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FilthyImp posted:We're in a weird space where we assume products need refreshes and new tech every few years, like everything should be iPhone levels of R&D. InstaPot had a whole line of different pots with different functions beyond the standard 6 quart pot. https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/appliances/multi-cooker-reviews/a25653352/best-instant-pot/
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When they say their sales are down 50% since 2020, I can't help but wonder how their sales looked that year vs previous years, and how sales now look compared to, say, 2018-2019. Because people bought an awful lot of home cooking crap during 2020.
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When you bought an InstantPot, you probably weren't buying a second or a third any time soon. At some point, everyone who wanted one would have one and sales would slow down.
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Jun 14, 2023 09:02
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You could say that about most things, really.
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ah yes Atari ET logic. everyone will by 1000 new consoles and games.
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Schubalts posted:When you bought an InstantPot, you probably weren't buying a second or a third any time soon. At some point, everyone who wanted one would have one and sales would slow down. I always figured that's why Corningware (same loving owners, surprise surprise) pivoted from its pyroceram glass bakeware to regular stoneware for years. At some point you've got enough and it'll probably get passed down to your grandchildren, which is great for your company reputation but not for your shareholders' quarterly dividends.
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East Germany made highly durable glassware using a method similar to that used to make Gorilla Glass for smart phones today.
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I replaced all of my plastic containers for glass ones using a mixture of pyrex / random 3rd party stuff and the pyrex doesn't hold up nearly as well as the cheaper stuff I got. I've had to toss a few of the pyrex because of chipping edges while the other stuff is perfectly fine.
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MarcusSA posted:I replaced all of my plastic containers for glass ones using a mixture of pyrex / random 3rd party stuff and the pyrex doesn't hold up nearly as well as the cheaper stuff I got. You need to go to thrift stores and look for PYREX, in caps. That's the real borosilicate glass. Sometime in the 90s/00s they switched to sodalime glass which is more fragile to physical trauma, but more resistant to thermal shock. It will also astound you that it is a lot cheaper to make.
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MarcusSA posted:I replaced all of my plastic containers for glass ones using a mixture of pyrex / random 3rd party stuff and the pyrex doesn't hold up nearly as well as the cheaper stuff I got. Your sadsack cat avatar is destroying me 
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Beachcomber posted:You need to go to thrift stores and look for PYREX, in caps. That's the real borosilicate glass. This makes a lot of sense and I had no idea that's what it was. I might just have to do that because I can't stand using plastic containers anymore. Biplane posted:Your sadsack cat avatar is destroying me lol yeah he's great. I would have adopted him in a heart beat.
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Vegetable posted:You could say that about most things, really. That is why they should have developed a pot that required QR codes on the beans to operate.
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Decrepus posted:That is why they should have developed a pot that required QR codes on the beans to operate. If this post wills this into being so help me
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teen witch posted:If this post wills this into being so help me Juicero infamously did this.
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RFID potato chips
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AceOfFlames posted:Juicero infamously did this. Plz don't just squeeze the bags.
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AceOfFlames posted:Juicero infamously did this. 
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Schubalts posted:When you bought an InstantPot, you probably weren't buying a second or a third any time soon. At some point, everyone who wanted one would have one and sales would slow down. Meanwhile I'm over here with my 3 pressure cookers... To be fair, I only paid for the big knockoff Instant Pot. The smaller knockoff I found on the side of the road and a friend gave me the used stovetop pc in '98. It needs a new seal but is otherwise fine; the electrics are a bit slower but much less nerve-wracking.
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Beachcomber posted:You need to go to thrift stores and look for PYREX, in caps. That's the real borosilicate glass. Other way around. Borosilicate glass (old pyrex) is the one thats better at thermal shock but mechanically weaker
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lol if you don’t drink from vintage communist uberglass that was very nearly named “twerking” in Latin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_xABUPF0r4 https://florian-vick.medium.com/a-forgotten-product-the-glass-that-was-almost-indestructable-e07a5f716ecc posted:The CEVERIT glasses took off in East-Germany and soon they could be found in almost any bar, restaurant and aboard trains. It reached a full market saturation in just a few years as planned by the government — and the product worked even better than expected: Instead of ‘just’ 5 times the regular lifespan of a drinking glass, CEVERIT in practice reached even 10 to 15 times! https://digitalcosmonaut.com/superfest-ceverit-glass-ddr/ posted:During the first stage, the glass would be produced like every other normal glass – with machines cooling the glass and sanding off the edges etc. After this process, the glasses would be loaded off into a specialized glass holding machine (a one-off custom construction) which would then shuffle the glasses off to be heated back up to a temperature of 420C.
