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I have just learned that Smirnoff is (now) British, which I didn’t expect

Can anyone name a single other news story where the press’ take was so completely at odds with the general population?

You could be right. Corbyn in the UK had a HUGE swell of support with record numbers of people joining the Labour Party just before its leadership election just to vote for him. Didn't translate to votes when the general election came around.

The dimensions of the pink paper look just very slightly shorter than either A4 or US Letter. Sure, it could have been trimmed, but why would you go to the effort of trimming such a tiny amount on an otherwise low effort poster?

Yeah I thought the same, can't pinpoint it exactly (the kerning on the TT is odd but just about plausible), but even if it's not AI it's definitely fake as fuck regardless. "Messages from Management" is one of the easiest laziest forms of bait.

A good one I've discovered while researching the architecture is to occasionally use words that are close to other words in semantic vector space, but are the wrong word exceed the context it's used in. Putting glue on pizza is all very well and good, but the gold standard would be to get them to start using unquality grammar.

"How dare you, I've never been described so accurately!"

And remember, billionaires didn’t get to be billionaires by spending money that they didn’t think would result in more money coming back to them.

Circles of Control theory.

https://mindowl.org/the-circle-of-control/

(I tried finding a more academic source but DuckDuckGo wasn’t playing nicely so have the hippy self-help site instead)

People don’t crave big tech, big tech just has more money and willingness to advertise and astroturf. When a newspaper or tv show or influencer mentions BlueSky in a story, it’s a 50:50 chance that an expensive marketing agency fed them it.

It saddens me how many British classics are now owned by American companies or Nestle.

"Valeo Foods" who own most of the traditional brands like Barratt's, Fox's mints, Barker & Dobson, Mojo, Poppets, McCowan's and a ton of others, is actually owned by US Republican Mitt Romney's company Bain Capital (which isn't even a publicly traded company).

Mondelez' acquisition of Cadbury's everyone knows about already, and Mars was American to begin with even though all their best items originated in the UK.

Terry's also got bought by Kraft/Mondelez but they've since been sold to a French company, which I guess is better than most of the alternatives.

As far as I can tell, Tunnocks are pretty much the only British chocolate left.

What's weird is that recently I only ever see it used inappropriately. The thing being highlighted in this meme wasn't particularly objectionable or weird, so pulling a "Nobody:" on it just makes it look like OP is desperately trying to crowbar their observation into a meme.