Simpsonator

joined 1 year ago
[–] Simpsonator@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I agree with the second part of your statement. Egypt could do more. But I'm not understanding what the first part has to do with forced displacement to Egypt. Is that somehow justified by the history?

[–] Simpsonator@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you suggesting that Jordan and Egypt don't care about Palestinians because they don't allow Israel to forcibly relocate millions of refugees to their countries? Beyond the fact it's a war crime, it doesn't really improve the situation for anyone but Israel.

[–] Simpsonator@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

My proposal would be to have more tiers of capital gains that would incentivize long term investments. And raise the rate on short term gains. That would also reduce some insider trading if the pay off was lower short term. But I'm just an armchair economist so there's probably some terrible consequence to this plan I can't see.

[–] Simpsonator@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think we can all agree that both companies have terrible management in different ways.

But this dream that MS will just clean house with Act/Blizz management is just that. If MS replaces all of senior management over the next year or two, the studios will grind to a halt. Someone has to make decisions about resource allocations. I'm dubious about the competence of senior management in general but someone has to decide the dev budget, the marketing budget, feature set, etc. And someone has to make decisions midstream when it becomes clear your battle royale game will get lost in a sea of Fortnite clones.

If MS starts firing these guys, they'll see the writing on the wall and go elsewhere on their terms, leaving the company unable to make those decisions. I just can't see MS firing anyone but the top guys.

[–] Simpsonator@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I kinda understand this point of view but I don't see how it punishes anyone at Act/Blizz. Bobby Kotick walks away with a literal fortune and I doubt Microsoft fires the management to hire all new people. I'd like to see Act/Blizz shareholders sue the board and Kotick for corporate malfeasance instead and get that money back.

[–] Simpsonator@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On point 2, the individual mandate was repealed in 2018. There's no federal penalty for not having insurance.

[–] Simpsonator@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't get the difference between fried egg and over easy if they're fried on both sides. I'm no eggspert (it's father's day so you'll have to excuse the Dad joke) but over easy should have a runny yolk and this one looks pretty cooked.

[–] Simpsonator@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

Makes me wonder what morale is like for the employees at Reddit. Working for a CEO that admires Musk's takeover of Twitter would have me running for the door.