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tainbocuailnge:

its so cool watching the modern internet actively strangle itself in the name of squeezing out another percent of profits i love obtaining an intimate understanding of the looming dread a roman citizen during the rapid decline of the empire must’ve felt. it sucks and isn’t good by the way

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foone:

Does anyone remember what happened to Radio Shack?

They started out selling niche electronics supplies. Capacitors and transformers and shit. This was never the most popular thing, but they had an audience, one that they had a real lock on. No one else was doing that, so all the electronics geeks had to go to them, back in the days before online ordering. They branched out into other electronics too, but kept doing the electronic components.

Eventually they realize that they are making more money selling cell phones and remote control cars than they were with those electronic components. After all, everyone needs a cellphone and some electronic toys, but how many people need a multimeter and some resistors?

So they pivoted, and started only selling that stuff. All cellphones, all remote control cars, stop wasting store space on this niche shit.

And then Walmart and Target and Circuit City and Best Buy ate their lunch. Those companies were already running big stores that sold cellphones and remote control cars, and they had more leverage to get lower prices and selling more stuff meant they had more reasons to go in there, and they couldn’t compete. Without the niche electronics stuff that had been their core brand, there was no reason to go to their stores. Everything they sold, you could get elsewhere, and almost always for cheaper, and probably you could buy 5 other things you needed while you were there, stuff Radio Shack didn’t sell.

And Radio Shack is gone now. They had a small but loyal customer base that they were never going to lose, but they decided to switch to a bigger but more fickle customer base, one that would go somewhere else for convenience or a bargain. Rather than stick with what they were great at (and only they could do), they switched to something they were only okay at… putting them in a bigger pond with a lot of bigger fish who promptly out-competed them.

If Radio Shack had stayed with their core audience, who knows what would have happened? Maybe they wouldn’t have made a billion dollars, but maybe they would still be around, still serving that community, still getting by. They may have had a small audience, but they had basically no competition for that audience. But yeah, we only know for sure what would happen if they decided to attempt to go more mainstream: They fail and die. We know for sure because that’s what they did.

I don’t know why I keep thinking about the story of what happened to Radio Shack. It just keeps feeling relevant for some reason.

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lavenderfoxboy:

jk rowling’s new reputation will never not be funny to me. when you see her name now you dont think “oh yeah thats the chick who wrote harry potter” you think “oh lord, this TERF bitch again” like bro how do you fuck up so bad that your fuck ups overshadow writing the third most read piece of literature in existence

#literally like I was saying earlier!#these books could have just quietly gone down in history as a much-beloved piece of children’s/teen fiction#and people would have been like ‘it’s kind of problematic but the pros outweigh the cons so I’ll read it to the kids’#but Rowling was SO desperate to keep herself relevant that she’s driven HP into the fucking earth

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thestuffedalligator:

Rewatching Truman Show for the first time in a long time, and the detail that’s stuck with me this time is the set design.

The characters drive modern cars and hock modern products, but it’s all presented with a veneer of 1950s wholesome applecheeked Americana. Truman’s life is presented as an escape for the audience from the drudgery of the modern day, and the aesthetic they’ve chosen for this is the post-war economic boom. This is the simple time, the movie says. This is the good time. Doesn’t the modern day suck? Let’s go back and see our friends from the days when life was good.

And it’s a lie. Truman’s life is a lie, and the image of white picket fenced suburbia they’ve presented is a lie. It’s an elaborate construction to recreate a false memory that’s comfortable for advertisers. The movie is a satire, but it’s also a very blatant statement against the nostalgia for a golden age which never existed. It’s a lie. It doesn’t exist.

I don’t know. I’m spitballing. I’m biased because I despise mid-20th century Americana and I naturally treat it with hostility, but it’s very gratifying to see a movie kind of agree with me.

Let me tell you a story.

Earlier in the summer, I went to Florida with my friend. We decided to visit a town nearish to where we were staying called Seaside, as we had heard it was a cute place. What I did not know at the time was that Seaside is the place where they filmed The Truman Show. It was a “master-planned community,” constructed in the 80s to be the perfect beach town.

Seaside, FL

Seahaven

And yes, it really does look Like That. Not just in their tourist-agency photos, in real life it looks like that. Arguably the irl Seaside is even prettier than movie Seahaven, because the the office buildings where Truman works don’t exist; the town is 100% cutesy homes and little shops.

