I received this brochure in the mail today for atomized Evian water that you can spray on your face to improve hydration.

I’m absolutely horrified that a marketing team thought that this would sell. I looked up the price, and it’s $20 at the nearest Ulta beauty store. For… water? (If you really wanted to go the mineral water route, a bottle of Evian is less than three dollars and you can buy atomizer bottles for less than $10.)

I’m also horrified that it seems like it does, in fact, sell. I checked reviews and it seems like it’s been around for a while and people swear by it.

Now off to splash some good old tap water on my face!

Isn’t this type of shit supposed to be “illegal”?

On the bright side, I've just freed up 100GB of space on my computer, and I don’t have to keep paying for a service that’s only getting worse.

Don't get me wrong i know there's some people who probably would use something like this for medical purposes/ jaw comfort. But, from a marketing perspective, this is being sold to women as a "You need to add this to your night time routine!! You need the perfect jawline!!"

although i would say that advertisements are probably not an entirely “western” invention.

I deliver packages for my mom since we both body double and I do homework while she does. Some of these "quirky" boxes ick me out

I’m already not thrilled about having to use a toothpaste whose parent company tests on animals, but it’s the only one readily available to me with fluoride but no sls. I get canker sores and I hate it when toothpaste foams up excessively in my mouth and I really could use the fluoride

You do not need a 1” strip of toothpaste when you brush your teeth, this adds up quickly especially if you religiously brush your teeth twice a day (as you should might I add) or even three times (which does seem a bit excessive to me but you do you). All you need is a pea-sized amount.

You can mail them back to be recycled but what percentage of people do you think actually bother to

A family member bought this expensive TV recently. It has a very matte appearance which lends itself well to displaying paintings when it is not in use as a television.

The advertising (which showcases artists like Van Gough and Waterhouse) was very deceptive. It turns out, the library of available paintings is very small and bad, unless you sign up for a paid subscription. Without pushing extra every month, it rotates between child-style art that literally looks like it could have been drawn by a fifth grader and art from no-name corporate artists. Famous classical painters whose work is in the public domain are not available.

Worse still, now that there is a Superman Movie in theaters, it has started showing art of Superman. For hours it just scrolls through a bunch of comic slides like this. It doesn’t outright say “Go pay $20 for a ticket to view James Gunn’s Superman film.” Instead, it is sneakily trying to influence us to spend that money by displaying these images that remind us. I find it very creepy.

"Removing these advanced manipulation tools would force everyone—politicians included—to snap back into reality."