It seems like in today's environment that Absurdity is winning in corporate marketing. Maybe that's a good thing.

It's hopefully obvious that I don't submit this link for its news at face value, but I do find it remarkable. Absolutely remarkable.

So Oreo partnered up with Microsoft to inject advert meetings into office calendars that remind people to take a break and watch a video of some dogs playing, and also to get two Oreo related emoji in Microsoft teams.

What??

nice information i was completely unaware of this development

While this isn't as invasive as it appears on the surface (its voluntarily opt in through a relatively niche feature), it's going to backfire.

Things like this have been around for a while - for example, in mmos as far as 20 years ago, you could order a pizza through the chat commandline!

However, businesses are extraordinarily sensitive to value at their expense. They don't say what tiers it's on, but I can't imagine any enterprise will see this in a positive light - at least, without a lot of angry licensing negotiation.

Who even thought this was a good idea?

>essential to our well-being

Yes, eating junk food is good for your wellbeing...

Partnering aside, I like the thin ratio of these.