… you want to tell me how awesome and life-changing Useless Product NX900 is?

Well shucks, please send me your black queer mom affiliate link so I can get in on this.

It screams white person lying about their identity to justify some whackadoo comment. “I can say this racist/homophobic thing bc I’m a black queer momma of 2. If you can’t handle me, you’re bigoted”.

… sure they are …

… How did I not know this is part of the -arr suite …

Thank you.

If we’re going to call those R&D (which I have a difficult time calling marketing that but fine for sake of moving discussion further), we loop back to cause of bankruptcy. If a restaurant goes bankrupt from sinking too much $ into developing new recipes, or an insurance company on too much marketing, that’s not a cost of R&D problem, that’s a mismanagement problem.

So to OPs question of how to make R&D affordable, the answer is to not make stupid investments in excessive R&D that is poorly understood for how likely it is to return the investment. Study the market, identify and mitigate the risks, manage a budget, don’t get caught up in the VC tech bubble mindset of “innovate or die” because that is a catchphrase and not an actual business management technique.

Are we getting off track? I think so. My initial point to OP was 1) I don’t believe most bankruptcies are caused by R&D investments. And if I’m wrong on that point and it really is as OP says 2) some really stupid business people need to learn not to take so many big risks that they can’t survive when the risks materialize.

What do you mean by “companies”? Tech companies? There’s way more than that. Restaurants, insurance, real estate, farming, radio stations, schools, book publishing, auto parts dealer, grocery stores, nursing and medical home care, and on and on. What are they R&Ding that would drive them to bankruptcy?

I get the sense OP meant tech companies but didn’t say that. That drastically changes their argument/question. It’s still quite the claim. Massive amounts of R&D $ is fine so long as there’s a way to get it back.

A big mismatch in R&D$ in and profit out is a problem that could lead to bankruptcy. But the $ spent on R&D isn’t the root cause, the next “why” is the poor financial management and poor market research that led the company to make bad R&D investments.

I would still say citation is needed. Of course if a company’s R&D costs balloon large enough they will topple a company. Is that really what’s happening in bankruptcies “most of the time”?

On its face that looks like an impossible claim because of the number of bankrupted companies that don’t even have R&D.

most of the time companies go bankrupt because development is expensive

Any research or sources to back such a claim before continuing on to the question? Cursory websearching about top causes of bankruptcy and R&D costs doesn’t come up.

The US has never attacked Chinese critical infrastructure before, right?

Uh, I would not bet my money on that.

Has FB been cool since they got rid of signups limited by .edu email addresses?

That is a weird way of describing it. Teens aren’t “abandoning” FB & X; they never signed up to begin with. And why would that? They are platforms built for and filled with millennials+.

Meh. I don’t care. I’m a mechanical engineer by education. While I’ve used it in many jobs, none in a way that requires certification.

In the US, certification is needed in civil engineering and only small subsets of mechanical and electrical engineering. I’ve worked with many engineers who don’t even have a university degree in engineering. I’m not precious about other people calling themselves engineers.

Except for that stretch of time when hotels were trying to hire janitors as “custodial engineers” and offering like $10/hr. Eff that noise. That made an already deteriorating job search experience on LinkedIn worthless.

If all it takes is prayers and intermittent fasting, I would like to throw my hat in as next CEO. I will fast two days a week if I get equal to Pat’s 2023 compensation package of $16.86 million.

They seem overrepresented in my algorithms. I don’t particularly like them, I don’t click on them, I’ll even spend limited free skips to rush past them sometimes, yet they seem to be everywhere. I can only assume their label is spending an ungodly amount of money to push them in the algorithm, making me shift from neutral about them to negative. Like how Nickelback was on every radio station despite not really being anything special. Hozier seems to sneak through despite my efforts to curate and train my algorithm intentionally.

So Hozier represents what is wrong with enshittifying music streaming apps to me. Probably not entirely fair of me, but that is my explanation for why I am confused and mildly irritated Spotify would call them my top artist.

Maybe, it doesn’t ring a bell but I might recognize it if I heard it.

I’ve come to the conclusion my top 5 lists are bunk. I know there is a particular song I listened to at least a half dozen times; neither it nor the artist were on my top lists. Yet somehow Hozier is my top artist? No, it’s broken.

Why this even calls for generative AI is beyond me. Just post my top 5 artists and top 5 songs. It’s data already available.

Mine said my top artist is Hozier, driving my Goblincore Fantasy Forest phase. I couldn’t name a Hozier song since Take Me To Church, a song that falls into Nickelback territory for me, as in sellouts that get way too much playtime. And no idea how that turned into goblins and fantasy forests.

Oooooh, tough call. This is their chance to put a “promiscuous woman” in her place.

Do you not see what feminism has wrought?!?

/s, because it’s the internet and if I don’t put it there people will actually think I’m blaming crypto scams on feminism.

Personal life - I’ve used it for idea generation like, “what can I make from x, y, z ingredients” or “what are some activities I can use to teach 4th graders about aerodynamics”.

I despise it at work. I am on the verge of having to fire someone on my team for its misuse.

Alt-right comedian who confuses his free speech to say bigoted things with a belief that people must find him funny.

He also got into boxing in the way “alpha male” content creators do, left smack talking in the dust and made actual threats against his opponents and their families.

But he’s a comedian so it’s all funny! /s

Bad businessman, bad. Everyone knows you don’t bring problems without solutions.

Now what’s the solution? (One that doesn’t involve enslaving women further). Bet he won’t broach the idea of regulating AI companions, that would be bad for profit.

The BitWarden Emergency Access feature is premium-only to setup. And it doesn’t have the death certificate/identity verification piece to it, which I prefer not having anyway.