If you can replace “it’s” with “it is” or “it has” it needs an apostrophe. If you can’t, because it’s a possessive pronoun showing ownership, there’s no apostrophe.
The broker that my retirement account is through is pushing some new AI insights tool. The screenshots show an example of a conversation that essentially goes.
Q: "How can I reach my retirement savings goals faster?"
A: "Consider contributing more to your 401k from each paycheck."
People will actually pay money to have some slop chatbot tell them that they can have more money in their account if they put more money in their account. Preying on stupid or lazy people is an extremely lucrative industry.
If nothing else, that Louis Theroux documentary about the manosphere exposed how all this influencer crap is built on a bunch of exceptionally dubious finance apps, that make Bernie Madoff look like a legit business mogul.
They all talked about how wealthy they were, but none of them really seemed rich. Rich people aren't up at 6am editing YouTube shorts and putting in the right hashtags. They're all living on borrowed money, and you get the feeling that if any of them tried to step off the treadmill, there'd be no life left to go back to.
Got laid off last fall. SEO is already pretty much slop so it was the perfect industry for LLMs. It was already getting hard to find good content online because of all the garbage we were loading up with keywords to game search. Now with AI generating it 24/7 traditional search is just dead in the water.
Last night we were playing D&D and one of other players showed off a miniature character model he had generated with AI. "I'm glad I didn't go to school for 3D modeling", he says.
Guess what I took a bunch of classes for since the 1990s.
Whatever, my models all have more heart than slop. They can't afford me and I'm not making them free models anyways.
This isn't just the scamming internet randos, it goes into pretty high level business consulting.
"We just hired a company that has never worked in our field who doesn't employ anyone who has worked in our field to tell us how to work in our field better than we do today, this should be great!"
They always act so shocked that the consultancy did them zero good after giving them a few months.
The consultants are literally a place to blame for mass firings or restructuring. Most of the time they recommend changes management wanted but couldn't say out loud since it would spook shareholders. It's dumb but it's how the majority of the consultancy grift works.
If you could make that kind of money with copy writing, I'd be rich. Copy writers, tech writers, basically any kind of writers are always underappreciated and underpaid.
Reminds me of those ads where scammer pretends if you invest in some obvious scam you too will own a jet and a Ferarri just like him. If it was such an amazing way to make money the last thing they'd do is tell anyone else about it.
I mean, this is funny in two directions; there's the overt joke that the masterclass man is full of bs, which is true a lot of the time, and then there's the joke for the enlightened people of the audience who are on the quest to perceive and undo the karmic fetters that bind them to the existence-illusion complex, and we laugh at the slaves who, by defining their lives by money, has enslaved themselves by the way they choose to live their life.
I haven't had a "job" in twelve years. I value that. It's gets annoying hearing all your coworkers bitch about being in the same place you are, so I went off and started my educational art project soon after I taught myself to juggle, and there's been low points of high stress, a few years of homelessness, and a year spent in a cult, but because I dedicated myself to my mission, I now have made many unique friends who support me as well as a major investor and a book and a life story that healed me of the shit society broke me with.
It's really cool when you grow tf up and stop doing what your parents with lead poisoning told you how to live your life. You prolly dress like your mommy taught you to dress, still, but I just say that because in my daily performance art, I wound up with a fun opportunity to moonlight as a cop, so I consciously try to pick fights, passively. But I just say that because there's a percentage of the population that doesn't know that yet. It's educational!
64 Comments
movies@lemmy.world · 163 pts · 26d
Dude’s a copywriter and can’t use “it’s” properly. Grammar must be less important when you’re making 400k a month.
SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz · 29 pts · 26d
"It's" is a valid contraction of "it has".
Edit: glossed over the other "it's"... doh.
bitwise@lemmy.ca · 65 pts · 26d
SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz · 16 pts · 26d
Missed that one...
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 25d
It's nice to see them all
fartographer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 25d
You really hit the nail on it's is head
giacomo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 25d
this is why I hate its vs it's. if "it" was Dave, it would be to Dave's full advantage.
this shit will likely never make sense to me.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 25d
You only do "it's" for "it is".
The rest are "its". That simple. You don't do it for possession with "it".
