Oh, like IKEA?

Ah, Coffiest is finally here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants

“In a vastly overpopulated world, businesses have taken the place of governments and now hold political power. States exist merely to ensure the survival of huge trans-national corporations. Advertising has become hugely aggressive and by far the best-paid profession. Through advertising, the public is constantly deluded into thinking that the quality of life is improved by all the products placed on the market. Some of the products contain addictive substances designed to make consumers dependent on them. However, the most basic elements of life are incredibly scarce, including water and fuel.” This in 1952. Mad Men indeed.

I’m just sitting here laughing by myself in my miserable densified cardboard shack I live in.

A quote from the book:

“each sample of Coffiest contains three milligrams of a simple alkaloid. Nothing harmful. But definitely habit-forming. After ten weeks the customer is hooked for life. It would cost him at least five thousand dollars for a cure, so it’s simpler for him to go right on drinking Coffiest - three cups with every meal and a pot beside the bed at night, just as it says on the jar.”

I figured things were at the end when Nespresso pulled out their boutique from the flagship downtown Montreal location last year, or two years ago.

The homeless tents lined up on the West and East sides of the building didn’t help, or the defective escalators.

They say the retail landscape changed too much and passed them by, but downtown there’s Simon’s that has IMO pretty much the same large store with clothes, sheets, bath supplies. No appliances or perfumes though, maybe The Bay was just too big.

People. INSTALL. THESE. THINGS. ACTIVELY

They click on things they shouldn’t. I already know I shouldn’t. The end.

Not just from letting the computer run. Explain why I don’t have any of these problems with my oh-so vulnerable 12 year old Windows 7 laptop?

"People have lost millions in crypto from shit like that. " Sources. Links. Explain how it happened. So you’re claiming people with Windows 7 computers also have millions in crypto? What?

And apartment complexes, or department stores.

Apparently that book is from 1978. Exercise for the reader: find the similarities between 1978 and now…

Everything. Even pet food, I can see the changes, the canned paté my cat enjoyed used to be like a terrine in the can, now it’s a loose watery mess.

Fucking. It’s right there.

It’s called Usenet.

Common Sense Skeptic’s videos sure are fun to watch again.