Chapotraphouse

still pissed they closed the sitting area this station used to have

fuck you san francisco

my first act as president will be to make advertising illegal. apologies to the guy at the gas station who wants to sell me a $5 mix cd but unfortunately all advertising and sales pushing is punishable by a severe bonking and a fine equal to or greater than 200% of yearly revenue, per instance.

"as a commuter to or from silicon valley, I was not aware Google had a web browser! I'm gonna have to download that." —no one ever

Its so cool that we're not allowed to spend any money on expanding our mass transit services, but we'll spend a fortune hosting IRL pop-up ads on every available surface.

At this point, I feel like even calling it "tech" is an insult to the idea of technology.

I made this rant before, but where's the actual innovation? Google has no excuse advertising Chrome, something almost everyone under the age of 45 uses. To make matters worse, I begrudgingly admit that Alphabet has done some legitimately cool shit, like look at The Moonshot Factory for example.

I don't need 50 million apps just to take a shit in app-approved toilets in the city, the novelty wore off long ago. Want to innovate? Clean up the ocean, or help usher in high speed rail that would give Japan and Italy a run for their money. Make biotech that can eat up microplastics.

I know they are capable of better, and that's what makes this so frustrating.

The bad guys won the cold war

I dunno I still see a lot of free space for more advertisements. It's only true capitalist efficiency if literally every square inch of literally every viewable surface everywhere is covered with advertisements. If a human can look away from an ad without seeing another ad then we haven't gone far enough.

chrome logo on a train looks like something from a sci fi dystopia movie

Who is even the target audience for a chome ad. Everyone's already using it unless they have an ideological reason motivating them not to.

The hanging ads mixed with a single USA flag is incredibly fucking funny

The ads have the same prominence as the US flag (which is basically a corporate logo from way back anyways).

I fucking HATE ads

Time to build yourself some spraypaint drones

birthplace of the chatbot that wrote this

1. a chatbot did not write that. Maybe it spat out the art, but that's a little too clever for a chatbot

2. at least they're not calling it "AI"

This kind of shit makes me want the world to burn. Nothing but the mindless clamoring for more wealth accumulation all for the sake of itself. It makes everything feel so meaningless to me.

The public transit I use in the Bay Area mostly has ads about how if a soda can were full of Fentanyl everyone would die. Oh, and PSAs that say that if you use marijuana you’ll never get a job, because it will go on your permanent record.

we need actual railroads