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  1. 8 minutes ago, Matuka said:

    So, is that really Kanye?  And if so, why the mask?

    It's allegedly high fashion (LOL) which is allegedly Kanye's wheelhouse (again, LOL).

    From the 2022 line: BALENCIAGA'S MERCEDES-AMG FACE SHIELD IS FOR SHY PEOPLE WHO LOVE ATTENTION

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    If you want to see really weird, google the latest story with Balenciaga and child abuse and bondage or whatever they were doing in their latest show.

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  2. Just now, henrygandorf said:

     

    The crazy part is Alex Jones was trying to lead the witness here to a soundbyte that favored Kanye and Kanye took the bait and ran in the opposite direction. Crazy when Alex Jones is trying to moderate.

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  3. 5 minutes ago, mchookem said:

    i mean everybody should just pay their damn taxes, it's not really a controversial position.

     

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    The controversial position is in how much, I guess. Baseline versus largesse to fund bloat and inefficiencies, stealing from the middle class

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  4. Not Disband. 

    Who didn't see this coming when we spent a ton of money on the IRS under the guise of "TaXiNg tHe BilLiOnNaIrEs!"

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    The IRS has warned Americans that they must report payments on Venmo, PayPal, & Zelle over $600 The $600 threshold includes part-time work, side gigs, and selling goods Wasn't the plan to go after Billionaires?

    https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/reminder-service-providers-others-may-receive-1099-ks-for-sales-over-600-in-early-2023

     

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  5. 10 hours ago, troph said:

    I come here for the laughs and it’s a fucking HR convention. 

    To bring it back to Biden, since the thread topic, I found this interesting. Times and situations are different no doubt:

    The vote marks the first time Congress has flexed its power to block a national rail strike since the 1990s. Back then, President Biden was one of six senators to oppose the bill that ended a 1992 rail strike, arguing against government interference in labor.

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  6. 4 minutes ago, NoName said:

    yeah, Zuck is unhappy that Apple just cut their legs off with asking apps not to track: https://www.vox.com/recode/22929715/facebook-apple-ads-meta-privacy

     

     

    Yep, I mentioned this yesterday but for anyone curious google and read about Apple's ATT (app tracking transparency) which has absolutely eaten the lunch of Facebook, Snapchat, Google, anyone who relies on targeted advertising. It's been interesting to watch companies downplay it initially and then now blame it outright on earnings calls. Like I said, it was a complete mafia boss strong arm move and it's why Apple is the $2T beast it is while everyone else in Tech is at the kiddie table.

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  7. 8 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    On the one hand, kudos to congratulating a competitor.

    On the other hand, it should be nudging Tesla to do more than they are.  This is some writing on the wall stuff.

     

    Indeed, they need to do more before they completely lose category dominance (and sorry for subsequent posts, I should have merged all these):

    https://press.spglobal.com/2022-11-29-New-EV-entries-nibbling-away-at-Tesla-EV-share,-according-to-S-P-Global-Mobility

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    Per estimates from S&P Global Mobility, Tesla’s US EV market share will drop to less than 20% by 2025, down from 65% this year and 71% last year.

    As more affordable options become available, Tesla’s entry-level Model 3, which starts at $40k+, is looking increasingly pricey.

    To that end, Tesla is reportedly ramping up development of a cheaper Model 3. The company is also delivering its first-ever electric Semi Truck to Pepsi today.

    Big picture: Roughly 5.1% of 10.22m vehicles registered in the US through Q3 were electric, up from 2.8% in 2021. Small, but growing fast.

     

     

  8. 8 minutes ago, NoName said:

    Epic only charges 12% because of getting hacked off with the Apple iOS stuff and are trying to move the market because they make $$$ per day. IIRC it had some success with Steam making change.

    regarding hurdles - yeah, you can pirate the shit out of a PC game to get around Steam/Epic/Itch/wherever, download an android APK from some random chinese site and hope it's just cracked and nothing else or do the same for a windows EXE if you choose to. if you think your parents or mine can easily sideload an APK from F-Droid you have another thing coming.

    i am far from an apple fanboy but to act like they are the only ones being difficult here and making bank off of their 30% is is wrong.

    Zuck spoke out about this yesterday as well, joining Epic and Spotify in the growing chorus: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/11/30/business/dealbook-summit-conference#:~:text=Mr. Zuckerberg said that unlike,a conflict of interest there.”

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    “The fact that companies have to deliver their apps exclusively from platforms controlled by competitors — there is a conflict of interest there.”

    Mark Zuckerberg, the Meta chief executive, said that Apple had too much power as a gatekeeper for apps in its marketplace. Compared with other platforms like Google Play or Windows, he said, Apple “is the only one where one company can control what apps get on the device,” and that is not “sustainable or good.”

    Mr. Zuckerberg contrasted the Apple App Store with the Google Play app store. “Google might control what goes in the play store, but they have always made it so you can side-load and have other app stores and work directly with phone manufacturers.”

     

     

  9. Another tech company publicly supporting (or trolling and egging Elmo on for his own demise), is Reed Hastings of Netflix. Read this: 

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    Hastings also defended Musk’s contentious acquisition of Twitter, saying he was “excited” to see what the Tesla C.E.O. does with the social media platform. “Elon Musk is the bravest, most creative person on the planet,” he said, adding, “I’m 100 percent convinced that he is trying to help the world in all of his endeavors.”

    Hastings sounds like he has a crush or is a 6 year old girl. He's the stwongest and bestest and bwavest superhewo awound!

