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That marketing video on the homepage is... not particularly convincing, and watching it gives me secondhand embarrassment.
by actionablefiber 4y ago
That marketing video on the homepage is... not particularly convincing, and watching it gives me secondhand embarrassment.
- JKCalhoun 4y agoHa ha, the "PatriApp" store. Is this guy a Libertechian?
- brendoelfrendo 4y agoDoes that video... actually have the "Activate Windows" watermark in the thumbnail?
- can16358p 4y agoHow did they even manage to put that watermark there in the first place? Did they just take a screenshot from an unactivated Windows machine? This whole project is a joke.
- exikyut 4y ago...It does! I honestly don't know what to do with this information. Is this an intentional message? It's extremely overt.
- kadoban 4y agoI wonder if it's similar to how some phising emails will contain intentional grammar and spelling errors. I've been told that this works as a filter, since savvy people will be put off by such things leaving only the easy targets.
- Wistar 4y agoWow. With "secondhand embarrassment" you have deftly labeled a feeling I have had so many times in my life but have never been able to succinctly name.
- codethief 4y agoThat term even has its own Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicarious_embarrassment https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicarious_embarrassment
- Semaphor 4y agoIt’s a pretty popular German word as well: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fremdsch%C3%A4men https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fremdsch%C3%A4men
- derevaunseraun 4y agoIt's also called 'cringe' in gen Z speak
- kromem 4y agoYou mean you weren't convinced by the argument that if MLK or Lincoln didn't have access to Facebook the world would have been a different place? Or was it the credentials of "I bought $12 of Bitcoin when I was young and it increased in value" that didn't sell you? It seems like a slam dunk from over here, so I'm confused as to what you didn't find convincing....