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https://twitter.com/BW/status/1319028841357115392

# ¿ Oct 22, 2020 00:42

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 06:44

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Copyrights last for a fixed term and then expire. Trademarks are the ones that only hold while the company defends them.

But realistically, what's happening is that companies see a way they could be making more money now and aren't thinking about how ignoring that will lead to bigger long-term gains.

# ¿ Oct 23, 2020 16:34

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Subjunctive posted:

I mean, in theory they expire, but I don�t see no public domain Steamboat Willy mashups.

Steamboat Willie enters the public domain on January 1st, 2024.

# ¿ Oct 23, 2020 17:29

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Sighence posted:

Lmao if you think it'll stay that way. It'd be far from the first time Disney gets copyright lengths pushed back farther.

Congress had the option to extend copyright in 2018 but it didn't. A whole bunch of stuff went into the public domain in 2019. Disney's IP situation is complicated but just having this one cartoon in the public domain doesn't mean that they completely lose rights for Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse will be public domain soon�here�s what that means has a pretty good overview of the way things stand right now.

# ¿ Oct 23, 2020 18:47

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Is it really embarrassing to get stabbed there?

# ¿ Oct 31, 2020 16:28

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Rax was big in Ohio and nearby states but I'm not sure they existed anywhere else.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2020 04:30

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I thought the food was great when I was a kid, and my parents never really complained about it.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2020 04:51

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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:

Yeah and really good milkshakes iirc

Yep.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2020 14:38

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One of my relatives was a lawyer on the Rax bankruptcy case, and they were so impressed with his work that they gave him this:

I have it now because no one else wanted it.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2020 16:43

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Solice Kirsk posted:

I would wear that 100% of the time if I owned it. Even to bed and in the shower and stuff.

In addition to being ugly, it's incredibly cheaply made. It wouldn't withstand regular use.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2020 17:01

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Pastry of the Year posted:

Do it!

# ¿ Nov 6, 2020 19:47

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FilthyImp posted:

Weird. You would think more people decided "THIS is the year I learn the guitar!" thanks to COVID.

They all bought their guitars from Amazon.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2020 16:45

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Goober Peas posted:

I have a whole rack of dress shoes that I haven't worn once since March 15th.

Button-down shirts for me. I think a lot of business clothing stores are in trouble.

# ¿ Nov 23, 2020 18:20

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Vox is running a series of articles on the demise of department stores this week. The first one is definitely relevant to discussions about dying malls.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2020 15:41

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Karia posted:

In addition to what's been said already: their whole inventory management system isn't designed to grab arbitrary items quickly. It's not like they've got somebody standing by and the instant your order comes in they go "Hey, Teriyaki just requested a single baby Yoda Pez dispenser, I'm going to go grab that." It's designed around how to optimally pull a given batch of orders quickly: all the orders get put into a queue and then sorted to optimize how fast the stock-pullers can grab them. It's an extremely efficient (and inhumane!) system. Changing this up by having another employee jump in and go "whoops, I need to pull like twenty different Funko pops that this neckbeard out front wants" throws off the entire system.

This is the reason. I know some people who worked on inventory management at Walmart, and their entire operation is very carefully optimized to lower their overall operating expenses. If they had to support ad hoc requests from customers, it'd be basically impossible to do what they do now. At Amazon or Walmart scale, even something like improving the prediction of arrival dates by one day can have a nine figure effect on their bottom line, so they're not going to take a much bigger hit than that.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2020 19:59

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bowser posted:

The other problem is that Walmart Canada doesn't have quite the same trashy vibe as it does in the US. No one was willing to pay more for Target when they didn't offer a noticeably different shopping experience, except the aforementioned empty shelves.

At least as of a few years ago, Walmart was considered fairly upmarket in Brazil because it's an American brand.

# ¿ Dec 11, 2020 17:43

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FlamingLiberal posted:

The world's biggest porn site removed at least half of its content after companies like Visa and Mastercard stopped letting people purchase subscriptions with them.

https://twitter.com/jason_koebler/status/1338470558199992321?s=20

How long until the other tube sites follow suit?

# ¿ Dec 15, 2020 04:11

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Krispy Wafer posted:

Zoomers getting their licenses later seems related to social media and technology more than anything else. Sociologists are still trying to figure out why it's occurring, but teenagers right now are hitting their various milestones of youth later than Gen-X's or Millennials (driving, losing their virginity, getting their first jobs, etc) in significant numbers.

A lot of the jobs that used to be open to teenagers either don't exist any more due to automation or are being filled by older people because there are no jobs for them.

# ¿ Feb 4, 2021 17:27

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Solice Kirsk posted:

I've only got a basic understanding of electronics, but why don't they just make a capacitor like the size of a building to store the power and release it at night? Man, electrical engineers are stupid.

Getting a capacitor to discharge more slowly than "all at once" is a challenge.

# ¿ Feb 8, 2021 19:41

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So like a downmarket Skymall?

# ¿ Mar 24, 2021 01:06

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https://twitter.com/xor/status/1388247375878266883

# ¿ May 1, 2021 15:37

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https://twitter.com/davidgerard/status/1388554817862348800

This is honestly a pretty good summary of what happened as far as I can tell.

# ¿ May 1, 2021 19:08

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Inside the all-hands meeting that led to a third of Basecamp employees quitting

I'm not quoting any of this because you really need to read the whole thing.

# ¿ May 4, 2021 04:02

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The Peloton Christmas ad was pretty bad, but the gin ad that followed it was great.

The ad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijof8uw4OHs

The response:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayD-4nMnB44

# ¿ May 6, 2021 15:16

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https://twitter.com/_breeeeen_/status/1392890221994332169

# ¿ May 13, 2021 21:53

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Garrand posted:

Thinking about when Disney complained how everyone pirated The Mandalorian when it was only on Disney+ which wouldn't roll out to most of the world for 6 months or a year or more, depending on where you lived.

# ¿ May 17, 2021 21:13

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https://twitter.com/MaxKaminCross/status/1428443982556696578

# ¿ Aug 19, 2021 21:40

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https://twitter.com/PostCultRev/status/1428584131835748359
Thread

# ¿ Aug 20, 2021 14:43

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WNRN in Charlottesville, VA is worth a listen. They're not as eclectic as some of the other recommendations but they're completely listener supported and never play commercials.

# ¿ Aug 24, 2021 14:37

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I haven't lived in Charlottesville for almost twenty years but I still visit occasionally. I'm glad to see that the radio selection is still pretty good.

# ¿ Aug 24, 2021 23:13

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https://twitter.com/The_Law_Boy/status/1476602048238002187

# ¿ Dec 30, 2021 19:53

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Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire

No one wants to work (for Amazon).

# ¿ Jun 18, 2022 19:54

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It's the second one.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2022 00:35

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Haifisch posted:

I never really came back and looked at the men's department since I realized I was trans well after I stopped shopping at Kohl's(and Target/etc are fine and cheaper if you just want a basic buttonup or whatever), but the women's department had like a small handful of things that might be okay officewear, and then a sea of frumpy stuff I couldn't imagine anyone below age 60 wearing.

I don't know exactly what the analogous situation for men's clothing is but I have no trouble believing Kohl's does.

# ¿ Sep 1, 2022 17:54

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Solkanar512 posted:

So am I crazy in thinking that there might be criminal activity that will soon be discovered? Usually these folks get a golden parachute unless they�ve committed crimes.

Bed Bath & Beyond CFO who died after falling from NYC high rise was subject of insider trading and fraud lawsuit just before death, documents show

# ¿ Sep 4, 2022 21:45