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Zipitydew

@Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works

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Zipitydew ,

My favorite are the couple openly trans people who consistently simp for regimes that would gladly disappear them.

Zipitydew ,

Good gets lazy. It has too much hope in others also being good.

Zipitydew ,

He fired his PR team a few years ago. That's been the difference.

He said plenty of dumb shit prior with people cleaning it up. One of my favorites was probably 10 years ago now. He claimed Model 3 assembly line automation would move so fast they'd have to worry about wind resistance.

My friends and co-workers still laugh about that one now. It's such an absurd "business" mentality of go fast = good. So go crazy fast = more good. With a technology that doesn't exist and kinda doesn't need to. It makes more sense to increase system capacity (multiple lines) when you're chasing throughput like that. But what makes even more sense is accurately forecasting your production so you don't have to slap a full car together in 30 minutes to keep up with demand.

Zipitydew ,

That $10k Chinese car cost $20k to make. A competitor undercutting the market that much leads to monopolization. When that competitor is being bankrolled by a foreign government it's potentially even a hostile act.

People have been mad for decades about what Walmart did to retail in the US. Taking steps to prevent that from also happening with the auto industry should be appreciated.

Zipitydew ,

Now this I can get behind. We should fight back by subsidization of production as heavily as China is theirs.

Zipitydew ,

They won't because part of it is slave labor.

Zipitydew ,

Sure dumbass. Way to discount all the labor wins the UAW has fought for recently.

Zipitydew ,

My serious answer guess; it's a demo of what can happen if fall prevention harnesses are not properly worn. Would help if there are a few more pixels.

Zipitydew ,

This sounds almost exactly like what happened to a colleague of mine last year. Guy aspirated some food. Lead to an infection. Turned into pneumonia. Died.

All that happened within 1 week.

Zipitydew ,

That's the joke

Zipitydew ,

New kink unlocked

Zipitydew ,

lol was more entertaining than I expected

Zipitydew ,

Had pancreatitis because of his diet. A diet in which he thought would magically avoid creating body odor.

It turned into cancer. He lucked out that it was a rare form of treatable pancreatic cancer with a 90% survival rate 5 years out. Which is abnormal as most forms of pancreatic are essentially a death sentence. Survival rate past 3 years is under 10% for the more common variants.

Stuck to his diet anyway. Ignored his doctors. Died to an illness he had a 90% chance of beating because he knew better.

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    Zipitydew ,

    https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/e3e6f4f6-9965-4f0e-a48b-fe58c57a4e67.jpeg

    Immediately thought Lancia when I saw it. And kinda want.

    Zipitydew ,

    Rivian R3X that won't be available until 2027

    Zipitydew ,

    Nah. Your instance has trash mods.

    People shouldn't get comments removed for saying Russia is the clear bad guy concerning Ukraine. Or that Russia created any number of issues their propaganda attempts to project back on others. If stating objective reality isn't allowed, .ml is no better than what right-wing assholes have been doing on Reddit since 2015.

    Zipitydew ,

    That's good. Maybe since your account is there such criticism is viewed differently.

    But that's not the case for others. And that reality is being shared right now by multiple people in this thread.

    Zipitydew ,

    Same. Lost all interest when Palmer sold out to Zuck.

    Zipitydew ,

    Add some traffic circles and you're not far off of Swindon.

    Zipitydew ,

    No one. They don't even seem to be in America due to the hours they're regularly posting.

    This account is just anti-Biden spam as a disenfranchisement campaign.

    Zipitydew ,

    You joke but it's not terribly far off.

    Their real hope was to get Hyundai Kia to build EVs for them. While letting Apple act like they were the majority stakeholder of the deal.

    Remember when Spez said it was "It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company"? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit's profitability right b... (www.npr.org)

    Remember when Spez said it was "It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company"? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit's profitability right b...::undefined

    Zipitydew ,

    His pay was $300k something. So it was almost all stock. To convert his ownership stake into shares ahead of the IPO as you mentioned.

    He supposedly owns around 3-4% of Reddit. And they're trying to IPO at an initial valuation of $5B. So when that goes to shit like it probably will this theoretical $192M drops dramatically.

    Zipitydew ,

    Mmm-hmm! You were havin' that dream where you made the white people riot, weren't you?

    Zipitydew ,

    Finance too. They're almost always first from the multiple I've personally been through. The new owners want those hands out of the pot asap.

    Zipitydew ,

    Layoffs after this size of merger are pretty typical. The number of people seems high, but it might be due to Activision's own acquisitions over the years.

    First round of layoffs after a merger is consolidation of corporate administrative functions. ActiBlizz finance, accounting, HR, etc is no longer needed. Microsoft already has all those needs covered. And it wouldn't surprise me to learn ActiBlizz had a lot of administrative bloat.

    Most of the knowledge workers will be kept for now. Will be future cuts there as objectives are finalized and staff needed becomes clear.

    Zipitydew ,

    lol no. 50 might just cover ActiBlizz accounts payable department.

    I work for a similar sized company now. We have around 300 just in Finance. Another nearly that many in accounting. When companies get this big they have a lot of spending and assets to track.

    Then you get into Marketing, Sales, HR, etc. I'd confidently bet 90% of the 1900 roles were corporate administration. I've personally gone through this process multiple times. I've even been part of making consolidation decisions for a few of them.

    Edit: What you experienced will happen. But as phase 2.

    Zipitydew ,

    What you posted was at Microsoft itself. That story is from January 2023.

    The ActiBlizz deal didn't close until October 2023.

    Zipitydew ,

    Dude you're so confused right now.

    You're suggesting layoffs announced today, within ActiBlizz teams, were preemptively carried out by Microsoft a year ago, 10 months before the merger closed and the ActiBlizz team was even part of Microsoft?

    Zipitydew ,

    Nope. They're conflating Microsoft layoffs a year ago as being part of a different round announced today. The 10k people let go in January of 2023 are long gone. They can't fire them again now. Especially so since the 1900 just announced today have only been Microsoft employees since October.

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