Well technically, you could have your legs shattered, and then stretched out, casted up.

You know, just a simple lifestyle change, nothing major, no chance that could horrendously backfire.

Like, uh, its looksmaxxing for your… legs… or something.

‘There is a form socially acceptable discrimination against a subset of people based around a fundamental intrinsic element of those people that they are totally incapable of changing.’

‘Chin up, be strong, don’t let the bastards get you down!’

Oh so … not a situation where we maybe need or could benefit from a serious society-wide discussion of this problem, the solution to this form of bigotry is uh… its a personal responsibility.

Got it.

I mean, its econ/business lingo.

Its not an argument, its just a description of what is happening.

Weak demand pretty much means ‘less people are buying this thing’.

Its a pretty well known phenomenon that if you raise prices too high, or all your customers become broke in some other way, have their purchasing power diminished… that’s referred to as ‘demand destruction’.

You could also destroy demand if you maybe worsen the quality of the thing you’re selling, but keep the price the same or even raise it.

(cough AAA video games cough)

But, but… I will give you that this kind of phrasing does sound, to the average person, as if it is grammatically obscuring what’s going on, or shifting the blame to consumers.

A lot of business/econ lingo is subtly insidious in that way.

They are less expensive.

EDIT:

Sorry, I misread the parent comment.

You would use them for literally anything you typically or potentially could use a phone for.

If you are not playing video games on your phone… there is basically no common reason to have a top spec brand new phone.

What do I want my phone to do?

Make calls, send messages, run a web browser, check emails, take a picture or video every once in a while, act as a notepad, check a weather forecast, have some map explorer, use some entirely 2D proprietary apps for things like… groceries or hailing a ride or checking my bank balance.

Pretty sure that right there is about 80% of people’s phone use case.

You do not need top spec hardware to do any of that.

You have the gaming thing to do the gaming stuff.

I don’t know what number that is, but it is a bad number.

Ragnorok.

A most fowl accusation!

I was an executive level data analyst for an international logistics middle man company, based in Seattle.

Yes, correct, you cannot infact outsource that just as easily, it is, as I said, an entirely different animal, with many different kinds of problems and costs, and potential problems and potential costs.

An enormous amount of logistics ultimately comes down to who knows, who, who introduces who to who, and who has what kind of reputation, with who.

You either pay a firm like the one I worked for a considerable premium in order to have them manage every single step of the process, every single link in the chain… or you try to do all that on your own, maybe hire a few new expert people to figure out how to do that.

I am arguing as if Valve is not a logistics company.

You are arguing as if you do not know anything about logistics at all.

It would seem we shall have to wait a bit then, to continue our attempts at science.

… it is a good thing, that science is fun.

Oh.

Thank heaven.

Yep, you got it.

And yep, high property value areas?

Yep, gets worse fast.

You end using something along the lines of an overflow lot, halfway across the city, and that overflow lot probably doesn’t have the same level of access, security, reliable climate control, etc, as your main warhouse / storage site.

Oh its telling of me, huh?

Tell me you’ve never worked in an industry that made or moved actual things without telling me you’ve never worked in an industry that made or moved actual things.

Active number of users on servers you are paying someone else to physically operate and maintain has nothing to do with orchestrating an international manufacturing and shipping program.

Its an entirely different animal.

Personally I’d go with ‘big truck nutz energy’, to mean ‘extreme insecurity leading to comical levels of overcompensation’.

Like really, how much of an ashamed fucking dingus do you have to be to put big ole silicone balls on your trailer hitch?

Basically guarantees you never actually use the hitch either.

Its literally a gender affirming ornament, the truck nutz themselves are honestly not terribly different from packers for transguys.

Yeah, my idea of being a ‘man’ includes the part where you wingman for your shorter buddies.

(in the context of ‘everyone is single and out to mingle’)

Some chick (or dude, or w/e if your bro is amenable) comes on to you at a bar?

Chat them up a bit, introduce them to your unironically very cool and awesome shorter friend, tell them a story about the one time bro made you look like an idiot, then metaphorically hand the mic over to him, etc.

Call it anti-chad type bro behvaior, I dunno.

Like, to me, thats what ‘Bros before Hoes’ means.

It means you don’t personally scour the field yourself, there has to be some sense of equity.

Don’t make the problem worse, instead, try to be part of the solution.

… Maybe somebody who just actually got one could weigh it for us, lol.

… Did any of us actually manage to get one?

Yeah, people in general seem to not understand that stock sitting in a warehouse = you burning money to pay for renting that warehouse, or space in that warehouse.

You have to be… mega-giant huge, your own logistiscs system, for that to basically not be the case, you have to be Amazon, Walmart, something like that.

Even then, that factor still exists, its just mitigated by the overwhelming scale.

And actually, with… oil/gas basically now permanently notched up to another tier, even in the best case scenario… this pressure just gets worse.

Also, even before the Deck, the Index was basically the same way.

Compassion is an experience, the point of being a libertine is to experience as broad a range of things for yourself as possible, but ok adieu.

‘Things you should say if you want everyone to know you’re rage-baiting shit disturber’.

She seems to strike me as basically a clever, competent, libertine.

I wouldn’t class that as a gold digger.

A gold digger, imo, would be someone who basically leeches the max amount of money / stuff out of another, and then swaps to next when the first target is drained.

I don’t get the sense that she does that, seems more like she’s just bouncing around all over the place, thus could not be making any credible false promises nor false impressions of long term commitment.

To me, ‘libertine’ best matches the personality that she seems to have by way of the format of the comic strip: Everything is an opportunity to maximize entertainment/experience , not wealth.

Like uh, how many different kinds of jobs has she worked, haha?

See that also tracks with why we hate Californians…

Cap Hill used to be affordable, and considerably more weird.

Yes, its weird, it used to be more weird.

Like uh, I remember one time about 15 years ago now (rent in Cap Hill was roughly 1/3 of what it is now), I saw an actual freak on a leash, like just full BDSM gear dude walking another BDSM dude down the street.

They were going to QFC, to get groceries, just normal stuff, most people were like ‘huh. sure. neat.’ and just went on as normal.

Then the California hipster trust fund babies moved in, followed by the techbros, raised the rent, the Seattle natives moved out, now Cap Hill is basically a tourist area, masquerading as ‘the most coolest Seattleist part of the city’.

Like, I’m in the midwest now in large part because of the real estate bubble caused by rich transplant gentrifiers.

But yeah, anyway, I did interperet the uh, full blast accent drop as a sign he was uh… comfortable talking to me, so i was genuienly happy, but also very confused, hahah!