This question is really wide. You’ll have to narrow down what the challenge really is.
Start by doing a mind map on a piece of paper.
You’ll need one for the product, but you’ll also need one for the business.
Once our have the entire idea spread out like that, you can start researching the things you don’t know or contact people who do know those specifics.
People ought to deny ICE service for a start. Anyone in their vicinity can contribute and nothing is too small.
If they want anything from you, it’s your duty to make sure they can’t have it.
If they order a sandwich, they should be told the sandwich maker is broken today. Every day. If they need a car repair, that part will take six months to arrive. When they pay for electricity, their payment was misplaced. Their garages should be blocked by parked cars. The garbage truck should accidentally drive past their property again this week. Etc.
Don’t be an ICE collaborator.
at least one person
I recently learned that 1 in 5000 women are born entirely without a uterus.
An office is usually divided in different departments that have different functions.
In no particular order, not exhaustive, and skipping management and IT, typical functions could be:
Customer service. Pick up the main phone line and check the official mail box, talk to customers, redirect calls to other departments.
Sales coordinators. Receive orders from customers, through sales representatives or by web etc. They basically ensure that all incoming orders have the proper data to be processed. Keeps track of order confirmations and maybe send data back to the customers.
Logistics. Arrange shipments from suppliers, to customers and between stock locations. Files all documents for toll and tariffs.
Debtor controllers. Keeps track of customer payments, outgoing invoices, payment plans, sending reminders and debt collection.
Creditor controllers. Register incoming invoices. Get approvals from whoever ordered it and pays the bills on time or whenever it makes most sense for discounts and such.
Finance controllers. Keeps track of the entire balance sheet. Bank reconciliations, cash flow, investments, files and pays taxes. General bookkeeping that doesn’t fit in the other departments. Does the financial statements, reporting, monthly, quarterly or annually.
Purchasing, HR/Payroll and PR/marketing are self-explanatory I think.
All of these administrative functions are necessary in most companies, but in smaller companies it all could very well be done by a single person, while in large companies they might have several people in each department.
Many companies have several subsidiaries or other constructions, so tasks or functions can also be spread out like that. For instance, I can be the creditor department in one company while also doing finance in another or payroll in a third. So while the functions are somewhat strictly defined by the tasks, it’s only in very large companies that someone does just one function.
All office functions are constantly being made more efficient. A lot of it is truly boring, so it’s in everyone’s interest to automate as much as possible. I don’t feel sorry for someone losing their office job to an algorithm, no, I’m happy for them not having to do it anymore.
It’s not a stupid question. When I was interviewing for my first office job back in 2001, I literally asked if they could show me what I had to do.
Seing someone who entered data into a program, I asked if that’s it? You really want me to just enter data into that program? OK, I can do that. And so I was hired to put numbers into boxes on the screen and have been doing that ever since. Not the same program of course. I’ve been around all departments by now and spend most of my work time working on avoiding typing numbers into boxes.
The relevant video on poison pilling audio: https://youtu.be/xMYm2d9bmEA
For text, I suppose it’s similar to writring nonsense in background color instead of spaces or by using an invisible font. AI could probably figure it out and filter it.
The reason it works for music is that AI doesn’t really understand the “grammar” of music, so it just treats it like an image.
I always refuse all helpers in the kitchen.
Not because of the size, but just fuck no. I don’t want to clean up after some “helper” who managed to slice a single cucumber while getting in the way and leaving a chopping board, knife and excess cuttings all over the place because “I don’t know where you want the dishes” or whatever. It’s no help at all.
My mother in law is especially bad. She doesn’t know where things are, how to cook or how to clean, but always insists on “helping”.
I’m trying to cook here, not babysit a senior who doesn’t accept that her role as provider is over. Go play with the grand kids. That’s why we invited you as a guest.
The aliens are interested in bovine bowels, which are difficult to probe from afar.
I hate the mandatory “updates” which is only a prompt to install “suggested” apps. Even when deselecting everything, it still starts downloading TEMU. Fuck that.
The processor used in Commodore 64 and Apple I etc. is still in production today even if it’s 50+ years old.
Assembly is not enough.
It’s not just a tariff, and it’s also not just a single row list of tariffs on countries or products or whatever.
The tariff tables are multi dimensional. Each product has it’s own table of rates. Besides country and product type, there’s a dimension of how it’s assembled/manufactorered and potentially if it’s part of some sort of special agreements etc.
“The tariff” is basically a worldwide database of product information.
There are actually very few products that are fully produced in any one country. This is mostly agricultural or raw ressources. All other products are said to be manufactorered from different countries. The country of origin in that case is the last country in which the product significantly changed value from being manufactorered locally and it requires a facility to do so. Slapping a sticker on something is not enough.
Anyway, the tariff tables take all that into account. It’s very naive to think you can legally bypass this system simply by leaving a product in your neighbors garden before bringing it home.
You don’t have to waste your time doing that for fun. Plenty of people in logistics get paid well for doing just that, and if they can’t find the loophole, there is very little chance that you’ll find it described online.
Country of origin.
Something that people often forget: Contact the embassy in the country.
They know all the stuff, have networks and can send you in the right direction. It might cost something if they need to do any kind paperwork, but in my experience they’ll gladly give you contact info for free to someone who can help you.
Put them in self drive mode towards Moscow.
This is something EU could work together to fix.
Just give me one portal to book the entire trip on one ticket from point A to B, with the options to change the route if a train or bus is running too late for a transfer etc.
Everything is a table if you’re brave enough.
Both.
Copied from various sources elsewhere:
Consumer confidence is a catch-all phrase for the opinions and attitudes of consumers about the current and future strength of the economy.
Consumer confidence index (CCI) is a standardised confidence indicator providing an indication of future developments of households’ consumption and saving.
The Consumer Confidence Index is based on the Consumer Confidence Survey, which has a responding sample size of 3,000 questionnaires. The survey was initially conducted every two months starting in 1967 but changed to monthly tracking in 1977.
There are five questions asked in the survey. The first two relate to present economic conditions while the remaining three are related to future expectations.
Hope they are ready.
They young or the fascists? Because the fascists don’t look to be in much shape for a proper beating.
It’s when you start a guitar pedal collection (and call it a studio) instead of playing the guitar.