Kick it back to the states, they said.

I imagine the person trying to decide whether to use 8008 OR spell it on the keypad with corresponding letters like the meme with the guy choosing between two red buttons.

True, but what if the toppings were mustard instead of tomato sauce, yogurt instead of cheese, and Skittles and banana chips and fortune cookies for toppings. Is it still a pizza?

On some level my acceptance of the pizza does depend on thematically appropriate toppings which I take for granted. There’s room for a weird topping or two but if you subvert all expectations, one risks not being pizza at all.

But it’s 2024 y’all, the pizza’s orientation shouldn’t matter ;D

My dog would probably be thrilled with the entire chain of events honestly. There’s zero chance her share of the pizza doesn’t increase from this upside down world.

Probably depends on the toppings at some level too.

As a dedicated researcher with over 20 years experience, there’s no such thing as too high to understand pizza. It remains the one thing we do understand even while stoned out of our gourds.

Hey, you make a lot of great points and thanks for the perspective and depth of engagement. I think “paying vendors for services you don’t want to run internally” is exactly outsourcing. With the ubiquity of big cloud services though, I hesitate to call that outsourcing even though it fits that definition. Maybe cause that’s more about the hardware than the people, I dunno. I checked real quick and seems like they do have their own data centers but use AWS and others as well around the world.

I think I may have a different default definition of outsourcing than others though after working tech support in the US for bigger companies through other smaller outsourced companies in the US. A lot of people probably assumed I meant overseas as in outsourced tech support to India. I agree with your scaling estimates and most everything else you said. Someone’s gotta design dem summer sale logos too though lol. Cheers.

Steam is available in over two hundred countries and you think 100 employees is enough to manage that? To do the account support, billing support, vendor support, user content moderation, technical support, hardware partnerships, server management, platform development, legal compliance, business development, web development, database management, HR, accounting…etc in multiple regions and in every respective language? One employee per every two countries?! Figure it out.

Steam claims they’re available in over two hundred countries. Do you really think that one employee for every two countries is enough?

Translation: They outsource a lot.

Edit: Lol, downvoted by people too dense to realize you need way more than 100 people to operate in over 200 countries with as much business as they do. OFC they outsource a lot. Your local Walmart has 100 employees.

I think we need to separate giving a fuck from morally wrong. I know that even stealing from Walmart is morally wrong because two wrongs don’t make a right as the old saying goes, but more importantly, by living in this society and reaping its benefits, we agree to abide by its rules too. Justification is way too easy of an exercise to have any bearing on what’s acceptable.

That being said…I also don’t even give a fraction of a fuck about someone stealing from Walmart.

We can admit that something is wrong without caring if it’s enforced or not. Kind of like solo drivers being in the carpool lane. Wrong? Yes. Care? Not a chance. They’ve made their own risk/reward calculations in each case.

Nobody: I wish I could see my poop from all angles.

Hot take: The cops knew the case wouldn’t stand but it worked just fine to get her protest out of the way for the fossil fuel summit to continue.

Maybe just accept it as shorthand for what it really means.

Some examples:

We say Kleenex instead of facial tissue, Band-Aid instead of bandage, I say that Siri butchered my “ducking” text again when I know autocorrect is technically separate.

We also say, “hang up on someone” when there is no such thing anymore

Hell, we say “cloud” when we really mean “someone’s server farm”

Don’t get me started on “software as a service” too …a bullshit fancy name for a subscription website that actually has some utility.

Also, the smartest response to the situation in the picture would be to work together.

But they understood a poster and are thus very smart.

Should be “work intelligently” as well.

Burritos are closed on the ends, my Mexican food-challenged amigo.

I always wondered how bragging about how long you worked was considered by some as a good thing.

Somebody invented “Employee of the Month” and our competitive habits took over.

You’re not there to make sure they take it, you’re there to document whether or not they took it. That much IS definitely your responsibility, to confirm that they did or did not take their meds. You’re not the asshole, you’re just looking at it wrong.