!politicalmemes@lemmy.world

Where would you place your ‘badassary’ on the scale today?

My goodness! I’m glad things went well during the open heart surgery. How long is the recovery for such a thing?

Oh that’s awesome! Social anxiety ain’t no joke. Glad to hear that you’re doing better. It’s really fun to play TTRPGs. Especially with a good group of people.

Are you running a pre-made or home-brew campaign? I’m interested to hear more.

ROFL. You can’t win them all champ. Keep going though. Greatness is achieved when you push further than what others are willing to do.

Hahaha. Putting yourself in another world (and one where you’re stronger or have special abilities,) is a nice way to escape the worries of the day.

Have you tried beating up some monsters with a spoon yet? haha

Take it or leave it insight: I have learned that procrastination can be chalked up to two things. 1. You don’t know where to start on said thing and perhaps feel overwhelmed by it. 2. You don’t know how to break down the objective into more manageable steps. And so you put it off ‘until you feel like you have a clue.’

An old saying that strongly applies here. “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.”

Oh bitch of old. Tell me the ways that it must be told. Instill in me the ways of no fucks to give, as you see, we walk like aimlessly ducks with a dull shiv. Ducks without a pond, oh please of please, don’t let me live like a ‘dumb blonde’ without any wings. Teach me the ways to turn my sass to 11, and guide me now towards Sassy Sass Heaven.

Do you have a template of this to share?

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!polls@lemmy.world

Five times the dickhead.

Don’t show this to Dick Cheney. He’ll want to up his dickhead stat.

Wait that’s a thing? In TV broadcasting?

I’ve heard of how Comcast Did New York state dirty many years ago. IIRC, they walked away with nearly half a billion dollars, which I believe was about 2/3 of all the money the state had given them to connect small towns and clusters of rural communities to DSL internet.>

I have a major curiosity about how this actually happened. I’ve watched a video or two about it but it still baffles me to this day that SOOOOO many people bought it as a x-mas present for their kid(s).

I’ve wanted to learn a couple of things about this.

A. What did the parents think of their kids asking for such a stupid present?

B. What did the parents who refused to purchase a Pet Rock, have to deal with at home, when their kid(s) were informed that they were not getting one ever?

C. (On the flip side of B.) What did the parents of those who did purchase them notice or deal with at home?

D. What psychological reasoning would anyone have to desire to purchase a Pet Rock, instead of making their own?

E. What psychological marketing/influencing was involved in this scheme?

I get not having profit. I get not having income, if it’s in some prototype phase. But having no plan or idea whatsoever for how to monetize and still getting VC? Wild.

It’s called “growth-first” or “growth-at-all-costs” strategy. I don’t recall what video I was watching when I learned it, but it’s a dying strategy for business now (IIRC). It had its rise in popularity in the late 2000s to about 2018. Think Netflix, WeWork, Uber, etc. These are huge businesses to prop up, so they (literally) bank on the idea that with a huge user base, they can sooner or later, make a profit to make it worth all of the risk.

They knew what they were doing. They knew that Minecraft needed a strong competitor in the video game market, and bet big on the ‘long game.’

Noticing that you are a parent of a person who plays Roblox, I feel obligated to share two investigative videos about Roblox Corporation practices or lack thereof, the exploitive practices they have to paying third-party in-game content “developers” (that are often kids/tweens/teens), and the issues Roblox have had with pedophiles/adults grooming young people/kidnappings.

The following videos are from People Make Games on Youtube.

Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers

Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.

[Just so we are clear, I am not telling you how to parent your son or person. I am just informing you to the best of my ability, about the issues that have arisen on and off Roblox.]

I suspected Netflix to lose sub counts for two years after they enacted their ‘No Account Sharing (outside the household).’ policy. But it seems that they have been able to bounce back quite quickly, compared to my guess.

To answer your question, I like to use this adage, “Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.” - Melvin Kranzberg

I also like to tie in: ‘A hammer can be used to build a house or to destroy one. It depends on the user.’

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument

This is one of those coders’ beefs, isn’t it?

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