Thanks for the informed context – I think my brain is just predisposed towards seeing such efforts as disingenuous, but I should learn to criticize companies after they do bad things, and not before.

Well, that sounds promising at least. I hope their interests continue to align with their consumer-base for another 20 years, and doesn’t nosedive into the CEO rot we’ve seen with Mozilla

I’m not really. Who are these guys and why am I hearing about them on every social media outlet.

They’re a company whose sole aim is to make money. Right now they’re in the goodwill phase of building community trust, but what’s their endgame? Is this an emerging market they’re cornering.

I know these sound like sarcastic questions, but I’m genuinely wondering.

This company sure has been making the rounds on the internet. I estimate maybe 1-2 years before they decide to cash in on their goodwill with some kind of monetary product

Yeah but cars have become increasingly more complex over the last 20 years. You basically need an EEPROM arduino kit these days just to get the fucking diagnostics out of the car, because someone decided that analog circuits were just too much bulk

Yeah you can, music artists do it all the time - you get them on branding, merch.

They make the shows actually accessible so that they can reach the desired audience and generate a fanbase in the first place, which producers could then use to exploit for revenue.

If you covet a precious jewel behind closed doors, people will just walk on by without knowing its value

producers don’t make the content, they speak to the right people in their exclusive circles to finance it, put their name on it, and then pay the directors and actors a tiny fraction of what it earned

They had to operate under the radar to avoid the law, so you know the answer to your question

well alright, but I’m going to have to report this

Does Netflix make shows? Or does it slam its name onto filmmakers it pays to make content? If so, one of those things simply requires throwing cash at people, which I think is a skill that most people can learn.

say it again, friend, but in french

“would you get shot by Boeing…?”
“me personally? no. not really.”

It’s from a Star Wars spinoff movie: Hoth Tusk

that’s really useful!

Nazis have money too!

I think just don’t allow other companies to buy others. Mergers should be illegal.

It could just be poor communication between you and him. I was the lead in a project over several teams without any onboarding, and several people to answer to without clear lines of hierarchy. I bent over backwards on evening and weekends for 2 years trying to make everyone happy and thus making no one. Had I better communicated that I was struggling, or at least had the life perspective to understand that what was happening wasn’t completely my fault, I could have defended myself better and communicated better to my bosses that their wonderful plan of bringing several teams together with one in-between guy (me) might require some extra thought.

In retrospect I should have quit, but I was new to the country and had no idea what my rights were.

Robots could augment the firefighters tasks without replacing them, but the economy doesn’t want that

Do firefighter next. Let’s show the people that their strong unions can’t save them. I can’t wait for the future