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.
That's because OP is an opposition account. Intentional or not.
The point of all the anti-Biden spamming is to suppress turn out. They'll never concede Biden is the reasonable up coming choice. They'll always twist the conversation to how Biden is bad. And you should feel bad for voting for him.
It's meant to elicit an emotional response. Make voters feel guilty about making a less than ideal but correct choice. It's the most effective way of getting people on the left to stay home.
These kinds of posts have been all over social media since 2016 election. It's a really common pattern of activity to spot after a while.
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.
He was by accident. What Romney and Obama were talking about during the debate was an interview Mitt had given prior.
In that interview he was talking about going all Reagan like with being antagonistic to Russia and Iran. His view on foreign policy was Obama should be gearing up for war. Building more boats, tanks, bombs to out spend enemies like Ronnie did. Negotiating with Iran was a waste of time. Let's just bomb people kinda stuff.
Which was stupid. It was usual tough guy GOP foreign policy junk. When at the time soft power was working just fine. And even the EU felt Medvedev was being a reasonable partner. Romney was even specifically trying to twist Obama's hot mic comments to Medvedev about negotiating after the election as selling out America.
In 2012 soft power and talking out differences was getting somewhere. Which is why Romney was roundly lambasted for acting like the US should preemptively go back to Cold War style of dealing with adversaries. That approach would have guaranteed the kind of response that has happened for different reasons.
Additional tl;dr summary thought. Obama was already in the war time President role. Romney attempting to look tougher, staked out a ludicrous position. Including claiming the US should be spending 4% of GDP on the military.
NK is sitting on stockpiles of ammo that works with old Soviet hardware. It's not that old. It's more recently produced. It just works with those system.
Russia has lost so much equipment they're back to using that hardware. Including tanks like the T55. T54/T55s entered production in the early 1950s. Were made for about 30 years with slight variations through.
Pretty easy deal for NK to make. With certainly some benefit coming back to them from Pootin in the trade.
China's pandemic policies are what made US companies reconsider where labor had been outsourced. That work is now moving to India, Malaysia, Vietnam, Mexico. Many were pissed China demanded halts to production. The capitalists want their product made when they want it. Going forward, that will not as often be out of China.
Long story. But rumors were potential merger with VW. Or at least, heavy cooperation on platforms.
Currently VW Amarok is a Ford Ranger. Ford is helping VW further with commercial vehicles. In return Ford is getting EV platforms VW was already ahead on developing. Pandemic and other delays messed up product timelines though. To the point Ford decided recently they'd rather not be so dependent on VW.
But for next few years, if Ford releases a small EV, you can pretty much bet it's a VW MEB chassis underneath.
Of course not. Why would you suggest such a thing? I've been assured by dozens of tankies here on Lemmy that a 5:1 casualty rate and North Korea as a major arms supplier are signs of success.
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.
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?
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.
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.
And what Ukraine has received is mostly stuff paid for years ago. It's not new expenses. The DoD has to account for it though as part of government audits. The aide is essentially writing off value of assets donated.
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.