hello guys yea i love [insert ad company name] products please buy [company product name] its so good trust me
While [insert ad company name] products are a little more expensive, the quality and customer service are unmatched. It evens out when you use the [insert ad company name] reward card which gives 5% off each purchase.
I was just reminding a discussion with a guy about Reddit, who thinks Reddit is getting close to the real dead internet theory, just bots talkimg about whatever.
Meanwhile I know people already asking ai what they should buy for this and that. This surely will end very well for
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Is this the kind of AI ads they were talking about?
Gots to be
What does the comment history look like on those accounts? I’m guessing when you pay for the spam package, they create fake comment histories for the bot accounts.
Making sense tbh.
Ooh that’s a good one. Sounds legit.
First guy has a short history within one post five months ago, then 3 years prior. Second guy and third guy has a big gap 3-7 year gap in history then suddenly a lot of comments. So yea, bots.
Often times the services have a fleet of accounts, they have them do reposts of old popular posts with titles and some content rephrased, then some of the rest of the fleet copies the top comments and rephrases those and posts them below.
This builds a history of realistic and semi popular looking posts in a way that is fairly easy to automate . Anyone who looks closely could potentially figure out a given account, or even cluster of accounts, is farmed, but it takes effort and time to prove it, more effort and time than it takes for them to spool up another batch of bots.
fleet of accounts
I like the use of the term “fleet” in this context, bc it brings to mind the Battle of Midway but re-done with bots online.
Making extensive use of food delivery services is a trait i unapologetically use to filter people out of my life. (Unless they have medical reasons…)
Why? I know several young families that just don’t have the time or a car to get groceries for the whole week, delivery services help them a lot
How can you not have time to buy groceries? It’s not that big of a process.
I understand not having a car though. Some places are not very walkable.
That’s an hour or 2 you may not have.
If you don’t have an hour to buy food, there’s something supremely fucked up about your priorities.
Depending on the situation/ location, it is truly possible. During massively busy times, I have employed these services. It absolutely can be a big process, especially with younger children and 2 jobs.
It’s not so much that you literally have no time but spending the extra money is a way to get the time you would otherwise spend on groceries to do other things like spend actual time with the kids before they sleep and walk the dog before it’s dark.
They’re on that fuckin grindset, workin eight 16 hour days a week lmao they don’t have time to step on a bus or walk down the street
Also elderly people. Me or other family buy groceries for an aunt, she has Amazon for emergencies.
I guess I don’t really understand the purpose, here… You don’t like having rich friends?
why would people like having rich friends? it’s not like they’re likely to share their wealth, or they probably wouldn’t be rich…
I guess you’re not good at the word “friend” 🤷♂️ I didn’t say acquaintance
i’m glad you guys think this is bots, i know people who suck this badly
I don’t think that’s actually an unusual conversation for people who live in Manhattan to have. The comments about relative prices are accurate in my experience - I live on the same block as a Gristides and I still never shop there because of how expensive it is, even compared to Whole Foods. I get most of my groceries in Brooklyn on the weekends.
I also know a woman with a whole stack of different credit cards, so she always has the one that gives her the most rewards for whatever specific thing she’s buying. I’m sure she has one for grocery shopping.
I agree. Personally I have made multiple amazon accounts and subscribe to prime on each of them. It costs me more upfront, but I get more cash back on my orders. Plus, by buying different raw materials on different accounts the feds are less likely to discover my moonshine operation
Nah if I’m going to shill for any Manhattan grocery store, it will be Fairway. It’s also really expensive but it feels like being in the sort of store you’d go to if you were rich, not like being ripped off. Their cheese counter has prices per 1/4 pound for some of the cheeses but then if you get some $15 per 1/4 pound cheese it will taste so good that you’ll think it was worth it. I haven’t been there in years but I still long for that cheese.
Amazon “grocery” delivery is bullshit and stupid expensive, plus there’s a ton of shit they don’t carry.
it’s such a fucking baffling concept to me, i don’t even understand ordering groceries from the fucking grocery store, just go there and buy the stuff
ordering stuff just… isn’t better…
there’s no benefit unless you simply cannot buy the thing in a nearby store.It used to make sense during the COVID lockdowns, but at least where I live most stores stopped offering that service soon after the pandemic
You know, use of long dash is the same kind of tell as an image having 6 fingers. Not impossible to find in human interactions but generally very rare, especially in online conversation. (I’m not even sure if my phone can do a long dash, just these fellows: —).
I use the em-dash a lot. It’s not just about the presence of one, the issue is that LLMs know they exist but don’t know where they go. It’s sort of like a semicolon, which goes where neither a comma nor a period feel right. An em-dashes simply goes where neither comma nor period nor semicolon feels right
On my keyboard, I just click the button on the bottom left to see punctuation, and then long-press the hyphen
