That’s really shocking. A small country worth of kidnappings.

We love long dry niche rants though.

As long as they can be updated.

Lots of embedded systems and infrastructure. But yeah, nothing important like your porn watching device.

The pizza guy very likely lives in the building too.

When I was a kid and barely knew any English at all, we sang English pop songs all the time without knowing their meanings. Kids are very good at memorizing songs

What usually happens is that people are uncultured pigs and don’t separate. So the trash ends up being mixed anyway. After a few years of that, they decide there’s no point in separating.

You can say the same about mega corp CEOs. Poor them, they are so busy with their own job.

Taylor Swift has the power to demand basically anything from the venue.

Taylor Swift has the power to demand basically anything from the venue.

Joe is one step out of the office already. At this point he could do whatever and then retire, no?

Yes but it’s actually a Mexican guy dressed in a pilgrim costume.

Bad metrics

Even if it was enough, they would not leave money on the table.

Pop stars are just the pretty faces in front of the behemoths that are the music labels. These labels are absolutely very politically powerful. Do you think Taylor Swift for rich by paying her staff fair salaries? The cleaning people from the concert venues, the bartenders, the people taking your tickets, etc, they all earned little crumbs while Swift, the venue, and the label made the big bucks.

No one becomes a billionaire by paying fair wages.

I’m pretty sure that’s the point. The oil heads are a dying breed and they are happy to jump off the dying ship and totally rebrand. And even got so much free publicity.

Hm teenage pregnancy and vaping I guess?

Of course you ask the brand. With the less tech savvy, you need to be clear and specific in your language. If you ask “is it a macbook?” you’ll get confusion as reply. People understand brands though. Even asking if it’s Windows might be confusing, because Windows is all they know.

Most companies put money aside for community initiatives. This is important for companies because it improves moral, thus reducing employee churn, which is costly. Spending a thousand bucks a year in sponsorships is a drop in the bucket for any mid sized company. If you never ask, you’ll never know.

Devs can convince their companies to sponsor open source projects that companies use. Most devs don’t care, why would companies?