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  • Yeah but there's different stages of crazy. There's "micro-managing credit-stealing dick boss" level, and then there's "help foreign enemies hack the government while throwing Nazi salutes" level.

    Initially, he looked to be on a similar level up Jobs or many other narcissistic upper-management types in a gadget-cult, which - sadly - is not so uncommon and that many people accept

  • Generally, most of the tools in the house are considered "mine", and yes I do often break out in a dry sweat when my wife wants to borrow them.

    This isn't because I don't think she could learn to use them, but rather because the only time she picks them up is when she's in "get it done" mode in which case a fuck up is costly in terms of time and money to fix... we me usually being the one to fix it. I'm pretty sure she similarly shudders when I grab a needle and thread from her office. We have a truce on laundry and dishes.

    Thing is, I've got a shop full of bits and pieces where I fucked something up. BUT, I generally fucked it up on the inexpensive test projects until I was happy I could do a reasonable job, or where the cost of failure was just generally not too high. I don't believe that my wife couldn't similarly become a good carpenter or whatever, but rather experience says that she doesn't have the interest of patience in learning to do so.

  • Yeah I've had more than a few things where the ONLY thing that shows is the ad, and then the content roll fails and/or it just keeps looping ads with no content

  • A Bollywood-style IJ movie would actually be pretty awesome. Wouldn't be that hard to beat Crystal Skull, and Ford - though a great actor in his prime - has mostly been running on name-power these days.

    Maybe they can have an Indian version where a certain political cult is trying to sacrifice people

    "Well heck, the guy stayed alive an the heard was still beatin when they ripped it out in the YouTube video. Jed, you sure we got the words right?"

  • That's actually pretty clever

  • Kid can just move on to something else. There's plenty of content out there even without sailing the high seas

  • I've never heard being elected official as a criteria for the term, the dictionary definition of assassination is

    "the premeditated act of killing someone suddenly or secretively, especially a prominent person."

    And there have been plenty of non-electoral assassinations, including those by (or of) mob figures, journalists, and many others.

  • Interesting. Anyone know if that applies to TV's as well?

  • Or they bring it back but in South Park terms where they have no say at all in the content, and he goes all out

  • I'm kinda annoyed. My sub expired a bit before this and I didn't renew. I was looking at whether to do so this month, but now I don't get to tell them why they aren't getting any more of my money

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  • In that case the easiest thing is not to buy a Samsung or any other "smart" fridge

  • Good marketing absolutely works on nerds. We will literally share cool ads (funny world best) with each other in the same way with memes, which is part of "viral marketing".

    At the same time though, those lame ads using low-grade, overused memes (usually the comic ones) trying to be edgy pretty much make me want to pass on a product. Crappy AI-gen ads are even worse.

    But next time I go to Japan, I absolutely still want to try a Sakaeru gummy because THAT marketing campaign was just brilliant and entertaining

    ( https://youtu.be/LQsMp4Oo6xM )

    I've also seen a few cool tech things in ads that I've looked into. Generally nothing I'll grab right away but they often end up in a list of things that I potentially buy later when I've some free cash or the need. Aliexpress is pretty good with this as it tends to suggest neat tech things that are a cheap to add and fill that "free shipping" gap.

    What DOESN'T work is cheap/lame broadside marketing with little to no product details. I don't want a video as an ad - especially not one from an influencer who has no clue but looks pretty - but I'm happy to look up an actual product demo that includes key features/points.

    Honestly though, the best thing is if the product demonstratibly works. This is especially true for FOSS-based products that have stuff I can try for free at home (personal use) or ones where the main product is usable for limited seats etc and has a commercial/premium license with value-add like AD/SAML group integrations or SSO/MFA.

    That said, any asshole who cold-calls me pretending an existing business relationship to setup a marketing meeting is going on "the list", and vendor "demos" that are just marketing slides aren't far off on that either

  • Canada would be happy to host more production facilities, and treat them a hell of a lot better than the US too

  • Low-bandwidth cellular chip...

  • Depends on where you live and where you plan to go with it. Our EV at current range is fine to get to the nearby large city in the summer over a fairly long stretch of highway. In winter it would probably be doable but at the least it impact our stopping/charging schedule. At 70% range it might not be doable at all in winter and we'd have to be careful in summer. Governments pushing EVs absolutely should be pushing a reasonable recycle/replacement cycle for batteries and the infrastructure to support that.

  • But if they force Google to open their app store, I hope that do it for fucking everyone.

    At least on Google devices you still can sideload apps, and fairly easy TBH. My biggest annoyance is the "you can't buy stuff in apps without giving us a cut" which fucked up stuff like ebook apps etc

  • -force -recursive but I like the way you think

  • You could say the same about a given venue for a concert, however. The city is the venue for housing