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  • Maybe it's like when email scammers intentionally leave in tons of spelling and grammar mistakes. Anyone that notices probably wasn't going to fall for the scam, anyway, leaving only the weak after culling the strong.

    I'm not completely sure what the point would be, other than leaving you with a propaganda tool without dissenting comments built in, an idiot echo chamber. Who knows, maybe that's worth the amount of financial loss he's caused.

    Maybe he's trying to revert back to Minimal Viable Product while keeping only the dumb and bigoted.

    Or maybe he's just not as smart as everyone thought.

  • As an 80s kid, that Mixxtape just blew me away 🤯😍 Talk about must-own gadgets that I absolutely don't need! Man, that's slick!

    Analog playback, insane 😳😍

    Now I just need Paulthings to make the Mixxtape's older sister: a digital to analog reel-to-reel tape 😱 Maybe call it the 2real2reel? REELxREEL?

    I saw a product mock-up years back of a digital device shaped like a roll of 35mm camera film. The concept was that you insert it into your old analog 35mm camera instead of film, and it turns the camera into a digital one. Basically a universal digital SLR back. Was heartbroken when it turned out it was just a concept with no plans to create it. I'd go and buy an old Pentax 35mm SLR faster than the guy in the Mixxtape video can dish out Yo Mamma jokes.

    I'll see if I can find it. I still think it would be the most revolutionary camera gadget to come out in ages; imagine being able to take any old 35mm camera and turn it digital in an instant 😮❤️ Old cameras on eBay would quadruple in price overnight.

    Edit: Found the "digital film" concept, was released back in 2011.

  • Thanks, that makes perfect sense, and gels perfectly with my knowledge on the subject being ridiculously limited 😅

    Are there any really big companies that don't have shareholders? Just curious if it's even possible to get really big without selling stock. Guess it's probably a thing that even if there are any that don't, they probably still have investors. Would be fun to know if there are companies out there that managed everything just on their product, growing organically I guess.

    edit: to partially answer my own question, here is Wikipedia's list of the largest private non-governmental companies by revenue.

  • It probably wouldn't work, but I've been wondering whether it would be possible to use the shareholders of publicly traded companies against them in these situations.

    I've seen people mention that companies are obligated to maximize profits for their shareholders (might not be true everywhere, and my knowledge on the subject is extremely limited).

    If there was data available for a given company that showed that profits were increased during a period where a substantial part (or all) of the employees worked from home, and then the company starts forcing the employees back to the office, could the board not be called upon to force the company to keep people in work-from-home-mode? Would the company not be obliged to do that, to maximize the profits? It seems to me that this would be in the best interest of the shareholders.