Zorque @ Zorque @lemmy.world

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It means take anything they say they're doing with a block of salt.

So why dont sites use multiple columns?

That you're terrible at reading?

Sure, if you only take it at it's most extreme and dont use a little bit of critical thinking. I specifically referenced companies in a thread about large corporations manipulating social issues for their own gain. I also gave wiggle room with the 99 out of a 100 reference.

I think you also cast far too wide a net with your definitions of marketing, especially in the context of the conversation happening.

I'd check your own sky to be absolutely sure it's falling before throwing aspersions like that around. You may have a hysterical over-exaggeration of your own there.

You were perhaps expecting anything other than groans and rolled eyes in Dad Jokes?

The people own it, at least for now. They just have to start showing up. The capital class certainly want us to think it's a lost cause, because there's still enough to stop them before it's too late.

Universal basic income is a stopgap at best. A bandaid to keep capitalism running just a little bit longer before it all collapses in on itself. More robust social programs and government backed competition for basic needs like housing, food, and internet are a minimum if we want to make any kind of progress.

Wouldn't a station wagon have even worse gas mileage?

I'm not comfortable with companies using any kind of marketing tactics. Because 99 times out of a 100 it's speedy and underhanded.

But since they're going to be doing it anyways, doing it with pride, or disenfranchised demographics, at least normalizes their humanity. Which, at the end of the day, is the point of pride month et al.

Well since we've got all that covered, we've got nothing left to worry about :)

I can say i have experienced that occasionally, but it had less to do with being hard to read visually and more to do with just not caring about what I'm reading. Which seems less of a "We need to make this easier to read" and more a "We need to trick people into thinking they're reading something meaningful" problem.

Is it something to do with shortsightedness? Maybe an ADHD thing that somehow doesn't affect me for some reason? Maybe just I'm super good at basic visual spatial orientation?

Or is it just that people read with such small text that it's hard to differentiate between lines? I honestly can't fathom an inability to read a line in any other circumstances.

Are crossovers that bad? They seem mostly to be sedans with better storage and a little worse gas mileage. The latter of which minivans definitely dont win on.

Do people really have that much trouble focusing as they read? Honestly I have trouble focusing when you fit maybe a dozen words per line, with giant swatches of nothing surrounding it. I have to change any wiki article I read to the wide format or it's virtually unreadable to me.

Even if people had dual 36" monitors or whatever, most sites or programs seem to focus more and more on making things fit into as small a horizontal space as possible. Even if you have a vertical mo it or you'd have huge swatches of white space along the edges of the screen.

The important bit is how you fight back. Anyone can stick a rag in a bottle of vodka and light it on fire, but that doesn't really solve anything. It creates opportunities, but unless we have some kind of plan already in place for how to create a new democracy from the ashes of the old rotten one, some Neo-Napoleon will be happy to step in and create an autocracy in its place.

The power is in organization and understanding, not the tip of a bayonet.

JaJaJaJa

I have too and I can safely say the opposite. I think I've seen people put it after instead of before maybe a handful of times.

Can I ask what country you're from? Is it possible it's regional?

... into the bathroom.

Ah, so "everyone who makes minor mistakes around me is a moron".