Waddup Sock Nation!

a month ago by VetOfTheSeas to c/microblogmemes

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NABDad 20 points a month ago

Their mission is to make money &/or increase shareholder value (depending on the company). The socks are merely a means to an end.

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spencerwi 25 points a month ago

Except that Hank Green sock store. They seem genuine.

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ilinamorato 24 points a month ago

Honestly, if Hank Green turned out to be awful, I would be thrown for a total loop. There are some people whose heel turn didn't faze me at all, but I've followed the Green Brothers for my entire adult life, and if it all turned out to be a long con, I'd be flabbergasted.

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NeatNit 15 points a month ago

Me too, which is just another way of saying there is just no way this will happen. He and John recently turned Complexly into a nonprofit, after they shopped around to sell it and found that all interested buyers would repurpose it to something far away from its mission. See: https://youtu.be/LMCbqRsW7PM starting at 2:30 or so.

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, Twitter X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

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