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When in most of our lifetimes has the u.s. presidental election not been ‘the lesser of two evils’?
When in most of our lifetimes has the u.s. presidental election not been ‘the lesser of two evils’?
the old re-badge where the same car is made by a different company
What’s happening is that when things act as an ad they fulfill the same marketing purpose as a paid advertisement. Just because it happened to you, doesn’t mean talking about it online is not marketing in its effect. But I see where you’re coming from.
This idea is like thinking that people with shirt with huge brand names on them are helping to raise that brand’s awareness level with others. Things can be more than one thing at the same time.
but sounded correct to someone who didn’t know better
specious /spē′shəs/ adjective
Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallacious.
"a specious argument."
and then the real answer will be hidden or something silly, or in some cases where money is involved the correct answer might have been removed
They have probably only provided a small amount of available data, and have much more data, of different type.
Yes we’ve got the data, but now we need it from different angles!
They’ve finally gone full /HailCorporate, become the thing some of the original people of the site would probably not have agreed with in many ways
I agree with the title statement. Why do I comment less? Articles much fewer?
This is just an advertisement for this store. does this place have a hail corporate yet?
I’d say there is a huge amount of bots, then the smart bots, then the actual shills. The smarter ones run complex operations and are able to use their own power to self propel their own stories. And there are a lot of similar ‘power users’ who are not wholly paid for by someone but would do work for the highest bidder. I’d bet that yes, 50% of what’s on the front page of major things is reputation management or Hail Corporate stuff, then I’d wager the mostly less popular stuff is actual people, with a ton of bad posts from all sides at the low popularity