it’s about the bad man’s bad product

this was inevitable.

agree, no matter what communities you browse, you just get repeatedly hit over the head with the same 5 topics.

yea, that’s what I’ve been using so far, but the individual downloads + converting them has been a bit annoying, hence why I was looking for a way to eliminate a few steps from the workflow.

what kind of ads were these?

had not heard of this before.

In retrospect, this now seems very obvious but thank you, this worked wonderfully.

back to reddit you go

https://counciloncj.org/is-shoplifting-up-or-down/

And yet the comment I replied to was “They fixed a problem that wasn’t real”.

Incredibly scientific and thoroughly sourced lol.

In the first half of 2023, shoplifting reports were 16% higher than the first half of 2019. New York City saw a 44% increase in shoplifting complaints between 2021 and 2022. New York and Los Angeles saw the largest increases in shoplifting from 2019 to 2023, with more than 60% increases.

lol ok

you think they are just locking stuff up for fun?

it also doesn’t factor in how these irrelevant attacks alienate people who might consider joining their cause.

there are apparently over 25 million people in the US that play golf.

If, for no reason, you insult them and their hobby, you’ve lost a ton of potential allies.

Take this example I saw here a few days back:

https://lemmy.world/comment/4964970

A guy posts a picture of his motorcycle and some miserable sonofabitch comes in screaming at him:

Thanks for adding more pollution to our climate. Asshole.

Fuck that. Any person that intentionally pollutes the air should be publicly shamed and eviscerated.

yea, great job, guy…

this golf course talking point is weird, even looking at the issue as an environmentalist myself.

there are 2m acres golf courses in the US

the US is 2.43b acres in size.

Golf courses are 0.008% of US landmass.

Well beyond a rounding error, but for some reason this is some people’s #1 issue.

the most frustrating part is when I search for a result I know exists, and I know that Google knows it exists, but it floods me with pages and pages of things it thinks I “should” see instead.

ok

they’ve been posting their dumb political takes for years now.

hey that is actually pretty cool.

if it weren’t for the price, I’d probably pick one up.

I’m surprised they haven’t been cloned and sold for much less.

what do people actually use them to do?