Yeah, my approach is definitely not "one size fits all", but in this case I feel fine about it.

I disagree, but I'm willing to accept it as my hangup. It's potentially problematic, but I feel a strong hatred towards being manipulated into buying something. I feel that way about this product, and am actively choosing to never consider giving them money because of that.

If it weren't a catalytic converter protector, maybe I'd give them more consideration, but seeing as how this is literally a strip of conductive material that sets off an alarm if it's cut as compared to beefier metal options that will physically delay and deter thieves, and I don't live in an area with really much of any rate of catalytic converter theft, and I don't like what I've perceived to be a scummy marketing tactic, I'm out.

I'll clarify my own take separate from the discussion of the original subreddit: I don't think an advertising person posted this to Lemmy, I think an advertising person made the original photo, shared it on probably Facebook, got enough organic interaction for other people to start sharing it with good intentions and without much thought as to whether it actually happened or not, and OP saw and posted it here after it filtered out to the wider internet.

I can see how someone would say that what I described is brainwashing with extra steps, but I think of it more as an exploitation by marketers who know that people don't usually expend more critical thinking on ultimately harmless pictures shared online.

I dunno, it's a hard thing to be militant about, because it's always a personal read.

When I was working for a summer camp watching over preteens, they had a game night in the cabin with Apples to Apples (a Cards Against Humanity for kids (which I believe predates CAH but more people are likely to know that then apples to apples)). One of them was getting frustrated that their answers weren't getting picked, and I decided at the time to mention something along the lines of "well, maybe he likes less serious answers and likes more sarcastic ones".

They latched on, and from that moment forward all they could talk about was how variously much they either liked or didn't like sarcasm, and would ask every round whether the judge for the round "was sarcastic or not".

I wouldn't be surprised if the same filtered parroting is what you're against, and if so I would agree and also say that I do think that the call-out is appropriate on this post. I don't want to put words in your mouth though, so if I'm off-base I'll be happy to stand corrected.

Hailcorporate is supposed to be a way of calling out marketing posts disguised as real events.

Considering the note was signed "your neighbor" and outlines a set of events that would be incredibly unlikely in real life, and there's a specific brand called out to "stop this from happening to you"...

I'm not OP and I'm not the person you were replying to, and maybe this makes me a cynic, but since it doesn't matter either way for this post I'd say the advice to protect your catalytic converter is good advice and I'm going to intentionally avoid the named brand on the likelihood that they tried to guerilla market and have people spread their ad for them which is what I see.

God, if this ends up with the steam deck 2 powering a standalone index 2 with redesigned knuckles 2 that can be used standalone as a Steam Controller 2...

It's a fantasy, absolutely. The controller part especially probably wouldn't work. But... I can dream.

It'll never catch on.

As I understand it, sushi in this context is specifically made to be a single bite.

I want to say it's some reason a long the lines of "it was masterfully creafted in such a way that the only best experience is to eat the whole thing at once, and to do otherwise is to insinuate a lack of respect", with the disclaimer that I don't actually know if that's what it is.

I genuinely had someone stop and ask me why you can't see the moon during an eclipse because "it's got light in it right".

They're soon to replace our HR manager.

And yet, this is the issue that gets a response instead of a silent closed offtopic wontfix.

They don't recognize or value software patents because they aren't recognized by the government where the project is run from.

It implies that most of the written languages we're aware of have been based on preexisting character sets, with very few root character sets. This is one of those few root sets.