So are they atrocities or not? Because you seem awfully chill about the whole thing, like they're mild inconveniences that aren't actively ruining millions of lives

Inappropriate peaing

Does it matter that most people are good if most people in power aren't, and they have an army of similar-minded people following their orders?

Congrats, you played yourself.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/irregardless

The simple answer is that the gospel wasn't working as well as it had been, so they had to change it up to continue attracting people. Cults are basically popularity contests, and you can't win if you're scaring everyone away.

This was actually my first thought when I saw the original headline 😂🤣 I watched the Weird Al mockumentary just last week (weird af, but I liked it overall? Kinda jumped a shark or three towards the end)

I'll go ahead and be the bad taste in everyone's mouth:

Good fucking riddance. Blackstone is an explicitly evil company, and everyone working for them should be ashamed. It is not possible to be an executive at Blackstone and also be a good person, they are diametrically opposed ideals.

If I believed the US justice system gave a single fuck about the evils that the rich committed, I would be more aghast by this... but I don't, and I'm not.

If the contents of my friends' group chat got leaked... people would just think we're fucking idiots, not terrible people.

Good work, Derek. Be better, losers in that chat.

This will have very little effect on SF in the long-term 😂🤣 All of their staff that was here are going to stay here - they're not going to follow fucking X to whatever ass-backwards state Musk chooses

So, to recap:

• we have a huge office that will eventually bring in another major company,
• the area keeps all of its best talent, and
• we get rid of the grifter that regularly refuses to pay their rent/lease, taxes, and insurance bills?

Hell yeah, of course this is a win.

Remember, girls: any male friend you know that votes for Trump probably sees you as a piece of meat and wants to own you like property.

It’s interesting to see Torvalds emerge as a kind of based tech hero.

It's just that almost everyone else that could do it ended up being fucking ghouls of people.

Torvalds can be... brusque, sure. But he doesn't support child labor, he doesn't cheat on his wife, and he isn't some crazy cult leader waging a war against workers' rights.

Sony really managed to erase one of their best-selling games in less than 3 days, for literally no potential gain at all. All risk, no reward: what a fuckin' business strategy