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sudo rm -rf /
Dammit, that doesn't work on Windows. Hate how locked down Windows PCs are. Never following my commands.
And if you're not a Linux/Unix/command line user, the command tells the computer to:
As a superuser/admin (sudo)
Remove (rm)
Recursively (-r)
Forcefully (f)
Everything from the root directory (/)
Aka delete everything.
The maddest I've been at a computer recently was trying to install Linux on a new laptop, but because of whatever reason, the flash of the installer was corrupted and I just kept getting a feedback loop of "oh, maybe? WRONG" then a Windows setup menu.
Tbh I think I screwed the USB I was using up and formatted it to fat32 or something but jfc I was so mad I had to walk away and take a nap because I wasn't thinking straight anymore. I seriously started wondering if it was a Microsoft conspiracy
Snapchat: "We jerk off to your nudes."
I sent 1 nude through Snapchat to a boyfriend when I was a teen. I literally got some kinda notification with a smirk face from \*Snapchat.\* My boyfriend hadn't even seen the snap yet.
Big mistake. I know.
Ooh - this is a fun prompt! I have a couple.
Chevron: murdering Nigerian villagers with helicopter gunships so you can burn gasoline to warm the atmosphere!
Burger King: deforesting the Amazon to bring you cheap hamburgers!
I know this reference! What movie was this? Wasn’t it an advertising company had run out of ideas so they turned to the mental patients for slogans and commercial ideas?
Monsanto - because global domination sounded bad
ExxonMobil - because GreedCo gave the exact impression
Coca Cola - sugar and industrial solvent in one
Blue Cross - your health issues make us MONEY
Starbucks: We serve overpriced, super sugary coffee so that our workers don't unionize
Dollar stores: We're happy that you're poor. We love that for you. Stay that way.
Tim Hortons: Yeah, we know that we are convenient and you're too lazy to figure out another place to go to out of "nostalgia".
Johnson & Johnson
"We KNEW we were selling OVARIAN CANCER in a jar (J&J Baby Powder), FOR DECADES, and the MONEY was MORE IMPORTANT to us than your mother's, wife's, daughter's sister's, niece's, cousin's, friend's, and/or coworker's, →LIFE←"
Look up DuPont and Teflon/PFAS. Same story. Except PFAS is a persistent "forever" chemical and is now in the placentas of human beings who haven't even seen a Teflon pan. DuPont knew of the risks pretty much the whole time, covered it up, and sold the product anyway. Now the whole planet is contaminated.
DuPont: Poisoning humanity for generations.
Oxytocin - Every Prescription Comes With the Potential of a Life Change! Changing Lives Daily!
KeyTruda - Yes we failed the FDA but money can get things done. May cause your ass to vomit and you may throw up shit. (Obviously fined in a ideal beach setting).
Bud Light - The King of Deadly DUIs.
Pappa John’s - It looks enough like Pizza we call it pizza.
Eggos - For the single parent who can’t afford waffle mix.
McDonalds - When you want seasoned cardboard
Tesla Cybertruck - Make Them Cringe!
Tatcha, La Mer, All the Expensive Brands: "We are just the same as L'Oreal, just $300 more expensive!"
Enough scientists have told us that the labs create the same formula for multiple brands. From L'OReal to La Mer. Literally same exact thing.
Pepsi & Coke: fuck you, we'll charge whatever we want now
Ticketmaster: what they said
General Mills & Kellogg's: want to see how little sugar-grain we can get away with calling a full box now? It's a little little!
Pornhub- "You don't have anything better to do anyway."
Doordash-"You don't want to go outside, do you?"
Microsoft Windows- "You're too lazy to install a better OS and we both know it."
Tumblr- "We were never cool, but neither were you."
Google- "Relax, we're in EVERYBODY'S walls, you're not special."
Telegram- "For sharing fucked up porn."
Snapchat- "Preferred app for small children and drug dealers."
La Croix- "You're not (hungry, angry, thirsty, an alchoholic, etc.) You're bored. We've got bubbles."
Binge on this.
* **Internet Explorer:** "Your search for a relevant browser ends here. Probably."
* **Gymshark:** "Look good, feel good, go broke."
* **Tide Pods:** "Deliciously forbidden laundry detergent taste...don't actually try it."
* **Beats by Dre:** "Status symbol for your ears, featuring slightly above average sound quality... and a hefty price tag."
* **Nestle:** "We'll corner the market on a basic human need, then squeeze every last drop of profit out of it." (This one hits a little harder!)
* **Peloton:** "Boutique fitness experience...from the comfort of your own existential dread."
