Market, the markets, marketing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s funny\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I think the past, marketing was seen as a dirty word, almost as bad as advertising?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, it was always my personal opinion that advertising was kind of the bad guy, not marketing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the difference?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Advertising I typically think of as YouTube ads, those new annoying square advertisements on Google maps which actually causes a more danger when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re trying to navigate somewhere, insanely annoying banner ads, which spam the whole Internet when I was a kid growing up, even into college\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Before Google Chrome and AdBlock was invented (ironically enough, now \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 That Google Chrome has dominated the browser market share, now Google is starting to crack down on AdBlockers?) The ultimate bait and switch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do we even need Google search anymore? Maybe not. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The old motto of Google was to make the world information accessible for all, but now their new motto is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153lettuce insert more advertising into your daily life, every element of your life\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, I think the next frontier is when will figure out how to monetize Gmail\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Currently there potential hundred billion dollar cash, considering that essentially the whole world and planet runs on Gmail for their email services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Has been very sneaky about this, giving away \u00e2\u20ac\u0153free \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Google Chrome books in classrooms\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 And essentially, they all know this\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Kids end up getting distracted by YouTube and stuff, and all this nonsense about free and open and accessible information, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc is essentially a way to plug-in the kids young, to get them future addictions to Google services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Currently in college, google suite dominates. All students use Gmail, Google slides, and Google dogs for everything. While I think these are insanely great innovations\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 The problem is once again, I think there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s some sort of hidden catch here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, can you imagine a future in which \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc one day you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see \u00e2\u20ac\u0153related content\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 in Google Docs or Google slides? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m shocked, even now after Flicker has been handed off like a dirty rag three or four times, now it is just essentially another lame advertisement search engine? And think about how annoying this is\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 You spent so much time in Africa building up your flicker following, and now that it is essentially a ghost town, you try searching for your images and whatever\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 And as your searching through your images, smug mug and flicker sneakily advertisements while you were scrolling through your photos? Or through the photos of others?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The two things I hate most is first cigarette smoke, which exist in the physical realm, and then advertisements on the Internet, which exists in the digital realm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I ran for mayor, mayor governor or president or whatever, I always make it a lot to be smoking outright. Space outside of your home. I would make it that you could smoke inside your car with your windows off, giving yourself lung cancer, or maybe smoking inside your home or apartment with all the windows shut\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 But certainly not in any spot which could spill over into the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First do no harm, the critical rule. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Advertising does barn. It harms your focus your concentration your mood etc. For example, this is very annoying\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Even though I got YouTube premium for my whole family, because my mom is on it like 100% of the time, and I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like her watching advertisements, still when I am Logged into Google accounts, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just googling something for a video of how to change oil in my Prius or whatever, I see all these insanely annoying advertisements which I hate! Whenever I see some sort of U2 ad, it immediately provokes my annoyance and fury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, a reason why I am starting to become antagonistic towards Google maps\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m driving somewhere, and I see all these annoying square banner? The reason why I think this is so evil is that I have certainly been driving once twice, I have my eyes on the road, but, I see an annoying square advertisement, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not my attention because I am so visually sensitive, I keep my eyes off of the road for half a second, which might indirectly cause me? As a consequence I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve just been using Apple Maps, even though it is the inferior product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Never buy another pixel Samsung phone or anything on android. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be a fool\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It is like positively injecting advertisements into your being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
OK\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 This all changes once you have a kid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, why is it that almost 99% of homeless people are men?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Second, I would say just ignore whatever women say about homeless people\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 They don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know. For example, if you have a kid and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a man, and you go to the LA public library, the rule is never use the men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s public restroom<\/strong>, so many disgusting homeless people going inside there, washing their dirty ass clothes inside the sink, bringing in their toxic garbage, touching stuff, the smell etc. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is terrible because it has positively made me not<\/strong> want to go to enter positively avoid the downtown LA little Tokyo branch\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Once again, overrun with homeless people in the men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s section. Even though there are these great kids activities like Japanese reading time and stuff. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n OK, if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a woman\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 You probably never have the privilege of going to a public men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s restroom, in which typically\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 99% of the mirrors are all scratched out with random graffiti, etc. Even the Korea town public library, which I love, because there are brand new Korean kids books there\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 if you go to the men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s restroom, it is insanely filthy with graffiti all over the walls. But the second you step into the women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s restroom, it is like Paradise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another caveat; even going to some of these nice public recreation centers like in Mar Vista, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve already seen a homeless guy washing his dirty underwear and boxers inside the men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s restroom sink\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 And I got so grossed out because he was most definitely touching the faucet as well. