What I get, usually several a day, are emails inviting me to submit a paper for one of those pseudo-journals. They live by charging the authors to publish so they can pad their CVs. They always claim to be refereed (even if they will publish 5 minutes after you pay) and indexed in the standard indexing publications. And they are in any subject under the sun, rarely having anything to do with math. And they come to an old email address I haven’t used in 20 years, and probably exists only to forward to my current one. But I don’t want to filter them out because I get an occasional email from an old acquaintance using that address.
Oddly enough, I don’t seem to get ads on FaceBook at all even though I read it nearly every day.
I’m back on the “tactical” track. Got an ad for a coffee cup that looks like a AR-15, and to go with it, “tactical” coffee, umpteen different holsters and attachments to carry in your car, body armor, armor reinforced backpacks, “tactical” pants with lots of pockets, and more I’ve forgotten. There must be a lot of money to be made off military fetishists.
Yeah, there must be. I get a lot of those, too. The perennial one I’m offered seems to be a company selling a laser round for practicing your handgun skills. I don’t own a handgun.
Also, there’s a company selling a “tactical hoodie”. I might actually be interested in the product (hey, I like extra pockets, sue me) if their commercials weren’t so stupid and annoying.
I was just browsing the Dope on my phone, and got an ad for “Water truck hose reels – tough hose reels for jobsite use”. That seems like a fairly niche product used by construction crews, which is not even close to my line of work. Granted, it looks like the ad was actually for a site that sells truck accessories, but even then I do not have a truck, and wouldn’t need those sorts of accessories for it if I did.
I might have been interested in that had I seen it, last week. I needed a new rain jacket but I couldn’t find one with a hood and zippered pockets. (Why would you even make a water tight raincoat with open pockets?) I finally found one at the second store I went to.
Do you often lose your semi trailers in your ginormous freight yard? and spend too much time hunting them down so the hostler can find it and back it up to the loading dock? Costing you and the long haul drivers time and money?
