Treat yo self

Or: "Products you may be interested in!" [List of the exact products you already bought.]
I am not buying a second laptop just like the one I just bought. It is not, in an ideal scenario, a consumable item.
- Mmmmm yummy
- Well you might have enjoyed your Laptop so much that you are going to gift a new one to all of your friends
- SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE TO INCREDIBLY NICHE DURABLE GOOD

- Reminds me how people who have been paying much more in rent each month for years, often decades, are constantly refused mortgages for being "high risk" 🤦
  
  And then going into the negative on your credit card and paying it in time somehow makes you have good financial decisions.

I think it's Nate Bargatzki who talked about how he bought a refrigerator and then Amazon kept recommending refrigerators to him. He said "I already solved that problem, Amazon. Remember? You were there".
- Yup. I needed to buy some thumb tacks once and now Amazon thinks I need them all the time….
- Interesting thing is they could do this smartly. You buy a refrigerator, and Amazon could keep track of average replacement age of that product, then about the time it's due to be replaced, start sending you ads for another. That is when they would be useful.
  Instead we get ads for the thing we just bought and I don't understand why this practice continues. It can't actually result in higher profits...right?

It more so pisses me off when I buy a really expensive item and Amazon is trying to sell me a second one.
Like ya, maybe I'll consider getting another pack of pens, but I think I'm good on the GPU.
- You need a toaster for every room!

It's always funny to me when someone talks about how awesome the tech behind recommender-systems is and what complex problems had to be solved to make it work but in the end it's still just absolute garbage.
- It's not really that interesting, you find hot spots where interest between items is correlated.
  
  yeah similarly to AI right? Also not really interesting, you just do some math and boom: AI!

Get yourself a little something! See new listings for 3mm machine screws!
- While you're here, allow us to tempt you with this fine selection of unadorned plastic garbage cans that are either too small for your garbage or just barely too big for your garbage bags.

- This has got to be from Dead Like Me? I don't remember this moment, but it feels like a scene from Dead Like Me.
  
  Yeah it's Dead Like Me.
  
  Yep. Pretty sure I remember it from there. Shame that show lost its creator and went downhill.

Sounds like you should go for “Subscribe and save!”
- Yeah. She could've saved 5% with subscribe and save!

this always reassures me a little bit. all the tracking and targeting and whatever that we're supposed to be afraid of on the internet, and they still haven't figured out a better form of targeting than this.
- The truly sad part is, it's already enough to manipulate elections big time, juat loo at Cainbridge Analytica! :(
  
  fair point

Let's be honest though... there's been a time in your life that you've gone into a public restroom and wished that you had your own toilet seat with you.
- Nah. A travel bidet, though, must have.
  
  My wife got me a travel bidet for my birthday. We're on vacation and obviously it's along for the journey as well.

"Imagine you had a mood toilet seat and you come home to find that there is an imprint of an ass that had used it it. And it was angry."

It's mad!
I bought a laptop, from Amazon, something I do at most every 2-3 years.
For months since Amazon has been spamming me with laptop offers. I don't see what the best case scenario here is, I return the one I bought and get a new one?

Whenever I would buy rabbit food for a rabbit I was taking care of I would always get ads for chinchilla food and food for other small mammals. Like, I'm not out here collecting animals I just got the one.

Honestly I was hoping for a more dyslexic moment where the post says "I wanted more toilet seats for fun". As if she were a totally unhinged toilet seat collector.