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Of note: she didn't try to sue the Twitter kid. Her legal team sent a cease and desist letter, which is basically the rich person equivalent of your neighbor knocking on your door and saying, "Please stop doing that."

This is what gets me about this. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Her use of a private jet can come after we get rid of the fascists and wanna-be tyrant. If you replaced the acorn here with a football, I'd assume it was a MAGA meme about her woke Super Bowl agenda.

Plus, it smacks of when people made fun of Britney Spears for years because of her public breakdowns, and then it turned out her dad was abusing/exploiting her and taking all the money she made because he got a judge to give him full legal custody of her life and finances.

What, you think he came outta the pussy drawing Mozart? At age 6, he was born without a mouth.

According to the article, Microsoft is laying off 1,900 people from its games division, roughly about 8% of the workforce in their game studios. Of those 1,900, at least 899 of them are confirmed to be from Activision-Blizzard's offices in California, potentially more.

That's a lot more like a full merger than the "vertical acquisition" that Microsoft claimed was going to be the case. Obviously, there was going to be some redundancy regardless of how much they were going to be left to self operate, but that's a lot of jobs cut, and we don't know what kinds of jobs are even being cut.

IMO, the merger was a lose-lose situation no matter which way you slice it, either Microsoft further reduces competition with the buyout, or Bobby is left in charge, but the FTC is upset because Microsoft said that Acitivision-Blizzard was basically going to be running as they had been before the buyout.

Every time I see somebody complaining about how (younger) people consume media today, I'm reminded of a video I saw of somebody talking about the so-called "ADHD Epidemic" and this one comic in it of a kid sitting at a desk in school and staring at a flashing billboard out the window while the teacher was yelling at him to pay attention. His response was, "To what?"

Gen X and Millenials are a product of that environment and it's gotten worse since the rise of social media. Gen Z and Alpha are growing up in a world of a million points of stimulus attempting to hog their dopamine receptors all at once. Is it any wonder that they can't focus on any one thing for more than 3 seconds?

All of our attention spans for generations now have been stolen by advertisers looking to make money off of it. The younger generations deserve our kindness for what's been done to them. Or else we're no better than those older than us were when we were young.

As far as I understand the circumstances, because Microsoft and Activision-Blizzard are both US companies, they ultimately fall under US regulation except for any of their offices/holdings in other countries, where they have to abide by the local laws. The reason the FTC is upset now is that Microsoft had said that Activision-Blizzard was largely going to be its own independent company under the Microsoft brand, so these layoffs go against those promises - especially with the wording about removing "overlap" between the companies, which points to them firing people at Activision-Blizzard who had the same job as people already working at Microsoft. The only reason that they'd do that is if they're not actually letting Activision-Blizzard run on their own and are going to be merging the company into Microsoft more than they had said they would.

I do remember something about the UK signing off on the merger, so I assume that there are some countries that did their own "due diligence" and approved the acquisition, but a majority of these layoffs are in California by the sounds of it, so all any of them could really do at this point is hold Microsoft liable if they don't follow local labor laws about severances and the like. I assume that they felt the same way as the FTC, in that the promise of Activision-Blizzard running on their own meant that there was little concern about monopolizing the industry.

I find this fascinating because that seems like the most difficult of the 3 to do for a normal search engine and sounds like an incredibly useful tool, but everybody and their mother seems to only care about whether it can do the other 2 or if you can trick it into spilling military secrets.

Fun fact, PFAS is in basically anything that's waterproofed, to the point where the guys testing for it can't park their cars within like 150 ft of where they're collecting to avoid compromising the samples. They also can't wear rain jackets or waterproof boots for the same reason, and even the plastic components of the pumps they normally use for collecting water samples from groundwater deposits can throw off the samples because, you guessed it, those have PFAS in them too.

PFAS is the leaded gas of our times.

Have you tried Simple Tab Groups? It adds a drop-down menu that allows you to create separate environments for different uses. This was one of those things that I also couldn't live without, and somebody turned me onto this extension. It's even Firefox recommended.

I saw a librarian say on a post that people should borrow from the library anyways, even if they don't think that they'll get to it before it's due, because it means that they can use the higher rates of usage to argue for more funding. Getting something for free and helping the local libraries at the same time? Sounds like a win-win to me.