SystemDisc@feddit.org · 3 pts · 25d
If you can replace “it’s” with “it is” or “it has” it needs an apostrophe. If you can’t, because it’s a possessive pronoun showing ownership, there’s no apostrophe.
“It’s a good day.”/“It’s been a good day.”
vs
“Its day was good.”
baines@lemmy.cafe · -1 pts · 25d
because english is a trash language but pedants enjoy gatekeeping too much
blitzen@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 26d
Sure. Not here, though.
himezero@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 26d
Other it’s. Some would say people don’t know how to use “it” to its fullest advantage.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 3 pts · 26d
"It has helped me..." doesn't sound quite correct to me but i am not a native speaker so i may be wrong
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 26d
English speakers use has/have/had to signify perfect tenses, meaning the actions are completed but have effects that continue.
So past perfect: It had helped me. Present perfect: it has helped me.
OfCourseNot@fedia.io · 3 pts · 26d
No. 'Has helped' is the present perfect.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 26d
Whoopsie
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 1 pts · 25d
Thank you!
psud@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 25d
I think he's settled on just always using an apostrophe, and isn't really a copy writer
gramie@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 25d
As noted grammarian Dave Barry notably said, the purpose of an apostrophe is to alert the reader: "look out, an 's' is coming!"
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 25d
But it isn't!
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 25d
Scammers have been filtering this way for decades.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 25d
1000% this guy just uses an LLM
Juice@midwest.social · 4 pts · 25d
This is broing but it mkaes me $400,000K a munth an 90 present margarines
Copyediting.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 25d
Retiring after a couple months sounds pretty sweet tbh.
Juice@midwest.social · 1 pts · 25d
It's easy! All you have to do is figure out a way to automate an entire industry of professional workers. The middle class hates this one weird trick
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 104 pts · 26d
Ad: Send me 50€ and learn how to play the guitar!
If you send 50€:
"Thank you for the 50€, now don't forget to learn how to play the guitar."
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 26d
I make over 73 cents a month staring at the sidewalk as I walk to work. With 3 easy payments of 59.99 I can show you how.
toynbee@piefed.social · 2 pts · 25d
I have two things to say to you.
I once unexpectedly saw my username embedded in the ground while staring at the sidewalk walking home from work and ...
Once my cousin confused the salt and sugar while visiting my childhood home and accidentally sugared her spaghetti. I don't think she finished it.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 50 pts · 26d
... how... does copywriting... have ... margins?
What are you classing as expenses?
You need an AP Style Guide, and your brain, and working eyes and fingers and a keyboard mouse and computer.
Wtf are margins?
You have an ongoing regular cost?
... this is a guide on how to set up some kind of LLM to do your copywriting, isn't it?
Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone · 26 pts · 25d
He's also accidentally claiming expenses in the realm of 40k a month. Even the most expensive llm don't need that.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 25d
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 25d
Of course it is.
GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 42 pts · 25d
The broker that my retirement account is through is pushing some new AI insights tool. The screenshots show an example of a conversation that essentially goes.
Q: "How can I reach my retirement savings goals faster?"
A: "Consider contributing more to your 401k from each paycheck."
People will actually pay money to have some slop chatbot tell them that they can have more money in their account if they put more money in their account. Preying on stupid or lazy people is an extremely lucrative industry.
Hupf@feddit.org · 3 pts · 25d
https://youtu.be/-AX1a61oHHk
laranis@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 25d
Anyone who buys it deserves what they get.
87Six@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 25d
And we the people deserve everything that the scammer gets out of the idiot, just so
Elgenzay@lemmy.ml · 37 pts · 26d
How to Make a Million Dollars
Paperback
$1,000,000.00 - Add to cart
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 25d
Shit you're right. If I price it half a million, no way two idiots buy a copy
roserose56@lemmy.zip · 29 pts · 26d
Actually this
https://www.404media.co/larping-how-influencers-fake-being-rich/
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 25d
If nothing else, that Louis Theroux documentary about the manosphere exposed how all this influencer crap is built on a bunch of exceptionally dubious finance apps, that make Bernie Madoff look like a legit business mogul.
