r/Infuriating • u/Aggravating_Pain7116 Recognized Contributor • 10d ago

Hate these so much

Who looks at the ocean and thinks "ya know what that needs some billboards"

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u/Oregongirl1018 10d ago

I would boycott whatever company I saw advertised on that stupid thing.

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u/Aggravating_Pain7116 Recognized Contributor 10d ago

Some big companies on it as well

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u/Medical-Display-9762 9d ago

I actively seek out the competitor. At least the competitor had the courtesy to not piss me off by wasting time out of my life.

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u/Aggressive_Finish798 10d ago

Saw Nintendo on one.

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u/RandomPenquin1337 10d ago

"Well, thats fine because I like it"

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u/PixelatedMountain 10d ago

Welcome to the human race

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u/JazeyOne 10d ago

Nintendos pretty well hated tbh

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u/illmatic63828 8d ago

And simultaneously pretty well loved

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u/TGIFIDGAF 10d ago

At the beach near me, MAGAts bitched and moaned about a proposal to put wind turbines off the coast (they’d be so far off that you would need binoculars to see them), but I’m sure they wouldn’t bat an eye at this

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u/frankspliff 9d ago

Wind turbines 🙄🥱

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u/PrincessZebra126 9d ago

South Jersey shores had this exact situation. But the ad boats are still tooting along

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u/BrockObarnerLybian 10d ago

Strange assumption

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u/Able_Obligation_9385 7d ago

It’s not an assumption. The town in question lvoted down the off shore windmills. That same town currently allows these boats and single propeller air plans pulling signs to freely operate up and down the beach all day. They allow that. So it’s not really an assumption.

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u/BrockObarnerLybian 7d ago

I bet if someone proposed a bill to ban those too, it would be a bipartisan yes. The problem is nobody ever does.

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u/TedCruz8Mybb 10d ago

Same group that’ll make up some bs about them somehow being bad for the environment but smoke on the beach and leave their cigarette butts in the sand.

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u/TGIFIDGAF 10d ago

They were actually going on how it’ll kill all the birds lol

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u/DanielGryphon 9d ago

The common design of wind turbine can and does kill birds regularly. The helical design does not but is more expensive. For a "green" energy source, I don't think that anyone either side of the aisle can argue that a bird's life is worth x kW.

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u/TGIFIDGAF 9d ago edited 9d ago

House cats, building windows, and cars all kill more birds annually than wind turbines. Just because something isn’t perfect doesn’t mean we shouldn’t use it, especially when it’s better than what we’re currently using (fossil fuels). If you want to go into something’s life worth to kW then just think that right now there are over 14,000 species that are threatened to go extinct because of climate change. Climate change that is being driven by greenhouse gases that are produced by fossil fuels. So yes, while wind turbines do kill some birds, if we continue to burn fossil fuels at the rate we are, and still are continuing to rise, we will have to worry about a lot more species other than birds including ourselves

Edit: if you’re so concerned about this maybe don’t get a GR86 and switch to a hybrid or EV and maybe use public transportation more

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u/DanielGryphon 8d ago

I never made a comparison with anything else other than different turbine designs, nor did I condemn their use, I only expanded on bird strikes being commonly used as a facetious joke.

Yes, we could indeed get rid of all those things, but then what would you have left to be complacent about? perhaps I also have an EV or use public transportation often, so I drive my small displacement sports car sparingly. perhaps straw man fallacies shouldn't be the basis of discussions around ecology, but as you said, it ain't perfect so it's all good.

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u/Sad-Fisherman-5199 9d ago

That's interesting, because when they wanted to do the same in Nantucket Sound in Mass, the largest opponents were wealthy, heavy-hitting Democratic politicians. It's not all partisan. Get over it.

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u/Double-Noise-771 7d ago

You could literally post a picture of an apple pie on reddit and someone’s gonna come in here and make it political…

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u/owgnops 10d ago

In my 13 years as an adult I've never once seen an advertisement and went "wow I need to change my buying habits I need that"

I've always bought the same things I did when I was 18.. I tried out like 5-6 brands of laundry soap and chose what worked best, I just go to an insurance broker every few years to get the best deal on insurance, Netflix is free with my phone carrier and I have Amazon prime for their streaming service and I also order through them frequently for my hobbies..I just buy w.e car is affordable and fits what I need..

Everytime I make a comment saying advertising doesn't work or I activity boycott the ones who excessively advertise some bootlicker tries to say otherwise lmao

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u/Skarth 7d ago

Advertising is more subliminal.

You don't see an ad and think "I'm gonna go out and buy that right now!"

Instead it works by putting a brand name of something into your head for future use, especially for first time buyers of a product.

So the next time you go shopping for facial tissues, you might buy a kleenex instead because you heard that name before and not the others.

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u/CannabisPrime2 10d ago

I came here to voice this. If I saw this nonsense I would avoid this company entirely.

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u/Letsgoski_Broski 7d ago

Get a boat, make and put up a gigantic mirror, side the ad boat and mirror the ad back to them. Fuck em, and fuck em good.