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xkcd #3113: Fix This Sign

Title text:

We're building on our earlier success getting web developers to pay to change the backslashes in our displayed payment URL to forward slashes.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3113/

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[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (3 children)

so 250$ to fix the sign.

Cheapest billboard rental is more than that.

shit business model

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The trick is to never fix it, infinite money glitch

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago

You could also technically fix it using the "missing Missy" method.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago

It's a billboard that was put up by the company itself.

[–] Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago

Send him $10 to fix the pricing

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Klear@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Proof that Randall hates everyone.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

And not just a little bit either. Seems like he really really hates everyone now that he returned to this topic.

[–] GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 day ago

Did you mean keming?

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

So like all ~~company's~~ companies' business models.

Edit: thanks for the spell check

[–] toast@retrolemmy.com 12 points 1 day ago

In the spirit of the comic,

*companies'

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Usually they pay graphic designers to extort others.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

Often by extorting those graphic designers, too. Pay a little and offer "exposure" (or find a way to blatantly rip off other designers). Anything to mitigate that bottom line.

Addendum: you can die from exposure.

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Where I'm from it's spelt centring, but I think Randall's referring to "doanate".

[–] kewko@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

let me know if I'm the only one for whom doanate was the last word to spell check