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[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You linked the same article from the post.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 50 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Stop letting this man watch television.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 4 points 4 months ago

Eugenics War, when?

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 8 points 4 months ago

I played education games on a Apple II in 1998; I was in the first grade.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 47 points 4 months ago (5 children)

This type of advertising isn’t new. There is that famous (although the claims from the father have been questioned) New York Times article written by Charles Duhigg in 2012. A father of a teenage girl in Minnesota got upset for receiving coupons from Target for infant care related products. As the story goes, he later learned his daughter was in fact pregnant. It turns out Target was using some predictive algorithm to identify would-be mothers and straight up sending them coupons for infant care products. It seems ever since this article was published that they stopped doing this in such a direct manner. Again, there have people who questioned the validity of the claims for this specific story, but Target did confirm they were doing this.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Speaking of… Look at the cover. There is a Wells blurb.

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[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So do Vulcans have books about how to talk to children about emotions?

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 4 points 4 months ago

That does sound like something Tracey would say.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 3 points 4 months ago

You didn’t even include Pill Boy?!

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 1 points 4 months ago

Oh god, not the eggs.

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