From: howdHol@yaooho.com   
      
   I just got a regular snail mail ad for Askafly, a flying car, or as they   
   put it "WORLD’S FIRST CONSUMER DRIVE & FLY eVTOL"   
      
   The mailer plays up a supposed angle of 60 minutes from the Hamptons to   
   Manhattan, which is most definitely not me, but whatever.   
      
   What I thought was interesting was they were resorting to junk mail to   
   advertise, but I suspect they probably used a big marketing budget as a   
   bullet point in their pitch to investors, there is only so far they can   
   go with online ads, and they've probably tapped out their outreach to   
   credulous outlets like this:   
      
   https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/flying-car-buyers-can-now-preorder-   
   an-2026-aska-for-5000/   
      
   I think there's a certain irony that tech bros killed off so much of   
   traditional media and they now no longer get much reach when they want   
   to find the people who used to subscribe to GQ or Time or whatever. They   
   probably know that Facebook ads are junk, and they're forced to rely on   
   mailers in an era when libertarians are turning even that into a   
   crapshoot as far as when it will hit.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)