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  • Seleni@lemmy.worldtoHumor@lemmy.worldRule-follower
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    3 days ago

    Soft firing without having to pay severance. That makes their quarterly numbers look better, which in turn makes stocks and thus their compensation package go up.

    Of course it will probably kill the company in the long run, but by then the board will have elected a fall guy to blame and they will all jump out with their golden parachutes, leaving the rest of you to burn.















  • No-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine they made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life is only the core of their actual existence.

    -Sir Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

    As long as you remember him, you carry a small spark of his existence with you. And with every story you tell, his ripples will continue to spread.



  • He promised to get rid of the brown people. And they were told to follow him. That’s it for a lot of them. Blindly following someone because their preacher says to is ingrained in a lot of evangelicals especially.

    But also a lot of them believe he was sent by God to kick-start the end times and trigger the Rapture. That’s why a lot of the politicians especially are behind him, and why Biden treated him with kid gloves. You’d be amazed how many statesmen in both the Republican and Democratic Party legit believe in all that ‘end times we go to Heaven and all the disgusting plebeians go to hell’ bullshit.