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On the one hand, this doesn’t seem like a lot. But on the other, this is just for June. A lot of people left or drastically cut down their usage at the very end of June, and we’re not seeing this reflected in the data yet.
Even so, no company wants to say they’ve lost 3% of their customers. With 1.7 billion total, that’s still 51 million people. It’s a notable loss, especially for a company trying to become profitable and have an IPO.
I think this an overly simplistic way to look at the dynamic. Users are the primary customer, and they don’t provide any direct revenue to the company. Their value is in attracting the secondary customers though, who directly pay the company to access the users. Bring a primary customer implies that the company still needs to treat you as a customer and at least not openly antagonize you. They can’t take you for granted as a product. There is no secondary customer without you.
It’s like bars that advertise free drinks for women on certain nights. The women aren’t directly paying the bar, but the men who come to the bar because of them makes it a net profit. I’m sure there’s other examples of this primary/secondary customer dynamic. Anything cheap for kids that sells expensive stuff to parents for instance.
It’ll be interesting to see what he does. Either way he’s coming out with scars.
If he finally tells the Freedom Caucus to go fuck itself, and builds a coalition with Democrats, he’ll be doing wonders for the GOP’s image. Showing extremists the door in favor of cooperation for moderate policies is what people want to see. And McCarthy may get personal fame for it, possibly even better political aspirations. However, he’d earn the ire of the Freedom Caucus and his primary would get a lot harder. It’s possible he would piss off too much of his base. The Republicans would start rehabilitating their image, but at the cost of handing Democrats 2024 with the extremists fracturing off.
On the other hand, if he stays a little bitch to the extremists, he’ll continue to get squeezed on all of these budget negotiations and inevitably blamed. By not decisively taking action with the Caucus, tensions and fractures continue to grow in the GOP. And they continue to be seen as the children in the room and, well, extremists.
Before writing this out I actually thought there was a decent chance McCarthy would grow a spine. But now looking at everything else that would happen, yeah it’s unlikely as hell.
It’s disappointing that AAA studios don’t recognize this. I don’t want a bloated game that takes 300 hours to experience most of it. I don’t want a giant map. I want a good game. I want a small map filled with life, not a large one with soulless procedurally generated dungeons.
It is crazy how much kool-aid americans drink and how deep they managed to put their heads up their own ass.
… You said in an article where a US ship willingly returned oil to a US dock because it was in violation of US trade sanctions. Could you please at least read up on the event before you decide to act high and mighty?
Imagine the outcry if instead this was a liberal justice at a Soros donor event. You’d have so many antisemitic dog whistles that it would attract every canine in the tristate area.
I really don’t understand how anyone who likes logical consistency can tolerate Republicans. The hypocrisy is mind boggling.
I think the only thing we lose is community – I’m jealous that religious people automatically have that.
The solution of course is trying to return to having neighborhood communities.
