Had a costume contest at work and I ended up winning, so that was nice! It also felt good getting complimented on the costume all day. Otherwise, it was a fairly normal day. No party or trick-or-treating after work, and roommates ordered Thai food for dinner.
Look, not even getting into the cause of his death, it's extremely fucked up that they didn't attempt to contact family of the deceased after he died, and even covered it up and had it from his mother after she approached them for information.
You can say it was his own fault all you want, but that changes nothing about how atrocious they handled the whole thing.
I think what you're getting at is that the publicity generated by flashy boycott activism only generates free advertising for the companies. Which it certainly can! But that's also dependent on what is being boycotted and the social and political beliefs behind it. If one group boycotts a product because the company is homophobic, another group buys more of that product because they agree with the company. That sort of thing.
But it isn't as two dimensional as "boycotting has the opposite effect". Here are some examples of effective boycotting. Though you did get me interested in how effective boycotting really is, but I couldn't find any efficacy studies that weren't behind a paywall...
Never too late to go back to read it now! I haven't re-read it in years, but Watership Down, The Forever War, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy were three of the books/series I read as a kid that really shaped me, at least in tastes for media!
Some cats do like it! Depending on situation, mine do as well, but my roommates have a cat who will quickly flop over to show her belly if you pet her, but will act offended and give a warning bite if you try to pet her there
This for sure. Next time your cat shows you their belly, scratch the back of their head or pet their back like you normally would and see if they react better.
The ads are just out of control. Back when it was one, maybe two, ads that were 10-20s long combined, I was willing to sit through it. Now there are almost always multiple ads concurrent, ads in the middle of the video, ads at the end of the video if it plays all thr way through, then ads again before the next video plays.
Bring it back to a single ad at the beginning of the video and give me a variety of ads so it isn't the same 3 over and over, and I'll sit and watch it.
Didn't get that comment out Swift enough