Keep reading

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zetsubonna:

thankyoumskobayashi:

relaxxattack:

“oh they’re not taking away chronological dashboard, well everything’s okay then” they also said in the post they’re making reblogs collapsed (like comments on twitter) so you won’t see the full conversation in a post. they also won’t get rid of tumblr live despite it being an annoying and cancerous data-miner that isn’t legal in much of the world. they won’t even let you opt out of tumblr live for more than seven days. they implemented a terrible photo viewer that mimics tiktok and makes it so you can’t zoom in on images. they took away the ability to view prev tags. they’re making it so you have to sign in with your email to view almost any thing on tumblr. they’ve already made it so you have to sign in to send asks, even on anon. they’re slowly phasing out custom blog themes.

the things that make tumblr at all usable and favored by us– the older web blog features, the anonymity– that is still being taken away. it HAS been being taken away for some time now. i am urging you people to reveiwbomb the tumblr app. force them to acknowledge that users do not like these changes.

Good news! You can let Tumblr Staff know what you think about every version of Tumblr in a way that they might listen to! Here is a long survey from a blog associated with Staff and here is a short survey from the same blog. The blog, although full of surveys, does not allow reblogs. However, I took the long survey and later they improved one thing I complained about, so there is a chance more people complaining about changes could halt their enshittification. I cannot retake the surveys, so I must ask you all to send feedback where I cannot.

Pasting these links all at the end too for ease of access:

Long Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2V3MQTP

Short Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HS5LP3W

Staff’s 2x Secret Userbase Research Blog (with unrebloggable posts): https://www.tumblr.com/benevolenthellsite

i fuckin love a survey I tell you what

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guerrillatech:

People die on the job every summer. Remember that water and shade breaks are crucial when working in the heat, and calling emergency services for signs of serious heat illness (fatigue, nausea/vomiting, headaches, dizziness, clammy skin, confusion, agitation, slurred speech, high body temperature, rapid heart rate, etc.) is entirely appropriate. If you’re afraid to call 911 for reasons such as being undocumented, you’ll need to get very familiar with how to prevent, recognize, and treat heat illness. If you are symptomatic and not allowed a break, water, or medical treatment, walk out. No matter how broke you are, your job is not worth your life.

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niedopalek:

ERRRRRRRRRRRH ERRRRRRRRRRRRRH 

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP

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Wᴇ ɪɴᴛᴇʀʀᴜᴘᴛ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴅᴀsʜʙᴏᴀʀᴅ sᴄʀᴏʟʟɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ᴅᴇʟɪᴠᴇʀ ᴀ ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ғʀᴏᴍ ᴛʜᴇ Nᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ Wᴇᴀᴛʜᴇʀ Sᴇʀᴠɪᴄᴇ 

A ᴛᴏʀɴᴀᴅᴏ ᴡᴀʀɴɪɴɢ ʜᴀs ʙᴇᴇɴ ɪssᴜᴇᴅ ғᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇ ғᴏʟʟᴏᴡɪɴɢ ᴛᴜᴍʙʟʀ ʟᴏᴄᴀʟᴇs: 

The explore page

The inbox

The settings page

The Review Flagged Posts page 

Iғ ʏᴏᴜ ᴀʀᴇ ᴄᴜʀʀᴇɴᴛʟʏ ᴜsɪɴɢ ᴏɴᴇ ᴏʀ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇsᴇ ᴘᴀɢᴇs, ᴄʟᴏsᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛᴀʙ ɪᴍᴍᴇᴅɪᴀᴛᴇʟʏ. Iғ ʏᴏᴜ ᴀʀᴇ ᴜɴᴀʙʟᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴅᴏ ᴛʜɪs, sᴇᴇᴋ sʜᴇʟᴛᴇʀ ᴀs ғᴀʀ ᴀᴡᴀʏ ᴀs ᴘᴏssɪʙʟᴇ ғʀᴏᴍ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴄᴏᴍᴘᴜᴛᴇʀ ᴏʀ ᴍᴏʙɪʟᴇ ᴅᴇᴠɪᴄᴇ sᴄʀᴇᴇɴ.

A ᴛᴏʀɴᴀᴅᴏ ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜ ʜᴀs ʙᴇᴇɴ ɪssᴜᴇᴅ ғᴏʀ:

The queue page

Aɴᴅ ᴡɪʟʟ ʀᴇᴍᴀɪɴ ɪɴ ᴇғғᴇᴄᴛ ᴜɴᴛɪʟ 8:30 PM EST

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Hello fellow Team Escope enjoyers

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i saw chris mclean and monokuma posts going around and went bonkers

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transcyberism:

redarmyscreaming:

depsidase:

Sharecropping.

FYI if your employer does this, if they have done it for a long time especially, you and your coworkers could be owed huge amounts of unpaid wages and it would be an easy suit if there is a paper trail like this and your employer is placing strict requirements on your behavior while not at work. Employment lawyers generally work on contingency. Just food for thought.

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