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The State of California is in the market for a videogame company. https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1418017955841982465/photo/1 https://aboutblaw.com/YJw https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/activision-blizzard-sued-by-california-over-frat-boy-culture Activision Blizzard: bad
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facialimpediment posted:Activision Blizzard: bad
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Jul 22, 2021 02:30
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Cugel the Clever posted:I'm a cheap bastard, but the amount of rabid vitriol being hurled at Ben & Jerry's for ceasing sales to Israel's illegal settlements (only the settlements!) might actually get me to spring for something more than store brand for once. It's worth remembering that a memeber of the Jewish Council here stood up before the victims of the massacre and said that Hezbollah and Hamas were the real threats and it's disgraceful that NZ won't condemn them.
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Jul 22, 2021 02:34
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Cugel the Clever posted:I'm a cheap bastard, but the amount of rabid vitriol being hurled at Ben & Jerry's for ceasing sales to Israel's illegal settlements (only the settlements!) might actually get me to spring for something more than store brand for once. https://twitter.com/AmiV2/status/1417875273232666624
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Jul 22, 2021 02:38
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https://twitter.com/TTDAFLCIO/status/1417164251345694729?s=19 Stolen from doomsday economics, is this the cool zone?
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Jul 22, 2021 02:43
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Nah. Cool zone is civil unrest. This is just our comeuppance.
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Jul 22, 2021 02:52
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Looks like Chi is full of containers and they’re not sending them out fast enough, so the west coast has to stop sending to Chi. Supply chain is a mess everywhere.
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Jul 22, 2021 02:56
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Woodchip posted:Looks like Chi is full of containers and they’re not sending them out fast enough, so the west coast has to stop sending to Chi. There are little things with supply chain that seem to be getting worse and not better, and I kind of feel unnerved by the fact nobody is really talking about it.
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Jul 22, 2021 03:00
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bengy81 posted:There are little things with supply chain that seem to be getting worse and not better, and I kind of feel unnerved by the fact nobody is really talking about it. And there’s a bipartisan movement to gum up the works even more with a “harder stance” on China!
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Jul 22, 2021 03:03
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There’s a saying that if you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the table. Blaming “unaccountable State bureaucrats” is pounding the table.
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Jul 22, 2021 03:06
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About that "tragic suicide of an employee whose passing has no bearing on this case whatsoever..." https://twitter.com/LukeShooty/status/1418025612887867400?s=20
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Jul 22, 2021 03:12
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Godholio posted:About that "tragic suicide of an employee whose passing has no bearing on this case whatsoever..." wtf
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Jul 22, 2021 03:20
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Jesus Christ loving gently caress Activision/Blizzard
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Jul 22, 2021 03:20
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bengy81 posted:There are little things with supply chain that seem to be getting worse and not better, and I kind of feel unnerved by the fact nobody is really talking about it. Gonna be ~LIT AF~ waiting in line at 3:30am at the supermarket when the food shortages start!  Or camping at 24h supermarkets to go feral when trailers come in.
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Jul 22, 2021 03:21
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Jul 22, 2021 03:26
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bengy81 posted:There are little things with supply chain that seem to be getting worse and not better, and I kind of feel unnerved by the fact nobody is really talking about it. Current worry is the lack of vaccination for mariners worldwide. The inability to get on/off a ship is driving down the viability/attractiveness and people are leaving to do other things. Like 5% of Filipino seafarers are vaccinated or something and they make up a large % of the labor force. Right now the US is struggling to fill our open slots. JIT was great for overall efficiency but it sure struggles to account for variability.
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lightpole posted:Current worry is the lack of vaccination for mariners worldwide. The inability to get on/off a ship is driving down the viability/attractiveness and people are leaving to do other things. Like 5% of Filipino seafarers are vaccinated or something and they make up a large % of the labor force. Right now the US is struggling to fill our open slots. That's what I was thinking. I've been on half a dozen conference calls and meetings in the last few months talking about how our company is leaning in suppliers hard to get inventory to us, but nobody is talking about how we would be in slightly better (not great!) shape if we hadn't moved all our manufacturing overseas. I work in a medical adjacent industry, and talking with customer and friends in other aspects of the business and it's hosed all over. The consumer side sucks as well, like, I love going to the grocery store and it's flat out of some random thing, like bread or onions. Also if seems like the quality of produce has gotten significantly worse. I won't buy more than a head of garlic at one time because they end up going bad by the end of the week, as an example. There is also like no inventory for any of my hobby stuff available, which is an extremely first world problem to have. But don't worry, I'm sure the fact that our politicians haven't said poo poo about it means it's not a big deal!
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Jul 22, 2021 03:44
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I wanted to explore more of the tradeoff between flexibility and efficiency in multiple aspects in grad school but I didn't have time. Companies centralize for efficiency purposes but that cuts down on the ability to account for variability. Its also seen in a chain of command, the person at the top can hold all authority and make sure everything runs exactly how they want or they can delegate, accept a higher variability in responses, with the tradeoff being greater responsiveness. Right now, if your Christmas cargo isn't on a ship you're in trouble. Matson is printing money hand over fist cause they can garuantee 2 week delivery from China. Finding cargo space on a ship is only half the problem currently. Theres trouble getting space in China to load and on the west coast to unload. All aspects of that are long lead time, high Capex to change.
