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[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (3 children)

It literally wasn't. He paid way more than what the stock was worth. (Hence why he desperately tried to get out of it, and why the board desperately tried to make sure he had to go through with it.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think he's just saying the headline is (potentially maliciously) ambiguous. I certainly assumed "told not to testify [or else]" when I read it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There are some fantastic gems of videos that still get released, but they're really hard to find amongst the YouTube crap videos.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Linus LOVES corporate buzzwords. He certainly never fails to remind critics that he's just running a business.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

He's said before that he hates it, but including one of those thumbnails boosts viewership by 30%. I certainly don't like it, but it would be really hard for me to resist that extra income too.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

"Hell yes we're going to take your guns" is not the best slogan when running for governor of Texas.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's extremely interesting to me how China's SCS claims permeate through big business. It's no coincidence they used a china-friendly map.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wealth has been concentrating at the top for the past few decades now in ways the modern world has never seen before.

This is US-centric, but Canada hasn’t been much better. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-in-income-and-wealth-inequality/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And then they could release another new console down the line and call it the “New DS”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think that Walmart employee that was murdered by and anti-mask but really opened people's eyes to how real domestic terrorism is in the US to these companies. Whether they're doing this because they want to protect their employees or want to stop backlash against them is still up for debate, but either way it's clear that terrorism works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I thought he only rode crackers? Putin on the Ritz

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It kind of makes sense. Reddit is one of the most visited websites in the world. It has more DAUs than Twitter.

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