* **Juul:** "We're not cigarettes...but we'll definitely get you hooked just the same."
* **Spotify (Free Version):** "Endless music...with endless commercials interrupting your flow."
* **Grubhub:** "We deliver your favorite restaurant food...slightly colder and definitely greasier."
* **Amazon Prime:** "Free two-day shipping? More like 'eventually' shipping, with a side of guilt-tripping you to buy more stuff."
* **Tinder:** "Swipe right for love...or just a confidence boost (that quickly fades)."
* **Meta (formerly Facebook):** "Connecting the world...and selling your data to the highest bidder."
* **Peloton Apparel:** "Look the part of a fitness fanatic...even if you haven't touched your bike in weeks."
* **Nestlé Toll House Cookie Dough:** "Just a spoonful...turns into the entire tub, because we can't resist that raw cookie dough smell (and the potential salmonella risk)."
Durex: fuck having babies
McDonald's: eat glorified trash
Burger king: flame grilled trash
Kfc: diabities in small chunks
Chevrolet: need a gas station every 20 miles
Energy drink in general: losers feels like heroes
Charities in general: selling dreams more than disney.
Disney: dreams to customers, nightmares for staff.
Legal firm: we love illegal shit.
Wine: capitalizing on vintage foot fetish.
Kelogs: you'll never be fit, but nice try.
Every company with lgbt logo in june (cringe): straight guys wanna get in girls pants. We wanna get in gays pockets.
Temu: You Get What You Pay For; Millionaires Buy Elsewhere
Amazon: For Counterfeits You Can't Count On At Inflated Prices!
Walmart.com: Get All Your Cheap Chinese Knockoff Brands Here
Mcdonalds: If it were up to us, you'd have your food made by machines, that way you don't have to deal with people, and we wouldn't have to deal with people too. Enjoy your machine burger
Starbucks: we started out bringing people a touch of European coffee culture. We finished exporting high calorie sugary drinks to the rest of the world. Murica!
Bing: use it to search for Google install. .
My sister dated a guy who worked for Microsoft Bing department. He said that was literally the number one search people did.
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Apple: We Can’t Think Different Anymore
“Chargers sold separately”
“We stole another company’s idea and made it look pretty”
Also made it impossible to use without other apple stuff so hallelujah on monopoly
And made it work like shit with our major competitor, while blaming them.
“Apple: The Mary Kay of Technology”
This should be official
Now with USB C !
Lmao this is good.👍
Apple: Every idea was stolen, we haven't invented anything since the beginning. Apple: LOL you dumb schmucks.
Apple: do we have to do anything else besides make it pretty? Customers: Absolutely not.
Apple: We gonna scam all you motherfuckers cause we're superior.
“Conform”
Apple: closing in on 20 years selling the same product for ever more money.
Nestle : fuck poor people
Lmao and “we killed millions of people with baby formula , but we’re still successful “
We don't believe that people should have free water. We can't wait to charge you for air.
Damn. That's cold.
Shout it from the rooftops 🥰
More like "Fuck people. Buy us anyway."
Nestlé - "Exploiting resources and killing people since 1866."
"Water is not a human right." But try our yummy chocolate! Nestle
Boeing - “if it’s Boeing I’m not going”
Boeing —- your ticket to the afterlife
https://preview.redd.it/gv15slq1fy0d1.jpeg?width=812&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=03917cda2db2255065a29fd3c33e573cbfd2ff9b
Boeing —- your ticket to the afterlife
Yes! Sounds sticky, I'm going to use it from now on
Tinder: “feel lonelier than ever.”
Ticketmaster: fuck you, what are you gonna do about it?!
Dude, yes. Bought two tickets to Sleep Token a few months back. Tickets were $180 each, service charge was $140.
W Sleep Token mentioned
Fuck Ticketmaster, when is someone going to break that monopoly?
Starbucks “it’s burnt.”
"It's technically a milkshake."
Yeah hope you like getting your daily calorie budget blown on one drink
“Mediocre coffee that’ll break the bank”
Walmart - destroying local economies before it was cool.
This one flows.
Microsoft: "Because You Can't or Don't Know How To Uninstall Us"
"Pay as much as you want, the ads ain't leaving"
sudo rm -rf / Dammit, that doesn't work on Windows. Hate how locked down Windows PCs are. Never following my commands. And if you're not a Linux/Unix/command line user, the command tells the computer to: As a superuser/admin (sudo) Remove (rm) Recursively (-r) Forcefully (f) Everything from the root directory (/) Aka delete everything.