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Jul 22, 2021 03:57
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I deleted my Blizzard account back when they triple-downed on being CCP running dogs with the bans of any league players expressing even the slightest solidarity with Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests. Haven't looked back. Speaking of which, one of the few things Britain has done right recently is expand the visa available to HK residents.
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Jul 22, 2021 04:15
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bengy81 posted:There are little things with supply chain that seem to be getting worse and not better, and I kind of feel unnerved by the fact nobody is really talking about it. Start prepping.
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Jul 22, 2021 04:30
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Intel already said the chip shortage coule last 2+ years
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Cugel the Clever posted:I deleted my Blizzard account back when they triple-downed on being CCP running dogs with the bans of any league players expressing even the slightest solidarity with Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests. Haven't looked back. Same here.
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Jul 22, 2021 04:55
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I'm still feeling the impact at work of the Ever Given blocking the Suez canal. And on top of the semiconductor shortage, there's also a loving wood-shortage, and a ZF plant got drowned in the recent flooding and the company hasn't even given a rough estimate on when it'll be able to resume production.
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Jul 22, 2021 04:55
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Between the forests of the PNW being on fire like, 80% of the year now, the constant tariff increases over the past five years, and the absurd number of home renos people started doing during the pandemic, I have no idea when we're actually going to see lumber prices go down again.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:I'm still feeling the impact at work of the Ever Given blocking the Suez canal. And on top of the semiconductor shortage, there's also a loving wood-shortage, and a ZF plant got drowned in the recent flooding and the company hasn't even given a rough estimate on when it'll be able to resume production. ZF? Yeah.... that's gonna have enormous impacts.
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Jul 22, 2021 05:13
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loving hell. How hard is it to treat people like people.
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Jul 22, 2021 05:17
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Blizzard is less than 10 minutes from my house. Was keeping my eye on them for a fat post Fed retirement in a couple of years. Guess I'm back to justifying working for Disney.
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By many accounts the least lovely large game company to work for in 2021 is, incredibly surprisingly, EA. They have some predatory business practices but they're also apparently quite inclusive -- a former manager of mine is now a creative development director for them and has been for a couple years, and one of her core responsibilities is ensuring people in her division feel included, welcomed, and safe. She was the kind of boss who was all about making sure that really happens (and she and I talked a couple times about how she wished she could do more for the culture at the company we were both at), so I'm willing to believe that's really the case there.
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current event: Americans like getting child tax credit money that passed in the last covid stimulus plan back in March. Turns out $300/month per child is a big deal for middle class and lower income parents.
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Soon to be current event: the next person who tells me we shouldn't politicise the 22July shootings AT A LABOUR PARTY YOUTH CAMP will get punched in the face. politically. loving hell. i was involved in the response, and knew several people there, but even top brass people in the labour party are saying stuff like this now.
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Kazinsal posted:Between the forests of the PNW being on fire like, 80% of the year now, the constant tariff increases over the past five years, and the absurd number of home renos people started doing during the pandemic, I have no idea when we're actually going to see lumber prices go down again. How were the tariffs done, were they an actual law or an EO mlmp08 posted:current event: Americans like getting child tax credit money that passed in the last covid stimulus plan back in March. Turns out $300/month per child is a big deal for middle class and lower income parents. Conservatives haaaaaaaaate it. Water wet, we know, but it's amazing how much they truly despise the well being of people they pretend to care about Lake of Methane posted:Oh my god thank you for bringing that Twitter account to my attention. lol I was about to ask if that was a weasel because I somehow missed the cross and flag Milo and POTUS fucked around with this message at 11:30 on Jul 22, 2021 |
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mlmp08 posted:current event: Americans like getting child tax credit money that passed in the last covid stimulus plan back in March. Turns out $300/month per child is a big deal for middle class and lower income parents. Another big thing - if people don't have their information on file with the IRS for direct deposit, they'll get that extra $1000-$1600 as a lump sum at tax time next year, on top of the previous credit's $2K. There's quite a bit of concern that the $300/month isn't getting to the neediest folks that don't have their banking information on file, so at least there's an automatic component at worst.
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Cugel the Clever posted:I deleted my Blizzard account back when they triple-downed on being CCP running dogs with the bans of any league players expressing even the slightest solidarity with Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests. Haven't looked back. Same
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:ZF? Yeah.... that's gonna have enormous impacts. Welp that explains why this bearing factory suddenly went from running 7 days a week to 4
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On the heels of the Union Pacific announcing taking a t-break (a break from transporting cargo to Chicago), the ticker for UNP is up 2 and a quarter percent, currently +$4.98 for the day. Gotta love the bailout based economy. I can't believe I've wasted so much time working for a living when I could have just been owning shares in bloodthirsty, union busting monopolists that pay dividends
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FrozenVent posted:
Hitting a volleyball stings in normal temperatures*, I don’t want to imagine how much it hurts in freezing temperatures. *Probably not for them because they play semi professionally but still.
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US Berder Patrol posted:On the heels of the Union Pacific announcing taking a t-break (a break from transporting cargo to Chicago), the ticker for UNP is up 2 and a quarter percent, currently +$4.98 for the day. Gotta love the bailout based economy. I posted that link in the stock degenerate thread and the announcement turned out to have been from last week
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Oh if anyone is having internet/app issues right now Akamai services have poo poo the bed. Haven’t found anything NOT impacted yet
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crazyivan45 posted:Oh if anyone is having internet/app issues right now Akamai services have poo poo the bed. Haven’t found anything NOT impacted yet That might explain why the USAA app has been so funky.
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