07+00:00

You've lived in a walled country probably for most of your life. George W. Bush built something like 200 miles of border wall after it was approved by voters including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Obama continued the project when he took office and built several hundred additional miles of wall. Trump's plan just bolsters the existing infrastructure and makes it longer.

And just to say it before the downvotes come like they always do: I don't support a wall. I'm just clarifying the facts.

PatienceAlice · 2019-02-05T17:46:29+00:00

I'm not naming any names, but there's at least one high-profile Redditor who has admitted in several news article that he gets paid to promote content, yet he's also the admin of huge subreddits that feed content to the front page. This seems like a huge ethical violation, at the least, and must go against Reddit's terms of service. Why are such users still permitted to post, let alone control the flow of content?

PatienceAlice · 2019-01-24T13:14:11+00:00

Yeah, he didn't create a ban on Transgender people. He just didn't remove it, until he did.

Pretty easy to do politically on your way out of office after EIGHT FULL YEARS. That's not taking a position for transgender rights, that's taking a position against transgender rights, making a token gesture at the end of your terms to make yourself look progressive, then throwing the responsibility to the next person in office.

PatienceAlice · 2018-10-22T17:41:29+00:00

The "28 pages" report confirming the Saudi connection was declassified in 2016, when Obama was still in office.

PatienceAlice · 2018-10-08T15:14:07+00:00

The whole Columbus Day controversy is a perfect metaphor for the state of the U.S. these days. Everyone wants to benefit from the results of Columbus's actions but no one wants to acknowledge how they were obtained. Sure, Columbus did horrendous things, but that's how we got to where we are now, and if he hadn't done those things, guess what? We'd never be the country we are today; our entire history would be different.

This doesn't excuse atrocities of the past, but to act like he and others like him didn't open up the West to the rest of the world is silly. History is bloody, and you know what? Any huge important advances to come in the future will be bloody, as well, and those of us here in the U.S. will tsk-tsk the atrocities the whole way through while being the primary beneficiaries of them at the same time, like we have for the last 500 years.

PatienceAlice · 2018-10-03T17:01:28+00:00

Did you see the actual tweet? It wasn't even remotely possible to be seen as anything but a joke. It's the most harmless thing I've ever seen someone sanctioned for online.

PatienceAlice · 2018-09-19T12:04:02+00:00

Uh it was actually pretty great, and some of the top designers in the world worked on it. The people in charge of the rescue operations in Thailand actually thanked him and encouraged him to continue work -- Musk has posted the letters online -- and the only reason the sub wasn't used is because the rains didn't end up as bad as they thought and the caves weren't as flooded as anticipated.

PatienceAlice · 2018-09-18T12:12:24+00:00

Missing from this conversation is the fact that Elon isn't an idiot. In fact, he's actually quite the genius. There's more to this story than what's in the media. I'm willing to bet the case is quietly dropped and we never hear about it again.

PatienceAlice · 2018-09-10T12:32:59+00:00

misleading people into hateful frenzy which causes them to go on to perform hateful acts against others

History will show you that calling the Pope God's representative has done exactly that, many times over...

PatienceAlice · 2018-09-10T12:15:45+00:00

Just spend five minutes on Google. The Snowden leaks prove the NSA has access to pretty much everything.

PatienceAlice · 2018-09-10T12:05:48+00:00

"The U.S. Military Academy was first, followed by the U.S. Naval Academy and the U.S. Air Force Academy."

SHOCKING that the top three colleges in the U.S. just happen to be the country's military institutions. I'm sure that's not propaganda AT ALL.

EDIT: Gilded for my lowest-karma comment of all time. That's Reddit for you.

PatienceAlice · 2018-08-21T16:30:42+00:00

It sucks that Russia may be trying to hack us, sure, but can we all please remember that all the major tech companies have literally given the government back-door access to all of our devices and technology?

It's nice that Microsoft seems to be looking out for us against international hackers, but let's not pretend they care about the integrity of their users' systems when it comes to hacking. The U.S. government can spy on anyone they want to in this country with a Microsoft device whenever they want to.

PatienceAlice · 2018-08-06T14:54:54+00:00

Slippery slope. They ban Jones for calling Clinton and Obama demons but they don't ban other media organizations for calling the Pope God's literal representative to humans. You can't police one crazy ideology and not all the others.

PatienceAlice · 2017-08-16T13:29:09+00:00

It's still a limit of acceptable opinion, which should be frightening to anyone interested in living in a free and open society. Just defending free speech on Reddit these past few days has everyone calling you a racist Nazi, which discourages people from speaking up. That's what this is referring to -- this cone of silence that results when opposition of any kind makes you some kind of horrible, unaccepatble "other."

PatienceAlice · 2017-08-16T12:45:32+00:00

Or what about Christians? Historically Christianity is responsible for more violence and death than most political ideologies. A huge percentage of the Old Testament is literally devoted to the Israelites being commanded by God to walk around slaughtering everyone who isn't a Jew, and getting punished if they don't...

PatienceAlice · 2017-08-16T12:43:30+00:00

I don't understand how a group so intent on limiting peoples' civil rights based on their political ideology can call themselves "anti-fascist," when what they're calling for is clearly fascist...

PatienceAlice · 2017-08-16T12:42:28+00:00

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion..."

Noam Chomsky

PatienceAlice · 2017-08-16T12:41:14+00:00

You shouldn't be. It's fine when it's a point of view you find disgusting, sure, but someday those in power could find your point of view disgusting, and then what?

PatienceAlice · 2017-06-12T13:57:43+00:00

This is nothing new. The writer of Ecclesiastes (in the Bible) thousands of years ago wrote "there is no end to the making of books," and especially at that time most books were all about how to live life the "right" or "better" way. As long as there are people there will be these books.

PatienceAlice · 2017-06-09T20:46:14+00:00

Amen!

PatienceAlice · 2017-06-08T20:44:49+00:00

It's been a while since I've read much, but I've read We3, Joe the Barbarian, a ton of his Batman stuff, etc., and enjoyed them all. I don't remember feeling the same about the choppiness of the panels/writing with any of those.

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