if you could pull a ben collins what maligned industry stronghold would you buy i'd love to bring back bon appetit test kitchen but not racist and shitty
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The affordable cloth diaper service. They used to be cheaper than disposables, and the service would pick up your dirty diapers and drop off clean ones right at your front door.
My head says "Buy the NYTimes and reassign everyone covering Ivy League schools to climate stories," but my heart says "Buy ParamountPlus and greenlight many 26 episode seasons of Star Trek: Lower Decks."
(Though I will confess, the "put coke back in Coke" crowd has piqued my curiosity.)
i feel like something in plus size fashion has to be done. i suppose i will do it. if not that then probably UMG and get the lobbyists to reverse all the BS copyright legislature before looking for a much more nuanced approach to copyright and residuals for musicians
I don't know about industry stronghold, but does anyone remember nerve dot com? When it was actually a place to talk about sex like adults, before they pivoted to being a dating app?
Canning jars/lids. Quality control sucks now, lids are flimsy with tons of seal failures. It's not just Ball, though they paved the way for all the other makers to follow suit.
not to mention the paint they put on pyrex measuring cups can't even handle the top rack in the dishwasher. now I have a non-measuring pyrex cup with no lines on it
Pyrex used to be made of borosilicate glass, which is what made it so wonderfully heat-shock resistant. There was a slow transition to cheaper soda lime glass at the end of 20th C, but Corning sold Pyrex in ‘98 & the new co went all soda lime. PYREX branding in caps is boro; l/c pyrex is soda.
I read about this just the other day. You need to always check you are buying items labelled PYREX or pyrex - the lower case ones are made from a different glass which is much more likely to break (soda-lime vs borosilicate glass).
Combine them? Buy repro rights to the fancy background patterns/stock art used in a lot of shoujo work & mix them in with Lisa Frank’s style (keep the coffin nailed on neon cat print, *shudder*). LF X magical girls, X princess knights, X sweet lolita etc.
WIRED had a part of their site dedicated to tutorials and education for web design before the Web 2.0 days. Something like that for free, including modern web technologies.
Or even original WIRED, which had the guts to print the Logitech Pissing Baby ad, or the article that almost got William Gibson banned for life from Singapore.
Sesame Street. I want Sesame Street commercial free on PBS & every streaming service. I want it to cover hard topics & for the street to have graffiti again. Sesame Street toys would be free to every child who sent their address & wrote a letter to any of the characters. "Dear Oscar, I grumpy too"
Bring back Toys R Us as a standalone toy store, not hidden inside a Macy’s…and not tied to Babies R Us. If you’re not promising stupid things to investors, it would be a gold mine!
Oh me too! I wanna do editorials shaming hateful people for thinking and saying stupid things. They will be backed with actual facts rather than what their poor ego makes up as they pee themselves in bed at night.
Can I be Fletch? I want to go undercover and write a weekly gossip column between earth-shattering revelations about hinky business practices of corporations and factories.
It's a tossup between old 1990s TLC (back to actual educational programing) or old 2000s AV Club. Hey, is that guy who bought the onion looking for ideas cause I got one...
I have to day Test Kitchen redux would be absolutely incredible, and I cannot wait for that to happen if/when it does. Easily the most trusted brand in food technique until they threw it all away.
National Geographic. I'd split from Disney, axe the channel, bring back the cool 70's style grainy documentaries and get them shown on PBS, and restart the print magazine with a full in-house writing, photography, and design staff immediately.
Same! Bring back the print magazine with the cool maps every months, put the archives up online for free, produce cutting edge pieces on science, ecology, and society.
fry’s is BACK. here’s our new business model: good shit you actually need. it is my theory that customers will respond well to a store where the shelves aren’t all empty except for a single god awful $400 HDMI multiplexer
Omni Magazine but turn it into a science journal with every published study coupled with a commissioned science fiction story on possible future implications and human created digital art illustrations.
Someone gave my parents a subscription to Omni every year when I was about 10-15 or so, and I devoured it. I know now that it was problematic, but it's where I learned about fractals and archaeology and other cool stuff, and while the fiction was sometimes, er, not for kids, I read it all anyway.
