Ben Forstag

My thoughts on marketing, hiring, technology, baseball, career development, and other delectable sundries.

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Welp… this is what has finally convinced me to dump Twitter. Bye, ya’ll.

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@mkurfis That other place being the “azure atmosphere?” What’s it like over there?

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Do people actually believe “The Killer” is a *good* movie?

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I explained the meaning of this diagram to my 7 year old.

His only response: “Brutal.”

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I guess everyone has to learn this lesson on their own…

@FlyFrontier is never, ever worth it—no matter how much you think you’re going to “save.”

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Do I have to pay extra to get basic customer support?

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@FlyFrontier sitting in PDX for flight 2174 and your gate folks are evidently too busy to even give us a tentative update. What the deal?

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Say that you remember…

https://t.co/ueudwQMEkR

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@ScrapeStorm Does your tool still allow you to automatically export data to wordpress? This feature seems to have disappeared in the newest version.

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How has Michael Richards never played Richard Nixon?!?

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Occam’s razor on Elon’s proposed Twitter/X “fix”:

Ad impressions are going to skyrocket when users can’t simply block shitty promotional accounts and their endless stream of cheap, poorly targeted products.

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@PicturesFoIder Europe and Asia are two separate continents.

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Spending the morning in Gresham, where @grainger is breaking ground on a new 575,000 sq. ft. distribution center.

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@alifarhat79 are they giving away gas-powered cars for free now?

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This lady is everything.

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@george__mack You’re taking a graphic from the Economist and then claiming that “the media” ignores this issue…

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I went to Costco today and absolutely no one in the store looked happy, which is totally bonkers for a place with so much mayonnaise.

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Genuinely curious… is there a reason @multco voluntarily raises the Hawthorn Bridge in the middle of rush hour?

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I’m related news: you’re never too young to learn the cardinal rules:

1️⃣ winner always goes on

2️⃣ you gotta know the exact right time to drop the lightning

3️⃣ trash talking is always allowed

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My two oldest boys and I started summer break off the right way: an epic Mario Cart tournament.