CarbonConscious [he/him]

I mean to be fair, I think

“he had a secret conversation”

is a lot more forgiveable to believe than

“he had a secret conversation^{~~~frombeyondthegrave!!!~~~}”

Idk if it was just my latent social anxiety interacting with that list of names or what, but those last few sentences were extremely hard to parse.

It was actually doing pretty well as a product, and they were literally weeks away from releasing the extemely promising new version, but they got hostile-takeovered by Fitbit who was somewhere between threatened by their success and strip-mining the company for patents or staff.

Fitbit immediately shut down the new release.

Then Fitbit got bought by Google, who obviously has their own interests to maintain in that market.

Ok, but say I put my brain in a robot body and there’s a collective class-conscious revolution: robot bourgeoisie versus the human proletariat. What side am I on??

Idk, maybe advertising isn’t as lucrative in the era where your audience can’t afford to buy anything you’re selling.

Same chart, in aggregate.

(I could have tried harder)

“…but then again, who does?” :bladerunnerguy:

Wow I didn’t know Jesse Welles was a hexbear user. :o

GROG!! GROG!! GROG!!

Moreover, the team of zoomer interns they’ve got running the social media accounts still think Obama is a funny punchline to just throw out sometimes (broken clock, , and all that).

Oh cool, they’re going after Obama.

For all the war crimes, right?

Man, that does not Feel So Good at all. :(

Hey all of a sudden I’ve got an idea how the US could go back to being a premiere tourist destination again…

It sure does seem to be! Neato!

Some dude invented them years ago, basically a set of rings that you load a disposable piece of floss onto, making it way more comfortable but using way less plastic per use than floss picks.

I don’t remember the exact details, but there was some kind of shenanigans where the big players in the existing dental products industry basically strong armed his suppliers out of working with him and he had to fold under a huge pile of debt or something.

If I recall it also had something to do with the regulations around the sanitary nature of floss, and how the stuff on the shelf now has basically none at all - it’s just treated like regular string all the way through the production and distribution channels, and is never really kept particularly isolated from contaminants, but the ring refills were actually sanitary instead.

I’m still sad about the floss rings guy getting merc’d out of the industry. Those would’ve been a big game changer for a lot of people.

Another good tip with electric brushes is to stop moving them around so much - just slowly move it across your teeth and let the electric motion do the actual scrubbing work.