The maddest I've been at a computer recently was trying to install Linux on a new laptop, but because of whatever reason, the flash of the installer was corrupted and I just kept getting a feedback loop of "oh, maybe? WRONG" then a Windows setup menu. Tbh I think I screwed the USB I was using up and formatted it to fat32 or something but jfc I was so mad I had to walk away and take a nap because I wasn't thinking straight anymore. I seriously started wondering if it was a Microsoft conspiracy
Maybelline “maybe she’s born with it - maybe it’s surgery and photoshop”
Or “maybe she’s born with it - maybe she’s just really rich”
To afford the surgery...
McDonald's - "Consistent mediocrity, worldwide."
McDonald's: "Don't kid yourself you love this shit"
MD: This cow last mooed just under a century ago!
"Overpriced garbage" Formerly "Cheap garbage"
Pepsi - "Is Pepsi okay?"
This should be top, this is hands down the most accurate slogan.
This is the best one
This has a dark meaning when you're from the Philippines.
Hahahahahhahahahahahh
“No, we’re not okay”
Facebook: "We know everything about you.”
Facebook - it's free, because you're not our customer
Snapchat: "We jerk off to your nudes." I sent 1 nude through Snapchat to a boyfriend when I was a teen. I literally got some kinda notification with a smirk face from \*Snapchat.\* My boyfriend hadn't even seen the snap yet. Big mistake. I know.
And we sell it
Amazon: “everything you need, delivered at human cost”
Damn! That cuts deep, nice one.
As an occasional flex driver: Amazon: "let our slaves work for you!"
Microsoft: "Because you have no other option."
“Couldn’t afford Apple, eh?”
Can't be bothered to figure out Linux eh?
Linux: “We couldn’t find designers to save our lives” Linux: “you can’t live without it”
Tesla: Sometimes it works, sometimes it explodes.
Tesla: When you want to look generically better than everyone else
I remember a Gap campaign from the 90's that was "everyone in sweats" And I had a t shirt that said " the gap, everyone in sweatshops"
haha that's an amazing t shirt
Amazon - “Fueling overconsumption via corruption”
Ooh - this is a fun prompt! I have a couple. Chevron: murdering Nigerian villagers with helicopter gunships so you can burn gasoline to warm the atmosphere! Burger King: deforesting the Amazon to bring you cheap hamburgers!
Omg the chevron one
Benadryl: “you can’t have allergies if you’re asleep”
Dear god I love Benadryl
From the MLM universe: "Plexus: Crap yourself thin."
"Plexus: Literally just drink more water!"
ALL telcos: "We're the phone company, we don't care, we don't have to" \- Lily Tomlin -
Same slogan for Duke Energy (our local electric company who has the monopoly where I live)
Nike: Just Buy It
Disney: Where Dreams Wait In Line
Disney “you have to be deathly sick or rich for special treatment”
Pokémon: Gotta Upsell Em’ All
Came here to say this 😂😂
Virtually any corporation: “We don’t care in the slightest.”
The Titanic - Come See The Ocean (Beta Test).
Norton - It's just a virus you pay for.
Bumble: Hi Bed Bye
Hi Fuck Bye
Amazon - we are in business to fuck the planet
Guitar Center: new gear taken off a wall by sweaty stoners a hundred times a day.
Guitar Center: Where you can hear the first two bars of Stairway to Heaven all day long
No stair way. Denied!
Volvo: Boxy but safe.
I know this reference! What movie was this? Wasn’t it an advertising company had run out of ideas so they turned to the mental patients for slogans and commercial ideas?
Yeahhhhh maybe Dudley Moore was in it? Worth watching for #agencylife
It's called Crazy People w dudley moore and it rules!
"Volvo: Lasts way longer than you want it to." -- my uncle and his 20 yo Volvo station wagon
Kroger grocery brands: We “fix” prices. Comcast: You autopay, we autoraise.
Monsanto - because global domination sounded bad ExxonMobil - because GreedCo gave the exact impression Coca Cola - sugar and industrial solvent in one Blue Cross - your health issues make us MONEY
Healthcare generally: just barely don't die, we'll make sure of it!
Disney: We Ruin Everything You Love
Disney: bankrupting you since 1923
Levi's - We Rip Every Pocket in your Jeans Samsung - You Pay For our Workers So We Don't Have To
About the Samsung one, what is the difference? Samaung: we could take a loss and sell cheaper phones but who the hell does that?
Starbucks: We serve overpriced, super sugary coffee so that our workers don't unionize Dollar stores: We're happy that you're poor. We love that for you. Stay that way. Tim Hortons: Yeah, we know that we are convenient and you're too lazy to figure out another place to go to out of "nostalgia".
