• @jaybone
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      72 months ago

      Is he the guy who invented the sphere?

      • @[email protected]
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        172 months ago

        Nope close tho, the sphere was actually invented in 1603 by Jim Sphere in the Netherlands

      • Mbourgon everywhere
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        82 months ago

        Freeman Dyson popularized and expanded the concept of the Dyson sphere. (Technically it was in a sci-fi story first)

        Buckminster Fuller based a lot of building concepts around spheres.

    • @[email protected]
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      132 months ago

      My wife kept saying we should get a Dyson, but I wouldn’t contribute to the cost so we bought a Henry.

      He’s not getting a penny my money.

      • @[email protected]
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        72 months ago

        In the Netherlands their commercials always closed with ‘buy directly from the people who make them’, as if they are grassroots or something.

        I would like to buy it directly from the Chinese factory people, in that case. I’ll pay full price even.

  • Flying SquidM
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    172 months ago

    I’d have low morale if I worked for the company that made those absolutely useless public toilet hand driers too.

  • Optional
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    132 months ago

    I remember in the 80’s when they deliberately invented “layoffs” as a euphemism for “mass firings” because big business controls corporate news.

    Later, “layoffs” became “workforce reduction”. Then “WFR” to obfuscate it further. Now we’re back to layoffs and, apparently, “suprise layoffs”. HA.

    Good morning, you’re fired, box up your shit, worker. What an incompetent greedy company.

  • _haha_oh_wow_
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    This company is garbage, their stuff is wildly overpriced and prone to breaking, with ridiculous repair prices to boot. I bought their shitty DC-07 complete with self-destructing clutch that cost $100+ to fix, it was covered under warranty exactly once, then they told me to piss off.

    I went and bought a brand new Bissel for $75 and it’s been going strong ever since I bought it, the only repair it ever needed was a new belt once in 15 years. Bonus: You can engage and adjust the beater without turning the vacuum completely off, and it won’t break every time.

  • @TankovayaDiviziya
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    82 months ago

    A company headquartered in a tax-haven and laissez faire city state should give hint that bottomline is more important than humans. Always have contingencies when it comes to career, because you never know when your employer might conduct “layoffs”.

    • @bomibantai
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      02 months ago

      Laissez fare? Please say more about what ur imaginary Singapore is like

  • @brlemworld
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    12 months ago

    They just started a makeup line…