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- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 1 week ago:
Absolutely. For example:
seralth@lemmy.world said:
…Hitler… …sounds good.
- Comment on Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam 1 week ago:
No, it’s a sad tale that would be amusing if it wasn’t real people, and has occupied a lot of brain time at 4chan and among gamergate-involved persons. If you want to know more, knowyourmeme has a reasonably objective article.
- Comment on Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam 1 week ago:
Randy’s twitter poll was stupid. He should have asked “if BL3 is exclusive, will you buy it on that platform?” With the options
- Yes, if it’s steam
- Yes, if it’s Epic
- No
- STFU Randy, your breath smells like farts
- Comment on Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam 1 week ago:
The writing in two was really good. I didn’t and still don’t care who got the writer’s WiiU, I just cared that the story was fun.
- Comment on Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam 1 week ago:
Phil Fish struck me as someone who needed to huff either his own farts or copium to get through the day. I hope he’s doing ok now.
- Comment on When you work for a company owned by a A..hole 1 week ago:
Same in ours.
Myself and another guy went to a tech junket that was by invite only and they gave away a laptop to one person from each company who attended. My boss tried to take the laptop from the other guy saying “that was a gift and you need to turn it over to me”
I’d already cleared it with our corporate conflict of interest ombudsman - if I’d accepted it, it would have been an issue because I had purchasing authority, but other guy was “just” a tech who couldn’t sign off on anything or even make recommendations to anyone other than me, we didn’t have an existing business relationship with the vendor, and we’re not obligated to conduct any business with them as a result of the gift.
I told my boss to take it up with head-of-department (whom I’d copied in on the ombudsman comms.)
Other guy kept the laptop, and boss got ‘audited’ for gifts received (they pulled his emails) and was demoted into a position he wasn’t able to handle (more technical than he was capable of, but on paper should have been able to do) and pushed out of the company soon thereafter.
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if the archive.org cases had any bearing on the decision.
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 3 weeks ago:
When did WhatsApp start allowing signups without a phone number?
- Comment on The Plane That Crashed Yesterday Was the Same One a Dead Boeing Whistleblower Warned About 4 weeks ago:
George C. Boldt went from rags to millionaire when millionaire meant something. He was able to outright buy a competing hotel to the one he already owned less than 20 years after coming to America as a dish washer. This was in the late 1800s, before income tax and massive corporations.
In fact, it’s believed by many that Boldt’s story inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jay Gatsby.
Andrew Carnegie is another notable immigrant who went from near-naught to millionaire.
Or if we’re allowed to include Americans, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford
As corporations grew and income tax was introduced, it became nearly impossible for someone working a menial job to put enough money away to ‘rise up’ and join the ranks of the elite. The most recent examples people cite, like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, etc. came from wealth already.
Now, do you want to continue this discussion? If so, I kindly ask you stick to actual facts, and stop trying to insult me and/or inferring I wrote things that I didn’t.
- Comment on The Plane That Crashed Yesterday Was the Same One a Dead Boeing Whistleblower Warned About 4 weeks ago:
The American dream was made impossible with the introduction of income tax, although the granting ‘personhood’ to corporations was a contributing factor too.
- Comment on Pangolin 4 weeks ago:
Mint offers 32bit support, unless you’ve got a really old cpu.
- Comment on Pangolin 4 weeks ago:
Interesting. This could be a decent secondary use for my VPS
- Comment on Pangolin 4 weeks ago:
Ok so what is pangolin? I’m only familiar with the animal and its role in the pandemic.
- Comment on US Border Patrol detained a nursing mother and separated her from her infant daughter to the point that she needed medical attention as a result of not being able to nurse 1 month ago:
I was 'welcome home’d by a US CBP officer after flying into Washington from Africa…I’m not an American, and don’t have American residency, but I’m white and speak with a neutral dialect.
I think you’re right.
- Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them 1 month ago:
It happens regularly. The most notable ‘tidy’ example I can think of would be when the Governments of US and Canada ‘bailed out’ General Motors. They did exactly what I’m talking about; they created a new legal entity called NGMCO Inc. which purchased almost all the Assets of the ‘old’ GM, including trademarks, names, websites, etc.
