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jrvarela56
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Engineer creates ad block for the real world with ...
I lived in Sao Paulo when billboards were banned (2010). It was amazing.
danielbln
8 months ago
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Billboards in the US are wild to me. The craziest, flashiest shit, straight into your eyeballs while you're trying to focus on the road.
jrvarela56
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It’s a great example of how ‘the market’ sucks at externalities. We just accepted that you can pay to spam people’s visual field.
malfist
8 months ago
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There's now boat billboards that are the same way. Wanna enjoy a nice day at the beach? Too bad, someone parked a boat just offshore blasting a million lumens of alcohol ads straight into your eyeballs
devmor
8 months ago
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I have seen a couple different videos showing off drone-carried ads in the sky. It's infuriating.
__MatrixMan__
8 months ago
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The market is great at externalities. It's finding new ones to exploit all the time.
Not so great for the rest of us though.
whamlastxmas
8 months ago
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A million people a year die from fossil fuel pollution
toomuchtodo
8 months ago
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A fun fact is billboards are banned in Vermont, Maine, Hawaii, and Alaska.
goosejuice
8 months ago
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They have moving ones on cars too.
bradfitz
8 months ago
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Pollution, advertising, and extra traffic all in one! Puke.
Phlebsy
8 months ago
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The ones that get me are the billboard barges on Miami Beach. Like at least biplane banners have some charm.
navane
8 months ago
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Can't look at your phone, but look at this!
dylan604
8 months ago
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Like anything else in life, once you get used to them, you no longer see them.
gitaarik
8 months ago
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Or you don't longer realise you're seeing and being influenced by them. You just become part of them.
xnx
8 months ago
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Awareness is influence and you can't avoid awareness.
gausswho
8 months ago
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Honey, it's like you aren't really there anymore.
noisy_boy
8 months ago
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Haven't seen any giant billboards in Singapore either.
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