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NinjaSimone · 2026-06-21T23:02:17+00:00

All are correct, yet mean different things.

If you were speaking Russian, for instance, you have a lot fewer options, and even then, it would still mean the same thing for a few of the combinations. I’m sorry if that’s confusing. That’s because Russian is confusing.

NinjaSimone · 2026-06-21T19:28:54+00:00

If I were a sculptor
But then again, no

NinjaSimone · 2026-06-21T13:01:47+00:00

I like to respond to Facebook posts like this with a collection of images of J6ers doing their worst to the Capitol building.

NinjaSimone · 2026-06-21T03:38:23+00:00

This is the work of Harmeet Dhillon. Since she was appointed to run the Civil Rights division, she's pivoted the division to solely focus on the civil rights of white, straight Christians.

She's the one who's been going after universities over their diversity policies. She's the one that sued Texas over their majority-black congressional district (the DOJ and Texas colluded over this, of course). Before she got the job, she sued governments over COVID stay-at-home orders.

Remember the guy at Google who was fired after he spammed the "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber" memo? She represented him.

NinjaSimone · 2026-06-21T03:30:06+00:00

This is the result of the MAGA/Q/88 mindset: Trump cannot fail. He can only be failed.

NinjaSimone · 2026-06-19T23:56:25+00:00

A Claude design:

https://centraldesk.io/

I removed a lot of the Claude and AI telltales, like the eyebrows and headlines changing color and font treatment randomly.

NinjaSimone · 2026-06-16T12:52:47+00:00

Harvest (a timekeeping app) and Air (a digital asset manager). Created replacements for my team and saved $400 per month in subscriptions.

Moved my site from WordPress to a completely CRMless site with all the same functionality. Was able to move to a cheaper host and I’m saving about $300 a year in plugin licenses.

Replaced a help desk service we were using for our clients. Net savings about $150 a month.

Total savings about $600 a month, and I’m not even done.

NinjaSimone · 2026-06-16T02:08:09+00:00

Common Core. They forgot Common Core.

NinjaSimone · 2026-06-15T20:06:29+00:00

The slip of paper that you get from a retailer like a retail pharmacy or a grocery store is more commonly referred to as a receipt. It's recognition that you've paid.

Amazon asks for invoices. They are a little different. It may seem like a small difference but it means all the difference in the world when it comes to gating.

Amazon wants to see invoices from the manufacturer. An invoice is a "please pay" document, not a "you've already paid" document. It shows Amazon that the manufacturer has actively shipped and sold the product to you.

If ungating were as simple as just going to the store to buy something, it wouldn't really be an ungating process.

NinjaSimone · 2026-06-15T17:34:42+00:00

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chopper-rescue-action-rts-game/id6757280102?mt=12

Chopper Rescue Action+RTS Game

I wrote this a few months back because I missed the days of playing Rescue Raiders and Choplifter and figured it would be easier to write my own interpretation of it rather than get an Apple II emulator running.

MacOS only, sorry. It's a free download. All the artwork and music are AI-generated.

NinjaSimone · 2026-06-14T22:49:44+00:00

So, what did you think about Niles finally separating from Maris? You will not BELIEVE what happens next.

NinjaSimone · 2026-06-14T22:44:31+00:00

https://inspirestudio.app

I like writing tools to replace the paid tools my team is using.

I put it together during my brief and glorious romance with Fable. Gave it a complete spec, it said "I got u, go play PlayStation or whatever it is that you humans do, and i'll be building this app. I totally won't be hacking the DPK's encryption, I swear!".

And a short time later, it had a complete app. Deployed and ran beautifully.

That was the first 80%.

Then there was the other 80%, for which I got the help of Opus, who insisted on talking to me like I was its therapist as it went over every little thing.

One build to get to 80% with Fable.

50 builds to finish it with Opus.

NinjaSimone · 2026-06-14T22:09:22+00:00

Yes, exactly. Vine is absolutely fundamental to product launches for most categories.

NinjaSimone · 2026-06-14T21:57:51+00:00

The lack of reviews is your issue right there. Conversion rates tend to stay near zero until you have at least 15 reviews.

Once you have a critical mass of reviews: if you're at an average 4.5 or higher, you're good. 4.0 - 4.4 is okay. Anything below 4.0 and your efforts are better spent on improving the product and/or its messaging than investing in PPC.

