"Market segmentation" was the buzzword of the 70s and 80s
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
You not only sell more shit directly by encouraging people not to share, you sell more total bc identity categories "activate" consumers
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Honestly watching my dad have to try to find proprietary parts for a fucking lawnmower made me sympathize with Soviet Russia more than >
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
> four years on communist adjacent Twitter
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Well that's a little different -- they want there to be a universal standard it just has to be theirs
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Right but I'm thinking specifically of the Kalashnikov as the prototype for so many essentially interchangeable guns
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
My dad told me that his M-16 jammed when filled with sand during everyday training unless perfectly maintain, but the AK didn't
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Yeah that's a classic tale of design priorities differing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
The Soviets wanted to spread revolution everywhere, that wasn't the US military's goal
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Fun fact, actual AK-47s made by Kalashnikov are pretty rare. The rifle everyone sees is the Chinese knockoff the Type 56
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The actual person Mikhail Kalashnikov got basically nothing for his invention
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