SoupBrick

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Crime doesn't sleep, so neither do I." ~Batman hallucinating a conversation with the Joker due to sleep deprivation

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Houses. Mainly talking about asbestos and lead.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Advertising. They make it seem like the best thing since sliced bread so if someone is considering changing providers, that company comes to mind. The more they repeat it the more likely people are to think of it when considering options. It doesn't work on everyone, but this tactic has enough supporting data for them to keep dumping money into it.

To answer your question about why they are allowed to do it, I would imagine there are little to no regulations on how much is spent on advertising campaigns. It all depends on what a business can afford to spend. Since insurance companies are all about denying coverage, I'd imagine they have quite a bit to dump into advertising. I haven't looked into it that much, but it looks like they can also claim these as business expenses and get tax write-offs. It wouldn't be surprising if they tacked on other expenses to the advertising budget and claimed those as write-offs as well.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Quid pro quo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I wonder if that is enough dead children for the US government (feat. Pro-Life Republicans) to act?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Slickdeals is my go to. It is a deal forum, that, as far as I know, hasn't been compromised by fake reviews.

[–] [email protected] 119 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The US government does it consistently.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Ignorance is bliss.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cool, can we get a crackdown on the ISP monopolies, please? I would imagine with our current technology, the only thing stopping us from having faster download speeds is ISP throttling in order to make up different tiers for exorbant prices.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Huh, that's pretty neat! Would not trust casinos myself, tho.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Here's a secret casinos don't want you to know!

They can just say, "Nuh-uh, you didn't win." Then they don't have to pay you.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40300062

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