This is interesting!
Life can go around corners, that's for sure;
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Citizen Brick was fielding calls and emails from all over the world inquiring about the coveted Ukraine-inspired toys. But he kept thinking about his loyal customer base.
"I have a lot of customers who are from that part of the world," he said, "and three weeks ago, they were just making TikTok videos and collecting toys. And next thing you know, they're hiding in subway tunnels. And that was really startling."
President Zelenskyy's leadership caught his eye at the same time.
"If you'd asked me a month ago who the President of Ukraine was, I probably couldn't have told you," Trupia said.
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At the end of the day, Trupia says it feels good to be able to help. "Even if it's been kind of a clumsy execution where we couldn't meet all the demand, it's really kind of opened our eyes to the possibility of doing this kind of stuff more often."
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Tom Mueller of SpaceX, in Air and Space, Jan. 2011
31 Mar 2022, 6:48 pm
