Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

[biophase]

Data has proven that this type of facial expression is effective in boosting views.

However for me it's a red flag that the video is going to be trash.

Actually Mr. Beast did a test and found that a closed mouth actually converts better. So we will probably be seeing alot different expressions going forward.

 

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[biophase]

Isn't that just a cheap foldable chair you can find on Amazon or Temu? Why would people still buy from the ad and lap it up? They can just close the browser, open up their Amazon/Temu/AliExpress app and get 586 options at 1/4 the price, and with points/rewards/coupons from those platforms too!

Seriously, sometime I wonder why you are on this forum. Yes you can find 586 options at 1/4 the price, but are they the same chair? Are they knock-offs that use lesser quality materials? How do you know? The demographic they are going for wants high quality and lightweight products. With this attitude you aren't ever going to run a business.

I challenge you to find this chair on temu. I couldn't.

Honestly, that video sold me. I would go buy that chair if I needed one.

 

[Boogie]

Seriously, sometime I wonder why you are on this forum. Yes you can find 586 options at 1/4 the price, but are they the same chair? Are they knock-offs that use lesser quality materials? How do you know? The demographic they are going for wants high quality and lightweight products. With this attitude you aren't ever going to run a business.

I challenge you to find this chair on temu. I couldn't.

Honestly, that video sold me. I would go buy that chair if I needed one.

Plus for many consumers that aren't broke, if presented something with no other options shown, most consumers would just buy. Why spend time looking when it's right there in front of you? If it's not right, just get something else later.

 

[StrikingViper69]

Plus for many consumers that aren't broke, if presented something with no other options shown, most consumers would just buy. Why spend time looking when it's right there in front of you? If it's not right, just get something else later.

The product can be right, or it can be right now.

Both is best, but either will get sales.

 

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[Kevin88660]

Isn't that just a cheap foldable chair you can find on Amazon or Temu? Why would people still buy from the ad and lap it up? They can just close the browser, open up their Amazon/Temu/AliExpress app and get 586 options at 1/4 the price, and with points/rewards/coupons from those platforms too!

I don’t even shop that much to be able to tell the difference.

The difference between Temu and someone doing e-commerce in North America is in Temu the Chinese manufacturers is selling you directly on the platform?

I still buy things from brick and mortar convenience stalls. I guess I am hanging out with people twice my age too much.

 

[Spenny]

Super cool bag idea. Seems disruptive but ripe for cheap Chinese knockoffs.

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/92O6kruci54?si=13JqlLuEnA5347GP


Edit: later thought for those doing website design and marketing, this guy's website it pretty bare bones. I'm sure there would be some value someone here could provide.

Elise&DanielBags

Elise&DanielBags

elisedanielbags.com

I could imagine a nice banner, an improved UI and more features to add to authenticity would do wonders for this guy's conversion rates.

 

[MRiabov]

Gentlemen, remember FullCook - a machine that can cook anything you want with a press of a button, and effectively replaces the entire kitchen? I now have a patent pending.

In the last 2 months he machine was significantly downsized, and now it can fit on any countertop.

I think it's 2-3 months until I create a prototype, and will sell it immediately. (it'll also take bottstrapping couple thousands from my side)

@Johnny boy I remember you've said it's impossible

 

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[biophase]

@Johnny boy I remember you've said it's impossible

Me too. I’m still a nonbeliever, but I hope you prove me wrong.

 

[Subsonic]

Gentlemen, remember FullCook - a machine that can cook anything you want with a press of a button, and effectively replaces the entire kitchen? I now have a patent pending.

In the last 2 months he machine was significantly downsized, and now it can fit on any countertop.

I think it's 2-3 months until I create a prototype, and will sell it immediately. (it'll also take bottstrapping couple thousands from my side)

@Johnny boy I remember you've said it's impossible

One thing, Id consider adjusting the name

When skimming over it, it looks really similar to FullCock, which might be great for blue pills but not your product.

 

[Bounce Back]

Gentlemen, remember FullCook - a machine that can cook anything you want with a press of a button, and effectively replaces the entire kitchen? I now have a patent pending.

