headed by the gal who cleaned up Romania.

While Kövesi did a bunch of good stuff and got some convictions, Romania is far, far from clean as far as corruption goes.

Such a restriction on qualified investors is not the norm in most countries.

Yep, totally fine with it. You look, who knows what you might see!

I don’t know about this case, but private companies also have shares and can sell them out/issue them to other parties just like public companies. It’s just that it doesn’t happen via a stock exchange and a lot of what they do doesn’t need to be publicly disclosed.

This is good imo. Blizzard’s been rotting from the inside for years, and for this Microsoft deal to bring real change they need to let lots of the older employees go. Let’s see how it plays out.

I think the post is dumb but the logic is that it reflects on other women because millions of them think it’s a good love story (as per the post).

Nope. Ukraine was a lone wolf and Putin thought it’d be easy pickings (though I’m sure he realized pretty soon how much he fucked up), but no way he’s going up against nations that are part of actual defensive pacts.

Except that’s not true, and Russia had precedent already from 2014. Oh and also Ukraine is not in NATO or the EU. So not really that surprising that Russia tried something.

There is literally no connection between the two, wtf.

There is quite literally no chance of this. If it happens, I’ll buy you a year’s worth of beer.

Yeah, total dick move given that working for Riot games is a fundamental human right. The bastards!

I hate that you don’t have more upvotes.

Yeah, that’s definitely what the conflict brought to light. Not the fact that people and most nations are happy to allow or even support literal genocide and ethnic cleansing as long as it’s done by people they like against people they don’t like.

I think asking for lowered compensation is definitely shitty and he should be condemned for that.

However, can someone explain to me the vitriolic opposition to downsizing/layoffs whenever this topic comes up?

I don’t see how anyone has a right be hired and work at X company. It is, after all, their company and their decision. Surely we can all agree that sometimes companies make strategic mistakes in terms of hiring and need to correct them later on. Also, circumstances could simply change, products be canceled or no longer need as much manpower etc.

What am I missing?

That’s an unfair comparison.

If someone hands you a gun that by all accounts should not be able to fire a bullet that can injure or kill, in a highly controlled setting with a professional armorer, and that gun kills someone when you didn’t even pull the trigger you should not go to jail.

The gun was apparently modified and had real bullets, both of which were the fault of the armor (the mod was seemingly done by someone else but the armorer should have caught it). Sure, you can speak about blame over hiring an incompetent armorer on everyone involved on the production and certification side, but that’s a different matter and not what’s being discussed here.

Yes, she was with Fred Noonan, her navigator.

Not the guy you replied to but central Barcelona was like that in 2020 at least.

Yeah. “I have to drive for 15 minutes to access an endless range of fresh produce. Food desert!”

Did you mix up your buzzwords?

You accuse me of being afraid. Of what exactly? You’re the one afraid Gaben is going to pull the plug on Steam and other stuff like this. I’m not. You’re the one saying everything needs to be self-hosted FOSS. I don’t care if it’s not.

I don’t want to take anything as a win, but I realize now that you are so divorced from the reality in which we live that there’s no point continuing to debate. 80-year olds who can barely afford food should… hire businesses to root their phones and install self-hosted mail servers for them? That may work in some highly privileged places in the world, but do you have any idea what conditions the vast majority of humans on this planet live in? What their priorities are?

You say you “never talked about replacing each and every technology with FOSS.” but that’s exactly what you said in your first post and that’s what irritates me and what I take issue with. If your stance would have been “I like to self-host stuff for myself and family and use FOSS. You should look into it, it’s cool and not that hard”, I’d have upvoted you and not batted an eye. But you came in here with the sweeping generalisation that if you can’t root, self-hosted FOSS something “it ain’t worth doing”.

I never called anyone a nerd and I’m not sure why you feel like that’s the case.

And not that it should matter, but I’m not on reddit anymore since they killed RIF and I a) didn’t like their stance with regards to third party apps and b) can’t stand the official mobile app. Not really because of my privacy, and no I didn’t get banned.

Anyway, I accidentally came across another one of your posts on a different topic on here, and now I understand. I’m sorry for having engaged you at all and please accept my sympathies.