ate all the Oreos posted:

the ones at my apartment complex's laundry room are made by GE which also made a huge chunk of the US's nuclear weapons, megacorps are weird like that

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

I don't think the private medical insurer who brags about his adultery needs or merits your defense of him.

ate all the Oreos posted:

i thought you guys had like, private doctors for rich people

or is that Britain i can't remember

Captain Foo posted:

FamDav posted:

did I miss when we found out tori stepped out on his wife

FamDav posted:

did I miss when we found out tori stepped out on his wife

Captain Foo posted:

if by "found out" you mean "he told us in detail about his mistress's kinks," then yes

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

I don't think the Silicon Valley VC who likes conducting emotionally manipulative experiments on his users needs or merits your defense of him.

Sagebrush posted:

The washing machines at the laundromat I go to are made by Raytheon, the world's largest manufacturer of guided missiles

SENSUAL DAD KISS posted:

jeff fatwood of snack overflow

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

and also appears to have milder side effects

exploded mummy posted:

they also made the world's first microwave ovens

Luigi Thirty posted:

HQ just raised another $15 million on a $100 million valuation lol

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cott agreed to the interview and chatted with The Daily Beast on Monday afternoon. The Daily Beast simultaneously reached out to the HQ public relations email account and Yusupov, one of HQ’s founders, letting him know of our plans to write a story about the show’s host.

Several hours later, we received an email from Yusupov stating that HQ was “not making Scott available to discuss his involvement with HQ with the media/press.” The reporter informed Yusupov that we had already interviewed Scott and that the story was nearing publication, but encouraged him to call us with any concerns.

That’s when things went off the rails.

Yusupov, the CEO of HQ, called the reporter’s cellphone and immediately raised his voice. He said that we were “completely unauthorized” to write about Scott or HQ without his approval and that if we wrote any type of piece about Scott, he would lose his job.

Yusupov continued to threaten Scott’s job, even after The Daily Beast explained that the story was framed around Scott’s daily life and that he revealed no corporate information.
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“You’re putting Scott’s job in jeopardy. Is that what you want?” Yusupov said. “Scott could lose his job.”

“Please read me your story word for word,” Yusupov said. “Or you can email it to me.” Although The Daily Beast does not typically share the contents of our pieces, the reporter shared quotes from Rogowsky, which were non-confrontational and shared no company secrets.

Yusupov’s objections began with the line, “Scott said that despite the attention, he’s still able to walk down the street and order his favorite salad from Sweetgreen without being accosted.”

“He cannot say that!” Yusupov shouted. “We do not have a brand deal with Sweetgreen! Under no circumstances can he say that.”

When asked to confirm that Rogowsky can’t say he personally enjoys eating at Sweetgreen, Yusupov said “he cannot say that,” inaccurately claiming that Scott had disclosed private company information by revealing his preference for a salad chain.

When The Daily Beast read Yusupov a quote from Rogowsky saying “I can make people happy and give them the trivia they so desperately love and want. It’s been so great to build this community,” Yusupov implored the reporter to “take that out.”

Asked for clarification, Yusupov replied that Rogowsky was absolutely not allowed to say that he “enjoys making people happy and giving them the trivia they want.”

“He cannot say that people want trivia,” said Yusupov, the founder of the HQ Trivia app.

“It’s highly unprofessional. Highly unprofessional of you to reach out to one of our contract employees without my permission and without going through proper press channels,” Yusupov said, revealing previously undisclosed information that Scott himself is not a full-time HQ employee.

Yusupov said that he would approve The Daily Beast to write an article all about Scott’s life, but that we were “not allowed” to include any mention of HQ or his role in HQ (which is public), or he could be terminated.

“This is ridiculous,” Yusupov said. “If you reached out to an Apple engineer and they gave you information about the new iPhone, would you run it? No, because you’d have to go through proper press channels.”

Yusupov was repeatedly reassured that Scott had not revealed a single piece of classified information about HQ.

After a back and forth wherein Yusupov told The Daily Beast its reporter would never be allowed to talk to Rogowsky again, the co-founder nervously stated that the conversation was off the record, something he had not stated before that point and a precondition The Daily Beast had never agreed to. The phone call ended shortly thereafter.

Sagebrush posted:

Apparently this is because a Raytheon radar engineer noticed that standing next to an operating magnetron had caused a chocolate bar in his pocket to melt

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

just understand that the magnet treatment is a legit thing that ordinary ppl with mental health problems might be using in a couple of years, bc it would be cheaper to cover than ECT and also appears to have milder side effects

Krankenstyle posted:

i guess the shittier you are, the harder you look for other people to point your finger at

haveblue posted:

the game is no fun any more either because people have figured out how to automate botting it. all the cash prizes are now split a thousand ways every time

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

your position at a pervasive company to make the world measurably worse for everyone.

Captain Foo posted:

you work for a private health insurer

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

There's a huge difference between having an affair and using your position at a pervasive company to make the world measurably worse for everyone. They don't compare and if you think they do, your sense of perspective is hosed up.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

There's a huge difference between having an affair and using your position at a pervasive company to make the world measurably worse for everyone. They don't compare and if you think they do, your sense of perspective is hosed up.

Beast of Bourbon posted:

a couple years ago he bragged that his job was to make it more efficient to deny claims

rjmccall posted:

you have no idea what he did for facebook. if your argument is that even accepting employment at facebook is contemptible then lol you work at a loving medical insurance company, you are complicit in way worse poo poo. but actually you are just desperately deflecting attention from the fact that you’re back to drinking yourself into a stupor again

Beast of Bourbon posted:

a couple years ago he bragged that his job was to make it more efficient to deny claims

rjmccall posted:

lol i hope someone knows here your real name so we can laugh when you eventually make the local news

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

If you think insurance companies are bad, just wait until you see what medical providers do!