xynix_ie

xynix_ie t1_jdwvj5d wrote

>The left should choose it's heroes more wisely.

Whatever world you're brain is living in isn't this one. Liberals are not fans of him at all.

The people who wore those shirts, mostly frat boy types, have no idea about politics. If they did, they wouldn't wear that shirt. If you ever see someone wearing it just ask if they even know who that dude is and chances are they won't. Once they get to that class in college they tend to stop wearing the shirt.

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xynix_ie t1_ja9chih wrote

What you learned is that sex for the sake of sex doesn't fill emotional voids. The fact that you paid for it directly means nothing in this context. Paying for it through "chore play" is still paying for it if your intent is to have sex with a girl your dating or even your wife.

Sex with strangers fills a physical void for many that don't need an emotional hole filled up.

So move that out of the way..

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xynix_ie t1_j4rrga0 wrote

They broke past 150k employees in 2020, now they're at 221k according to the article.

I've spend 20+ years working for giant tech. This is normal even in boom years. I swear every time we would cull the fat we would see a headline like this. It's why we moved cull month to March but then it would be "do layoffs indicate a bad quarter for XXXX?!?!"

No. We just had too many underperformers and we needed to cull and often times that reached 5% which we would fill back up through the year until the next culling.

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xynix_ie t1_j4ro4k6 wrote

Pat isn't just pandering for subsidies, this is a national security threat and has been. We've let capitalism run wild at the risk of our own defense. We've given entire manufacturing processes away to a communist dictatorship all for a few points of margin. Those processes happen to be the things that will drive our world in the next couple decades.

Governments MUST pony up dollars to continue having an edge. All companies in China are owned by the government and they don't have any pesky margin to worry about. The only way to be on equal footing is to have this treated as a defense project, which it is.

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xynix_ie t1_j2yndq4 wrote

The only companies interested in doing business in China are greedy companies that don't mind when China allows it's technology to be ripped off and copied. Many of these companies STILL think that somehow China's 80 billion people are somehow going to magically purchase their gear.

No. They're not. They're going to purchase the stolen gear for much less and despite every company like Apple getting their teeth kicked in every single year they line up for a fresh kicking to the face every single year.

Smart companies have already left, having had too many teeth gone missing the past decade.

So we're not tied to China. In fact if the borders closed this very second the only thing that would happen is Americans would have to figure out how to manufacture a fucking bag of screws again. For that we have 3D printers - time to end this relationship entirely.

Bunch of thieves and their government is ran by a dictator professing to be a damned emperor of all things. Ridiculous. Good riddance.

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