The key here is that the selling company was bankrupt. In such a case, the creditors want to try to get money back out of their ‘investment’ so the asset sale is done to cover debts. Selling liabilities generally doesn’t raise money for those creditors, so often after the money is all sucked out, whatever remaining liabilities exist are functionally void. Legally they remain until the corporation is dissolved, but with no ability to act on the liabilities (ie., no money to pay) this doesn’t functionally matter.
The ‘old’ GM changed it’s name to ‘Motors Liquidation Company’ and retained the liabilities. Shareholders of the ‘old’ GM were left holding the bag, so to speak. Technically, it was further split into trusts to ‘handle’ liabilities, but realistically ‘old’ GM sputtered out holding liabilities while ‘new’ GM carried on with minimal penalty.
You can have less ‘tidy’ cases as well, where substantial parts of a company are sold in an asset sale/purchase but leave behind a working company. In those cases the liabilities are not functionally abandoned. Disney purchasing FOX, for example.
Further reading:
www.investopedia.com/terms/a/asset-sales.asp
reuters.com/…/oldgm-exit-idUSN3121109620110331/?f…
- Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them 1 month ago:
This is the exact reason GM still exists.
- Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them 1 month ago:
If the new owners purchased the assets, name, and technology and not the company itself, then it’s beholden on the remains of the old company to honour the deal… Good luck with that.
- Comment on YSK: The Guardian is one of the only newspapers in Australia and Britain to refuse all gambling ads 2 months ago:
Nice try, Guardian social media team. I’m still not giving you my dollarbucks.
- Comment on American Popemobile? 2 months ago:
I mean, the details on the gun mount make sense if it’s remotely operated. Usually AI ‘fuzzes’ the details and I see what looks like an ir window and some other things I’d expect to see on a remote controlled turret. 🤷Not sure though.
- Comment on A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man 2 months ago:
No it’s not. Look at the court level in which it was shown.
- Comment on Do you have any “headcanons” (so to speak) about the Star Trek TNG characters? 2 months ago:
Fair. Worf did a lot of shitty things, I think the PIC writers were trying to have his character attone a bit, but then he also murders an unarmed ferengi…so 🤔
- Comment on Do you have any “headcanons” (so to speak) about the Star Trek TNG characters? 2 months ago:
Are you referring to the story he told about accidentally killing a kid in a soccer match when they both tried to headbutt the ball?
- Comment on Do you have any “headcanons” (so to speak) about the Star Trek TNG characters? 2 months ago:
He was kidnapped by humans and not raised properly. No big surprise he has attachment issues.
- Comment on Do you have any “headcanons” (so to speak) about the Star Trek TNG characters? 2 months ago:
I’ve decided Ship of the Line is canon and that Montgomery Scott was on the engineering team for construction of Ent-E
- Comment on Popular 3D printer vendor has come up with a foldable portable concept that's mindblowing 3 months ago:
This looks very cool, but I feel like its failure modes would be brutal. I’ve seen some failed prints turn into hairy balls of melted hate, but upside down…I feel like its begging to have a print adhesion failure just break everything.
- Comment on Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70% 4 months ago:
Because only rich Ukranians could afford them, and the rich ones fled Ukraine when the war kicked up.
- Comment on Sun God 4 months ago:
Screenshot from Rick and Morty S6E9 Bring forth the sheers of stumping!
- Comment on xkcd #3056: RNA 4 months ago:
The advances in cancer research and treatment in the last 40 years is crazy too.
In grade six (80s) I lost one of my cohorts to leukemia. It was a long road for her to her passing, with the stereotypical no hair and sick every day looking worse and worse.
My neighbor’s grade 6 kid has a friend with leukemia and now they’re “just” sick “every once in a while” because they had chemo the previous day and they’re supposed to avoid sports, but is expected to be fine before they go to high school. Wild.
- Comment on Framework ships RISC-V board for its 13" laptops along with "boardless" laptop chassis. 5 months ago:
And MIPS too. NT 3.1, 3.5, 4.0 all saw MIPS, Alpha, and x86 releases.
- Comment on Caveman technology 6 months ago:
That was clever. Thanks for the share.
