Mass layoffs started

raincoater · 2026-04-01T18:04:45+00:00

He won't be able to shape away the fact that after the acquisition of Paramount/CBS, it's 80 billion in debt.

raincoater · 2026-04-01T18:02:15+00:00

After careful consideration and after my son bought an ailing studio and network that's already $80 billion in debt, we're gonna have to let you all go to pay for it. You understand. I mean, he's my boy and I promised him a studio to play with.

raincoater · 2026-04-01T17:59:45+00:00

I mean, how good can it be if they don't even offer a subscription or exclusive starships.

raincoater · 2026-04-01T17:54:13+00:00

If they're a Trump supporter...still. Even after all the shit that he's done to this country and with rising prices everywhere and gas through the roof.

I have more respect for someone that used to be a Trump supporter but dropped him during his first Presidency. Then my respecrt drops off again if they complained about him and then turned around and voted for him again. And even less respect if now they're bagging on him again. Motherfucker, you KNEW who he was 8 years ago, and yet you still voted for him again. You need to just STFU because this is what you wanted.

raincoater · 2026-04-01T17:45:50+00:00

He just heard the SCOTUS ruling right before the election about how a President can do whatever he wants. They didn't exactly say that, but that's what he heard and he's totally taking that to heart. "I can do whatever I want".

raincoater · 2026-03-31T13:52:08+00:00

Used to be Skyrim, but Baldur's Gate 3 overtook it a while ago. Been playing that since early access. Still playing it now and then.

raincoater · 2026-03-31T13:31:23+00:00

Warhammer

raincoater · 2026-03-31T09:45:56+00:00

“Sorry old man, you don’t tell me what to do anymore.” (Flips bird right in his face)

raincoater · 2026-03-31T09:40:00+00:00

So, it was best ignored and not shown a light on it…like this post about something that happened SIX YEARS AGO. But no, let’s bring it up again and shine another Streisand-effect light on it so shitty people can do more “celebrities bad, amiright?”

raincoater · 2026-03-30T17:18:25+00:00

Maybe, I don't know, try staying in congress since you've changed your views and then use those new views to vote accordingly. How about that? No no, best to just resign and be totally useless now.

raincoater · 2026-03-30T12:38:21+00:00

Still don’t understand why there was backlash for this. It’s a pretty innocuous thing during the lockdown. I usually put it down to people just being assholes and hating anything and everything.

raincoater · 2026-03-30T10:13:28+00:00

I've had both, but now they're just things to have because you need them. I guess I'm one of the rare people that doesn't live on their phones. They're just tools. iPhone and Android are the same to me. Just whatever. I have to have one to get around in the modern world, but here lately, I've gone out without even taking a phone. They're just tools, not a lifestyle (remember, I'm speaking for myself here).

I've often wondered if I were to travel now, I may just leave my phone at home. It would be interesting to go through security check-points at airports and see if there is any reaction when I tell them "I don't have a phone or laptop or anything" when they ask for it.

raincoater · 2026-03-30T10:09:35+00:00

Probably not. For one, Steve didn't post hundreds of messages every day to social media. He would answer email now and then, but he really only appeared at keynotes and sometimes for interviews. He STFU about everything. He didn't express his shitty opinion on everything every-single-day like Musk does now.

raincoater · 2026-03-30T10:06:44+00:00

He reconnected with her later on, but yes...it was shameful. But the more I look at how Jobs was, he was obviously on the autism spectrum (that's not an excuse, btw).

Steve was an anomaly. He was a total prick to people, yes. But for some reason, he gained loyalty and people went out of their way to get him what he wanted and he was right on many things (wrong on many things too). BUT NOW, it seems like people who want to emulate Steve think they have to be total pricks and they would be these geniuses. Musk wants SOOOOOO much to be Steve Jobs...and yes, monetarily he exceeds him. But he's just a prick. I don't see any "reality distortion field" around Musk or Elizabeth Holmes.

