Vocationally-educated Gen-X metalhead turned corporate technologist. This is my personal account; standard disclaimers apply about my views being my own.
Feeds today are full of people who have never heard of flooding the market of a foreign competitor with a cheap alternative so that the market is destabilized and your competitors’ value sinks
Does anyone else get lots of ads for small front-end loaders and other earth-moving equipment from Temu, or have I just found myself in some odd marketing segment?
In the latest issue of Full Backlog: Slowly getting my head around @discord (and made my own Server); also: Excited by the possibilities of a FinTech "financial router" called Sequence @GetSequence ... https://t.co/uSfAIvH49a
It feels like some sort of election/voter fraud to advertise a contest to meet a presidential candidate at their opulent resort-style residence. How is this kind of campaigning not illegal? Or, is it, and this person just doesn’t care?
In Southwest Virginia, farmers and local officials report numerous washed-out roads and bridges, wrecked barns, waterlogged crops, downed trees and destroyed fences.
More: https://t.co/hnHznbK1bB
@mbusse So what you’re telling me is the economy is a complex system and not just one or two simple variables? Someone needs to explain this to the voting masses 🤣
Talking to my kid about how much I worked as a teenager when I had the realization:
🚗 After gas and insurance, I was working for CDs.
💿 Every three hours at my 1995 wage = one new Compact Disc.
🆓Now all that music is free.
💥 Downstream impact of streaming music is big.
@mbusse Is that based on oil or taxes or just in general? (As an aside, gas was notably cheaper in SC than VA when we travelled last week and I attributed it to VA pump tax but have no idea if that true)
@sdw ITT people bashing the tint because it is subjectively ugly. If you ask to see kids’ iPhones these days many of them have theme apps that all have a unified color scheme. My daughter’s icons are all lavender. Is there something wrong with that if that’s what the user wants?
Going from dropping a kid off at school to scheduling college tours for the next. WT-ACTUAL-F is @virginia_tech thinking asking for a full & perpetual name, image, likeness release to sign up for the campus tour?!
Did a link roundup for my blog/newsletter of things I’ve found online lately that I keep coming back to. There’s probably at least one interesting thing in this post for everyone. https://t.co/ZEFqx6aoFc