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n As a new experiment, whenever I see homeless people entering public restrooms, maybe if they have even half a brain\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to ask them to not use it. Even though they may not understand?<\/p>\n\n\n\n But then again\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 If they have enough intelligence or serenity to even go to a public restroom to clean their clothes or shave or do whatever disgusting things, then they probably have enough mental ability \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc to know that what they are doing is wrong. Morally and ethically wrong. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n My number one tip, especially if you have a kid or if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re raising a young family, keep out of Santa Monica like the plague. So many too many homeless people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why is Santa Monica great Haven for homeless people? It is because they have all these public and places to rinse and wash off, which means that homeless people could easily wash their disgusting things there for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also, this issue with Santa Monica is that it is too big. The local authorities police or public services I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think they have enough been with to control and patrol everything. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is where Culver City has become a paradise for me in LA; especially because of the fact that even Culver City has a mobile crisis team, a dedicated band that actually gives services to homeless people and the mentally unwell?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Has anybody ever said this? Obviously no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think the weird thing in American Society is that historically\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Smoking was seen as just a part about being in public, etc. Kids, who obviously hate the smell of cigarettes, like myself, were told to shut up, and to just let the adults smoke. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc This is why I often hate going to France and the French\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Smoking is normalized there\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 They don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care about the children and secondhand smoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyways, I think there is this documentary and film about a fictional man, who is obviously going through some sort of at the cold qualms here, trying to inform people that smoking is actually good for you? Or at least not bad for you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tolerance and intolerance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The number one thing I hate the most is secondhand cigarette smoke, which rates a 50 out of 10 in terms of my hate and toxicity. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bcSecond, I also really hate the smell of marijuana smoke. Secondhand cigarette smoke is far more toxic, but the smell of marijuana smoke goes for a lot further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The thing that is insanely annoying is that these woke ass fake ass people think that it is somehow cool or good to smoke marijuana in public, and they do it indignantly; knowing that it is illegal. Or they pretend that it is not illegal. Because it has been legalized, they think they could do it in public, but you cannot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think the nuance of drinking alcohol is that if you decide to poison your body with alcohol, at least you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not doing anyone else harm. Alcohol is self-contained inside a bottle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However once again\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Smoke, cigarette smoke, spreads to the air. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n Surprisingly enough\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Vaping doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to bother me as much, but certainly some of these vape canister things which have these fake sweeteners added to them and smells\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I hate the smell of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My first suggestion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n You got to speak up! And say something. For myself, this is the weird thing; in America, we are taught to just take it up the ass, like a ventriloquist, or we are taught to just bear it, to turn the other face the other cheek the other eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, all these asshole drivers in LA, we are taught in driving school to do \u00e2\u20ac\u0153defensive driving\u00e2\u20ac\u009d– because the guy might have road rage and have a gun and shoot you or something. And certainly, it has actually probably happened in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But my Spartan thought is if for the rest of your life, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just gonna be afraid that other people have guns, therefore you should just take it up the ass, and shut up\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Fuck that! You gotta set an example for your kids; don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tolerate no shit from nobody. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n And no, you are not passive aggressive. Only cowards honk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first thing is just be a nice guy; when you see somebody who is not moving in traffic because they are probably on their phone, just wait to have second! Do no harm, bear no harm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A simple thing you could do, is to not curse back, but to simply educate. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take it. If somebody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s honking at you from behind for a dumb reason, stick out your hand and tell them to calm down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also, if somebody randomly cuts you off in traffic without turning on their turn signals, which is illegal\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Or tries to overtake you by Driving over the speed limit to cut you off, either highbeam them, or if it is really dangerous\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 honk at them. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n In public life, if you see some assholes smoking in public, I think actually legally, in most of Los Angeles assuming you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not in front of some sort of business or whatever, I think technically you are legally allowed to smoke cigarettes in public. But the better question; is it ethical?<\/em> No<\/strong>.\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is where I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m becoming more and more concerned and focused on ethics. Why? Ethics is almost like a social technology or innovation<\/strong> —<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, the reason why the Jesus notion of turning the other cheek is so bad is that once you have a kid, or just gonna let somebody else pistol with you into submission? \u00ef\u00bf\u00bcNo. In fact, if there was some sort of dramatic situation which some asshole was trying to pistol with me into submission, and center cud was watching, but the chance that I might lose my life\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Would I take a like a pussy? No.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc***<\/p>\n\n\n\n If your behavior triggers your wife, just reserve it when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in private. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do any sort of triggering behavior when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re with your wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Market, the markets, marketing? 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What to say or do<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Why does Santa Monica have so many homeless people?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Thank you for smoking\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The public and marijuana smoke \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Vaping?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\nWhat can we do as private citizens?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Legality can be gamed, ethics last forever.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Ethical rules<\/h2>\n\n\n\n