[-] alzjim@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

The Notes app is where you can write notes like a journal it's not a dating app.

[-] alzjim@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

You are reaching so hard there with those excuses.

  • doesn’t travel enough: Poverty.
  • has no skincare routine: So? We don't need to buy into the beauty industry.
  • is an unsuccessful DJ: Failing at something is not a bad thing, we all fail at times.
  • is embarrassed to do karaoke: Could easily be neurrodiverse or just socially anxious.
  • if he’s saving himself for marriage: Religion is their choice, not every religious person is a conservative.
[-] alzjim@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

It's not? Those are examples listed in the article.

[-] alzjim@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

So very reasonable...

  • doesn’t travel enough
  • has no skincare routine
  • is an unsuccessful DJ
  • is embarrassed to do karaoke
  • if he’s saving himself for marriage.

Did we even read the same opening paragraph?

[-] alzjim@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

C’mon Americans, do a coup. Get rid of this administration for us.

[-] alzjim@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

They realised that the younger generation isn't reached on Fox and have started to take over the next media to stuff over a whole new generation.

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Electronic Arts, maker of video games like “Madden NFL,” “Battlefield,” and “The Sims,” is being acquired for $55 billion, the biggest leveraged buyout attempt in history.

Under the terms of the deal announced Monday, the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund PIF and Affinity Partners will pay EA’s stockholders $210 per share. Affinity Partners is a private equity firm run by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

Electronic Arts would be taken private.

The total value of the deal eclipses the $32 billion price paid to take Texas utility TXU private in 2007.

If the transaction closes as anticipated, it will end EA’s 36-year history as a publicly traded company that began with its shares ending its first day of trading at a split-adjusted 52 cents.

The IPO came seven years after EA was founded by former Apple employee William “Trip” Hawkins, who began playing analog versions of baseball and football made by “Strat-O-Matic” as a teenager during the 1960s.

EA has been run by its current CEO, Andrew Wilson, since 2013.

This marks the second high-profile deal involving Silver Lake and a technology company with a legion of loyal fans in recent weeks. Silver Lake is also part of a newly formed joint venture spearheaded by Oracle involved in a deal t o take over the U.S. oversight of TikTok’s social video platform, although all the details of that complex transaction haven’t been divulged yet.

Silver Lake has also previously bought out two other well-known technology companies, the now-defunct video calling service Skype in a $1.9 billion deal completed in 2009, and a $24.9 billion buyout of personal computer maker Dell in 2013. After Dell restructured its operations as a private company, it returned to the stock market with publicly traded shares in 2018.

By going private, EA will be able to reprogram its operations without being subjected to the investment pressures and scrutiny that sometimes compel publicly held companies to make short-sighted decisions aimed at meeting quarterly financial targets. Although its video games still have a fervent following, EA’s annual revenues have been stagnant during the past three fiscal years, hovering from $7.4 billion to $7.6 billion.

Meanwhile, one of its biggest rivals Activision Blizzard was snapped up by technology powerhouse Microsoft for nearly $69 billion in 2023, while the competition from mobile video game makers such as Epic Games has intensified.

After being taken private, formerly public companies often undergo extensive cost-cutting that includes layoffs, although there has been no indication that will be the case with EA. After jettisoning about 5% of its workforce in 2024, EA ended March with 14,500 employees and then laid off several hundred people in May.

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[-] alzjim@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

The point was that no one cares to hold the horrific shit accountable.

[-] alzjim@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Can I get everything I need from the bottom of a long glass tube?

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TikTok refugees have already noted harsh restrictions on RedNote that have resulted in their content being removed or their accounts being suspended, including for mentioning LGBTQ+ identities or for women, wearing a slightly low-cut top.

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Archaeologists have discovered a sumptuous private bathhouse - potentially the largest ever found there - complete with hot, warm and cold rooms, exquisite artwork, and a huge plunge pool.

[-] alzjim@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Where was Israel located in 150,00BCE?

Anyone trying to claim a connection to nearly 3,000 years back is utterly insane. You might as well go invade Africa as it was home at one point too, right?

[-] alzjim@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Why is it you lie? most Arabs do not live peacefully in Israel. They are arrested and assaulted frequently. Also history show's it's the Israeli feet in Palestine that result in tens of thousands of dead Palestinian men, women, and children.

[-] alzjim@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

My go-to example is the quilting ladies who spend 40 hours each on handmade quilts using expensive materials to give to the poor. It’s extremely kind and their work is exquisite, but with the money spent making those quilts for 20 people, we could buy blankets, a couple weeks of food, and new clothing for 50 full families.

Yeah but those ladies feel better about themselves, which is what religion is about not helping people.

[-] alzjim@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

Hallelujah!

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The primates broke loose from Alpha Genesis in Yemassee, Beaufort County in South Carolina.

The company confirmed 43 rhesus macaque primates escaped from an enclosure at one of the company's facilities.

The Yemassee Police Department said on Thursday that traps with bait were set up and thermal imaging cameras were being used in an effort to capture the monkeys.

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The plan, which has not been previously reported, represents a strategic pivot by the world's top selling automaker in the world's largest car market, underlining its ambition to claw back business lost to BYD (002594.SZ), opens new tab and other local players in recent years.

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