In the last 2 months he machine was significantly downsized, and now it can fit on any countertop.

I think it's 2-3 months until I create a prototype, and will sell it immediately. (it'll also take bottstrapping couple thousands from my side)

@Johnny boy I remember you've said it's impossible

I really don't mind personally going on the record too in saying this is not going to happen.

 

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[amp0193]

Honestly, that video sold me. I would go buy that chair if I needed one.

Same. I have the normal camping chairs and they are bulky and hurt my back and I hate them and half the time just don’t even bother bringing them.

That thing looks sweet and I wouldn’t even know the search terms to search to find it elsewhere.

Yes you can find 586 options at 1/4 the price, but are they the same chair? Are they knock-offs that use lesser quality materials? How do you know? The demographic they are going for wants high quality and lightweight products.

I sell bikes. There are a number of bike accessories I sell that are made by other brands (bike locks etc), you can buy on Amazon for $20-$80 less. And this is for branded products you can literally copy/paste the name into Google/Amazon and you will find the identical item in 2 seconds. But most of our customers don’t do that because they just want to be told what to buy with their bike while they are buying it.

Even more so for a weird camping chair that I don’t know what words to use to search for it.

 

[amp0193]

@Johnny boy I remember you've said it's impossible

And if I remember correctly you’re going to launch this revolutionary kitchen appliance with money you saved driving for Uber Eats for a few months right?

Nothing about this says realistic to me.

 

[loop101]

Tomorrow is the 2024 Eclipse

 

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[Kevin88660]

Gentlemen, remember FullCook - a machine that can cook anything you want with a press of a button, and effectively replaces the entire kitchen? I now have a patent pending.

In the last 2 months he machine was significantly downsized, and now it can fit on any countertop.

I think it's 2-3 months until I create a prototype, and will sell it immediately. (it'll also take bottstrapping couple thousands from my side)

@Johnny boy I remember you've said it's impossible

How does the patent application process work?

You can apply without a prototype?

 

[Andy Black]

From @Fox 's legends group:

 

[MTF]

From @Fox 's legends group:

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I've been in Warsaw the past few days (I find myself visiting it more and more often despite not liking big cities).

Its population is over 10x higher than that of my hometown. And it's way, way, way easier to see how much money is flowing here.

I'd really encourage anyone who's struggling to see this money flow to go to a big city. It opens your eyes to new opportunities and is very stimulating, particularly if you live in a stagnant city where not much is happening.

 

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[Aidan04]

Gentlemen, remember FullCook - a machine that can cook anything you want with a press of a button, and effectively replaces the entire kitchen? I now have a patent pending.

In the last 2 months he machine was significantly downsized, and now it can fit on any countertop.

I think it's 2-3 months until I create a prototype, and will sell it immediately. (it'll also take bottstrapping couple thousands from my side)

@Johnny boy I remember you've said it's impossible

I personally think you're blowing smoke out your a$$ but I would love for you to prove me wrong.

Also, filing a patent before even having a working prototype or any interest whatsoever is idiotic.

All you can file (without risking thousands in legal fees and time to file a real patent) is a provisional, which saves your place in line, and allows you to have "patent pending" on your product.

It doesn't protect you whatsoever.

 

[loop101]

I guess Google forgot to "Don't be Evil".

Google must destroy $5 billion worth of user data illegally collected in Incognito Mode

If you thought Google’s Incognito Mode was private, you’re one of the billions around the world blinded by big tech’s privacy illusion.

tuta.com

 

[Bounce Back]

I guess Google forgot to "Don't be Evil".

Google must destroy $5 billion worth of user data illegally collected in Incognito Mode

If you thought Google’s Incognito Mode was private, you’re one of the billions around the world blinded by big tech’s privacy illusion.

tuta.com

Yeah they will destroy their copy but the already sold it most likely lol. Nothing stops them from buying it right back from whomever they sold it to.

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

I guess Google forgot to "Don't be Evil".

