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Things I recommend you buy and use (medium.com/robertwiblin)
1 point by robertwiblin on July 14, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


It’s a Medium post of adverts, and it feels bizarre. At certain points I wondered if it was a joke or intended as art.

Things the author recommends you “buy and use” include McDonald’s coffee; airline loyalty schemes (yes, they use the word “schemes”); getting a bunch of credit cards for the signup bonuses, which they even present with the same wording as get-rich-quick schemes (“make a few thousand dollars a year, or $50–100 per hour of work”); and several kinds of medication, including antidepressants:

> Are you not happy all the time?

> Maybe you should look into trying anti-depressants and see if they make you more cheerful.

They do mention it’s serious medication, but instead of recommending you see a doctor, point you to another post (by the same author, in a Google Docs file), were they talk about their own experience with what seems to be (didn’t read past the start) self-medication.


So, it doesn't recommend buying a Medium subscription?




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