True. I remember two ads specifically in my country that pissed me off so much I vowed to never purchase anything from their company. Both were phone service providers.

One was an ad where the guy gets the message of the ad out in 5 seconds and then the rest of the ad is him sitting in silence for 25 additional seconds, eating some food. That ad pissed me off enough to contact the company and let them know what I thought.

The second was this stupid bint sitting in a pink room, smugly wringing her hands and going: Oooh, you really want to get to your video, don’t you? Here it comes! 🤪

I was like: I don’t give a fuck if your phone service provider is the best in the galaxy. I will never use it ever.

Technically I have a third ad that made me despise charity for life, but that was before the time where ads online were what they are today and this ad did not show up online. I’ll tell the story anyways because this is the type of ad that every charity should avoid if they want people to donate:

Rewind to 2012. My boyfriend and I were dirt poor. Literally had to borrow money from our parents to have enough for food. He was a full time student and I was sick with a mean depression at the time.

We get some birthday money. I forget who it was from and who it was for. Normally, we would spend birthday money to pay bills but this time there was a tiny bit left over and we decided to go to the cinema for once. Have a date night. We only had enough for tickets. No snacks. No drinks. Just the tickets, but we didn’t care because the fact that we got to go to the movies felt like a massive luxury.

Ads pop up on the big screen. One of them is this close up of an African child with flies on his face, looking real sad. Across his face a text appears: “How much was your movie ticket?”

That singlehandedly made me boycott that specific charity for life. Fuck them forever. Worst part is that i used to actually volunteer for that charity and help them collect money by going door to door once a year with a friend. We collected so much money for those assholes. Haven’t bothered with volunteering since. It wasn’t solely that ad that turned me off charity, but a series of gross experiences that just made me fucking hate charity and the vultures who use it to scrape money from normal everyday people who think they are helping little impoverished children in third world countries.

I have seen similar charity ads on social media after the terminally online realized that there is a neverending war in Gaza. So many ads with obvious scammers prematurely blaming you for skipping their ad and leaving them to suffer. My reaction? 🖕👁👅👁🖕

There for sure are good and honorable charities out there and I have no ill will towards them, but I see the vast majority of charities as guilt tripping scams where they try their best to make people feel ashamed for being born in a privileged country and wringing money out of them while exploiting children in poor countries who will never see a dime.

In short: I hate ads too and the more they annoy me, the more their company or charity ends on my permanent shit list.

royalty dictatorship

I care about the facts. Especially when they are all present in the article you couldn’t be bothered to read, yet still felt the need to comment incorrectly on.

I’m just pointing out the fact that you seem very proud to have not fact checked what this specific story was about because royal family stuff is beneath you, yet you keep babbling about them. I just find that very interesting. We can talk about royal inbreeding all day, but the fact is still that you brought that shit up in a case that is about a guy who is not of royal blood, whose mother married into royalty and he is the one acting like a freak. Ergo, your lashing out against the royal family’s bloodline in this case is both stupid and uninformed.

For someone who can’t be bothered to do two seconds of research about royal families, you sure have a lot to say about them.

That’s cool, but if you feel like that, I also assume you’re not gonna waste your time being one of the people to make a bunch of conspiracy theories about inbreeding and spreading misinformation based on nothing.

That is what I’m annoyed by. People are completely entitled to not care about royal families, but then if they do, they can also stay quiet and not start conspiracy theories based on ignorant lies.

Super weird to bring up bloodlines when the person in question isn’t part of the royal family by blood. It’s almost like you’re trying to will it into being about inbreeding, which makes you the weirdo here.

It literally takes you two seconds of research to learn that this guy isn’t royal by blood. Even something as simple as reading the article would tell you that he is the crown princess’ son from a prior relationship.

But I guess it’s easier to just spew some ignorant bs and start conspiracy theories about inbreeding in the Norwegian royal family.

The what now? XD I don’t recall Christpher Lee almost marrying into the Danish royal family. Unless Queen Margrethe has a few more secrets up her sleeve, other than being the one illustrator of Lord of the Rings whom Tolkien thought got it right.

I’m just glad that our royal family is for the most part pretty wholesome and boring.

