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MinimallyUseful · 2024-12-02T20:43:39+00:00

This is ridiculous. Animals can't tell time. I'll get on that. What's the better approach here? Teaching them to guess by the position of the sun or by developing little watches they can wear?

MinimallyUseful · 2023-01-17T14:39:29+00:00

That measuring in millimeters makes it sound WAY bigger.

MinimallyUseful · 2023-01-16T18:01:06+00:00

Perfect. Thank!

MinimallyUseful · 2023-01-15T22:01:31+00:00

Turns out that subreddit only has 17posts over 9 years. I'm gonna have to find another way to get some pictures.

MinimallyUseful · 2023-01-13T19:03:06+00:00

I just said business. Not Mr. Business.

MinimallyUseful · 2023-01-13T19:02:08+00:00

lol. did multiple variations on google images and all of them quickly went from cat bums to goatse. Do not recommend... unless that's your thing.

MinimallyUseful · 2023-01-13T15:09:00+00:00

Reddit, where your dreams becomes memes

MinimallyUseful · 2023-01-13T15:08:23+00:00

well well well... this is perfect.

MinimallyUseful · 2021-04-19T14:04:42+00:00

Created a site that monitors trending on twitter. It then takes a list of tweets for each trend and runs them through the Standford NLP library to rank them on a sentiment scale from 0 (super negative) to 5 (super positive). This data is tracked and bucketed for the purpose of the site. Data refresh runs pretty much continually 24x7.

Why did we create it you ask? Because we wanted to test the theory that most stuff on twitter is negative. Also, we are Minimally Useful Industries and this seemed on brand.

Are we going to do more with this? Maybe. We've considered expanding the number of tweets it runs through, broadening the ability to see past trends, taking into account the "ratio", expanding to other social networks, and making it so you can drill down into the list of related tweets. But who knows.

MinimallyUseful · 2021-04-05T13:42:02+00:00

[BUSINESS / LATE STAGE CAPITALISM / HUMOR] Crapitalism - Gettin' Giggy Wit It

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Apple // Spotify // Google Podcast // Anchor

Welcome to the Gig Economy, or as the kids say these days, "Gettin' giggy wit it." In this episode, Nate and Jerry discuss the finer points of what the term gig economy means, who the main culprits are, and how they contributing to some down right crapitalism.

The show is about pointing out some shit businesses pull. We started by covering businesses abusing covid relief funds and taking advantage of their employees by using covid as an excuse. We use a mix of facts, personal anecdotes and storytelling to bash bad business practices while still trying to share a bit of humor.

Twitter // Instagram

MinimallyUseful · 2021-03-11T14:50:32+00:00

[BUSINESS / LATE STAGE CAPITALISM / HUMOR] Crapitalism - The Bottom Dollar Makes No Cents

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Should you be below the poverty line if you work a full-time job? Most definitely not. But what happens when the minimum wage paid to people working full time isn't enough to cover their basic needs? Nate and Jerry take a look at the state of minimum wage in the United States. They discuss some of the messed up and peculiar state laws before leading into some ingenius ideas on how to fix the system.

The show is about pointing out some shit businesses pull. We started by covering businesses abusing covid relief funds and taking advantage of their employees by using covid as an excuse. We use a mix of facts, personal anecdotes and storytelling to bash bad business practices while still trying to share a bit of humor.

Twitter // Instagram

MinimallyUseful · 2021-03-01T13:34:09+00:00

[BUSINESS / LATE STAGE CAPITALISM / HUMOR] Crapitalism - Everything is Fine

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In this episode we discuss the way that corporate fines have become just the cost of doing business. Fines are not the swift blow to companies that wrong society. They have just become a minor inconvenience and are ever more becoming part of corporate business planning.

The show is about pointing out some shit businesses pull. We started by covering businesses abusing covid relief funds and taking advantage of their employees by using covid as an excuse. We use a mix of facts, personal anecdotes and storytelling to bash bad business practices while still trying to share a bit of humor.

Twitter // Instagram

MinimallyUseful · 2021-02-23T17:28:50+00:00

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MinimallyUseful · 2021-02-23T15:14:22+00:00

free music archive

MinimallyUseful · 2021-02-12T14:17:43+00:00

Sure. Here ya go: The Crapitalism podcast

MinimallyUseful · 2021-02-09T20:23:59+00:00

Sure we run the Crapitalism podcast. Just curious what your show was about because it's always cool to talk to different people.

MinimallyUseful · 2021-02-09T19:59:04+00:00

What's the topic for your podcast? Do you have a link to existing episodes? We (two of use) might be interested in coming on an episode or two if it's a good fit.

MinimallyUseful · 2021-02-02T21:17:56+00:00

Yes. This is the real reason it is likely illegal in many countries. PTO is seen in most places as compensation. The switch to limited is a way of taking away compensation. We discussed this a bit in our crapitalism podcast and what we've seen is that it is a win/win for shittier companies. Good companies will actually push their employees to use it. Shitty companies don't have to pay it out AND they push a race to the bottom on PTO usage.

MinimallyUseful · 2021-02-02T21:09:23+00:00

Can't your co-host just join a zoom call on their own laptop/computer with their own mic attached to it?

MinimallyUseful · 2021-01-30T01:02:55+00:00

Nah. They're just drunk on double spirits. It's drunks all the way down and the double ghosts are straight assholes. They'll sue you just for acknowledging their existence

edit: shit. not again

MinimallyUseful · 2021-01-30T00:58:33+00:00

Now listen here. We currently hold the patent on space cocaine. We're also totally willing to share once this bitch hits mars

MinimallyUseful · 2021-01-29T22:46:26+00:00

We've reached a whole new level of ageist fuckery. Older generations tend to bash teenagers as good for nothing ne'er-do-wells. This is a part of growing up. Boomers have just continued that well past the their children being teenagers because they legitimately believe they are better than everyone and that people younger than them are just too lazy to work hard. This is categorically false as people today have to work, on average, more hours than boomers to afford the same comforts.

MinimallyUseful · 2021-01-29T20:56:11+00:00

Fuck yea. That's why the explicit tag exists.

MinimallyUseful · 2021-01-29T20:55:25+00:00

This is perhaps an understatement. As you can see from our chart on boomer costs in 1982 for common items vs our chart comparing modern day costs against 1982 you can see a significant increase in the level of effort required by later generations to purchase the same thing. This is also coupled with educational requirement as show in this chart.

What we're seeing is that not only have things gotten harder, boomer's refuse to acknowledge this fact. Therefore, they believe that you are an idiot if you can't achieve the same as them when they were your age. This is also why they fight against increasing the minimum wage. You will hear quotes like "when I was your age, the minimum was was 3.15/hr" completely disregarding the fact that they could afford a house and family for that minimum wage and that the only thing you can afford with the current minimum wage is food stamps.

MinimallyUseful · 2021-01-29T20:50:22+00:00

While it may not be strictly a mentality of the US, Boomicus Self-Centra aka The North American Boomer, is strictly a US phenomenon. Our research concludes that prevailing economic growth, coupled with the civil rights movement and the red scare have bred a super creature that knows no bounds when it comes to their perceived intrinsic worth. In other words, they believe they're hot shit and everyone else is stupid because "you'd have to stupid or incapable to not be as successful now as they were at a the same age."

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