Mine: Once had a meeting with a guy that wanted to be a Starlink distributor in a developing country. His first time in country, had just arrived like 24 hours before. Knew nothing and no one. No idea why he wanted to talk to me, but, whatever…

Wanted to have his “business partner” in on the meeting, and called some douche that talked for 5 solid minutes about how he could see the Cape Kennedy launch tower from his window and whatever else about how amazing he was and so tied in to Elon and all this BS. Called long distance on a real phone line to the States. Not WhatsApp, not even a VOIP or Wifi calling call. I watched him dial +1… he had a local SIM.

Turns out neither of them even knew which ministry they would need to start with to get a permit for satellite internet service. They just wanted to sell dishies in country and had no idea how to even start a business locally. Didn’t look at a single thing online before coming out. They didn’t even know about local content policies that effectively meant they needed a local business to sponsor them. I sat and searched online with the guy and showed him everything they needed to see, which was on 1 website.

This was before COVID, and the country only got Starlink 2 years ago.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    in HS I dated this chick. after awhile we really weren’t that into each other but still kind and of stayed together.

    introduce some random dude she had been friends with since she was like 6. dude stared me down hard like he wanted to square up. I just ignored him. a week later she broke up with me because she was fooling around with him. meh, whatever.

    following weekend I see them together and he’s got this big fuckin grin on his face as they walk up to me. ex and I exchange pleasantries and as they walk away this douchy mother fucker says to me, “I guess I won.”

    I looked the guy dead ass in the face and told him, “One mans trash is another mans treasure.”

    She obviously got bent and started screaming, he got up in my face and wanted to throw down and I’m just laughing.

    don’t treat women as trophies kids, and don’t make it a competition. so glad I left that inbred cesspool.