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I'm just gonna say it: we need fewer consultants who are bros wearing Patagonia vests, we need more consultants who are just aggressively practical women.

Starting with me, someone pay me lots of money to look at a problem and say the most logical solution, I can foresee problems like nobody's business

it's wild to watch people fumble what should be a profitable situation by trying to make even more money

"we've got a successful YouTube channel but we need more money if we want to do the things we want to do, how about instead of producing some more things with a low production cost to generate more revenue or downsizing staff, we can just instead put all of our things behind a paywall and charge basically Netflix prices for one YouTube channel, that's affordable for everyone and people will definitely pay that instead of just watching something else for free"

like I got C's in a lot of my classes for my business degree and I can see what a clusterfuck this is going to end up creating

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you ever fuck up so bad on Friday you have to make a public apology on Monday?

they're switching to "we'll release this early and ad-free on our streaming platform, and then release it a month later on YouTube for free"

they should've done this in the first place so they wouldn't have to pull together a Try Guys-style couch set

it's wild to watch people fumble what should be a profitable situation by trying to make even more money

"we've got a successful YouTube channel but we need more money if we want to do the things we want to do, how about instead of producing some more things with a low production cost to generate more revenue or downsizing staff, we can just instead put all of our things behind a paywall and charge basically Netflix prices for one YouTube channel, that's affordable for everyone and people will definitely pay that instead of just watching something else for free"

like I got C's in a lot of my classes for my business degree and I can see what a clusterfuck this is going to end up creating

#Youtube

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I stand corrected, it's more like $4,000

If you have pets, I really, really, really encourage you to get pet insurance. It can seem like an unnecessary expense until you're at the veterinary ER.

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this is unrelated to a check please au. but i keep mentally comparing the new watcher subscription thing to dropout tv, the formerly-collegehumor subscription-based platform, and its like…. i GUESS i get why watcher would think this was a good idea but dropout has a large selection of content and a wide base of performers to make it, unlike watcher which seems to have, like, three main guys

Yeah, that's the thing- I think they view it as "well we have several shows, so that means we have enough to be a full network and be a full streaming service" but that's just not how consumers view things.

Consumers see "this is one youtube channel- I might like Ghost Files and Mystery Files and Puppet History, and maybe even some of their other lower-performing shows, but this is still just one channel, this isn't worth paying for a whole new streaming service, I'm so sick of subscriptions for absolutely everything"

and people in these kinds of companies love to be like "this is like buying one cup of coffee every month, everyone can afford this" but the thing is that one cup of coffee multiplies really quickly when every company in the world wants you to pay for that one cup of coffee. Not to mention that $6 is a lot if you're working for the US federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, or if you live in a country where $6USD is objectively a lot of money. I mean even here in Chicago, with a relatively high cost of living, $6 isn't trivial to me

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for context the dudes at Watcher (spinoff channel from Buzzfeed Unsolved) are trying to put all their videos exclusively on a special website that costs $6 a month so they can make "television quality" videos. This is, from my unprofessional point of view, a dipshit move.

it's wild to watch people fumble what should be a profitable situation by trying to make even more money

"we've got a successful YouTube channel but we need more money if we want to do the things we want to do, how about instead of producing some more things with a low production cost to generate more revenue or downsizing staff, we can just instead put all of our things behind a paywall and charge basically Netflix prices for one YouTube channel, that's affordable for everyone and people will definitely pay that instead of just watching something else for free"

like I got C's in a lot of my classes for my business degree and I can see what a clusterfuck this is going to end up creating

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it's wild to watch people fumble what should be a profitable situation by trying to make even more money

"we've got a successful YouTube channel but we need more money if we want to do the things we want to do, how about instead of producing some more things with a low production cost to generate more revenue or downsizing staff, we can just instead put all of our things behind a paywall and charge basically Netflix prices for one YouTube channel, that's affordable for everyone and people will definitely pay that instead of just watching something else for free"

like I got C's in a lot of my classes for my business degree and I can see what a clusterfuck this is going to end up creating

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my darling boy will be fine but without insurance I'd owe almost $3,000 so the $27.50 I've been spending every month on pet insurance will be worth it, even if the plan I have only covers 80% after the $250 deductible

If you have pets, I really, really, really encourage you to get pet insurance. It can seem like an unnecessary expense until you're at the veterinary ER.