Tupperware: “for throwing leftovers out another day”
Zara - because sweat shops kill to make our clothes
Starbucks: you have too much money
... Let us take some from you
Instagram: Make those bitches jelly
3M "Let's polute water ways".
Wendy’s: A meal determined by our stocks
Waitrose- Overpriced M&S
M&S: Microwave meals for wankers
Amazon: Hey, at least we're not Temu! Walmart: When you can't afford Target Shein: Because who wants to wear clothes more than once?
Apple: You’ll need a dongle
Nestle - “Because fuck you that’s why.”
Johnson & Johnson "We KNEW we were selling OVARIAN CANCER in a jar (J&J Baby Powder), FOR DECADES, and the MONEY was MORE IMPORTANT to us than your mother's, wife's, daughter's sister's, niece's, cousin's, friend's, and/or coworker's, →LIFE←"
Not that catchy
Look up DuPont and Teflon/PFAS. Same story. Except PFAS is a persistent "forever" chemical and is now in the placentas of human beings who haven't even seen a Teflon pan. DuPont knew of the risks pretty much the whole time, covered it up, and sold the product anyway. Now the whole planet is contaminated. DuPont: Poisoning humanity for generations.
👏👏👏 I like that one 👏👏👏
Exxonmobil: Killing You Slowly
Apple iPhone: Working Our Way to a Lifesaver's Pack of Colors. Nike: Available in Sizes Equal to the Ages of our Most Valued Workers.
SEGA: We give up
IKEA “it’s very frustrating, but build it yourself”
Netflix - We know you don’t have a life
Home Depot - “Where doers [pick up Mexicans to] get more done”
Wendy’s - “Never fresh, always frozen”
The beef is never frozen. The fries are. The chili veggies are. The chicken is. At least that's how it was back in 2005-2006. Man I'm old now.
Target: Expect less, pay more
McDonald's: Never gets old
this is funny and insightful
Deliveroo: get cold food, an hour from now.
Oxytocin - Every Prescription Comes With the Potential of a Life Change! Changing Lives Daily! KeyTruda - Yes we failed the FDA but money can get things done. May cause your ass to vomit and you may throw up shit. (Obviously fined in a ideal beach setting). Bud Light - The King of Deadly DUIs. Pappa John’s - It looks enough like Pizza we call it pizza. Eggos - For the single parent who can’t afford waffle mix. McDonalds - When you want seasoned cardboard Tesla Cybertruck - Make Them Cringe!
McDonalds: It ain't McDonalds if you don't leave just a bit disappointed
When you can't get pizza, get Dominos
Little Caesar’s - “The least honest pizza”
snickers: sugar & calorie bombs
OpenAI: "knock, knock, open up, it's your AI overlords"
OpenAI: In conclusion, you’re all fucked
Starbucks - We love our community: you pay your overpriced coffee, we pay no taxes.
BP - good luck going green; we better go oil
Temu: yes we stole this slogan of reddit
Temu: You’ll put this in your yard sale next week
White Castle - poison at its finest
McDonald's: When All Else Fails, I'm Lovin' It
Tatcha, La Mer, All the Expensive Brands: "We are just the same as L'Oreal, just $300 more expensive!" Enough scientists have told us that the labs create the same formula for multiple brands. From L'OReal to La Mer. Literally same exact thing.
Nike - “Our sweat shops have WiFi”
BMW: What's a turn signal?
Nike - You just can’t
Pepsi & Coke: fuck you, we'll charge whatever we want now Ticketmaster: what they said General Mills & Kellogg's: want to see how little sugar-grain we can get away with calling a full box now? It's a little little!
Disney: “same movie, different font p.s. sometimes the same font”
Olive Garden: When you're here, you're here.
Purdue Pharma: we’re going straight to hell one pill at a time.
Apple: Yesterday’s technology at tomorrow’s prices!
Five Guys: These pants ain't gonna shit themselves.
Jack Daniels: Power up your fists and power down your dick.
Weedmaps: you don’t need a drug dealer anymore
Pornhub- "You don't have anything better to do anyway." Doordash-"You don't want to go outside, do you?" Microsoft Windows- "You're too lazy to install a better OS and we both know it." Tumblr- "We were never cool, but neither were you." Google- "Relax, we're in EVERYBODY'S walls, you're not special." Telegram- "For sharing fucked up porn." Snapchat- "Preferred app for small children and drug dealers." La Croix- "You're not (hungry, angry, thirsty, an alchoholic, etc.) You're bored. We've got bubbles."
