MountingSuspicion

I'm not sure why you think having multiple employees is necessary for a business. You need to register a business regardless of how many employees it has and need to pay taxes and carry applicable licenses and insurance regardless. Does a married couple working together count because it's technically two people? Does someone who pays a contract company or temp agency to cover business tasks count? If I run a remodeling business but I just do the plans and subcontract entire construction teams to do the actual remodel that wouldn't count by your metric. It seems like it falls into the kind of thinking OOP is suggesting against. You seem to have just decided that a business needs to meet some random requirement in order to be valid. What exactly is a single mechanic who works for themselves supposed to say? Do they not own a business?

1. Freelancing is a valid business. I don't know why there'd be a distinction in this case.
2. I don't think people would be considered freelancers just because they have personal relationships with other small businesses.

There was a dessert business I used to do work for that catered a lot of local businesses events. She got plenty of work there and then had a loyal customer base because of the introduction to her desserts at these events. That seems like a valid business to me. She retired and moved to be closer to her kids and that was it. No one to take her place. I don't know what you consider freelancing but she put her kids through school off of it so I don't know why it wouldn't count as business even if she technically never had long term contracts. She had her stuff in stores in the area because she made a name for herself and her products. People liked her and her story as much as the food so I don't think people would've kept buying it if they found out she didn't own it anymore.

I think you might not be aware of how many people have small businesses. 10% of American workers are self employed. I have done a lot of work for small businesses and it's very different than what a lot of people who had a teacher and a factory worker as parents think.

Plenty of otherwise successful businesses could not be sold for tens of thousands of dollars just for the name. Several are in business solely because of personal connections with other small businesses. Once that element is gone people go elsewhere. At least in my community/experience.

Thank you for sharing. Sorry to hear about your father but it seems like he had a child and wife who loved him.

That falling out of love concept is really my big fear. I think I know what a healthy loving relationship is, but only because I think I'm in one. The thought I might wake up one day to my partner saying that no actually, we were not in one of those is my big concern. I don't know what it should look like and having nothing to compare to so it feels like the biggest obstacle we could have.

I'm sorry to hear you're going through that but glad to see that people can and do make it out relatively ok. I truly wish you the best.

Not really true. Plenty of mom and pop shops close because no one wants to run it and they don't want to ruin the reputation of their family business by selling it to someone who might not run it well. I worked for a few places where this happened.

I'm sorry to hear about your circumstances.

Me and most of my friend/family group have married in the last few years and I don't know if anyone would have bothered if there wasn't a promise of forever. There's often the desire for a home and kids and it's (in my opinion) hard to do that if you don't have a commitment from your partner. I don't want to raise kids alone or have to do custody arrangements if I can avoid it.

If housing and child rearing were more communal it would maybe be different but I think the commitment is kind of the point.

If you'd be willing to share your experience please feel free to. I didn't have the experience of married parents or even watching them interact/divorce so I'm always on edge regarding the kind of issues I'm possibly missing in my own relationship.

How/when did they get in trouble? I didn't hear anything about it and nothing came up immediately after a search. It seems like a huge jump to say that they are going to be forced out of the industry. Additionally, he was still offered millions of dollars. Plenty of people would have jumped at the opportunity.

AI is definitely going to be a problem for the industry but your comment seems like a stretch.

I read the wiki and a few articles about it a while ago when I saw the video that brought attention to the app: https://youtu.be/od7P-RhLjLQ

I don't think the wiki or any articles I read seem misleading. I understand that he did not personally set any of this up, but having a separate app where people pay money to interact with you seems like shitty behavior for a celeb who is already beyond rich. I'm not saying it's as bad as a crypto rug pull, but it's giving similar energy. Clearly there are some people who were getting something out of the app, but it feels kind of predatory. If he wanted super fans to keep up with him he can just send out a newsletter. I get notifications when certain people I follow are touring near me and it doesn't require a special app. I would probably feel differently if he put a lot of effort into engaging with fans there but it would still feel tainted with the fact that some people are spending money with the hope he'll notice them.

It's like having a patreon with no actual perks. If Taylor swift or timothee chalamet made a patreon and you could maybe get some nebulous benefit from joining I would think that's also shitty behavior. It's not illegal, and I understand that in theory the app was free, but the conceit is to make money off these parasocial relationships with you and it's just gross imho. At least with merch or patreon subs you know what you're paying for. I highly doubt he was even the one responding to most super fans seeing as most posts were copy/pasted from other social media platforms. He probably had some doing it for him.

I didn't watch it but my understanding is that Hawkeye passed on the torch and he probably was going to be more in the background instead of the star. I don't know the exact parameters but I imagine it would not be as much screen time or physically demanding scenes. Fuck Disney for being a shitty company but I'm not sure if this is 100% attributable to that.

I was never a fan of his, but when I saw this I decided he's just not a good person. What a gross thing to do to people who support you. I hope to not have to see him in anything going forward.

This will also benefit small devs. Your points regarding side loading are valid, but plenty of people will not use that feature so this is a big win regardless. Plenty of solo dev apps allow tips or have paid features so now they are able to direct you elsewhere and get the full amount.

This is all obvious theater and many of these are just pics of these people. No way to tell if they've actually been arrested before or if it's just random security footage, but the text differences might be that different states have different terminology. What classifies as rape or molestation or contact or anything else can differ from place to place. It might still be AI, but it's not unusual for the same crime to have different names depending on where it was committed.