Temu is an online marketplace owned by PDD Holdings, offering a wide range of low-cost products shipped directly from China. It connects shoppers with manufacturers to keep prices down but has faced some customer service issues.
It’s like Wish but I’ve heard worse quality products.
I believe it’s a collective of ideas and feelings.
The connecting bit is that people here are tired of how our nations have shaped and modeled modern life to be reliant on personal vehicles. Depending on who you would ask here, they might have varying perspectives.
I live in the US, and logically think that there should be at least a third less personal vehicles. As for trucks, I strongly believe that the trucks that have been coming out the last couple of years are just monstrosities that have no place on the public road systems. Unless you’re using your truck work or its utility features 3/5ths of the time in a year, you probably shouldn’t own a truck.
As for bikes, public buses, trams, and trains. Those are a lot better all around compared to the car/truck-centric transportation system we have now. Besides there being more deaths by conventional transportation, more injuries, parking issues, traffic jam issues, road system congestion, air quality issues, respiratory prone area issues, and the sure cost of maintaining such a car and truck-centric system in decent or better condition… just the space it takes to transport the same number of people down a road is far less with bikes or buses.
Does that answer your question?
I think you might be speaking of Viscera Cleanup Detail.
In what way(s) do you find this subreddit community weird?
You’re probably thinking of rally race car drivers. They use both feet. But they’ve been heavily trained to do so. It just doesn’t make sense to do it on public roadways.
Those are both of the reasons why it works.
Yeah, your source is just a website and not the article/page related. Also, the website’s search bar is broken. I couldn’t find anything related, nor simple with it. Such as “car.”
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Five times the dickhead.
Don’t show this to Dick Cheney. He’ll want to up his dickhead stat.
I sure do ha
Beach towels don’t count in this. But nice try lol.
HEADON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO YOUR FORHEAD!
Man, those obnoxious TV advertisements can all fuck right on. It was even worse that it was a homeopathic (aka placebo effect) topical product.
Wait that’s a thing? In TV broadcasting?
I’ve heard of how Comcast Did New York state dirty many years ago. IIRC, they walked away with nearly half a billion dollars, which I believe was about 2/3 of all the money the state had given them to connect small towns and clusters of rural communities to DSL internet.>
I have a major curiosity about how this actually happened. I’ve watched a video or two about it but it still baffles me to this day that SOOOOO many people bought it as a x-mas present for their kid(s).
I’ve wanted to learn a couple of things about this.
A. What did the parents think of their kids asking for such a stupid present?
B. What did the parents who refused to purchase a Pet Rock, have to deal with at home, when their kid(s) were informed that they were not getting one ever?
C. (On the flip side of B.) What did the parents of those who did purchase them notice or deal with at home?
D. What psychological reasoning would anyone have to desire to purchase a Pet Rock, instead of making their own?
E. What psychological marketing/influencing was involved in this scheme?
I get not having profit. I get not having income, if it’s in some prototype phase. But having no plan or idea whatsoever for how to monetize and still getting VC? Wild.
It’s called “growth-first” or “growth-at-all-costs” strategy. I don’t recall what video I was watching when I learned it, but it’s a dying strategy for business now (IIRC). It had its rise in popularity in the late 2000s to about 2018. Think Netflix, WeWork, Uber, etc. These are huge businesses to prop up, so they (literally) bank on the idea that with a huge user base, they can sooner or later, make a profit to make it worth all of the risk.
I feel like one of the tags should be emotional damage.
edit: Souls-like has been added.
(says Octothorpe) Reaction
They knew what they were doing. They knew that Minecraft needed a strong competitor in the video game market, and bet big on the ‘long game.’
Noticing that you are a parent of a person who plays Roblox, I feel obligated to share two investigative videos about Roblox Corporation practices or lack thereof, the exploitive practices they have to paying third-party in-game content “developers” (that are often kids/tweens/teens), and the issues Roblox have had with pedophiles/adults grooming young people/kidnappings.
The following videos are from People Make Games on Youtube.
Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers
Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.
[Just so we are clear, I am not telling you how to parent your son or person. I am just informing you to the best of my ability, about the issues that have arisen on and off Roblox.]
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