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If you have pets, I really, really, really encourage you to get pet insurance. It can seem like an unnecessary expense until you're at the veterinary ER.

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On point that a British company got... "inspiration" from a Nigerian creator.

#are you shitting me

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this is so silly and so fun

april fool's day on this website is literally always fun

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april fool's day on this website is literally always fun

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Q1 Reading Check-In

This is mostly for myself

So far in 2024 I've finished 11 books, 1 in January and 5 each in February and March (I think I was trying to relisten to gideon the ninth in January and then the library took it back so all my stats are off there).

The books are, in order of completion:

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, Jesse Q. Sutanto

Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher

This is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Everyone on this Train is a Suspect, Benjamin Stevenson

Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher

Witch King, Martha Wells

The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune

Lost in the Moment and Found, Seanan McGuire

Mislaid in Parts Half-Known, Seanan McGuire

What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher

One Last Stop, Casey McQuiston

Looking over the list, I think I'd recommend all of the books that I finished. This is How You Lose the Time War was so good that I basically had to lie down for a while after I finished it. There were a few more that I simply did not enjoy that I stopped reading, but I think that's my right as a reader.

I think I've discovered that I, as a reader, really need some humor in my fantasy books. I just can't do the "everything is grim and nobody is funny and there's some magic" style of books; I can certainly enjoy parts of books that are serious, but you can't ask me to spend like 18 hours with nobody being funny at all.

I'm also glad that I discovered some authors that I like- I've currently got two more books from TJ Klune checked out.

There are also a lot of repeat authors here. I've missed Martha Wells' writing since I got to the most recent Murderbot, and I really liked Witch King. A friend of mine was able to send me the dramatis personae so I could learn how things were spelled, and I'd just like to formally ask all audiobook distributors to include a link to a PDF with all the character name spellings or to put it in the description or something. I simply cannot interact with fandoms if I only know how to pronounce something, not spell it. ALSO I discovered that there's now a full-cast version of Murderbot recorded? I'm so loyal to Kevin Free's narration but I'm intrigued so I placed some holds.

Similarly, I'm excitedly waiting for What Feasts at Night to get off my hold list and also for the audiobook version of the newest Saint of Steel version to be published, I'm reaching the end of what my libraries have for T. Kingfisher.

All in all, I think I've been decently consistent with prioritizing reading, and I'm continuing to be glad that I'm back into audiobooks. I might want to try and incorporate print books more again, but it's just so nice to be able to be reading while I'm at the jewelry-making bench sawing at stuff or while I've been deep-cleaning my entire apartment.

#also not to put anyone on blast but could they fix the pronunciation of Seanan at the start of Lost in the Moment and Found #had me double-checking for one read by the author to make sure I hadn't been mentally saying it wrong this whole time

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I love walking so much but it's so weird when you walk for a really long time and then your hands swell up

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also now every time something claims to boost my immune system I'm like "no thank you, my immune system is too powerful already, I don't want to give it the ammo to kill even more of my organs"

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this feels like a dumb question, like I'm missing something, but all these people going around saying you should take cold showers and cold plunges for XYZ reason... what's magic about the water, why wouldn't I be getting those benefits from living in Chicago and leaving my apartment in winter? like I guess water has a faster temperature transfer than air but how is me taking a 1 hour cold walk not giving me whatever benefits the 5 minute cold shower/cold plunge gives?

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icecreampotluck love how this implies you were 0 years old checking the lollapalooza lineup and going "nah nothing here sounds good"

yeah I was like maximum 3 weeks old for this one and I just really hadn't had time to listen to all of the acts beforehand

I've gone 28 years without wanting to go to Lollapalooza but now they've got like three artists I'd love to see on day 1 (Hozier, Chappell Roan, Daði Freyr)

gonna say this is not ideal for lolla, as a 28 year old I should be geriatric by their audience's standards. this festival is for teenagers from the suburbs not taxpaying adults who live in the actual city

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I've gone 28 years without wanting to go to Lollapalooza but now they've got like three artists I'd love to see on day 1 (Hozier, Chappell Roan, Daði Freyr)

gonna say this is not ideal for lolla, as a 28 year old I should be geriatric by their audience's standards. this festival is for teenagers from the suburbs not taxpaying adults who live in the actual city

#regardless I will not go #aside from feeling old in this specific context I'm simply too 5'4" for standing concerts #if any of them have aftershows tho....