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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cloudflare: We're the single point of failure of the internet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funny and relevant with it breaking the federation on kbin right now. Nice job.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hopefully it will change. I'm aware that this is a temporary solution

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It might for the time being, but it's stupid to think a single point of failure and be fixed permanently. I don't get why we continue to centralize things when everytime we do it's a bad outcome. We have to be smarter

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This reminds me of a movie from the early 90s called Crazy People. An ad exec has a nervous breakdown and ends up in an institution. He accidentally sends off truthful ads that he and the other patients write, they get produced, and they are very successful. It was a pretty funny movie. Some examples of the campaigns

"Metamucil: It helps you go to the toilet. If you don't use it, you'll get cancer and die."

"You may think phone service stinks since deregulation, but don't mess with us, because we're all you've got. In fact, if we fold, you'll have no damn phones. AT&T - we're tired of taking your crap!"

"Paramount Pictures presents 'The Freak.' This movie won't just scare you, it will fuck you up for life."

"Porsche. It's a little too small to get laid IN, but you get laid the minute you get out!"

"Volvos, Yes they are boxy, but they're safe".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those are oddly compelling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They're refreshing, really. I'd buy things with slogans like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had completely forgotten about this movie until you mentioned it!

I recall there also being a Sony ad that focused on Japanese stereotypes and how they were shorter and therefore their eyes were closer to the chips they were building, and that made them better than western manufacturers, with some clips of westerners completely failing at their jobs; that one actually made me laugh out loud.

Edit: Found the clip - Sony - Because Caucasians are just too damn tall.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Comcast - You don’t have any other options.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Google: Don't be evil. We'll know if you are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Google's turning into a creepy Santa.
He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake,
he knows when you've turned adblock on, so turn it off for goodness sake.

[–] fubo 1 points 1 year ago

Google: The World Leader at Shipping the Org Chart.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Alternatively: Oh you like this product? Sucks to be you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Google: Ok, yea we are evil. You got us. But now we're "Alphabet" so pretend something's changed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lego: the same product since the fifties, and that's actually a good thing

[–] fubo 2 points 1 year ago

Lego: Same great plastic; now with all your favorite Hollywood franchises!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Target - Youll pay more to avoid Walmart.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Nvidia: "Fuck you, pay me."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Amazon should be "You want shit fast more than you want us to pay a living wage."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

KFC: It tastes like chicken

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@kaupas24 BMW now our cars have DLCs and subscriptions.
Let's add gamemification to the road!!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@kaupas24 Microsoft then: we used to monopolize the market by a shitty behavior (embrace, extend, & extinguish).

Microsoft now: we bribe politicians and have a good PR department to continue with our shitty new behavior (buying companies to fuck them up).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Verizon Wireless: Because your dad gets a deal through his job.

Dasani: When you're desperately quenched.

Ibuprofen: Cheaper and faster than the American healthcare system.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Nestle: doesn't your tap water taste better in our plastic, anyway?

Nintendo: you're gonna buy our game at full price on our console and you're gonna like it.

Niantic: thanks for your data, now give us $5 for this 2 cents worth of content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OpenAI: Neither open nor intelligent.

[–] fubo 1 points 1 year ago

OpenAI: We're worried this might destroy the world, so we're doing it first.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nike

Just let poor Asian underage and underpaid workers do it

McDonald's

I'm lovin' the wild deforestation of the Amazon rainforest that comes with it

Apple

Think different but still buy our piece of shit overpriced products so you won't feel excluded from the flock of moronic sheep you crave attention from

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

ARMALITE: Mass Murder for the Masses

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sprite "get thirstier, with bonus diabetes"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Harbor Freight: When you want it cheap and need it once

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Harbor Freight: Come for the free flashlight that will last 10 minutes. Stay because there's only one cashier and the line is across the store.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Q-Tips: Of course they're for ears, but we aren't paying if you bust your eardrum.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apple: You'll buy it anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Apple: Sorry none of your old adapters will work with the new phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Going for positivity here.

Fluke: "Our $1000 multimeter is just as accurate as the $30 one you got at O'Reilly Auto parts, but you can actually trust ours to be accurate."

Red Wing: "You won't ever need a new pair of boots unless you grow out of them."

Costco: "Come for the hot dogs, get cheap gas on the way out." (Seriously, like half my trips to Costco are just for a hotdog and a tank of gas.)

Toyota: "This car will outlive you"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Pepsi - for when they don't have coke.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Here's something-

Lay's: Flavoured air
WebMD: Yes, you have a terminal illness

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Reddit: The Front Page of the Internet (maintained by suckers for free)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nissan- yeah, our cars are cheap-ish, and we finance ANYONE, but that’s so we can butt-fuck you on parts when our cars inevitably break, repeatedly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Netflix: we may cancel this series, watch it at your own risk

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Shein, Clothes by kids for kids.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Adidas - Because our founder's full name sounds inappropriate

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sysco would just drop any pretense of branding and rename themselves as "Famine, the third horseman of the Apocalypse" and nothing would change about their business supplying all of the fast food in North America basically.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Any company naming themselves after the four horseman would probably see an uptick in business

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