melody_elf
melody_elf t1_jdtpmwk wrote
Reply to comment by MammothBobcat251 in lol at the police ticketing and towing the cars that are literally parked on the shoulder of 66 by the Kennedy Center by mikeydhakid
What? I took the train around all day today and it was fine.
melody_elf t1_j5rmrx6 wrote
Reply to comment by alzee76 in Ted Sarandos says that Netflix has “never canceled a successful show” by avery5712
That's fair. I feel like I usually understand what's going on strategically at the companies I work for, but also all the businesses I've worked for have had less than 200 employees or so, so it's not that hard. I imagine the level of transparency is not high at a Fortune 500.
melody_elf t1_j5rm159 wrote
Reply to comment by alzee76 in Ted Sarandos says that Netflix has “never canceled a successful show” by avery5712
Of course this is a useless source in a Reddit argument but my friend is an engineer at Netflix and I'm mostly echoing her takes. Ofc she can be wrong but I'm not completely speculating. I don't really care why you cancelled your netflix subscription.
melody_elf t1_j5rkn5u wrote
Reply to comment by alzee76 in Ted Sarandos says that Netflix has “never canceled a successful show” by avery5712
Their metrics are bad. They focus entirely on short term, rapid growth hits (like Squid Game and Stranger Things) that bring in new users and not on a long-term plan around loyalty and retention. Then they wonder why they can't keep users around.
Their stock has been on a downward slope for a long time now so I think they should listen to their users.
melody_elf t1_j5riuvk wrote
Reply to comment by Fanwhip in Don't say 'mummy': Why museums are rebranding ancient Egyptian remains by wazzel2u
I see the point about how they were stolen from Egypt. When I visited the British Museum it felt uncomfortable knowing that everything there was taken from other countries.
At the same time, Egypt is a very unstable country so I don't know how safe the mummies and artifacts would be there. There are some radical factions that pretty much want to destroy anything from before Islam.
Another factor is that, when these artifacts are over the world, it lets many more people see them and learn and enjoy history than if they were in Egypt.
On the other hand, these are people who were stolen from their graves and there is definitely something disturbing about that.
melody_elf t1_j5qp9or wrote
Frankly who cares either way?
melody_elf t1_j5qopex wrote
Reply to comment by Fanwhip in Don't say 'mummy': Why museums are rebranding ancient Egyptian remains by wazzel2u
If words don't matter then why are you in a tiff about it? Personally I don't really care if people call them mummies, mummified persons, flibbergibbits or paper deadlings.
melody_elf t1_j1at5iv wrote
Free speech and capitalism
melody_elf t1_jdtrivs wrote
Reply to comment by moonbunnychan in lol at the police ticketing and towing the cars that are literally parked on the shoulder of 66 by the Kennedy Center by mikeydhakid
it's a 5 minute walk from smithsonian...