IMO, that's the bigger story... how a company with a "don't be evil" slogan is one of the most evilest corporations on
the planet.

Welcome to 2024 where black means white.

 

[random_username]

IMO, that's the bigger story... how a company with a "don't be evil" slogan is one of the most evilest corporations on
the planet.

Welcome to 2024 where black means white.

Don't be evil - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

To be fair, they removed it almost a decade ago.

 

[Kak]

 

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[socaldude]

I guess Google forgot to "Don't be Evil".

I wonder what the hiring process is like.

“Alright, first question. Do you pray to Satan?
Hell yeah. Ok, you’re hired. Right this way.”

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Gee, I don't know, should I approve this new user?



Just a small sampling of the bogus/bs users that attempt to join. For every 10 spammer/backlinker/AI-bot/self-promoter, there is perhaps 1 or 2 actual people who want to change their life.

 

[Jon822]

Gee, I don't know, should I approve this new user?

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Just a small sampling of the bogus/bs users that attempt to join. For every 10 spammer/backlinker/AI-bot/self-promoter, there is perhaps 1 or 2 actual people who want to change their life.

Let it through so it can give its thoughts on the AI anxiety thread.

 

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[TempusFugit]

“The publisher said of somebody, 'That man will get on; he believes in himself.'

I said to him, 'Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of Supermen. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.'

He said mildly that there were a good many men after all who believed in themselves and who were not in lunatic asylums.

'Yes, there are,' I retorted, 'and you of all men ought to know them. The drunken poet from whom you would not take a dreary tragedy, he believed in himself. That elderly minister with an epic from whom you were hiding in a back room, he believed in himself.

If you consulted your business experiences instead of your ugly individualistic philosophy, you would know that believing in himself is one of the commonest signs of a rotter.

Actors who can't act believe in themselves; and debtors who won't pay. It would be much truer to say that a man will certainly fail, because he believes in himself.

Complete self-confidence is not merely a sin; complete self-confidence is a weakness.'”

-from Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton

 

[Xeon]

Here is it, you guys.....

TikTok to take on Instagram with photo app

For those who missed the IG train years ago due to the shitty algo and you find your engagement tanking over the years, and for those who're trying to start new IG brand accounts in 2024 only to get 0 Likes after 45 posts, the time has come! Get your content ready!

 

[socaldude]

For those who missed the IG train years ago due to the shitty algo and you find your engagement tanking over the years, and for those who're trying to start new IG brand accounts in 2024 only to get 0 Likes after 45 posts, the time has come! Get your content ready!

Interestingly the odds of a TikTok sale went up a few days ago on Kalshi.

https://kalshi.com/markets/tiktoksell/congress-passes-law-to-force-tiktok-sale

 

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[Primeperiwinkle]

“The publisher said of somebody, 'That man will get on; he believes in himself.'

I said to him, 'Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of Supermen. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.'

He said mildly that there were a good many men after all who believed in themselves and who were not in lunatic asylums.

'Yes, there are,' I retorted, 'and you of all men ought to know them. The drunken poet from whom you would not take a dreary tragedy, he believed in himself. That elderly minister with an epic from whom you were hiding in a back room, he believed in himself.

If you consulted your business experiences instead of your ugly individualistic philosophy, you would know that believing in himself is one of the commonest signs of a rotter.

Actors who can't act believe in themselves; and debtors who won't pay. It would be much truer to say that a man will certainly fail, because he believes in himself.

Complete self-confidence is not merely a sin; complete self-confidence is a weakness.'”

-from Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton

GK Chesterton was arguably one of the most intelligent writer/philosophers of the 20th Century. Plus he smoked cigars, had a loving marriage, and his level of sarcasm was a fine art.

Very cool quote. Thank you.

 

[TempusFugit]

GK Chesterton was arguably one of the most intelligent writer/philosophers of the 20th Century. Plus he smoked cigars, had a loving marriage, and his level of sarcasm was a fine art.

Very cool quote. Thank you.

You are quite welcome! I figured the quote applied for this forum as well lol.
However, @StrikingViper69 did not seem to like it...