we might know more about each other now than we did in 1999, but one rule remains the same: everyone online is lying to you. there is now a second rule: nearly everyone online is trying to sell you something, even if it's just their brand.
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i study these feeds today and it's fascinating how many of them, when a "personal brand" becomes large enough, are like billboards selling "personal content" that is tailored to whatever niche that person is filling, with views adjusted to whatever helps them corner their market
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in terms of political talk, which is ubiquitous on here, i see plenty of "positions" that are crudely focus-grouped per one's in-group the way advertising language for toothpaste or flushable wipes (which are "flushable" only in the sense that you can flush them) is
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what i'm selling you is a product that almost sells itself: a pledge to never sell you anything and to always be forthcoming about the context in which my remarks are made. ever since i left academia, i've been determined to "live in truth," to use a nonsense kundera phrase
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it's stranger than fiction, especially if you drilled down into the weird and creepy motivations of some of these grifters
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i love the sameness of every day. knowing that the main line's not going to back up or that the breaker has enough amps is a tremendous comfort to me. i'm a clockwork person with no vices who will drop dead of a heart attack in his fifties, without any true warning signs
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