Tbf, European chocolate has always been superior in my humble opinion.

I recommend Björnsted and Tom’s as well.

Toney is also ethical chocolate as the aim is to make the chocolate trade more fair for chocolate farmers. That’s also why it’s a bit expensive and it’s why it is divided the way it is. It’s a symbolic representation of how unfairly the chocolate industry distributes the wealth. Next time you buy a Toney bar, try and read the text inside the wrapping paper. Their mission is stated there if I remember correctly.

Fear not, for they sad sorry

I explained the whole tech thing to my old dad who has an iPhone and an iPad and such. I didn’t tell him he should shift to non-american tech, I just reminded him that while he wants to boycott American products in the stores, he must be aware that the places where a boycott matters is also the places where a boycott is the most difficult. Getting our governments to stop investing in American weapons and American an tech. Us stopping investing in American tech in private and stop using American websites and software. X, Y and Z are American websites, software or tech.

I told him I would be looking into getting myself a European phone next time and I tried to explain what Linux was - despite not being anywhere close to knowledgeable about it myself lol.

I think it gave him something to think about, but I don’t expect him to change immediately. But I know that he might reach out to me if he needs a new device at some point.

I think that is the best method, honestly. Just plant the seeds in their heads, let them think about it over time, give them the information your can and be available if/when they reach out 🤗

I’m dumb as a fucking brick and yet here I am.

There literally is no excuse if I can figure it out. The only excuse I see is that people just don’t want to leave the comfort of reddit and go here and actually put in the effort to build this place. Which btw isn’t super hard either. You can make or comment on posts of you’re a tech retard like I am. That is a way to keep the pulse of this place alive.

I think people would do themselves a favor if they just admitted that they don’t want to change because of the comfort of the big tech platforms and how they feed you endless entertainment without you having to make any effort.

If I feel Lemmy is dull, it is my own fault for not adding to it. If I don’t have anything to add, I’ll have to deal with Lemmy being boring for a day or two and in the meantime I do something else.

I think the scariest part about mainstream social media and part of why I cut the chord, was because it turns you into a mindless zombie. I still deal woth someone of the effects of it. The fear of boredom. It’s such a destructive thing I allowed to do to my brain and it’ll take me a minute to learn to be bored again. Already much better now than I used to be, but fuck. The level of lazy social media lures you into is scary.

Swede. Norwegian. Potato. Potato.

They’re just mad because we used to own their asses and had a flag so awesome they got jelly and copied our design.

Denmark superior country. 👏 and don’t kid yourself into thinking we are compensating because our nature is flat chested af and 60% is spent on growing pig food instead of protecting wildlife. And we are totally not ass mad that there is no tone or life in our language that more so resemble throat cancer than song when we speak. DENMARK COOL. DENMARK AWESOME. Sweden lame. Norway gay. DENMARK DENMARK DENMARK.

I mean… it’s not really fair to put them against the Finns. Every country that shares a border with Russia knows how to fight. Adding snow and ice to the mix and you get the Finns and the Saami. You aren’t gonna win against those guys if they are handed a hunting rifle.

Bruh, am I high or is that factually incorrect that we were the only country saving jews during ww2? I mean, my national ego would love for us to take credit for such a feat, but I feel like there were people in every country who tried to save the jews in one way or another. It was a collaborative effort, no? I especially feel like he did Poland dirty. Holy shit the effort some people went to in that country to protect and save Jewish lives. I mean fuck.

Homeboy literally made a chocolate brand and gave it a vaguely Danish name that sounds nothing like Danish because of a misperception about ww2. Peak ignorance.

FOUND THE SWEDE! D:<

You are truly lost if you think America is anywhere close to the cruelty of China. Truly. You have had Dictator wannabe Trump in office for one year and you think this is in any way comparable to the decades of oppression that the Chinese have been subjected to?

Trump is terrible, no doubt, and I would be the first one to criticize the American welfare system, or lack thereof, but Americans have not experienced an ounce of what the Chinese people have. You can only say this if you are bad faith or entirely ignorant of the reality of the world.

You might even be a Russian troll at this point. Absolutely divorced from reality.