"Omni published a number of stories that have become genre classics, such as Orson Scott Card's "Unaccompanied Sonata", William Gibson's "Burning Chrome", "New Rose Hotel" and "Johnny Mnemonic","
EA so I can make Mass Effect games without the interference on gay storylines and the Perseus Veil/Palestine narrative, Dragon Age without the constant mage hate storylines and Qunari Islam/communist racism, Sims but affordable, and Skate 4 but real.
I'd revamp GM to make cars/evs instead of ginormous pickups - can you imagine a classic Mustang or Thunderbird... but electric? I think people would go for a lot more variety than the current car market gives them
I guess if an industry is actually dead due to Amazon, it can’t be brought back, but I’d love to see Waldenbooks/Brentano’s/Borders back in business. I hate Barnes and Noble so much
I worked at a Waldenbooks for a year & a half. There was some bad shit going on at mine. And Borders (same company as Walden) got sued for using salaried employees to do hourly work. The employees won.
Barnes and Nobles was great, I mean minus the whole book selling part, they were always shit at that. When I lived in New York City they were my favorite public bathroom.
Because of the way they’ve dumbed down the selection of books & gone whole hog with toys and a tiny selection of mainstream vinyl. I mean, I have it good because I can just go to Powell’s, but I remember Barnes and Noble being so much more serious just 10 years ago in the sorts of books they carried
I'd buy a big credit union that was acting too much like a bank like navy federal or something, and create the nonprofit community banking institution of my dreams
also my bad if I misunderstood the question I just think this would be dope. well paying manufacturing jobs plus better clothes made closer to home make me feel 🥰
I'd buy Bandcamp and ensure its safety from crappy, non-music enthusiast private equity assholes. And I'd rehire all the writing staff that they laid off
Tracey Ullman's "Purple Skirt". It was a great intro for up and coming fashionistas all over the world and these days the online boutique would be able to live up to its fabulousness potential.
* Google Search and Google Image Search
* the Reddit Is Fun app
* a housing market that has a place for me
* Usenet
* Rocksmith DLC before they got delisted
* Documentary series with an epic sweep by Alistair Cooke or James Burke
* Similarly, Alistair Cooke's "Letters From America", but a podcast?
I believe they were behind the Surrealist Compliment Generator of which my favorite one dropped was “Madame, is thoust donning space underwater? For thine ass is out of this world.”
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It took the best shots at mid-80s Donald and Ivana. (And, of course, Leona Helmsley!)
(Though I will confess, the "put coke back in Coke" crowd has piqued my curiosity.)
https://bsky.app/profile/homogameragenda.com/post/3koz5vxgb422j
They kinda closed of their own volition, but only after much financial hardship and I want better for the non-TERF feminist community.
This is a relief!
I put Pyrex on the bottom of the dishwasher and there’s a 25% chance it cracks. I have to keep it on the top rack now. WTF?
That’s so dumb!
Gonna go read up about botulism now
If you dig a bit, you should be able to find published articles or con presentations about it.
And yes, I know about MadTV.
It's such a great idea. We need more of it.
... and I think we need yours even more.
https://europeanastrobiology.eu/life-beyond-us/
"Omni published a number of stories that have become genre classics, such as Orson Scott Card's "Unaccompanied Sonata", William Gibson's "Burning Chrome", "New Rose Hotel" and "Johnny Mnemonic","
but I'd make it woke
Not really actually but I'm gonna post it anyway
They were very good to me.
No complaints
Or Pre-Microsoft Last[.]fm…that was my favorite streaming service for the longest.
* the Reddit Is Fun app
* a housing market that has a place for me
* Usenet
* Rocksmith DLC before they got delisted
* Documentary series with an epic sweep by Alistair Cooke or James Burke
* Similarly, Alistair Cooke's "Letters From America", but a podcast?
Kind of like a mid-90s, all-digital McSweeny’s.
http://www.brunching.com/images/geekchart.pdf
I'm sure you could sell the rights to all those ancient aliens programs to National Enquirer and nobody would notice.