Whats_your_reasoning

Well, now I'm worried for your friend too. I hope you can get a hold of her and she's all right.

The same people that organized Saturday's protests put together this Lemmy community: https://50501.chat/

It looks like April 19th is the next one.

As long as they can identifying that "we win" is the same as "I win," that's fine. I'd invite them to join us for cooperative games.

Legit, I think this is why board games are a great activity when getting to know new people. Most people don't want to play with someone ultra competitive, who'll either gloat when they win, or flip the board when they lose. If someone's willing to behave that way over a game, imagine how they'd be over something that's actually important.

I didn't reach to find that era - it was referenced from the article, even the snippet at the top of this very page:

But humanity had been free of current forms of advertising for 99.9% of its existence.

Then you provided examples that occured within the most recent .1% sliver of humanity's existence. Anything more recent than ~30,000 BCE is within that .1% time frame. Ergo, Ancient Rome doesn't count.

flowers advertising themselves to insects and birds advertising their singing abilities to each other.

This is why it's important to define terms before beginning debates. The advertising people are referencing here is the modern kind targeted at humans in order to manipulate them. To compare that to the symbiotic relationships between flowers and their pollinators, or to animals seeking a mate, (both scenarios that benefit all parties mutually) is a false equivalence.

Anyway, I tried to keep things light-hearted in that last post, to show that I'm not looking to attack anyone. I gave you credit for providing a novel viewpoint, in an effort to build conversation. But I'm getting the impression that you're not arguing in good faith. If you'd like have a real discussion, cool, I'm in. But if you're looking for an argument, I recommend you look elsewhere.

The word "new" is a relative term. Humans evolved around 300,000 BCE, and ancient Rome (founded in 753 BCE) is pretty "new" by that metric. You're not wrong that people found ways to "advertise" to each other throughout recorded history, but when it comes to prehistory (or as the article states, "99.9% of [humanity's] existence"), life was very different. There can't have been much to advertise before people developed tradable goods.

With that said, I'm intrigued by your comprehensive interpretation of "advertising." Now I'm wondering about things that would not have been written down/recorded, like things a town crier might have been incentivized to add to their announcements.

"Hear ye, hear ye! A joust is to be held tomorrow evening in the royal courtyard, in the King's honor. Sir and Lady Abbington announce the birth of their new son, to be baptized at the Lord's church this Saturday. In celebration, Mavis the Fishmonger is offering a buy-one-get-one deal on all flounder! Come on down to the market square for fantastic deals on all your seafood goods - just look for the stall with the yellow awning. Get your catch of the day at Mavis's!"

There were zero mainstream media outlets at the protest I went to (which was in a state’s capitol city.)

People in the crowd pointed it out, loudly and frequently enough that for a brief moment, one of the crowd’s chants became, “Where’s the media?” (Or something very similar; I don’t remember verbatim.)

I think we should hold our next events in front of prominent media offices. The news won’t come to us? We’ll go to the news. We have to make it impossible for them to ignore us.

As I said to my girlfriend today, a honk from a single pick-up truck is worth the honks from two EVs.

Their point isn't about shoes. It's about how a thing can change in value.

Yep. I know. I think a lot of us know. It doesn’t make my burnt-out, cortisol-drenched brain any more capable of reacting.

Just add it to the pile of my stressors over there. I think there’s some space between “potential homelessness” and “loss of medical coverage,” but you might have to squeeze it in there.

I just want to note that one of the key links on the NLG site, under Protest Tools > Legal Hotlines, is broken. (The "Chapter Page" link goes to a broken draft version.) If you went to that site specifically to find a local chapter's phone number to write, the correct link to that page is: https://www.nlg.org/chapters/

I see, I misread your first sentence in the other comment.