Google Ads thinks I'm pregnant. Undoubtedly relatedly, I recently received a free new mother kit in the mail, with like a half dozen cans of formula. I dropped it off at the local food bank. It was really heavy. It must have cost a fortune to mail.
I really don't think I'm pregnant but on reflection I guess the evidence is adding up. I'd better take a test?
Did you stare too long at shirtless Putin pics?
I watched Downfall on Netflix streaming, and based on that one movie Netflix decided that I must be totally obsessed with all things Hitler/Nazi related. For weeks my "suggestions for you" list was crowded with The Shocking Secrets of Hitler's Hairdresser!-type documentaries.
I think about half the documentaries on Netflix are about Nazis. I watched a couple of things about WWI (not the sequel) and got that same stuff.
I think before the History Channel went to aliens, they were the Nazi channel.
5: I recall in the late 90s it was often referred to as The Hitler Channel.
As referred to in a shot in "Sideways" as well.
Yes. Kids today don't even know a time when that didn't refer to Fox.
When I watch make-up application videos on YouTube, I always get PSAs about how bad chewing tobacco, specifically for young men. Some algorithm is way off.
1: Super creepy. Target has an algorithm based on purchases that's pretty good at guessing who's pregnant. Personally, I find it scary.
My daughter got this in the mail!" he said. "She's still in high school, and you're sending her coupons for baby clothes and cribs? Are you trying to encourage her to get pregnant?"
The manager didn't have any idea what the man was talking about. He looked at the mailer. Sure enough, it was addressed to the man's daughter and contained advertisements for maternity clothing, nursery furniture and pictures of smiling infants. The manager apologized and then called a few days later to apologize again.
(Nice customer service, Target.)
On the phone, though, the father was somewhat abashed. "I had a talk with my daughter," he said. "It turns out there's been some activities in my house I haven't been completely aware of. She's due in August. I owe you an apology."
I could easily imagine a situation where the girl got abused for getting pregnant.
9: It would not be the first time a tobacco company was required to run ads about the dangers of tobacco and somehow the ads didn't work.
Thank anarcho-capitalism for adblockers. Does Youtube still lack a "Don't show me this video ever again" button?
I think I would rather chew PSAs than pregnancy-related ads.
Somehow I got signed up for Amazon for Moms after I had my miscarriage and that was like a horrible reminder every time I went to load a trashy book on my Kindle.
We fought two world wars to make the world safe for the History Channel and now it's all ancient aliens and ice road truckers. There's going to be a documentary about whether it's possible to determine the location of Hitler's grave by detecting the movement of his remains rolling.
My problem with the customized youtube play list is half the things I listen to on youtube are random one offs. Not only do I not want to listen to them again, but they totally fuck up the algorithm (which takes whatever you listened to and picks something vaguely related but much worse). My personal station algorithm is now apparently equal parts mixture "shitty Italian country music," "70s Swedish Christian rock," "bland Taiwanese love ballads," and "Finnish Christmas metal."
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Also, so sorry about that. Talk about turning the knife.
I bought a yoga pillow from Amazon as a gift to my daughter five years ago and still get "suggestions" touting the same object. I drive a different route home one day and suddenly Waze wants to send me that way every time.
These are the same algorithms that are going to mutate into SkyNet some day.
That's why SkyNet lost.
I had no idea that "Finnish Christmas metal" was even a genre. (I know, this means I have failed Halfordismo. Or its local offshoot, Haalfurdismaa.)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2s_QgMCW9ks
I did this from my husband's phone, so now I've ruined his YouTube algorithm too
That is considerably less metal-sounding than I anticipated.
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Yeah, it's more metal singers singing traditional Finnish Christmas music. Here's some more, the second link is more metal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJz1UEyw0MM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLHKUCZsfYM
And for a more amateur effort, here are some pregnant Finnish women singing one of my favorites in a metal style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRfUbWY_Jq0
Oh hey, I thought Buttercup and of course countless others had a tangential interest in Czech country, so, one sincere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpknZdA1YAM
and one surreal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMy7WM3RQ7Y
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I love it! My husband couldn't actually listen all the way through the first one.
Here's some Swedish cowboy music. The best thing about it is guy's name is obscene in basically the rest of Europe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lKZGkVTUiE
For obvious reasons, Google ads thinks I am whatever are the topic of my current cases At the moment, I'm an HIV positive army veteran and telemarketer who vacations in Vegas.
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The Finnish Christmas metal is interesting. Nightwish's version of Finlandia kind of works.
Are you still there?
Young LW discovered what sounds like a pretty interesting neighborhood, Little Hanoi. He says that either the 113 or 197 bus to get there goes through a panelak neighborhood that still has Bolshie statues and building emblems, that the Pho is pretty good and under 100Czk, and that the temple flying the VN flag is pretty cool.
Since I've joined breast cancer groups at the other place, the majority of my ads have been for bras (that I can no longer wear). So that's nice.
You mean the people who programmed the algorithms can't seem to handle multiple implications of the word "breast"? I'm shocked.
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I'm here through the 31st. Good cheap pho sounds amazing, we will have to check it out. Do you know what stop do get off at, or should we just keep our eyes peeled for pho signs?
Ahem. Some of us are still waiting for the Swedish Christian rock from the seventies.
Bus stop Sídliště Písnice. I hear that there's a street with restaurants that are fancy enough to have menus (he ate someplace where they didn't), looks like places called Hai Ha and Dung Lien are near the center of that. There's a gate to the compound that faces south, probably other entrances also exist.
Separately, there's pretty good Lebanese near Dejvicka, place called U Cedru, they have a website with a posted menu.
Not sure if this makes sense for either of you guys, but there's a pretty good bookstore for browsing, Neoluxor. Also I liked the František Skála show, right by Malostranska. Ymmv, look for images to see if it's your kind of thing.
Have a cold one for me-- I've unfortunately reset back to expecting beer to cost more than water.
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Thanks! We will definitely go there, and the Frantisek Skala show looks interesting (sorry can't do the accents).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOgZVZj9iFQ&index=3&list=RDl1evPGIR0qg
(This one is sort of bordering the country line)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOgZVZj9iFQ&index=3&list=RDl1evPGIR0qg
(I think this one is technically more 80s). But anyways, listen to as much of this playlist as you can before your ears bleed.
Anyways, thanks to You People, my youtube algorithm is now permanently fucked. Every other song is going to be really bad Swedish Christian music, and google probably assumes I'm a super religious 80 year-old metal fan.
It turns out bad 70s Swedish Christian rock is much harder to find when you're actively seeking it out as opposed to when it's forced upon you by the satanic workings of youtube's algorithm.
But anyways, my suffering shall be your suffering:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4-w1ke_aag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhDKz7n5zIc