Is it only ornamental? And why are they usually webbed feet (or at least they are in my experience)?

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    Bob Robertson explains my point better than I feel like typing at this time lol. He’s spot on. Also, I worked as a project manager for the product owners that make these types of decisions. Everything I relayed was from experience. Edit: I will add, look at people like musk that proudly proclaim “i do no market research” and then look at the cybertruck.

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      Eh, it was a bit too detailed honestly. I doubt that was deliberate, though, and I did respond in full.

      Musk is an outlier. He also bought Twitter and basically put it through a woodchipper, including getting rid of the very well-recognised brand and executing a domain transition that left it semi-broken for months. Most CEOs and most boards have some semblance of sanity.

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        We must have worked for different boards and CEOs then . I have watched boards and CEOs get recommendations for customer protecting cybersecurity investments, then deny them, even after previous loss of customer data.

        Because it was cheaper to deal with the fallout in the event that something happened again. Spoiler alert: it always does

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          That sounds completely sane, if cynical. Back in the day your salami had rats in it. Now software is the sausage you don’t want to see made.

          Regulation is an option, right? And in the EU they’re actually doing it. Because the consumers are dumb, not because someone has a free money bug, let alone one that’s leading to some kind of Platonic inevitable decay of society, which is kind of what feels like the picture being pushed here.