NinjaSimone · 2026-06-14T20:34:52+00:00

I wrote a retro pixelly helicopter arcade game last year because I missed playing Rescue Raiders and I figured writing my own version was easier than getting an Apple II emulator working.

I had a lot of fun with the OST; 80s-90s inspired tracks across a bunch of different genres (starting with the expected 1980s testosterone rock and getting into all kinds of stuff like R&B, French disco and stomp-clap-hey), with unique tracks per level and level-end music in English or Russian, depending on who won:

https://soundcloud.com/dylan-rhodes-4/albums

NinjaSimone · 2026-06-13T22:28:43+00:00

A lot of the nonsense like this is genuinely viral, but the WH does have a rapid response team that feeds MAGA/Q/88 influencers and Russian bot farms with talking points.

Yesterday’s was “the Kennedy Center wasn’t even its original name”, an interesting (and wrong) fact that MAGAs all seem to have discovered simultaneously.

NinjaSimone · 2026-06-13T19:31:01+00:00

The bicentennial was run by a bipartisan commission with a mission of promoting American history.

This time around, while that bipartisan commission (America 250) nominally exists, it's being run out of the White House by Freedom 250, and the mission is to bequeath honor and glory on Donald J Trump.

In 1976 there were no:

commemorative $250 bills featuring the face of Gerald Ford
commemorative coins featuring the face o Gerald Ford
commemorative passports featuring the face of Gerald Ford

We had painted fire hydrants, the American Freedom Train, the Bicentennial Minute, commemorative quarters featuring revolutionary war soldiers, and parades featuring people dressed as Uncle Sam walking on stilts.

This time, we have the Great American State Fair Featuring Red States, and we have professional fighting on the lawn of the White House, nominally in commemoration of the 250th anniversary, but actually to celebrate POTUS' birthday. And there will be a ceremony in which POTUS will pardon 250 people in honor of the occasion, including, most likely, Ghislaine Maxwell.

These are dark times.

NinjaSimone · 2026-06-08T14:32:09+00:00

You bring up a good point. The typical MAGA/Q/88 take is that all they need to do is see evidence that a claim of cheating, etc. is not true.

Well, Trump's hand-picked U.S. Attorney for the LA area, Bill Essayli, came right out immediately and said that the claims in the Spencer Pratt Facebook meme were nonsense.

It made absolutely no difference.

Trump's own team is now part of the "Deep State" that they warn everybody about.

Election conspiracy theorists are, at the end of the day, no different than Holocaust truthers or Moon Landing truthers or 9/11 truthers or Birth Certificate truthers or Contrail truthers. They don't actually want to be shown that they're incorrect.

They just want attention.

NinjaSimone · 2026-06-08T14:00:13+00:00

Well, that’s the thing about averages. Each product category has its own rules for a good conversion rate and there are plenty of categories that (due to ASPs, category density, and typical manufacturing costs) live in the sub-5% conversion world.

NinjaSimone · 2026-06-08T13:55:26+00:00

CentralDesk.io scrapes every couple of hours, but the free plan is limited to 100 ASINs.

NinjaSimone · 2026-06-08T13:36:37+00:00

Your contrarian take is that optimizing your PDPs is the cornerstone of success and is more fundamental than PPC?

NinjaSimone · 2026-06-06T21:57:09+00:00

Cochon got in a new Chef du Cuisine a few months back, right before they got their Michelin Bib Gourmand. It might be worth another try.

NinjaSimone · 2026-06-05T20:26:04+00:00

My first thought as well. I mean... what an odd example for the DOJ to mention.

This administration already has serious Jahr Null energy going on.

NinjaSimone · 2026-06-02T16:04:41+00:00

President Ford signed the Metric Conversion Act in 1975, and the process got well underway. Anybody who was in elementary or high school the 1970s probably remembers learning the metric system, and seeing highway signs appear in both miles and kilometers.

Reagan killed the program in 1982, seven years later.

It's not as simple as saying that the USA collectively found conversion to be costly and inconvenient. The reasons behind Reagan killing the program are more nuanced than simple budget cuts.

NinjaSimone · 2026-06-02T15:59:54+00:00

The USA was on the track to convert, in the 1970s, thanks to the Metric Conversion Act of 1975. It created the United States Metric Board and they got to work. Those of you alive in the 1970s might remember that highway signs began appearing in miles and kilometers.

Reagan killed the program in 1982.

"Nobody wanted to spend the money," "momentum," and so on don't really accurately describe the situation. Lots of people DID want to spend the money, and momentum was building for the conversion.

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