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  • Cities: Skylines 2 developers have noticed 'a growing tendency of toxicity in our community'

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  • For some reason people seem to experience the most rage, vocalization frustration, etc. when it comes to having their entertainment fucked with (whether pricing, content itself, etc). Companies can cause global recession or market crashes, be responsible for child labor resulting in death and dismemberment, or engage in flat out fraud, but those companies will never bring out the toxicity, death threats, entitlement, and communal anger like a video game or film/tv company that impacts the entertainment of the masses. When people used to think of the most evil company in America back in the early 2010's, EA was more hated than Bank of America, Wells Fargo, or AIG. That never made sense to me.

  • Cities: Skylines 2 developers have noticed 'a growing tendency of toxicity in our community'

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  • I have no problem discussing political opinions. I hate how every thread gets co opted by un critical hot takes for the circle jerk of up votes. It's frustrating that any post about digital media has the top comments all saying "Yarrrr, time to sail the high sees." Or anytime there's any news about a corporation, the top comment seems to be "fuck capitalism and those greedy greedy share holders." Those kinds of comments aren't critical, aren't contributing to any meaningful conversation. On reddit I think it succeeded when you had communities of enthusiasts having conversations about the thing they are enthusiastic about. Lemmy seems to have a lot more people enthusiastic about a political position just try to spread that on any and all communities.

  • Cities: Skylines 2 developers have noticed 'a growing tendency of toxicity in our community'

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  • For me it's the over representation of self described communists that take over every thread to poetically or unpoetically just keep saying capitalism=bad and then do shit like justify bad behavior because capitalism=bad or pretend to care about making sure employees get paid while advocating for piracy of everything being justified.

  • HP CEO: You're 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies

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  • Not crazy at all. Not sure why there's a surprise. Advertising is everywhere. Design goes into making buying goods user friendly. The whole point of brands is to build loyalty to it. All of that has cost to acquire customers. So obviously customers are an investment because acquiring them has cost and labor involved.

    It's like selling an iPhone knowing you will eventually make money on app store sales percentage margins.

  • Another trans candidate in Ohio faces disqualification vote for omitting deadname

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  • Thank you for this reasonable and informed take. A lot of folks up in arms about the identity politics issue, but the real issue is the bureaucracy is not operating in a way that aligns with the law or instructs people to comply. Corrections should be allowed by the candidates and the bureaucracy needs to update procedures.

  • Tech Employee Who Went Viral for Filming Her Firing Has No Regrets

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  • Yeah. That's why I was curious. I replied to a comment saying we need to raise penalties for layoffs to disincentivize it. But if employers are using performance as a guise to do layoff without a layoff, that might mean the layoff punishment is deterring it in a weird way.

    Sorry about your position. That sucks. When I look around at colleagues and their age, it makes me wonder if I should move to a management track instead of staying IC.

  • Tech Employee Who Went Viral for Filming Her Firing Has No Regrets

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  • “Managers should always be involved. HR should be involved, but it shouldn’t be outsourced to them, No employee should ever actually be surprised they weren’t performing. We don’t always get it right.”

    Is it a layoff or not? It sounds like the employer is avoiding lay off penalties completely by calling it performance based.

  • House drops $40K on new member pins amid government spending fight | Semafor

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  • A participation trophy for participating in a group made almost exclusively of election winners of various congressional districts?

  • House drops $40K on new member pins amid government spending fight | Semafor

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  • House drops $40K on new member pins amid government spending fight | Semafor

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  • Just think of all the tech bros and finance bros with their branded Patagonia vests and backpacks. $75 for federally elected leaders to have a pin that doubles as a security badge is a nothing burger, and shouldn't distract from passing of a budget which I am actually scared about.

  • House drops $40K on new member pins amid government spending fight | Semafor

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  • 40,000 bucks for 540 people is like 75 bucks a person. It's only a big deal if folks make it a big deal to spend time debating discussing. The biggest waste is spending significant time debating this given the salaries of all members involved.

  • Screens keep getting faster. Can you even tell? | CES saw the launch of several 360Hz and even 480Hz OLED monitors. Are manufacturers stuck in a questionable spec war, or are we one day going to wo...

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  • So when are 144hz, 1440p, hdr oleds going to come down in price?

  • The FAA is tightening oversight of Boeing and will audit production of the 737 Max 9

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  • What does this statement even mean?

  • Texas "physically barred" Border Patrol agents from trying to rescue migrants who drowned, federal officials say

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  • They are saying we didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning.

  • Employees Say ‘Sizable Portion’ Of Gearbox-Owned Studio Has Been Laid Off

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  • I think the other thing you need to highlight is that during that rapid growth phase 2 years ago it meant building up teams. In tech it really became an job market where employees had lot of the power in negotiation which drove up the cost of labor to fill this surplus of openings. I worked at a company where team members were being offered 10k to 25k annual retention bonuses to not quit (if you want quit within a certain time you pay it back, but if you quit hopefully your new employer spots you a signing bonus to cover it). But with all of the factors you mentioned in this cool down, you end up with a problem that you now have too much staff, but also too expensive staff that you can't afford. Employees are definitely losing now with the layoffs, but for the ones that were able to make job moves and survive the layoffs, they're probably are doing much better because of it (at least from a compensation POV, not sure about anxiety worrying about being laid off next).

  • Austrian heiress giving away $36.6M because the government won't tax her inheritance

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  • What does this gesture do to I pact the means of production and labor to push towards a state of communism?

  • Biden Admin Deployed Air Force Team to Israel to Assist with Targets, Document Suggests

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  • I'm having trouble connecting this paragraph about US provided intelligence for targets:

    “They’re probably targeting people, targeting officers,” Lawrence Cline, who served as an intelligence engagement officer in Iraq before retirement, told The Intercept. Targeting intelligence refers to the identification and characterization of enemy activities including missile and artillery launches, location of leadership and command and control centers, and key facilities. “What I can see is we’ve got a lot of global assets in terms of satellites and the like and the Israelis have a lot in terms of more localized radar coverage.”

    With this paragraph about how Israel selects targets:

    The Israeli military intentionally strikes Palestinian civilian infrastructure, known as “power targets,” in order to “create a shock,” according to an investigation by the Israeli news website +972 Magazine. Targets are generated using an artificial intelligence system known as “Habsora,” Hebrew for “gospel.”

    This makes it sound like US engagement is trying to identify military targets that follow some criteria of what a military target is. But Israel is doing their own thing using AI?

  • Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees

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  • I hear you. You are going to see a lot more worker bees than VPs laid off in part because there's a lot more worker bees than VPs.

    per https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/discord-layoffs-citron-overhiring-gaming-18603308.php

    The notice, required when companies perform mass layoffs, said the employees would officially leave Discord on Feb. 2. Dozens of engineers are among the casualties, as are several trust and safety employees, product managers and data scientists, according to the notice.

    Depending on how the structure is laid out and what product areas were cut, I'm guessing up to the director level would be impacted.

  • Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees

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  • I think it's an unfair and naive assumption to think VPs all keep their jobs. I've seen some pretty nasty game of thrones plays by executive leadership during layoffs due to consolidation of teams and remits. Someone might get a bonus that doesn't deserve it, but someone is going to get let go at a high level (albeit with a generous severance not offered to the rest of the employees).

    Also, when new senior leadership comes in, it's not uncommon for them to let heads roll at the leadership level to fill out the team with folks they know or trust. I'm not shedding a tear about where those folks will go on to find similar employment, but I think there's a misconception about how safe those positions actually are.