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Also people always only answer one question. Don’t ask two things at once. This is so infuriating.
Yep.
I have a habit of sending out a list of questions, even when I number it, and only get a basic response to 1-2 questions.
The consequence of that is if you do read it you effectively have superpowers over the non-readers.
Writing is a passive system for conveying information. It requires active effort by the target. If the target does not want to engage with the information, there is nothing forcing them to unless you add additional systems external to the information.
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
They forgot the “we have the right to take away the thing you paid for at any time, for any or no reason, with no refunds” clause.
Are you asking for an easy EULA?
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.
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Probably autocorrect on a french keyboard. It actually means “enamel”
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.
Perfectly fair point. But in business you’re supposed to read emails to know what you’re supposed to do. But no one does. (too many emails)
Menus have the descriptions of what you want to eat but no one reads them (too vain to wear glasses?)
Forget the creative writing work you’ve been doing. I mean. Y’know. That’s a given.
Sign, Sign, Everywhere a sign, Blocking out the scenery, Breaking my mind
But in business you’re supposed to read emails to know what you’re supposed to do.
So often I get a set of instructions that’s missing information, out of date, or deliberately misleading.
I’m often on the line with support walking through the steps and saying “How did you get from D to E?” and then finding out there’s a second secret set of instructions only tech support has - possibly even a different website or application - that they don’t want to tell you about unless you’re talking to an agent for some reason.
Menus have the descriptions of what you want to eat but no one reads them
Sometimes. Often they do not. They also regularly use shorthand or code.
My favorite is a series of red chili peppers next to a menu item. If I order the 1 pepper meal, am I going to be shitting blood for a weak? If I order the 5 pepper meal, are you going to White Guy Spicy it for the table because not everyone looks like they can handle it? It’s anyone’s guess. If I don’t explicitly see the words “peanut” or “shellfish”, am I confident it won’t have allergens?
Why even have a waiter if you’re not allowed to ask these questions, anyway? Just make everything a vending machine.
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?”
I wish
TL;DR?
/s
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 read everything, what’s wrong with everyone else?
If that’s your choice of fonts, I’m sure as hell not going to read it.
It looks like Helvetica to me. What’s wrong with that?
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.
Anyone curious, I fact checked this and according to snopes it’s true. This is just sad.
Nooooooo! IT’s because the DeMoCrAts didn’t address the needs of the working pooooooor! nooooooooooo!
I mean, you think this is happening exclusively in red states?
DC is bright blue and they’ve got some of the worst schools in the country. And if you want to know why…
Michelle Rhee’s Reign of Error
Privatization, downsizing, teaching to the test… Twenty years of NCLB has taken its toll.
Even then, there is something of a silver lining
The advent of modern text communications has created significant social incentives for improving literacy at younger ages.
If reading is the only driver to voting preference, then yes.
Otherwise, no.
If reading is the only driver to voting preference
Reading is a powerful tool because writing/publishing has a very low barrier to entry.
By contrast, audio and video tend to carry incrementally higher cost for production/distribution.
But you do still need peer groups with good politics to send you in the right direction. You can’t expect good politics to emerge ex nihilio across an entire population.
How does that work out, are there 50% of 11 yo in the USA?
:-) Jk
Which is wild.
I need to write to a 3rd grade level, and don’t think it is possible.
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:- big neonsign at the door at eyeheight telling people when the store opens, 1 out of 6 people looks at it the rest doesnt even see it, one once was even mad and blew out the doorglass with a kick.
- registers, big neon signs to say "hey douchenozzle, next one this is closed) and even when another worker is waiting and lookin at the person, they still dont get until you loudly talk to them to come to the other one.
- god forbid someone needs something in another part of the store, unless you use children level semantics (go to blue line for example) they never find what they looking for.
those are just my personal examples but outside of that you see it seemingly everywhere.
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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.
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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.
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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.
im not in america, our stores arent filled to the brim with neon signs
we have exactly one when we have a big sale and the ones at the register, nothing else
our stores are designed for things to be easily found
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big neonsign at the door at eyeheight telling people when the store opens, 1 out of 6 people looks at it the rest doesnt even see it, one once was even mad and blew out the doorglass with a kick.
This sounds like real-world banner blindness. Almost all neon signs are ads or usless bling-bling to catch your attention. It’s no wonder people don’t look at them anymore.
when i say neonsign, i meant the distinct color of the store as a border and than black on white text
banner or not, they still missing it
registers, big neon signs to say "hey douchenozzle, next one this is closed)
This is just bad design. Almost comically, your sign shouts, “Look at me, there’s nothing to see here”. You’re drawing attention away from where people should go. Of course this isn’t going to work.
Whoever thought advertising a closed register was a good idea needs to have their idea generator checked.
What did I just read?
None of us know either.