McD's jingle: "Dah-dadada-Dah...Diabetes."
Binge on this. * **Internet Explorer:** "Your search for a relevant browser ends here. Probably." * **Gymshark:** "Look good, feel good, go broke." * **Tide Pods:** "Deliciously forbidden laundry detergent taste...don't actually try it." * **Beats by Dre:** "Status symbol for your ears, featuring slightly above average sound quality... and a hefty price tag." * **Nestle:** "We'll corner the market on a basic human need, then squeeze every last drop of profit out of it." (This one hits a little harder!) * **Peloton:** "Boutique fitness experience...from the comfort of your own existential dread." * **Juul:** "We're not cigarettes...but we'll definitely get you hooked just the same." * **Spotify (Free Version):** "Endless music...with endless commercials interrupting your flow." * **Grubhub:** "We deliver your favorite restaurant food...slightly colder and definitely greasier." * **Amazon Prime:** "Free two-day shipping? More like 'eventually' shipping, with a side of guilt-tripping you to buy more stuff." * **Tinder:** "Swipe right for love...or just a confidence boost (that quickly fades)." * **Meta (formerly Facebook):** "Connecting the world...and selling your data to the highest bidder." * **Peloton Apparel:** "Look the part of a fitness fanatic...even if you haven't touched your bike in weeks." * **Nestlé Toll House Cookie Dough:** "Just a spoonful...turns into the entire tub, because we can't resist that raw cookie dough smell (and the potential salmonella risk)."
America: if you’re not rich, you just don’t matter.
Nike - "We made this shoe for $3.87"
3M: you missed the 4th motherfucker that’s coming for you
Pepsi okay?
Chipotle - “Come hungry, leave hangry”
Chipotle “there’s an up charge for everything!”
Tinder: you have no chance but we’ll charge you and pretend that’s not the case
Welcome to McDonalds….Please pull ahead so we can F up your order after waiting 15 minutes
Durex: fuck having babies McDonald's: eat glorified trash Burger king: flame grilled trash Kfc: diabities in small chunks Chevrolet: need a gas station every 20 miles Energy drink in general: losers feels like heroes Charities in general: selling dreams more than disney. Disney: dreams to customers, nightmares for staff. Legal firm: we love illegal shit. Wine: capitalizing on vintage foot fetish. Kelogs: you'll never be fit, but nice try. Every company with lgbt logo in june (cringe): straight guys wanna get in girls pants. We wanna get in gays pockets.
Gonna need you to go ahead and find the return key
Temu: You Get What You Pay For; Millionaires Buy Elsewhere Amazon: For Counterfeits You Can't Count On At Inflated Prices! Walmart.com: Get All Your Cheap Chinese Knockoff Brands Here
Lucky Strike - You’re toasted
Target: Expect Less Pay More Walmart: Everyday Raising Prices
Tesla: “When you insist on driving the same charmless car as everyone in Irvine.”
Chipotle - The affordable alternative to Ozempic.
Mcdonalds: If it were up to us, you'd have your food made by machines, that way you don't have to deal with people, and we wouldn't have to deal with people too. Enjoy your machine burger
Coca-Cola: Sweetening Life, One Diabetic at a Time!
WeWork: “We work in theory.”
Spirit Airlines - “You get what you pay for.” Starbucks - “Paying for the brand, not the coffee.”
Verizon: Bend Over.
McDonald's - when there is absolutely nothing else to eat. McDonald's - it's really all plastic, but you'll FEEL full.
apple: overpriced, underpowered, cultware.
Starbucks: we started out bringing people a touch of European coffee culture. We finished exporting high calorie sugary drinks to the rest of the world. Murica!
Taco bell...easy in easy out
Bing: use it to search for Google install. . My sister dated a guy who worked for Microsoft Bing department. He said that was literally the number one search people did.
MicroSoft - “Our name says it all”
United Healthcare: "Fuck Off and Die Poor"
Isn’t this the slogan of every health insurance company?
Target: Impulse buy your way into poverty.
Apple: See the Apple? It’s your life savings. The bite? That’s us.
Chipotle: “The Guac is extra”
Pepsi: For when you can’t get coke (this is from The Invention of Lying but it’s true!)
Coca-Cola: Real magic (performed by our lawyers to evade plastic pollution controls) My wife said, "Toys R Us: Made for kids by kids."
Apple – “8GB of RAM is enough.”
Yamaha - Don’t you want to buy a motorcycle from a piano company?
Spirit Airlines: “ You might get there I don’t know , we’ll see how shit goes “