Tech ad hell in San Francisco's train station (more pics inside)

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

fuck you san francisco

Can't let the homeless people there have a more comfortable surface than the cold hard concrete floor

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.

Just go all the way and abolish currency at that point imo
- Which oval office desk do they keep the Communism Button in?

sometimes I wish I lived in Sao Paulo

"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

- economists paying each other to eat dog shit
- It’s probably the idea of some 25 year old with a fake degree in fake science (“marketing”)
Exactly how I feel about the giant Twitter and Facebook ads in the subways here

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.

Caltrain's currently being electrified, buying new trainsets, and planning to massively increase frequency, but normally your point would be correct.
- Cheers to that, at least.
It's not really "spending a fortune" if it's just money exchanging hands between capitalists and marketing people and capitalists. There's almost no physical materials or labor going into this stuff as far as I can guess.
- There's definitely some amount of manpower and materials going into setting up and changing out the physical adverts. Nevermind the folks paid to design and formulate implementation. For a display this large, I imagine its a substantial outlay for someone.

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.

Even that's thinking small. Get the ads inside the
AR glasses
of the commuters, and then you can target them. Boom--infinite ads in a finite space.

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.

Google knows all the firefox users live there and is running these ads just to make us mad.
The purpose of a lot of advertising is to tell consumers who already use the product that they made the right choice. This reinforces brand loyalty and prevents customers from switching products in the future

worried about potentially doxxing themselves
Immediately afterwards says they live in the surrounding area of SF
- Hex snitches, telling all their business
  Sit in the court and be their own star witness
  Do you see the one true leftist?
  Yeah I'm right here!
  Fuck around, get the whole comm sent up for years
- There’s like 10 million people there lol
see you at beaux on friday?

I feel like in SF it does make sense unfortunately. The density of tech workers in neighborhoods like these that have influence over what contracts their company buys is so high
I've heard it's the same in Northern VA and Washington DC where there's a bunch of Lockheed Martin and Raytheon ads everywhere
- There’s a wall at the Baltimore airport that’s an ad for the NSA
crowdstrike
Thank you for reminding me of the 6:30AM call I got this morning on my bat phone for work from crowdstrike asking if I saw their email they sent me at 6AM. If you call me on the south side of 10AM you better have a good reason because I normally am up late for work. Lets just say I was not super nice with the person on the other end of the phone. I felt kind of bad for it right as I went back to sleep.

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).

Time to build yourself some spraypaint drones

I fucking HATE ads

birthplace of the chatbot that wrote this

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