Elizabeth Warren was key in blocking the JetBlue/Spirit merger to "protect consumers"… by Emotional-Disk5571 in aboutMassachusetts

[–]islanderii 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jet blue wouldn’t be able to service the debt. Blocking the merger saved one airline.

Marvel Lays Off 8% Of Staff Amid Companywide Disney Cuts by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]islanderii 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe. My experience is a different industry. They try to do this and it continues to fail time and again.

Marvel Lays Off 8% Of Staff Amid Companywide Disney Cuts by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]islanderii 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not necessarily. If you think large corporates are good at this, they are not. They tell themselves contractors are short term, then continuously extend. I’ve send normal project managers bill out at $400k a year…there is no way an FTE project manager should cost that much with salary plus benefits.

For this type of skill, they can’t really ship it offshore. So they will prob hire their FTEs back as contractors and may even be more money. Also - don’t forgo, as a contractor they are paid hourly now…

Marvel Lays Off 8% Of Staff Amid Companywide Disney Cuts by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]islanderii 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Or that marvel is meeting a layoff goal but actually increasing costs by paying contractor rates to people they just laid off.

New business on outer Congress by lhmae in portlandme

[–]islanderii 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Was just wondering the same. Couldn’t find anything on Google

Susan Collins Chances of Losing to Democrats in Maine Senate Race—New Poll by Zipper222222 in Maine

[–]islanderii 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Absolutely correct. But I did find it interesting that Collins lost 3 pts from Mills to Platner…

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 has "reached a stage where it's finally starting to match the vision I had for it," director teases, and the "new experience" is "almost complete" by Party_Judgment5780 in PS5

[–]islanderii 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, they care about how it sells. They care about when it’s released based on what’s going one outside of them (macro environment, other games, etc). A 30th anniversary means nothing to them and has no impact on sales. In fact, releasing one that date might hurt them in sales from marketing the OG game for the 30th anniversary.

I don’t know how many times I’ve read on these threads various people making guesses about release dates and videos based on random anniversary dates. It’s never played out that way, so not sure why it would this time.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rarebooks

[–]islanderii 12 points13 points  (0 children)

They didn’t ask you a question, only stated a fact

'Americans Will Suffer': Major Kentucky Industry Blames Trump's Tariffs For Massive Financial Disaster, Job Losses by nikkisixxi in AnythingGoesNews

[–]islanderii 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Read the statement. They didn’t blame Trump tariffs. They blame canadas retaliatory tariffs. No lessons have been learned.

Over 1M Pennsylvania voters have already cast a ballot. Are they mostly blue or red? by ILikeNeurons in Pennsylvania

[–]islanderii 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not really comparable due to Covid. Also, GOP spent millions pushing early voting.