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Heh, same when I visited California in 2000. And I don’t just mean about the opaque state sales tax. All those adverts – and how the people I met acted and the whole country itself seemed to work. I quickly realised how much The Simpsons was essentially an animated documentary about American life. -
We noticed the same thing in Florida. Every second advert was "Ask your doctor about Diazapremapropoline-"
It did, honestly, make me reflect on how Americans talk about "Big Pharma", and are distrustful of vaccines - because they've got medical firms pushing stuff on them every day.Comment
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Had to go to pharmacy to get some medicine...had to get nexium for heart burn and when i looked i thought price not much different to ireland, until i opened the pack and the tablets were tiny also a few people were saying to me who have been to europe and america that medication seems to be more effective in europe but for me i am not sure as the tablets i got did work but i suspect they were a lower dosage.
Even though My experience of America was limited....after all only went to washington dc and New york but did come across a few places like a pretty awesome ramon place that did not allow tipping, I do find it incredibly scummy of companies to put the onus on the customers for tipping rather then giving a fair wage. I did hear a story about someone not tipping enough and the waiter running after them to ask what they did wrong.
Though when were sitting at the restaurant me and the wife played a game ...can we tell if someone is a republican or a democrat supporter by looking at them lolComment
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I imagine the extortionate amount of money that they have to pay for vital medications also fuels that deep mistrust. (That’s the same in Canada – only three provinces have a public health system covers prescription medications.)Originally posted by Asura View PostComment
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The flipside of the advertising for pharmaceuticals in the US is that when Americans I know visit the UK, they're astonished by the quantity of advertising for gambling we have.Comment
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As someone who's struggled with gambling in the past it really is crap how bombarded you are by all the gambling ad's everywhere. Its just massively normalized to the point where you get Saturday night family entertainment TV shows sponsored by them, radio ads all day and pre watershead gambling ads constantly. Its not just commercial television either, The bbc used to have a Saturday night state sponsored show pushing gambling when they would air the National Lottery draw live and make a whole show about it.Originally posted by wakka View PostComment
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Oh forgot to mention another weird thing I am not used to in America, went to a restaurant and when we went to pay they took the card from us...came back and asked me to sign and that was it :S
Seems like not everywhere uses chip and pin or contactless and still rely on the old skim and sign method.....and it was far more common then i imaginedComment
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A lot of places in the US have still not adapted to chip and pin yet, it's shocking. As for prices without tax, it's because each individual state sets its own rate, and if you buy from out of state, you can claim a different rate as well potentially. So all prices are without tax, because what you pay at the till could vary.Lie with passion and be forever damned...Comment
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Meta controlling another wing of social media should not be welcomed by anyone.Originally posted by Neon Ignition View PostComment
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No one has to use Meta’s “services”. Although I’d imagine businesses probably feel they should do for the marketing reach.Comment
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Not just businesses. Indie content creators have to use the bigger social networks to reach customers, because no-one navigates to random websites anymore. A lot of people use Twitter because they need to.Originally posted by CMcK View PostComment
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I took my business off of Twitter years ago, and absolute cess pit of a place.Comment
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It's gotten worse since now that Musk, proving he's a complete clown, has taken over. His latest stunt is to not pay for the servers it's running on, stop paying for his office space, and limiting the number of tweets you can read (which is kind of the point of Twitter) to 600 a day (it was increased to 1000), presumably linked to the fact that at some point Google will switch the VMs off.
And access to Tweet Deck is being removed for none verified users at the end of the month (which pretty much kills it dead for me). Meta is absolutely launching their rival service at the right time, but I can't say I like the name.
Also looks like they're limiting the length of time searches go back to three/four days now. The earliest tweets I can reach on search is 1st July and I'm pretty sure people were tweeting "Elon Musk is a ****" before then (I was trying to trigger this limit).
Edit: Do I win at Twitter now?
(A 429 is a limit response) - that's hitting the API tho. I think the rate limit for timeline must have been turned off as I can't trigger that. From the follows I have, I'd estimate it'd take about 30 minutes to hit it normally, couldn't with me holding down the pg-dn key for 10 minutes, it should just take minutes.
The searching has become pretty useless now anyway, as it's skewed towards "verified" users, which tend to be users that follow the cult of Musk and so politically leaning to the right. You also need to be logged in to see tweets, so Google is delisting Twitter posts from their search results.Last edited by MartyG; 05-07-2023, 14:17.Comment
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Welcome to the Sphere, just launched at Las Vegas - the world's largest LED screen
And inside:
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