These kinds of articles help reduce my angst for a civilization ending meteor and actually make me look forward to it.

I linked the article on another board I frequent. This post in the discussion caught my attention... "I did an accidental experiment around 15 or 20 years ago about the impact of "attention" on business, and while the outcome was not surprising, it was highly impressive and still impresses me today. Just now, I googled "who invented the carbide inserted woodturning tool?", and got a bout one and a half million returns, none of them providing the real answer and most of them pimping sales of one brand or another. Here is a sample; www.popularwoodworking.com/tools/tool-test-axe-carbide-turning-tools/ In fact, that tool was so innovative that books were written about it and the authors never got the answer to that question right a single time, even when positive proof was offered. I could not have cared less, except in terms of how tightly they were willing to cling to the untruths they published in order to conform their stories to public expectations. It was and is a HOOT! The fact is that the very first month it was published, Woodturning design magazine contained a half page ad for carbide woodturning tools, and I had already published ads in other woodturning magazines in the classified sections but was dissatisfied with the results. Placement was random and rates were far too expensive, but as soon as Ebay became a reality, I started selling tools hand over fist. I was making a living from those sales, but I lacked one critical ingredient to turn the woodturning world on it's nose; The hunger for attention simply was not in me Long story short, I made a decent living for 8 years with those tools, even while the industry gurus swore that carbide was not a good material for wood turning, until they finally caved to the facts and endorsed them, whereupon I had a dozen competitors overnight, most of which claimed to having invented them and fully half making attempts to patent them Not a problem for me. I had other stuff I was aching to move on to already and I did. It was just an excellent illustration of how that lack of desire for attention may limit one's opportunities in life and in business. That same pattern has repeated itself over and over in my life, and I have no regrets whatsoever. I KNOW what I have done and can do. That is plenty good enough for me.... My only regrets are that so many folks need and lack that attention to keep them creating because it".

@jon-nyc said in Impeach for spreading falsehoods: Yep, that's the very same thing! So unfair!!!! LOL

Most likely, though, people want food for their new pets. Many of the ammo companies are not traded publicly, so numbers are hard to come by. Vista is publicly traded and they have the Remington brand, among others. They are at full capacity, running about 30% over 2019. Currently, they have $1B in backorders.

Hahaha that's funny. I can see the legislative point of requiring a vote for orders lasting more than 60 days.

So much material, so easy, why not?

@jon-nyc said in Parler CEO fired: It doesn’t beg that question it raises it. /pedant mode 'Pedant' is a very charitable interpretation.

@xenon said in Good quote: It’s from a midcentury director (Andrew Maysles) We need a like button.

@axtremus said in Canadian athletes cautioned on speaking out at Beijing Olympics: @renauda said in Canadian athletes cautioned on speaking out at Beijing Olympics: I'm counting on either a boycott or outright cancellation of the games. +1 Even without China, sports meets for most types of sports featured in the Olympics are unnecessary. You've never competed, have you?

Finally, it can fetch the newspaper and/or the slippers. Not that either task is needed, because newspaper is obsolete and the humans barely change in and out of slippers these days because we all stay at home all day due to the pandemic.

@brenda said in My boss just got fired.: @horace said in My boss just got fired.: @george-k said in My boss just got fired.: Ugh. Do you get a sense of the stability of your situation? Yes, it's fine. The business world has defined people like me, we are "individual contributors". The guy who fired my boss, in this morning's meeting, said that I was the guy who would be writing mission critical tools and algorithms. I proved that in 2020 with what I did in the COVID application. People way above him respect me. That's as it should be, Horace. Glad to hear it. +1

@george-k said in YouTube censors Senate testimony: @copper of course. But, if you're Plumber Joe Sixpack, are you really going to go to the gummint's site to seek this out? Or...YouTube? But, here we are. A private company censoring a public government hearing. What wrong with a private company censoring a public government hearing? Isn't that part of the protection afforded by the First Amendment? Are you taking a position that says whenever a private enterprise's platform becomes sufficiently popular, it has to become some sort of "public platform" that are subjected to additional government regulations not applicable to the less popular platforms? If TNCR ever gets over X million registered users and Y million daily visitors, then all of a sudden TNCR have to follow additional government rules that TNCR did not have to when it had only (X-1) million registered users and (Y-1) million daily visitors?

Best puzzle thread yet.

@mik said in Hey, Brenda: Yeah, I seldom get everything I ordered and I usually don't allow substitutions. But it's still better than going into the store. Exactly. If our local store offered it, I would be using theirs. Instead, they don't seem to have a problem with all the folks who won't wear masks, sometimes including their own staff. I wonder how much business that has cost them.

@xenon said in Britain to test mixing and matching vaccines: This is cool. Should be interesting. +1

@copper said in New York opens for indoor dining!: Mr. Biden killed over 4,000 covid victims yesterday. The blood on the hands of his supporters must weigh so heavily on their souls. I pray for them.