Yeah this attrition is expected by Amazon. IBM and others did this earlier. If enough people choose to RTO they will do “real” layoffs and get a pat on the back in the news for not letting as many people go as they would have had to before. Optics I guess. IIRC this is the second round for Amazon.

Some are saying companies are doing this to keep their property values up but I think that’s only one facet. What I don’t see being called out often is companies doing this are hiring replacements overseas in tax havens and/or where they can pay less for talent. Real kicker is, those hires wind up being remote anyway to the anchor offices.

I should’ve had my friend pick me up but this was the time before cell phones were ubiquitous. She had sort of cooled off near the end and had given me a mix tape. Thought maybe it was just bad timing. Wasn’t expecting her to go ballistic. Food was good though.

I mean, vegan substitutions for things like chicken I suppose. And yeah, I was completely bewildered the entire time. Even before this she was always semi-hostile in conversations but she always hit me up. It was bizarre.

I said I had never eaten vegan food. She asked if I’d like to try it at her favorite restaurant. She then made a huge deal about me being “only” vegetarian as we ate. Stunned as she went on and on about what a terrible, ignorant person I was, I noticed there was something odd about her front teeth, like they were stained. I didn’t think much of it and tried not to stare. She also kept insisting repeatedly that it wasn’t a date. Ok, that’s fine, I said which only seemed to make her angrier.

We get in the car, and I’m relieved it’s almost over. She looks in the rear view, and starts freaking out that I hadn’t told her she had lipstick on her teeth the entire time. I tried to explain I didn’t know what it was and didn’t want her to be self-conscious. Awkward silence as she drove me home. Next day I noticed she had blocked me on everything. Good riddance I guess.

Obligatory fuck IBM they are largely patent trolls at this point adding zero value to anything.

No you have to switch your vpn to Albania to avoid YouTube ads.

Jokes aside, you can do different stage installs where you don’t have to compile the whole OS. However I feel like the quality has dropped during the past few years and it requires too much tinkering. Back when everything was on spinning rust, the performance difference was very noticeable though.

Also what he did to the Tesla founders. And the PayPal disaster. Etc. Everyone ignored it, just gave him. Pass if they didn’t. I remember pointing out the cracks showing to his fanboys and they brushed it aside only because he helped take Tesla out of a tailspin and had started SpaceX. The pedo accusations and bigoted ranting from him finally made them (most of them) stop dick-riding or go quiet.

The board recommended that shareholders vote to give him his 50 something billion compensation package and move the incorporation to Texas. Shareholders seemed divided on the package award due to his erratic behavior, that there isn’t a dedicated captain of the Tesla ship (among other things such as shareholder governance) - but he got the package.

Hopefully they’re taking a harder look after sales took a massive hit, the Cyberturd launch was a flop and vehicles are filling lots unsold. I’m not holding my breath though.

I was bummed when I saw it launched in a crappy state. I thought it looked really neat as well. From recent reviews it seems they have fixed a ton of stuff and are rapidly working on other things so I copped it. Hopefully I can finally play it this weekend.

I can’t stand the narrow FOV in first person games on console anymore (it gives me motion sickness) and this upgrade doesn’t seem to be enough to fix that. I don’t understand how Sony can be so tone deaf with nearly every decision. But I’m not surprised anymore. They just raised the price of the controllers too and the joysticks get stick drift after a while and the battery still isn’t replaceable.

This happens at the end of every expansion. When The Final Shape campaign dropped people were raving about it only a few months ago. Complaining escalates as the story wraps up and people run out of stuff to do. They also recently revealed that D3 is DOA and content creators have been pushing a doom and gloom narrative for the past few weeks as well. Bungle also just did more layoffs which tarnishes things even further.

If you treat it like your only game - you’re probably gonna have a bad time. Bungie wants it to be an MMO but once the story bits are complete it does get dull unless you’re a hardcore grinder. The new player experience is also hot dog shit so it’s almost impossible to get your friends involved. This is the tip of the iceberg though.

Therein lies the rub. There are places that give you most of the experience without needing to donate your first born but they’re becoming scarce.

if you wanna feel special go to a higher end restaurant where they don’t “auction” food. But even they use food runners. This actually lets the waiter give you more personal time ya dummy.

There was one with a deformed tail at work. Poor guy could barely swim. Other fish picked on him. I’d make sure to drop food so he wouldn’t have to swim as far. He outlived all the other fish.

I didn’t know it existed until a popular streamer begrudgingly “reviewed” it at the last minute. Found it strange that there was zero marketing for such an expensive and long developed investment.

Arvind regularly makes it clear in meetings that he doesn’t give a flying flip what the employees think or feel and that he knows best. So this is not shocking. He’s made similar bootlicker comments before. I’m sort of surprised more of his terrible takes aren’t made public.

Especially since it was largely a failure in the racing series it competed which at the time was dominated for years by Nissan.

it got me and my elderly dog in better shape. We were both lazy fatties before. Now we’re less lazy and somewhat healthier fatties.

I’m diagnosed. If I haven’t had coffee in a few days and drink a few strong cups it mainly drives up my anxiety and wakes me up a tiny bit. Then I usually crash hard. If I’ve had it for multiple days in a row, I can barely register any difference in how I feel at all. It definitely affects my resting heart rate though, so I try to keep my intake low. Eating a snack and staying hydrated is more affective at perking me up.