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Thaddius the Large posted:I’ve had a pair of Chacos for over 20 years now, they’ve carried me across 4 continents and are goddamn amazing, best footwear purchase ever. Yes I’m a grungy outdoorsy white dude from the PacNW, how’d you guess? They really are the best. I’m year 5 of my current pair after I wore through a strap on my college pair. They make great flip flops too, which I think I’m on pair 3 in the past 20 years.
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Jun 13, 2023 20:14
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gently caress. https://twitter.com/PublishersWkly/status/1668699857706532865
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Jun 13, 2023 20:26
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Private equity group killed Instapot, taking it into bankruptcy. https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/1668631268073050115
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Jun 13, 2023 20:28
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Ahhh poo poo Rip to a real one. Will never forget when my highschool friend group of edgy theater kids decided to read the road one weekend and report back on Monday for an impromptu book club and none of us really knew what to say.
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Jun 13, 2023 20:33
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:Private equity group killed Instapot, taking it into bankruptcy.
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:Private equity group killed Instapot, taking it into bankruptcy. i still don't understand how it's legal for PE to do this. leveraged buyouts have never made sense and bankrupting a company to pay themselves also doesn't.
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Jun 13, 2023 20:38
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It's never enough that companies can continue to make the same, decent product at a sustainable rate while making marginal improvements over time. An instant pot company and a food storage company bankrupted by vultures.
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FizFashizzle posted:Ahhh poo poo The Road was an Oprah Book Club pick. Think about how many wine moms must have read it. I had no idea McCarthy was that old, I didn't think he was young or anything, but I figured he was my parent's age or a little older.
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Jun 13, 2023 20:40
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Neil Armbong posted:i still don't understand how it's legal for PE to do this. leveraged buyouts have never made sense and bankrupting a company to pay themselves also doesn't. Does it matter if it's legal or not when the only possible repercussion is just a fine?
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We’ve literally decided as a society that corporations have no responsibility other than funneling money to shareholders.
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seiferguy posted:It's never enough that companies can continue to make the same, decent product at a sustainable rate while making marginal improvements over time. An instant pot company and a food storage company bankrupted by vultures. This is what I’m so down about these days. Can’t just be a company that makes a steady profit, everything has to be bigger and more bloated so number go up. Watching Reddit and the Athletic and now this get blown up because a few rich assholes want more money is depressing. dirty shrimp money posted:Does it matter if it's legal or not when the only possible repercussion is just a fine? At times like this I reflect on how China put to death two guys and sentenced three others to life in prison for selling contaminated formula. You don’t gotta hand it to them, but…
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Jun 13, 2023 20:59
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LeeMajors posted:We’ve literally decided as a society that corporations have no responsibility other than funneling money to shareholders. I was listening to the Behind the Bastards on Jack Welch and how he is to blame for all this corporate non-sense. Perhaps the funniest/saddest part was that before him, in the 50s and 60s and even into a good chunk of the 70s, GE had in its mission statements that the customer always comes first. Second was the workers, third was management and the shareholders would be the fourth ones compensated. Adjusted for inflation, a GE factory worker today would be making close to 120k (not straight salary, but salary plus benefits). As usual, it was Reagan's fault and now we have this nonsense where its better to bankrupt a company and cut thousands of jobs than it is to make a stable company with modest, but continuous growth.
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swickles posted:I was listening to the Behind the Bastards on Jack Welch and how he is to blame for all this corporate non-sense. Perhaps the funniest/saddest part was that before him, in the 50s and 60s and even into a good chunk of the 70s, GE had in its mission statements that the customer always comes first. Second was the workers, third was management and the shareholders would be the fourth ones compensated. Adjusted for inflation, a GE factory worker today would be making close to 120k (not straight salary, but salary plus benefits). As usual, it was Reagan's fault and now we have this nonsense where its better to bankrupt a company and cut thousands of jobs than it is to make a stable company with modest, but continuous growth. I had no idea that he was the guy that was responsible for stack rankings, but once I found that out I knew that I would hate his guts regardless of anything else. I'm sure there are professions where that might be beneficial (sales), but it seems so unnecessarily cruel and creates an adversarial work environment.
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This is the same thing that killed Toys 'R Us, isn't it?
