And yet I can explicitly type the exact parameters for an item I'm looking for into Google or Amazon and I get flooded with bullshit that is not that thing.

I've been looking for a new job. Now I get ads for jobs. That's actually nice, were it not that they're always the same five shitty jobs every time.

I tried getting directions to a restaurant from Google Maps yesterday and it routed me inefficiently through an intersection with a paid sponsor restaurant. This was the biggest enshittification of direction apps I’ve experienced. Not only did it give me worse directions, but what are the chances I need to stop at the paid restaurant when I am trying to get to another restaurant in 20 minutes?

I'm glad they convinced me to turn my mattress purchase into a mattress collection.

If they have all this marketing intel about me why do they deluge me with ads for major appliances right after I buy them? I mean how likely am I gonna want another dishwasher the same week?

I wish Google would put so all their sitting soying spying to God good is use to improve their text prediction on their site swipe input.

Air conditioning filters. I need air conditioner filters. My air conditioner filters are filthy. I need to buy air conditioner filters

So i have been thinking about it and I often wonder if it is the reverse. They subtly influence us to want a thing. Once you’re hooked and consciously want it, you start noticing it.

As if they'd need to actually hear you say stuff. They know what you think before you do

... hyper-realistic bedazzled dildo

The first few seasons of Bleach were absolutely blessed.

And I have balls

also, using Google to search for a term/subject while watching a YouTube video that mentioned it

I searched the first four generic characters of something I'd never searched before, and the full subject popped right up as the suggestion

either the phone is listening, or they're cataloguing video content subjects. either way, building tons of data points on you

Where is this original meme from? Bleach?

The last two times I mentioned Little Sleazers, the LC app pushed notifications for random ass deals. Like immediately; not even some time later that I could think perhaps it was coincidental. "Little Ceasar's sucks" phone dings.

Also Pete Holmes new standup special talks about this. Makes me wonder how many people in that audience got ads for giant black jelly dildos specifically made for ass play. 🤔

GOOG giving it to META seems apropos considering how they're respectively doing with their AI crap.

I just need to buy my plane tickets for noodling about with no direction of specific importance. Be mad if there was a wedding there too wouldn't it

Been thinking, this is a common trope in anime (using glasses/other objects to try to hear through a barrier), does this actually work?

"Thinking about buying a machine that turns AI and Tech CEOs into fertilizer."

But good luck getting anyone to sell you a dildo.

I mean, I got scooped last year. I am not much of a songwriter, and I had a great idea for an album. Rapid fire wrote off a couple dozen songs in a week.

Thing is, I'm a specialist. Sure I wrote the book on my instrument but that's just technique. Writing songs, that's a whole different game. I have written only one song good enough to let other people hear. So like, having my songs scooped before I could publish sucked, but what was worse was the way it happened. It was my favorite band. And they didn't rip me off wholesale, the album they released after I was working on my songs, it was conceptually the same album. Like Jesus fuck John get out of my head.