I was talking to my friend how much I’ve been craving lobster 2 days ago. They now have lobster at my grocery store - they haven’t had lobster in years. Last winter I was talking about how much I like goose over Turkey for Christmas dinner and suddenly they had frozen goose and they literally never had goose before.

Am I being targeted or am I paying more attention or am I just being paranoid?

If the bots are listening, bring back lamb. I’ll buy lamb chops.

  •  jarfil   ( @jarfil@beehaw.org ) 
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    10 months ago

    Another possibility: advertising.

    Your cravings aren’t your own, they’re the effect of cleverly placed advertising in preparation to the sale of those items. You didn’t notice it, because you “tune out” advertising, but at the right moment it all “clicked into place” and turned into a craving… just in time for the seller to have the goods ready for you to buy them.