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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Yet another thinly veiled stealth lay-off by a technology company. Amazon’s cloud boss Matt "The Prat" Garman will indeed see some departures, as intended and desired. However, that first wave will be of their most talented, who feel confident they will land on their feet elsewhere, leaving those that simply cannot leave (yet) or those that will cozily under perform. When Amazon applies the inevitable followup reductions (subjectively based on their internal review process) to remove the latter, and the former buckle under the load or also leave, Amazon will be left with lower-middle talent at best.

The more I see of business "strategy" among this layer of "leadership", the more I'm convinced it is just a game of Jenga with talent, resources, infrastructure, security, quality, etc; pulling out as many pieces as possible in the drive for short term/sighted gains until a company collapses under its own dysfunctional "efficiency" and "success".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Remove the word "luxury" from marketing material, and cut the price in half. The world needs more electric Model Ts, not environmental-esque virtue signalling for a minority of drivers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Court "ordered" end to a strike generally means that any contractual, union or legal protections workers have are forfeited if the strike continues (i.e. folks can be fired, benefits lost, even sued in some cases). This is not uncommon in regimes where the judicial system has been compromised (USA, Israel, etc). That being said... be a real shame if productivity of non-striking workers were to mysteriously plummet to effectively non-existent levels. ;-)

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Finish the book, George.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

OP's original post/questions, in case you're curious...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

In unrelated news, Georgia Court of Appeals sporting all new luxury RVs.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Not without buying a lot of folks RVs, at least. #SCROTUS

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago

She obviously didn't realize that a Las Vegas 6, is a prison 9.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 10 months ago

"American Automakers Refuse to Participate in Race to Make Accessible, Fuel-Efficient Vehicles"

Fixed that title for you, Verge.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why the closed doors? To quote their own rhetoric, if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear. Oh right, he's probably bringing receipts from their boss, Putin.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

From a group of people that thinks transparency is having a set list of prices for their rulings.

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

If they left for that reason, they weren't visiting you, they were visiting your internet connection. :-(

 

I unironically re-read Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH the other day for the first and only time since I was a young child. While the movie holds a larger mind-share in my head, unsurprisingly, the book has more nuance and depth. Honestly, it would make a good pre-history for a Mouse Guard like world after the collapse of human civilization (pick your apocalypse).

 

Is there anything like /r/listentothis on lemmy.world or elsewhere in the federated lemmy-verse? I need to be exposed to music that I'd normally not find otherwise. :-)

 

I have roughly a twenty players in our extended group to pull from, and any time 4-6 are available, I'd like to run a single-session adventure in my campaign. We use Discord for general communicating between sessions, but juggling all the available/not-available messages is tedious (especially when they are subject to change), and Google Calendar isn't cutting it.

Anyone know of a good tool, with low overhead to let each player mark available dates and times a few weeks in advance, so we can lock in our sessions? Ideally:

  • WordPress plugin or Discord bot (our campaign tools are in a self-hosted site). Not a deal breaker though.
  • Very easy to use. While I am, not all our players are technological adept or used to scheduling/meeting tech.
  • Allows dates and times
  • Allows each player to change their availability
  • Allows each player to add a few notes/comments
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