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		nemo1618 on Nov 18, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bou... It's kind of comforting that the ad industry has thrown billions of dollars into trying to mind-control people, and conversion rates are still super low. Maybe we got lucky; maybe on another planet somewhere, intelligent life is 1000x more susceptible to ads.

tpxl on Nov 18, 2020 [–]

It's a zero sum game, no matter how much money you put into it, the result is always gonna be the same.

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