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I question the judgement of people who try to avoid innuendo by renaming their product "Super Hard".
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Platystemon posted:lol if you don’t drink from vintage communist uberglass that was very nearly named “twerking” in Latin The frustrating thing is that whatever distributor actually bought and sold these would have made a killing. Selling them for double compared to normal glasses would have given them a monstrous mark up, more than enough to pay for the "lost" sales. Anyway, capitalism wins again!!!
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Volmarias posted:The frustrating thing is that whatever distributor actually bought and sold these would have made a killing. Selling them for double compared to normal glasses would have given them a monstrous mark up, more than enough to pay for the "lost" sales. If the glasses don’t break then you won’t buy more. Pretty soon all our dishware will decay after a month and we’ll be paying for an endless subscription with cute new patterns to show off on instagram when your monthly box arrives.
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MokBa posted:If the glasses don’t break then you won’t buy more. Pretty soon all our dishware will decay after a month and we’ll be paying for an endless subscription with cute new patterns to show off on instagram when your monthly box arrives. Right, but if the glass cup costs $5 normally, and gets marked up to $8, while the unbreakable ones comes as $12 from the factory and sell for $40 (which if it lasts 10x as long is still a great deal for the restaurant owner if they're prudent!), you've got a $3 profit vs a $28 profit. You won't have as much repeat business in the glass from your normal customers, but you'll have a hell of a good sales year to give you a bunch of cash to play around and maybe expand with, and people outside your normal area may start poking around due to word of mouth.
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Volmarias posted:You won't have as much repeat business in the glass from your normal customers, but you'll have a hell of a good sales year to give you a bunch of cash to play around and maybe expand with, and people outside your normal area may start poking around due to word of mouth. Sure... at which point the average business will say "Wow! We can use these profits to expand and sell even more glasses next year!" And the next, and the next, and so on until they hit a saturation point and immediately collapse because they had leveraged themselves to tool up production to unsustainable levels.
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Haven’t seen this one yet - this is just a local one for Central California (mostly, they had barely expanded to Colorado, New Mexico, New York and a few other states) but it’s pretty hosed up. I haven’t been following Bitwise closely because I could never really understand what they “do,” and apparently that was not an unjustified sentiment. It’s some sort of tech/wework hybrid as best I can tell. It sounds like they started running out of money, knew they were boned, took out a ton of loans, furloughed employees and later fired them without bringing them back, and I think even raided their 401ks. Now the CEO’s are just sort of like yup, game over and a bunch of people in an area where good paying work is hard to find are out in the wind. https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article276411156.html Highbrow Slick has a new favorite as of 07:38 on Jun 16, 2023 |
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the holy poopacy posted:Sure... at which point the average business will say "Wow! We can use these profits to expand and sell even more glasses next year!" And the next, and the next, and so on until they hit a saturation point and immediately collapse because they had leveraged themselves to tool up production to unsustainable levels. You can invest in things that aren't the super glass too.
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Special beer glasses get stolen all the time. I reckon once word spreads that the superfest glass is used in some bar, that there'll be some glasses disappearing all the time. Less than breakage, but enough to warrant an order of glasses per year. Encourage stealing glasware, it's good for business!
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Your Flimsy Measuring Cup is badly damaged
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Volmarias posted:You can invest in things that aren't the super glass too. Sure, just saying that a lot of companies wouldn't think to bother (and even if they're run by someone smart enough to run it as a comfortable cash cow niche, it's only a matter of time before they get bought by someone who doesn't get it.) Like that's basically the One Weird Trick that distinguished Warren Buffett's investing career and everyone either thinks he's a brilliant super genius investor or they think he's a giant idiot because why would you take a profitable business and reinvest the profits elsewhere instead of just growing it infinitely?!
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This is... not a great sign. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has been taking lessons from Elon Musk’s “violent changes” at Twitter quote:“As a company smaller than theirs, sub-$1 billion in revenue, I used to look at Twitter and say, ‘Well, why can’t they break even at 4 or 5 billion in revenue? What about their business do we not understand?’ Because I think we should be able to do that quite handsomely,” he said.
