Most business people are too stupid to handle paragraphs with more than 2-3 sentences. I’m not joking; I literally have to write emails like this if I want them read.

I’m talking about doughnuts.

Deep fried cake covered in sugar is the quintessential American breakfast food.

People keeping old ass industrial equipment alive. I had to buy some CD-Rs recently because it was the only way to get files on or off an ancient Win95 machine that had no network or USB ports. The machinery it interacts with costs a million dollars, so replacing it is no small thing.

Might be a regional thing, but in the US you only hear snuck unless the person is trying to be cutesy, like pretending to be a cat.

Yeah, but people will look at you weird if you use sneaked in serious contexts.

A large percent of the population tunes out when you talk about real problems. They don’t understand them or don’t want to think about them. They’ll still have some fun making fun of a billionaire who so pathetically craves nerd cred that he’ll cheat at a video game. Now every time Musk does something, one of the top 3 comments, even in non-left spaces, will be people making fun of him for cheating in POE2. It exposes him as a sham and undermines the air of competence he tries to convey.

Is it stupid and shallow? Yes, but so are most people.

You say that, but it seriously looks like cheating in and being bad at video games is hurting his reputation even among the chuds.

Politics and money. If a “mistake” financially benefits a company, there’s a 99% chance it was actually malice/greed.

They have particularly nimble pelvic muscles.

There actually are rules. They’re just complicated because English prefers to preserve the pronunciation of loan words without changing their spelling and English has a ton of loan words. If you ignore them, native English words are fairly consistent.

It’s because the stock market doesn’t care about anything except the next quarter. Valve can think long term because they’re privately owned.

Wireless Ass-Penguins

The only ways to get around the Caspian involve Russia or Iran, unless you plan on going across it. Does a ferry count as hitchhiking?

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Cold calling is the equivalent of barging into someone’s house and yelling “Fuck you and what you’re doing. I’m more important.”

Sure, but cold calling someone is still a dick move. Professionals have schedules and deadlines. The proper etiquette is to first engage over email or text and ask if they’re free for a call unless it’s something truly urgent.

If I’m trying to work on something complicated, it takes 20-30 minutes to remind myself of all the disparate pieces and get into the “zone” of productivity. Your phone call ruins that, makes me have to start the process over again and drastically increases the likelihood of me screwing something up. If people keep calling or shoulder tapping me, I get nothing done.

If you text first, it gives me the option to ignore you for a bit if I’m in the middle of something.

I doubt they’ll care, if only due to self-interest. Most of the corporate sites are trying to ban or deprioritize links because they don’t want people to leave their site and stop viewing their ads.

There are plenty of competitors to Steam. They just suck in comparison.