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Signs at stores are ads. Email is spam and ads. Menu is ads. Post online is ads. Street signs are ads.
Instruction, caption with answer to question and group handouts aren't ads, but I had ads fatigue from the rest of the shit you've been trying to cram down my neck, so go fuck yourselves and your written words.
Ah yes.
Also: instead of googling for the opening times better waste everyone's time by sending a text or an email to the shop and making them spell it out for you!
Also: if you see the shop is clearly closed, lights aren't on and you can see the opening times on the door and they say it's not open but someone is inside better start knocking because surely they wish to serve you.
Also: never read the instructions of a product. Instead complain that it's broken and demand a new product. Repeat.
Also: if you see a price list/menu/price tag or similar and you accidentally read it, better double check the price by asking "does this item cost what it says here"
Also: "employees only" actually means "for adventurous customers"
Also: if it says push, pull, if it says pull, push.
Signs and stuff I can kind of understand. Our world is chock full of things (ads) that try to get our attention at any point. At some point you develop an internal adblock and since 98% is irrelevant it is a reasonable drawback that the remaining 2% gets filtered out as well.
Exactly this. Imagine the gall of people to complain I don't interact more with their ads. Pricks.
A significant fraction of America is illiterate. 21% or 1/5. Yeah.
It's even worse than that:
21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024. 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level).
So 1/5 can't read at all, and over HALF can't read better than an 11 year old.
I dont wanna say the average person is stupid but they make it really difficult to not think so.
Call it illiterate tunnel vision or whatever else youd like, but come one.
Heres some personal examples from work:
those are just my personal examples but outside of that you see it seemingly everywhere.
Is it next to the 30 big neon signs advertising 4% off expired yoghurt? I must've missed it while I was looking at literally anything else.
Is that sign next to the other shitty advertisements trying to get me to buy an overpriced candy bar before I'm out the door? Sucks, I'm not reading any of them. Deal with it.
Your store is literally designed to make people get lost and lose track of time. You're welcome to go fuck yourself and take your annoyance out on your corporate overlords instead of the regular people just trying to find the onions.
Weird, I read anything my eyes set upon without even thinking about it. Why wouldn't you, unless you're illiterate?
There are some levels to "without thinking about it". You miss some things. You just aren't aware when you do. Your brain will get tired at some point in the day and will adjust its capacity/willingness to get into detail, unless you're not human.
In my previous job i had to do a lot of coordination via email. I learned very quickly you can only ask a single question per email because very very few people would ever answer more than that. God forbid there was some semi complex task that needs done.
Ha! I just gave that advice to someone on Lemmy a couple weeks ago. They were having problems getting people do respond to stuff at work and I had to explain how the average person can't track more than one subject in a single communication chain.
Work retail and you'll see how little people read. There can be a sign in giant huge letters when walking in the door saying "Sale things aisle 7" and they'll stop en employee right by the sign and ask where the sales things are
21% of American adults are illiterate.
I have always had the opposite problem. You put written words in front of me, and I am compelled to read them. I only stopped reading TOS/EULAs because they're always the same! You read 10 of em, you start to see they're all exactly the same, with just names being changed.
What's the tl;dr for most TOS?
You agree to not break the law using their product, you agree to arbitration instead of going to a real court (which the company would pay for, not you, so please actually take them up on this en mass), you agree to not reverse engineer the code, reproduce the code or redistribute the code, etc. Long ass lists of what you can and can not use it for. Sometimes there's funny shit in there like the tos for iTunes disallows you to use the software to create nuclear weapons. Idk how you would use iTunes for that but I guess they wanted all their bases covered.
Tl;Dr - "You agree to be raped in the asshole by capitalism."
Thank you
When what's written is in a language you can read, what's up with that? Reading is free, so to speak, and it enables laziness by not having to find and ask people stuff
I'm not going to defend people that are too lazy to comprehend words on a sign.
What I will say, is that it took me entirely too long to look up when I was at the grocery store. One of my first jobs was at a grocery store and it took me far too long to notice the signs.
in my experience, its easy to not notice a sign altogether. too busy looking for some(one|thing) possibly
TL;DR?
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Explain it to me, but don’t use any words
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I should have mentioned no numbers either
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Is this loss?
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I worked gate security at a baseball stadium. Right next to where I stood there were two huge signs reading "No Smoking" and "No Re-entry". Guess what questions I got asked all day.
"you free tonight?"
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Probably autocorrect on a french keyboard. It actually means "enamel"
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What did I just read?
None of us know either.
If that's your choice of fonts, I'm sure as hell not going to read it.