My uncle had a high position first at coke and then switched to Pepsi and he had in his contact that he could not drink products from the competition in public. It was a hassle to find restaurants because we had to call ahead and ask what they served. If there was no option we had to request the drinks to be served in glasses and don’t have any cans or bottles on the table

The people who cared are also a big proportion of people that actually posted and commented there. I kept lurking for a while and the quality of content and discussion declined very quickly. Now there are a lot of bots fighting with other bots on big /r. The only communities that maybe stayed the same are the ones that were very niche to begin with

A lot of bands that I liked when I was in high school are now on 20th anniversary tours of their famous albums.

Also I saw a few Pokemon red 30th anniversary banners while in Japan

They used to be one of the cheapest before Dan Campbell’s revolution, I went to a few matches when they were cheap, that’s when I realized that I prefer to watch NFL games on the TV. Hockey, NBA and soccer are great live, but NFL you spend more time looking at the giant screen to see the details of each play

This would be “midly” if it was a $5 gas station sub

Flix-a-flat and similar products should be an absolutely last resort. They can plug the tire pressure sensors and they will corrode the tire over time, and the patch itself will deteriorate quickly so it will be leaking air after a while and most shops won’t touch a tire that has been plugged with one of those products

Yes, VPs and C-suite do not work for the employees, they work for the shareholders

My cousin just finished his MBA from a big college, he is so proud that he used AI for most of his assignments, he used 3 out 4 subscriptions to make it “more human” and “not mistakes” and so they couldn’t detect it easily

He said that everybody in his courses was using AI and that most group discussions were about which AI is better, so it makes sense that those managers are so excited about AI, because it was able to do their “meaningless” jobs so they think it can do anyone’s job, but he doesn’t see the irony that he would be the first to be replaced