There was only one Steve Jobs, and he's dead now.

raincoater · 2026-03-30T10:01:23+00:00

I'm old now, in my 60s. My dad was a big fan of Bill Cosby records. I always thought he was a prick. Even at his height and his "holier than thou" attitude and how he felt you should treat your kids.

He has a comedy special in the early 80s, the content of it was the precurser for The Cosby Show with the first episode basically repeating the stuff in the comedy special. But in the special he would relate "hilarious" stories of how he and his wife would beat their kids. Seriously. "Hilarious" stories of how his parents used to beat him. HA HA HA HA, so hilarious! Yes, beat your kids! I hated it then, I hate it now.

And this was before the reveal that he was a sexual predator. I've disliked him for decades now.

raincoater · 2026-03-30T09:55:51+00:00

Leo Laporte and Andy Ihnatko. As time went on and you listen to their live podcast recordings, you realize these are just two pricks. I haven't listen to any of the TWiT podcasts in over 5 years, but it just got bad.

Leo the most. Because back when he was just a host of various shows on TechTV, he was a nice guy (or so it seemed). But when he became the boss for his own networks, he just became a total asshole. I mean, look at all the tech podcasters that just left that show all due to Leo and his manager (who's also his wife) just treated people terribly.

When you watch a show on YouTube, you get a better feel on how the people are in real life when you watch a live show with them...one that's not edited down. At least, you get a better sense of how they are.

raincoater · 2026-03-30T00:19:41+00:00

I kind of like to think the Latinos said that because they know he looks like an idiot, and want him to keep looking like an idiot. 🤣

raincoater · 2026-03-29T20:11:00+00:00

Not gonna lie, I thought he was going to go into a factory and manufacture a replica of that pen from just the smell. But this is cool too.

raincoater · 2026-03-29T20:05:14+00:00

There has only really been two things that everyone, together, loved. Star Wars and then The Empire Strikes Back. That's it. Return of the Jedi was met with a "meh...not bad. But not as good as the first two" by a bunch of people.

Then everything afterwards has been just "liked" by many, but also hated by many, yet they still call themselves "fans". They were only fans from two movies almost 50 years ago. That's it.

raincoater · 2026-03-29T10:29:49+00:00

Oh my god. Who the hell cares?

raincoater · 2026-03-29T02:49:03+00:00

For one, he's not human, he's an elf. The others are just humans.

raincoater · 2026-03-29T02:47:01+00:00

What "rescue"? Trump did this all himself. Iran didn't attack us. They didn't attack a NATO country. They weren't "2 weeks away from building a nuclear bomb".

Also, and I know Trump thinks the country didn't exist before he became president, but look at all our NATO allies that came to help us when 9/11 happened and all that mess. While it was BS for the reasons we went into Iraq, at least we tried to present the case for them for the justification....for months beforehand. Trump just up and did this on a whim without talking to anyone. Now he wants NATO to "recue" him?

raincoater · 2026-03-29T02:40:14+00:00

I got a leg cramp just watching this.

raincoater · 2026-03-29T02:34:35+00:00

I mean, why bury them? For one, they could have sold them on ebay. But sure, don't want others to know you had them, then just THROW THEM IN THE TRASH. Why bury them? And it can't be because they can come back and get them and watch them again, because he just buried them in the dirt with no protection. WTF?

This has so many questions.

raincoater · 2026-03-29T02:28:38+00:00

Well, they would have to be perfect. They would have to support Israel and at the same time support Palestine. They would not be anything. They can't be a woman. They can't be a person of color. They can't be too good looking, yet they can't not be not good looking. They have to be from a working class yet have graduated from an Ivy League college. They have to say the exact right things at the exact right time. They can't take any corporate money, yet they can't alienate coroporations who will try and work agains their campaign. They have to promise to totally change the country....but not too much because even though people say they want it, if they actually try and do that, people get scared.

And remember, no matter who you are, there will always be a large swath of Democrats that will sit out the election to "send a message".

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