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  10. 30 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    damn dude, if you wake up sick unexpectedly and can't work, but don't have sick leave, you don't get paid. Or if a kid wakes up sick and you have to stay home with them.  PTO/Vacation has to be scheduled in advance. That is the difference.

    These workers were considered essential during the pandemic and had to work. If they got sick with covid and had to miss work they got no pay because they had no sick leave. That is fucking bullshit.

    The rail companies are "balking so hard" because they don't like the idea of employees getting paid leave when they get sick. Vacation is a little easier for the companies to swallow because those days are scheduled in advance and its less disruptive to the routine.

    None of this is rocket science. These track builders, diesel mechanics, whatever skilled labor these guys perform, want the same benefits that you assholes who sit on your asses all day get. The railroads can absolutely afford to give that to them. 

     

    Makes sense and I agree-- give them the 7 days and let's move forward.

  11. 25 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    I didn't even know where to file this one. Have never seen this before but I am appalled. Oh, I get that some folks would think this was funny, but let's just be clear that no, it really isn't. And if the Mom was the one who organized the photo? Good grief and have some self-awareness. That little girl on the bottom right looks like she is having SO much fun there Dad.

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    That is shameful and embarrassing on multiple fronts.

  12. 33 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    For fuck's sake, I get 10 and I work for a tech company where I can work from home 100% of the time if they would let me.  This is dumb.

    I've been scammed by "unlimited PTO" for so long that I can't even articulate the differences between time off to understand why sick leave is different than PTO or vacation or any other time off, so I'm guessing most young people (GenZ & Millennials) have no idea either unless they are time clock hourly employees. I googled it:

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    It is worth noting that sick leave and PTO policies can slightly differ. Paid sick leave is a specific amount of time off that can be used for injury, illness, or related reasons, whereas a paid time off policy is an all-encompassing time off bundle that can include paid sick leave.

    So essentially on top of their Vacation/PTO they want 7 days of sick time as well. I wonder why the rail companies are balking so hard at that if they can live with 4 days, there must be a big $ impact on those extra 3 days and they must have data showing the expecting cost is pretty bad to risk this bad PR and stoppage.

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  13. 9 minutes ago, dimyh said:

    Is there still an Oshmans Sports around? Used to hit that up at Northcross Mall as a kid and then go across the street to Swensens Ice Cream.

    Also plus rep for the Hastings mention...I would go to the north side one in RR.

    I think Oshmans was acquired.

    I brought this up cheekily in the Kroger<>Albertsons merger thread, but Jewel Osco was my go-to grocery store (aging myself here).

  14. 4 hours ago, chainsaw said:

    People live there for a reason though. Maybe they know how to get around more efficiently

    It's because it's the capital of the South and the biggest economic center and employment hub of good to great paying jobs.

    I wouldn't move to Atlanta proper because it's scary at night, but you can work remote and live in the suburbs or live in Buckhead (and hope that Buckhead emancipates as it has been trying to do) and you will enjoy it.

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  15. 22 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    He spent $44 billion (far too much) to read Grimes's DMs, and now he's stuck with a company that pulls in $5 billion or so a year, and that has only made a profit two years out of the 16 it's been around, and he's saddled it with an extra $1 billion a year in debt.  His customers are the advertisers, and he's driven a chunk of them away. And he desperately needs to bring in more revenue, and the $8 a month blue check thing would require tens of millions of users to pony up in order to bring in billions more, and clearly those users won't/aren't.

    So he needs his biggest advertisers to get back on board with what he's selling them, including his biggest advertiser from earlier in the year, Apple, a company that brought in $394 Billion this year.

    And instead he's going to form a coalition to take on Apple (and Google, $282 Billion for the year) and try and not only publicly shame them, but change the industry standard of 30% and force them to make less money.

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    I'm not a business grad, but I'm pretty sure the technical term for that is "fucking stupid".

    Which means that no, it's not going to happen, and you should find better newsletters to read.

    That photo of his nightstand that he posted a few days ago, you know what that photo is?  It's a peek into the life of a very lonely man.

    + rep, my friend.

  16. It will be interesting to look back and see if Elmo's Twitter escapade helped to create a star in the making and new celebrity CEO. The former Chairman of the Board at Twitter and Co-CEO of Salesforce has resigned with the assumption he has bigger and better things on the horizon.

    He got a lot of clout and respect in business crowds for how he handled Elmo's attempts to strong-arm and remain calm and cool and get the deal executed, essentially going toe-to-toe against him and winning. Before that he was already seen as a rising star, at least that was the perception whether you agree with his bona fides or not.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/30/bret-taylor-steps-down-as-co-ceo-of-salesforce-marc-benioff-stays-on-as-ceo.html

  17. 2 minutes ago, &#x27;stache said:

    I haven't read the content and probably wouldn't understand it anyway, I just thought the idea of a newsletter email without a link to the site is hilarious. Their entire purpose is marketing, seems weird. Having just browsed a few preceding posts, it seems to me that if there is a legitimate issue, Elon Musk probably shouldn't be the mouthpiece. He's seriously lost his mind. His erratic stances on all sort of shit since the takeover is truly bizarre, and there's no valid basis to take anything he says these days seriously.

    I agree he's probably not who you want to hitch your wagon to right now, but tech people are weirdos and tech bro politics make for strange bedfellows, I think. As stated originally, it will be interesting to watch if it gains legs or not. I tend to think it's just another one of Elmo's tempest in a teacup that will be mostly forgotten about when there is another dust-up and self-imposed humiliation in a day or two that makes headlines.

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