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- Comment on labubu 1 hour ago:
The screenshot is bad enough that I can't tell if this is a troll where they took a picture of the back of one, or where they actually collected that much dog hair for a joke photo.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 3 hours ago:
Yeah. The companies you mentioned are rare novelties because they chose to advertise very little. That means the thing that is normal is when a company advertises. Ergo, having a good reputation usually requires marketing.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 3 hours ago:
Good insights, and not just software developers, really. We don’t like ads, sensationalism, or anything reeking of bullshit
Its a big list of major assumptions by someone who never bothered to verify if they're even true. He's mad he had to work with a heavily marketed product that his boss liked, and wrote this about it. Check out this quote from the article;
And the really fun part is that “astroturfing” a thread about your product on Hacker News or Reddit is just about impossible. If you go to the places where developers hang out and try to promote your product, you will be shot down faster than Mark Zuckerberg at a privacy conference.
Dude. Reddit is practically more bot than person at this point. The tech subs in particular are nearly half bot alone. https://www.clrn.org/how-much-of-reddit-is-bots/
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 4 hours ago:
The Dollar Shave Club, go pro
I specifically know who these guys are because of their massive youtube advertising campaigns.
Krispy Kreme, tesla
Please. Walk outside. Or watch cable for a bit. Just because you don't personally see them doesn't mean they don't also have budgets for advertising as well. Tesla in particular straight up gave up on the strategy of word of mouth once their product stopped being known as quality, or at least, higher tech than anybody else.
https://teslanorth.com/2024/03/29/tesla-advertising-spend-6-5-million-2023/
https://ingenuitydisplay.com/what-is-krispy-kreme-s-advertising-budget.html
trader joes, costco
Exceptions to the rule, like Stardew valley, which prove the rule. They are famous as not having a marketing budget because not having a marketing budget is weird and unheard of.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 4 hours ago:
You can't really have a "reputation" in this day and age without marketing. The fact that things like Stardew valley exist really only prove the point.
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 2 days ago:
Buy a car that fits your needs and then pull the fuse powering the sim card before it leaves the lot. If it breaks, put the fuse back and don't buy it.
My 2019 corolla lost the right speaker and mic access when I did that. I fixed the right speaker by crossing some wires, and the mic hasn't really been needed enough for me to dig deeper to fix it.
- Comment on Spotify Add Lossless Audio(24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC) for Premium Subscribers 1 week ago:
Oof. Top three, but at the same time, half as much as the top paying site does.
- Comment on The correct way 1 week ago:
What about hanging it vertically?
- Comment on Heroes with super strength would be really out of shape 2 weeks ago:
This is a vague and unprovable take.
Mr incredible had to work out to get his strength back, and managed to do it while having a job, family, and friends who all were happier with how much more time he was spending on them during his getting more fit phase.
- Comment on Heroes with super strength would be really out of shape 2 weeks ago:
It really depends on the source of the super strength. The juggernaut is a god-empowered being of strength; he looks muscley because that's what strength is supposed to look like, not because it affects his ability to do work.
Superman looks strong because that's the ideal humanoid form, apparently, and his eugenics-obsessed ancestors chose that as the look they wanted to breed for.
Mr incredible/robert parr from the incredibles had to work out, and used literal trains as his gym equipement. It's likely his super power wasn't super strength so much as fewer limits on how much improvement he could get from his workouts. He is out of shape at the start of his story, and getting rid of that, while relatively easy for him compared to others, did require actual work on his part.
If you had a superhero who had like, a psychic shield or similar that surrounded their body and gave the appearance of super strength, like Victoria Dallon from Worm, then yeah, they'd have to work a lot harder to look like the strength they use on a regular basis.
Except in rare cases, I think you've got it backwards. Heroes with super strength get their muscles from their powers, and only the rare few outliers don't get muscles from their superpowers.
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