I got some parachute pants when I was around 11 or 12 because I thought they were cool, and were the only fad I actually got excited about. Those were some comfy pants!

In high school grunge got popular, which worked out for since I was already wearing worn out jeans, tshirts, and flannel shirts due to living in a rural area. Not sure if trends catching up with me counts as being part of the fad, but I did like the music.

I know it sounds crazy, but I swear the emotion there was like the first cow was trying to wake up the hit cow

That isn’t crazy. Tons of social mammals do that, including cows.

A picture of a dog’s head resting in someone’s lap doesn’t mean they would act the same around a stranger. Same for cows.

Benefitting from being social with others doesn’t make you a social vampire. Almost everyone benefits from socializing, to the point that it is assumed to be a shared human trait.

A social vampire is someone who preys on others socially, frequently by forcing others into social situations they don’t want to be in. Forcing someone to work in the office so there is someone to be social with is a sign of someone being a social vampire.

This is why they are being downvoted.

I wish one time someone who hates all the newer stuff would give a real reason why and not some lame blanket statement about it.

Plenty of people have given real reasons that aren’t blanket statements. Some people have soent way more time than the movies deserve pointing out the issues with the new movies.

Heck, I spent a few minutes making a comment as a reply to theirs covering the basic issues that is far more than a blanket statement, and that was just the objectively bad stuff that I remembered off the top of my head.

That stare as he pulls the lever is fantastic!

I am so intruiged by the fact that the mass of good accumulated at the one spot. The mystery of what pressures were at play for it to flow to that one spot.

I assumed they associated reading and using the toilet and the volume of books just triggered the association in their mind, and wasn’t surprised to see it as one of the hypothesis.

Most of the people I know in person that spoke highly of it when it first started up referred to it as an alternate to cabs because it was totally different. The fact that people still refer to it as ‘ride sharing’ is a sign that people do think it is something different than taxis.

A lot of us saw it, but I don’t think the majority of people saw it.

The thing being forced on everyone else in this context is a requirement to work in an office instead of work from home. In that context, someone saying high quality human contact is important, implying that is a benefit of being forced into the office and forcing everyone else into the office makes them happy.

The wealthy being able to use the appreciated, estimated value of things they own to secure low interest loans to purchase even more things without needing the money to be considered income for tax purposes is a primary driver of wealth in equity.

Or look at student loans

In the US, student loans were a problem that was created starting in the 90s by cutting government funding of state colleges and legislating a way to dump a ton of dept onto students under the pretense of access. Biden’s actions are temporary bandages on the open, gaping wound that will not heal until we address the actual underlying cause.

Triage in the form of student debt forgiveness, while necessary, is not progress towards a solution.

This was an excellent example!

Huh, I thought cats were a liquid.

It used the AI to destroy the AI.

The making money back, contracts, and music applies to sales too.

The reason they don’t have it for sale is because they like money.

Antarctica isn’t overpopulated.

It takes more than zero dollars to prepare media for a new format, like streaming.

Many old series did not have contracts that covered streaming, since it didn’t really exist at the time.

Many old series had music licensed for a specific format, and they would need to renegotiate those contracts for the new medium.

That is why some series have made it to streaming but with replacement music or are only available to buy but not be included in netflix or hulu as part of a subscription. Others haven’t made it because the company either thinks they won’t make their money back or they are working on something that they expect will make more money first.

They probably saved 30 billion through sales and got even more worth out of finding the games they really enjoy that they may have never even tried without the sales.

I can confidently say that I spend less per year on games now than 25 years ago, very rarely regret a purchase, and don’t bother with refunds (which I hear are easy) because if I buy three games for cheap and spend all my time on one then I got my money’s worth.

Hell, I spend less each year than my wife spends on switch games and get way more entertainment out of it.

I’ll also add that B2B cold calls do work. If you have a good product or service and approach it the right way, you can generate plenty of business this way. That said, it’s wholly a numbers game.

You don’t even need a good product or service when you play the numbers game, you just need higher numbers!