They all talked about how wealthy they were, but none of them really seemed rich. Rich people aren't up at 6am editing YouTube shorts and putting in the right hashtags. They're all living on borrowed money, and you get the feeling that if any of them tried to step off the treadmill, there'd be no life left to go back to.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 21 pts · 26d
With AI running rampant, I have to imagine copywriters have been decimated.
markstos@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 26d
I know one recently laid off. AI wasn’t explicitly the reason but his next job seems unlikely to be copyediting.
w3ird_sloth@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 25d
Got laid off last fall. SEO is already pretty much slop so it was the perfect industry for LLMs. It was already getting hard to find good content online because of all the garbage we were loading up with keywords to game search. Now with AI generating it 24/7 traditional search is just dead in the water.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 25d
Last night we were playing D&D and one of other players showed off a miniature character model he had generated with AI. "I'm glad I didn't go to school for 3D modeling", he says.
Guess what I took a bunch of classes for since the 1990s.
Whatever, my models all have more heart than slop. They can't afford me and I'm not making them free models anyways.
jj4211@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 25d
This isn't just the scamming internet randos, it goes into pretty high level business consulting.
"We just hired a company that has never worked in our field who doesn't employ anyone who has worked in our field to tell us how to work in our field better than we do today, this should be great!"
They always act so shocked that the consultancy did them zero good after giving them a few months.
iocase@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 25d
The consultants are literally a place to blame for mass firings or restructuring. Most of the time they recommend changes management wanted but couldn't say out loud since it would spook shareholders. It's dumb but it's how the majority of the consultancy grift works.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 26d
If you could make that kind of money with copy writing, I'd be rich. Copy writers, tech writers, basically any kind of writers are always underappreciated and underpaid.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 25d
"No money down!". Snake Oil is still a thing in this complicated techno landscape.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 25d
Krudler@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 25d
"from my tiny, 1 bedroom apartment...."
Snapz@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 25d
You wouldn't want the answer, it's like, boring
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 25d
The word “journey” has been completely ruined by business idiots.
arc99@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 25d
Reminds me of those ads where scammer pretends if you invest in some obvious scam you too will own a jet and a Ferarri just like him. If it was such an amazing way to make money the last thing they'd do is tell anyone else about it.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 25d
how do you suppose theyre making that 400k?
Tiger666@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 25d
Lots of $20 blowjobs?
mediocrebee9999@midwest.social · 3 pts · 25d
$400,000.00/$20pbj=200,000bj/31day month=645.16 bj per day/12 hr day= 54 blow jobs per hour to make $400,000.00 a month, this man really is hustling
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 25d
mmmnyeehhh could be
minorkeys@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 26d
Why are you teaching him why his scam isn't working?
Flagstaff@programming.dev · 5 pts · 26d
Why not try to protect the general populace?
minorkeys@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 25d
By helping a scammer better scam ppl?
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 25d
Is the headline a reference to the smart move during a gold rush being to sell mining equipment instead of land claims?
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 25d
400k/month copywriting? Bull fucking shit.
Even if that was a typo and they meant 40k/month, it's bullshit.
arcine@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 22d
"This is boring but it makes me a lot of money"
I know I'm privileged, but having an interesting job is way more important to me than the salary.
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 25d
I mean, this is funny in two directions; there's the overt joke that the masterclass man is full of bs, which is true a lot of the time, and then there's the joke for the enlightened people of the audience who are on the quest to perceive and undo the karmic fetters that bind them to the existence-illusion complex, and we laugh at the slaves who, by defining their lives by money, has enslaved themselves by the way they choose to live their life.
I haven't had a "job" in twelve years. I value that. It's gets annoying hearing all your coworkers bitch about being in the same place you are, so I went off and started my educational art project soon after I taught myself to juggle, and there's been low points of high stress, a few years of homelessness, and a year spent in a cult, but because I dedicated myself to my mission, I now have made many unique friends who support me as well as a major investor and a book and a life story that healed me of the shit society broke me with.
It's really cool when you grow tf up and stop doing what your parents with lead poisoning told you how to live your life. You prolly dress like your mommy taught you to dress, still, but I just say that because in my daily performance art, I wound up with a fun opportunity to moonlight as a cop, so I consciously try to pick fights, passively. But I just say that because there's a percentage of the population that doesn't know that yet. It's educational!