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Highbrow Slick posted:Haven’t seen this one yet - this is just a local one for Central California (mostly, they had barely expanded to Colorado, New Mexico, New York and a few other states) but it’s pretty hosed up. I haven’t been following Bitwise closely because I could never really understand what they “do,” and apparently that was not an unjustified sentiment. It’s some sort of tech/wework hybrid as best I can tell. From April 10th: https://www.13abc.com/2023/04/10/tech-company-bitwise-open-new-campus-long-vacant-toledo-building/ quote:A massive renovation project in downtown Toledo is in the home stretch. Bitwise industries has invested tens of millions of dollars to renovate the former Jefferson Center. lol, lmao Also I'm in the same boat of "still don't know what they do"
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Sir Lemming posted:This is... not a great sign. Unfortunately it looks like he’s right. Too many people came crawling back after two days so they have no reason but to proceed.
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Maybe it's because I'm not rich but do you, as a rich person, ever have enough money that you go eh, gently caress it, let's pay people more? Not cut jobs? Offer benefits that aren't poo poo? I only know of one place that did; years ago (15 or so) I worked for a zoo where the vet tech made, at peak pay, $13 an hour. Most zookeeper made about $10. Most of the staff was seasonal, and 90% of the work was done by volunteers/seasonal workers so benefits didn't have to be paid, they made about $9 an hour. But one day the single owner (no board) died, and everything went to his daughter. This was last year or so. There had been no pay increases overall, but once she took over, basic workers were raised to $15 an hour, not sure about the zoo tech who usually lived on site. Amazingly people did not loving need to be hired every busy season because they stayed on with better wages. I don't know how things are now but I like to think that when that old dude died, the biggest shock was that he didn't get to take all the money with him.
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Cowslips Warren posted:Maybe it's because I'm not rich but do you, as a rich person, ever have enough money that you go eh, gently caress it, let's pay people more? Not cut jobs? Offer benefits that aren't poo poo? Have you considered, however, that not loving the workers will NOT cause number to go up as fast? Number going up is very important.
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Rick posted:Unfortunately it looks like he’s right. Too many people came crawling back after two days so they have no reason but to proceed. The # of users isn't nearly as important as the # of advertisers, and they're definitely not out of the woods by any means. User engagement alone doesn't pay for your yacht. And Twitter Blue subscriptions sure aren't going to do it either. Those checkmarks are increasingly seen as something to be avoided, and I have to wonder how long it'll be before people get bored of paying for one to own the libs.
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Cowslips Warren posted:Maybe it's because I'm not rich but do you, as a rich person, ever have enough money that you go eh, gently caress it, let's pay people more? Not cut jobs? Offer benefits that aren't poo poo? First place I had a job, an at the time semi-small regional electronics wholesaler, the two people whi started and ran it consistently gave yearly raises, already generous pay, great benefits, employees loved it and productivity and profit increased yearly. Then they hit the magic point where Capital noticed its success, they eventually got an offer too good to pass up, and the business has been a shambles ever since. 
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Cowslips Warren posted:Maybe it's because I'm not rich but do you, as a rich person, ever have enough money that you go eh, gently caress it, let's pay people more? Not cut jobs? Offer benefits that aren't poo poo? There's that CEO, Dan Price I think, who made minimum wage at his credit card processing company $75,000 or so. Several people quit because they were mad that "lesser people"' were now making as much or more than them. Turns out, people that stayed on are very happy with their jobs and lives, are traveling, getting married, having kids, etc. I don't know his impetus but I'm guessing he doesn't have a temporarily embarrassed billionaire mindset. Edit: Checking his Wikipedia and boy he sounds like a real rear end in a top hat except that he paid his employees well Admiral Joeslop has a new favorite as of 16:50 on Jun 17, 2023 |
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Sir Lemming posted:The # of users isn't nearly as important as the # of advertisers, and they're definitely not out of the woods by any means. User engagement alone doesn't pay for your yacht. And Twitter Blue subscriptions sure aren't going to do it either. Those checkmarks are increasingly seen as something to be avoided, and I have to wonder how long it'll be before people get bored of paying for one to own the libs. I think he’s talking about Reddit. Twitter is already barely holding on as is and probably won’t survive the long term
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