It’s about liability. Companies don’t want their salt returned to them after x years, especially not with some lame excuse. So they just define an expiration date y that’s far off enough to not drive customers away, but still minimizes the risk of complaints.
If a (big) customer successfully complains within this time span, they’ll simply decrease it.

Gift them books, a microscope, minerals, a vintage computer… Maybe something will stick and make them more introverted. Or maybe they’ll see the gifts as an abstract validation of their ways and store them in the basement or the trash can.

This is fucking dangerous. Total watershed event.

That’s pretty much the basic premise of the Chuang Tzu.

That’s why I don’t keep a lot of stuff.
Otherwise, I could never stop buying new stuff.

Thanks. I didn’t know there was a real band called “The Pipi Pickers” and I might have lived on happily without that knowledge.

Needs more “Yes/ Ask again later” pseudo-choices.

♪ Nightswimming, remembering that night
September’s coming soon, I’m pining for the moon ♪

If you control social media, you also control who gets to see what in their feeds.

Cabaret Voltaire’s “Automotivation” for me.