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swickles posted:I was listening to the Behind the Bastards on Jack Welch and how he is to blame for all this corporate non-sense. Perhaps the funniest/saddest part was that before him, in the 50s and 60s and even into a good chunk of the 70s, GE had in its mission statements that the customer always comes first. Second was the workers, third was management and the shareholders would be the fourth ones compensated. Adjusted for inflation, a GE factory worker today would be making close to 120k (not straight salary, but salary plus benefits). As usual, it was Reagan's fault and now we have this nonsense where its better to bankrupt a company and cut thousands of jobs than it is to make a stable company with modest, but continuous growth. Yeah I listened to this too. Great series. Like obviously there have never been really ethical corporations, but there were occasionally corps that felt responsible for their workforce and tried to do a good job. Everything now is a loving smash and grab job, stealing everything that isn’t nailed down.
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drat, and I'm right in the middle of reading one of his books for the first time. Is this my fault? 
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Air Skwirl posted:This is the same thing that killed Toys 'R Us, isn't it? yep, acquired by PE who saddled them with the loans they took on to buy them and then also charged 'management fees' that drained their cash to essentially pay themselves. it's a heads they win, tails you lose situation where they get a poo poo load of cash for no risk.
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Jun 13, 2023 21:41
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  for a Jack & Coke Zero and another to shitpost said pic to this thread. I love modern technology.
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seiferguy posted:It's never enough that companies can continue to make the same, decent product at a sustainable rate while making marginal improvements over time. An instant pot company and a food storage company bankrupted by vultures. the pursuit of "endless growth" is killing everything, yes
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Jun 13, 2023 22:05
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Is now the time for me to finally get an instant pot?
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I just don't get how these companies keep getting loans. Surely these banks know they aren't going to get that money back and will have to eat a loss on their books.
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:Reddit has never actually recorded a profit. Because any money they made was immediately plowed into expansion, yes. It’s enshittification and it’s solely to make the ghouls at the top money.
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C-Euro posted:Is now the time for me to finally get an instant pot? it's never a wrong time to get an instant pot also much like hostess, the product/brand is too valuable to just disappear, so regardless of bankruptcy it's very likely that some company will emerge on the other side and keep selling them.
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Air Skwirl posted:This is the same thing that killed Toys 'R Us, isn't it? Neil Armbong posted:yep, acquired by PE who saddled them with the loans they took on to buy them and then also charged 'management fees' that drained their cash to essentially pay themselves. it's a heads they win, tails you lose situation where they get a poo poo load of cash for no risk. Toys R Us was also horribly managed at literally every level and had a loving horrible culture that drove away employees and customers by its last 6-10 years.
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Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:I just don't get how these companies keep getting loans. Surely these banks know they aren't going to get that money back and will have to eat a loss on their books. I had the same thought. Why would a bank ever loan a VC money?
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fartknocker posted:Toys R Us was also horribly managed at literally every level and had a loving horrible culture that drove away employees and customers by its last 6-10 years. Yeah, but Toys R Us was bought by Bain Capital 12 years before it closed. (2004 vs 2018) It's entirely the vultures fault.
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Bird in a Blender posted:I had the same thought. Why would a bank ever loan a VC money? They went to Stanford! They had a televised Ted Talk!
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Leperflesh posted:it's never a wrong time to get an instant pot Yeah, but like Pyrex and other brands they consolidated, they'll gut the quality to live off the name. See the heat shattering stories that cropped up like 5 years ago because they switched to cheaper glass. Bird in a Blender posted:I had the same thought. Why would a bank ever loan a VC money? My understanding of it is the banks do this through senior loans. What that is is a first claim in the event of a bankruptcy, so they get paid off first before any creditors or stockholders. So their exposure is very low. They're also then turning around and selling that loan to investors because hellworld.
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Tommy Tuberville hosed over his colleagues a bit today by loving off to Trump's little party instead of sticking around to block a vote. Which man, that's just funny.
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Kalli posted:Tommy Tuberville hosed over his colleagues a bit today by loving off to Trump's little party instead of sticking around to block a vote. Did he say he had to go to the bathroom then slip out the back door?
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LeeMajors posted:https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1668730678727577601?s=20 Trump defunding the police when Biden rode that platform to office is some 5D chess poo poo.
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I thought living in a dying empire would have more like radioactive mutants or something. This is lame as hell. Just collapsing bridges and a government focus-grouped and bribed into paralysis. https://twitter.com/davidshepardson/status/1668644897060954115?s=20
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LeeMajors posted:I thought living in a dying empire would have more like radioactive mutants or something. This is lame as hell. Just collapsing bridges and a government focus-grouped and bribed into paralysis. "In half a mile, jump the highway like in Speed." assuming you have Speed trap notifications on
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LeeMajors posted:I thought living in a dying empire would have more like radioactive mutants or something. This is lame as hell. Just collapsing bridges and a government focus-grouped and bribed into paralysis. God, Mayor Pete loving sucks. There was a Wired interview that was just fawning over how “smart” he is, and this is the best he can come up with.
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