HumbleFlamingo

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Pretty sure that was by design...

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Only illegal if the maternity leave was the reason, and it can be shown to be the reason. Over 200 people were also laid off at the same time. I have no doubt bungie added them because of the maternity leave, but it's gonna be really hard to show in a court of law.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Bungie’s layoffs have been devastating. 220 jobs were eliminated yesterday, while other jobs had been shifted over to PlayStation Studios.

Sadly it's all but impossible to show their layoff was because of maternity leave and not just because they were 'part of the layoff'...

Hope there's a paper trail adding them to the list of layoffs because of the maternity leave, but I doubt they'd be stupid enough to put it down on paper.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The bigger question is can we get the new candidate on the ballot in all 50 states.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

JFC, I hope there’s a real investigation and the people responsible get fired and prosecuted.

Someone, claiming to be a ‘retired cop’, came to the authorities claiming that some jackass mixed real bullets in with the blanks in the hope of causing an issue on set. The ‘retired cop’ brought some of those bullets and offered to testify under oath. The bullets were not added to evidence in the rust investigation, rather they were filed under a different ID so it was never turned over to the defense. I quote ‘retired cop’ because when this came up at trial, no one was even able to verify if they were actually a retired cop at trial. It appears that they either didn’t bother to validate it, or knew he was a retired cop and it was pretty damming that they suppressed the evidence. (there’s a bunch of other things here too, like the prosecutor knowing about these bullets but used a cell phone picture of them to ‘compare’ them to the bullets recovered on set and magically knowing they were totally different and not worth perusing but not filing charges against the ‘retired cop’ for interfering in the investigation)

The prosecution was either grossly negligent and ‘accidentally’ withheld evidence that could have been exculpatory. Or more likely deliberately suppressed it. Why deliberately? Apparently multiple witnesses the prosecutors interviewed told the defense that the lead procedure said some pretty vile things about Baldwin during the interviews. The lead prosecutor, under oath, was asked if she said these horrible things, and instead of denying it, said she something to the effect of ‘I don’t recall’. If you can’t recall if you called Baldwin a cock sucker during an interview, you shouldn’t be a prosecutor.

This was an absolutely bonkers prosecution and trial. It’s like if your mechanic overfills your tires to 90 PSI and you have a blow out and kill someone, and being prosecuted because you should have personally validated the tires were safe to drive on.

If anyone wants to see some vids:

Defense listing all of the issues: https://youtu.be/KbSSa9_HPl8

Lead prosecutor, testifying under oath for some reason, trying to cover her butt... This is not normal: https://youtu.be/WpDDsOBDwy0

The entire channel has a bunch of great clips from the trail, no commentary, just what happened.

This was BONKERS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, racists can't spell so steam has to censor both of them. :-/

[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What a shit article. There's a massive amount of context missing.

7DTD is a game created by The Fun Pimps. Telltale Games bought the rights to produce a console port of the game from TFP. Telltale Games then contracted with Iron Galaxy to produce the port. Telltale Games went bankrupt and it's assets were liquidated, one of those assets was the rights to produce the console port. TFP managed to buy back the rights to the console port, but were unable to get any of the source code for the console port. It took years to get the rights sorted out, and it wasn't cheap.

It's a messed up situation, but console players bought a Playstation 4/XBox One game from Telltale Games, a company that went bankrupt and is defunct, and that sucks. TFP is now starting from scratch to produce a console port for the current generation of consoles and that costs money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

While true, we do have way more going on that password resets. We've got DBAs, software devs, Devops.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Have you ever considered working in Higher Ed? We've got tech jobs. The pay could be better but the working conditions and benefits are generally good. Layoffs are rare, and layoffs in IT are basically unheard of.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I basically can't leave my house at this point. One old lady can break me for weeks if they get too close. Don't get me started about fall time and all the stores dump pumpkin spice in the entry way to the store.

Perfumes are a fucking blight. I wish people were more aware of how much they impact some people's lives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

If anyone has ideas, please let me know.

  1. Keep voting against fascism, and eventually, if we are able to hold that line, the old guard will die off and we can get some real change. Ex: Dianne Feinstein, she's gone now and we're going to get Adam Schiff who's better, or hopefully Katie Porter who's even better than Schiff.

  2. Do what you can to people on board with better voting systems like ranked choice voting, approval voting, anything that gets us away from first past the post bullshit. Use it for game night, use it in the office, etc. Get it into the mainstream public conscious. Until enough people start asking why we don't use it for elections.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

...want to accomplish things that improve the lives of people other than shareholders...

Have you looked into jobs in higher education?

The pay could be better, but it's not horrible. The benefits and working conditions are generally good. In my many years, I've never said 'wow, that's unethical'. Worst I've had is having to explain how certain policies, which sound good on the surface, are not equitable to all students in all social-economical situations and need to be revised.

Marketing, Communication, and Outreach are totally jobs in higher ed, and you're not trying to trick someone into buying crap: https://www.higheredjobs.com/admin/search.cfm?JobCat=37&StartRow=-1&SortBy=4&NumJobs=25&filterby=&CatType=

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