Yes, and I have. This solves me the personal grief of being reminded of their bad practices but does nothing to actually solve the problem. Not that I think “awareness” is a great or in anyway meaningful solve, but if talking about the issue leads to a few other people also blocking Duolingo then at least I won’t feel like I am forced to merely accept the situation as is with no protest.

And for that reason we should turn a blind eye to any and all other broaches of ethics?

Yes, I’m aware of that, but ubiquity doesn’t make it okay, and my ire for Duolingo is specifically because they have been the most successful exploiter of this circumstance

I’m not saying OP is a shill, I’m saying that Duolingo manufactured the “Duo is coming to get you” meme intentionally, and people are happy to be stooges so happily accepted it. I don’t think OP has any affiliation to Duolingo, but they’re still normalizing their stupid trend so they can continue to leave meme comments on individual pages and get free advertising. It sucks.

That’s not what I mean. What I mean is that Duolingo frequently comments on individual user posts on tiktok, which tiktok raises as a high-visibility comment because Duolingo’s size makes the algorithm think it’s quality content. This means that Duolingo isn’t just advertising on their own tiktok page, obviously that would be fine, it means that they get to piggyback on viral content from completely unaffiliated users massively spreading their brand while providing no compensation of any kind to the creator of those viral videos. It wouldn’t be okay for somebody to run an ad before your content without your consent (we aren’t talking about the ads you consented to run by tiktok/youtube/whoever), so it shouldn’t be okay to use the comments as free advertising space too.

Fuck Duolingo and any other company that thinks it’s okay to comment all over social media. If you aren’t paying those people sponsorship deals to promote your brand, it should be illegal to hijack their page with your product.

Shit is disgusting and there is literally no worse offender of this loophole than Duolingo.

I recommend any time you see them in the wild telling them how disgusting it is that they think they can put up their billboards in other people’s lawns.

Fuck that bird. Don’t even support their entirely manufactured meme status. Just give them zero fucking attention

Which is interesting, because the point of the phrase is to imply something is so commonplace that it practically has no value. It’s so commonplace you can get a dozen of them for a dime!

So technically while the relative value of the dime in this phrase decreases, the relative value of the phrase itself increases as the dime’s value ever further approaches negligible, ever better emphasizing the point!

Words are fun.

Nah, I can give them p-r-------l at least.

Yes that’s the joke

I’ve told the story before, but I worked a MarketPro Computer Show & Sale a million years ago and was stationed next to a booth selling mostly speakers and stereo equipment where the booth owner had brought his 10-ish year old son with him. This son preceded to play “Around the World,” full-blast, through an enormous stack of display speakers, instantly filling the entire convention hall. Then he put the song on repeat. All day. No exaggeration, he did not play a single other song for the entirety of the 10 hour shift, just “Around the world, around the world… around the world, around the world… around the world, around the world” endlessly.

That kid is a legend of trolling.

Why are the animal’s choices never considered in this equation?

Sapience vs sentience. Hope that helps your understanding!

I’ll admit “trying” was doing a lot of heavy-lifting in that sentence ;)

Wolf. Not only do I think my chances are better, I’d also feel less bad about trying to fuck up a wolf if I had to

Lol, when I describe the song to people what I say is almost verbatim: “it sounds like they stumbled upon one really solid guitar riff and were like, fuck it, play that shit for the next 4 minutes! Umm is that gonna be enough for a song? Who gives a shit!”

So yeah, the riff is pretty good

Caroline, every time.

Sweet Home Alabama is just awful

why are right wingers like you triggered by absolutely everything?

Deep seated insecurity, stifled cognitive ability, lack of media and social literacy, a heart literally full of hate, severe lack of touch as a child, etc, etc, etc.

For those who choose the man and the bear

Whoever makes my baby cry is gonna lose some teeth tonight 🎵

Yes music, but it’s just going to be this song on repeat.

From management? If that’s the case I hope you’re clarifying to them that work conversations are legally work, so you will be expect to be paid fully for any hours clocked on the phone outside normal scheduled hours.

Of course if you’re talking about fielding calls while on the clock… well yeah you’re probably gonna have to answer those.