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  • Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees

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  • In this thread: Fuck Discord! Fuck capitalism! No company should lay off 170 people.

    In other thread: Fuck Boeing! Fuck capitalism! The company should die along with all 150,000 jobs occupied by their employees.

  • Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees

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  • But isn't Reddit still private?

  • Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees

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  • As someone who works in tech, it doesn't surprise me. I had a lot of friends get poached 2 years ago with salary increases that shocked me during this blitz on hiring. What surprises me is timing. Some companies recognized the over optimistic forecasting earlier and realized to let folks off a year ago. Some folks are just now getting laid off. I'm. Not sure what led some companies to drag it out vs drop the hammer earlier. Did some see the writing on the wall and choose to cut earlier? Did other folks really try to keep employees hoping things would turn around?

  • The rich now own a record share of stocks, about 93% of U.S. households' stock market wealth is held by the top 10%

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  • Only income derived through labor should be truly safe, as labor is useful to civilization, unlike gambling, often with winnings from previous gambling gained using loaded market influence dice and marked insider information cards.

    AI and Automation is going to destroy these human labor=value claims of classical Marxism even further. The point is you can't choose not to live in a capitalist society as if you're an ostrich burying your head in the sand. I invest my retirement and portion of my savings in market index funds because keeping it in a bank will lose value over time due to inflation. Keeping the money I have earned through my labor as cash or in a savings account is pretty much guaranteed to lose value as inflation occurs. There is risk in the market, but I'd hardly call that type of investment gambling.

    There is a reality we live in, and regardless of political beliefs or opinions on labor and capital, you are in capitalism, your participate in capitalism whether you like it or not, so might as well protect yourself and future by playing the game of capitalism to some degree.

    Marx enjoyed the fruits of bourgeois society and participating in fox hunts arranged by Engels. I don't think it's a problem to have some irony in fighting the good fight, while investing in a 401k.

  • US transportation head says no grounded Boeing 737 Max 9 planes will return to air ‘until it is safe’

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  • So why don't you think the laid off Spotify employees will have an equally soft landing of just being absorbed into other companies?

  • US transportation head says no grounded Boeing 737 Max 9 planes will return to air ‘until it is safe’

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  • Exactly. So it's weird to see a popular sentiment be Spotify laying off 1500 is bad corporate greed. But then celebrated wishful thinking that Boeing should die due to corporate greed and put 150,000 employees out of work which is somehow good.

  • US transportation head says no grounded Boeing 737 Max 9 planes will return to air ‘until it is safe’

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  • I don't understand the ultra anti business vibe these days. If a company has to do lay offs (like Spotify) because they over predicted growth, it's up in arms for the worker getting screwed due corporate greed. Then we have this angle where everyone wants Boeing to die, which will result in a ton of workers losing their jobs. Why isn't the hope just the board doing their jobs, changing leadership to align with the old boeing, let workers keep their jobs, and let their stock benefits increase in value for contributing to a good company?

  • Ayaneo next handheld is going to use SteamOS

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  • Text intensive games are hard to read at times on the deck. Magnifier helps, but not ideal. Games like Against the Storm or some digital board games would benefit from higher resolution.

  • "There are thousands of volunteers who donated their labour to Duo... Bit by bit all of our work was hidden from us as Duolingo became a publicly-traded company."

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  • I thought that Slack was what that use case is for. It's an acronym that stands for Searchable Log of All Communication and Knowledge. I didn't realize folks were using discord for productivity use cases.

  • MSI CLAW gaming handheld leaked, features Intel Core Ultra 7 155H with Arc graphics and 32GB memory

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  • I'm wondering if it's a touch screen to help with that. I prefer steam controller track pads, but I could get by with a touchscreen for portable in some games.

  • Federal officials order grounding of Boeing 737-9 Max jetliners after a plane suffers a blowout

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  • For me, at least, between ESPP, RSU, and SOP, my portfolio is over exposed to my employer. I sell a lot, but due to mandatory holding periods, and recent dips in price, I'm holding more than I want. I don't think that a sense of my work impacting stock really makes a difference in my choice to hold or sell. It's more about long term vs short term capital gains. The only things I quick sell are my RSUs since those have no requirements and taxes are paid on distribution.

  • Retiring House Republican says $174,000 isn't enough money for members of Congress: 'Most of us don't have wealth'

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  • That salary means something different to a congressman from the Bay area or NYC, vs. a congressman from Boise or Iowa. In down for pay raises generally.

  • Transgender woman is disqualified from Ohio House race for not using her former name

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  • But if it's on the form and required, isn't it the candidates fault for not following procedure? They just blatantly didn't follow the rules. You shouldn't complain about rules after you break them and if you know about them in advance.

  • Hamas Used Gaza Hospital as a Command Center, U.S. Intelligence Says

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  • Yup. I think there's a difference between the factual claim of whether Hamas has operations on the hospital grounds vs the justification for the type of military action taken against the hospital. I think it is possible to accept there is truth to the Hamas operations center being located there and still condemn the military tactics used against the hospital due to civilian casualties and harm it caused. Unfortunately those 2 things seem to be conflates that acknowledgement of Hamas being there is implicitly condoning Israel's actions.

  • Hamas Used Gaza Hospital as a Command Center, U.S. Intelligence Says

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  • While the spy agencies provided no visual evidence, a U.S. official said they were confident in their assessment because it was based on information collected by Israel and America’s own intelligence, gathered independently.

  • A six-year-old girl was drowned in a water tank and her head was smashed with a stone to hide her identity after a failed rape bid, 43-year-old private watchman arrested

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  • Just non native English speaking translation. A bid can meet an attempt, like a bid for re election.

  • Germany mulls reintroduction of compulsory military service

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  • Can't conscription help build a more anti war sentiment? It's easy to send young people to war when it's the poor and the elites and middle class call the shots. But if the military has more equal class representation, maybe leaders in a democratic society would behave differently.

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    A civil rights leader went to see 'The Color Purple' with his mother—then AMC ejected him for using his own chair

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  • But there's store specific managers and regional hierarchies I imagine. In my corporate job, there are teams all in the same office, but different managers give different directives or priorities to things like trainings. I'm guessing there's a lot of variance between AMC movie theaters, their managers, and team members.

  • Syncing vote color to Lemmy style?

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  • I do as someone that uses both the Lemmy web interface (as well as photon interface) and Sync App. I actually get confused because there are instances where score is only color coded without an up/down indicator. So color coding consistency is nice across app and web.