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It seems the MBAs are at it again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VBqTViEx4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VBqTViEx4 Twilio is now another Xerox. MBA p

It seems the MBAs are at it again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VBqTViEx4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VBqTViEx4 Twilio is now another Xerox. MBA programs should be illegal. You can thank MBAs for spreading PFAS everywhere, single use plastic, profiteering from insulin, making every American a diabetic by adding sugar into everything, selling glyphosate for residential use, killing all the pollinators, moving all manufacturing to countries with no environmental laws, and other consumer and planet-fucking initiatives. The number of extinct species, diabetic patients, number of employees on minimum wage with no health insurance, policitian revenue from lobbying activities, dead bees, cut trees, lost topsoil, former Roundup users with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, revenue from weapons, atmospheric temperature increase, ocean acidity, plastic waste, pollution, every form of ecocide and every other measure of things going wrong is directly proportional to the number of MBAs. Why? because if shareholder value is everything, then the employee, the environment and society at large becomes irrelevant.

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SamuelAdams 3y ago
Alright fine. Twilio has largely saturated the communications space. You can now send an API request for a phone call, SMS message, and WhatsApp notification in a lot of countries. If you were calling the shots, what would your next growth move be? What should Twilio expand into?
- 29athrowaway 3y ago
  Not spam-calling elderly people and causing them to fall and die could be a good start.
  - sethammons 3y ago
    Source?
  - enono 3y ago
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  - __blockcipher__ 3y ago
    Your comments in this thread seem to me to be heavily laden with the cognitive distortion of catastrophizing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion#Magnification_and_minimization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion#Magnifica... > Catastrophizing – Giving greater weight to the worst possible outcome, however unlikely, or experiencing a situation as unbearable or impossible when it is just uncomfortable. --- Hopefully it goes without saying that talking about elderly people falling and dying due to a supposed spam text originating from Twilio is...a bit farfetched...
    - 29athrowaway 3y ago
      My grandpa had a pulse-dialing phone (aka rotary dialing) and he was strongly against learning how to use a different type of phone. I tried to have him use a cordless phone but he strongly refused. So each time the phone rang the guy had to stand up, then slowly walk to the phone and answer. He did fall a few times as he got older. That was not his cause of death but I can imagine that if you call enough people for long enough as those robocallers do it is not hard to imagine it happening kind of often. A lot of older people have no idea how to use a smartphone and new technology is particularly hostile to them (small fonts by default, complex menus, tech jargon, etc.) As robocalls became more frequent he was really pissed off at the situation. Just call your grandparents and ask them what they think of robocalls.
- klabb3 3y ago
  > If you were calling the shots, what would your next growth move be? In biology, tissue that keeps growing indefinitely is lethal to the organism.
Solvency 3y ago
Preach.
cyberax 3y ago
> selling glyphosate for residential use What's wrong with glyphosate?
- richbell 3y ago
  There's a lot that can go wrong when unqualified and untrained people are given a powerful pesticide for residential use.
  - cyberax 3y ago
    Can you list some of that "wrong", since there's a lot of it?
    - oofta-boofta 3y ago
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- 29athrowaway 3y ago
  Read the safety data sheet, see what precautions are needed and then ask an average residential roundup user if they care at all about following those instructions.
  - cyberax 3y ago
    The precautions for glyphosate are basically "don't drink that". My dishwasher detergent has sterner warnings. Heck, Tide pods are just as dangerous. That's because the principal "danger" of glyphosate formulations comes from surfactants. Pure glyphosate by itself is pretty benign.
    - 29athrowaway 3y ago
      Then you didn't read the SDS.
      - cyberax 3y ago

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SamuelAdams 3y ago

Alright fine. Twilio has largely saturated the communications space. You can now send an API request for a phone call, SMS message, and WhatsApp notification in a lot of countries. If you were calling the shots, what would your next growth move be? What should Twilio expand into?

29athrowaway 3y ago
Not spam-calling elderly people and causing them to fall and die could be a good start.
- sethammons 3y ago
  Source?
- enono 3y ago
  [flagged]
- __blockcipher__ 3y ago
  Your comments in this thread seem to me to be heavily laden with the cognitive distortion of catastrophizing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion#Magnification_and_minimization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion#Magnifica... > Catastrophizing – Giving greater weight to the worst possible outcome, however unlikely, or experiencing a situation as unbearable or impossible when it is just uncomfortable. --- Hopefully it goes without saying that talking about elderly people falling and dying due to a supposed spam text originating from Twilio is...a bit farfetched...
  - 29athrowaway 3y ago
    My grandpa had a pulse-dialing phone (aka rotary dialing) and he was strongly against learning how to use a different type of phone. I tried to have him use a cordless phone but he strongly refused. So each time the phone rang the guy had to stand up, then slowly walk to the phone and answer. He did fall a few times as he got older. That was not his cause of death but I can imagine that if you call enough people for long enough as those robocallers do it is not hard to imagine it happening kind of often. A lot of older people have no idea how to use a smartphone and new technology is particularly hostile to them (small fonts by default, complex menus, tech jargon, etc.) As robocalls became more frequent he was really pissed off at the situation. Just call your grandparents and ask them what they think of robocalls.
klabb3 3y ago
> If you were calling the shots, what would your next growth move be? In biology, tissue that keeps growing indefinitely is lethal to the organism.

Solvency 3y ago

Preach.

cyberax 3y ago

> selling glyphosate for residential use What's wrong with glyphosate?

richbell 3y ago
There's a lot that can go wrong when unqualified and untrained people are given a powerful pesticide for residential use.
- cyberax 3y ago
  Can you list some of that "wrong", since there's a lot of it?
  - oofta-boofta 3y ago
    [dead]
29athrowaway 3y ago
Read the safety data sheet, see what precautions are needed and then ask an average residential roundup user if they care at all about following those instructions.
- cyberax 3y ago
  The precautions for glyphosate are basically "don't drink that". My dishwasher detergent has sterner warnings. Heck, Tide pods are just as dangerous. That's because the principal "danger" of glyphosate formulations comes from surfactants. Pure glyphosate by itself is pretty benign.
  - 29athrowaway 3y ago
    Then you didn't read the SDS.
    - cyberax 3y ago