I thought this guy was voted in and they wanted his shock therapy on the economy.

Well, there you go. Maybe economics isn’t as simple as populists would have you believe, but it’s too late now, the damage train is rolling.

That’s up to Trump, because your vaunted checks and balances are gone.

Think he’s going to show restraint? Insight? Empathy?

I think each woman has her own reasons (some people actually like traditions) but I have the impression that, globally, women are not the same as what we see online. I think today the taking of a surname does not indicate ownership or property, at least to most modern women (and men).

I don’t think any woman thinks like that anymore, or perhaps not many, so the motivations would then also be obviously different.

Yes definitely. Anything that spreads knowledge should be hugely supported.

Be very suspicious of anyone advocating for less support of knowledge sharing.

I’m really enjoying Bluesky strangely enough, not normally my thing.

Get offline, and simplify. Start doing things that are good for you. There is yet joy to come.

Do it. Promises from super powers are worthless. Only power itself matters. And all the other countries are aware of it too now.

Yeah. Most people are probably experiencing the shock of what they thought the American people were vs what they are. It’s hard to understand and accept.

As foreigners, our views are heavily affected by things like Hollywood, celebrity and visibility to the “best of America”. But the bulk of America is not that, at all. So the veneer is torn away and it’s jarring to most people.

The only positive I see in all this is that we get to watch the US get what they voted for. Pain can be a teacher, but I doubt they can learn from it. Any and all agony from this will just be the other parties fault, always. Too much venom and malice in the politics and too little earnest substance.

Most Americans like and support Trump. That IS America.

We’re not going to hit those targets anyway… SO LET’S MAKE IT WAY FUCKING WORSE

I wonder if we’ll ever get to the place where people like this unexpectedly meet violent ends. They’ll sacrifice any number of lives for their shareholders interests.

Let me try.

By creating a culture that singularly valued money and production over all other concerns, including the well-being of staff, Kotick created and cultivated the conditions needed for abuse to set in.

And Kotick is the kind of sociopath that leads to this when other things are swept under the rug.

Maybe it wasn’t a line item on his payslip though.

Yeah, but Kotick was not really the real issue. He’s a straw man of sorts, a target dummy, designed to draw fire for unpopular decisions.

It is the board and shareholders who massively incentivized him into that behaviour. CEOs are brought in to act in the interests of shareholders, while also abstracting them away from blame and direct culpability.

The goal of blizzard (and any other publically listed company) is wealth creation for shareholders via share price growth, not making games per se.

The CEO and his management team created this, they did not take care of the workforce, and they cultivated the most recent reputational damage.

I believe the answer is “A lot of Americans”.

If this game releases with good quality my friends and I are day 2 customers for sure. Seems fun as hell from the videos.

Yeah, I like them but I’m firmly in the camp of waiting for player reviews. We’ll see.

We demand infinite growth. Why? Because shareholders want to buy shares and sell them later for more.

Do anything it takes to make that transaction happen, cut people’s jobs en masse, whatever.

Forever.

If they haven’t seen through it until now, they never will

Exercise. I’ve now done it 8 weeks straight, and I think I have it locked in as a long term habit.

Never had that before in my life and I’m 48 now. It’s never too late to get going folks.