Zero farmers want to ban wind. They want to lease their land to power generation companies. They do it all the time, especially where they just graze cattle or sheep. They can do both at the same time.
Farmers own land to make money, not look at it.
KevonLooney
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Crystal Pepsi was good.
Yeah "just maintain the servers bro" isn't going to work. The bandwidth alone is insane. There's a reason why there are fewer and fewer Lemmy servers since June 2023, even as total users are growing.
Accounting doesn't cut costs or do anything except counting money accurately. Those decisions are made by the operations department.
It's the same as going to a bank and letting the teller look at your face. It's to prevent someone from stealing your identity using a picture of your ID.
How can they verify the ID is real without physically seeing it? They look up the info but still need to verify that you are the person on the ID.
The "rewarding" theory is probably true. That's why so many people were hired to begin with. Boards were like "if we don't hire, we'll fall behind!" So they over-hired. Now they're like "we can easily hire more later. Fire these losers."
So you basically trained a ton of people on your internal systems and let them go? And you think randos will be able to pick up the slack when you need them in 12 months?
These companies are so dumb. Aren't they growth companies? Don't they have moonshots to work on or any good ideas for the future these people can contribute to? It's like they became big and lost the ability to innovate.
People want shadowy conspiracies to exist because the world makes more sense that way. "The prison guards were lazy and careless" is simultaneously the most likely scenario and the one most rejected by "truthers".
Do these people think jails are hotels run like clockwork with constant vigilance and 4K video of every corner?
By the end of dueling, people weren't even shooting at each other. It's braver to be shot at and the point of dueling is to appear brave. They would fire into the air as if they were saying "I'm so brave I'm not going to shoot at you". It was dumb, so we stopped the charade.
No pension fund owns only commercial real estate. If anything, it's like 5% of their entire portfolio. Still, it's not necessarily a problem.
So in your simplified scenario, you have a pension paying retirees that owns 100% of a building. Say few businesses want to lease space in the building, and the value goes down.
They don't have to sell the building. They can just refurbish it and put the retirees in it. That's actually more tax efficient than paying the retirees who then pay their retirement home.
The value of commercial buildings doesn't go to zero. They're just cut in half (based on recent sales prices).
Just because the price of an asset goes down doesn't mean the economy crumbles. In fact, buyers / renters are now better off. I'm sure poor Grandmas are in that category.
Leadership is always to blame if there are problems. That's what being a leader is.
Here's an easy way to tell who to blame: if their recent projects were a success, who would get the accolades?
The executive leadership team, most likely. No one would say "they don't automatically get credit". So they should get the blame when things go poorly.
For those who haven't listened to it, this is not an exaggeration. He blamed diversity initiatives for being fired. It was actually just the company going down the tubes.
That actually sounds like a good Dilbert plotline for a throw away character, maybe named "Scott the vague racist".