Typically there's an entourage that includes the people who actually run things and/or communicate the decisions made by the oligarch. They will own the company but rarely make direct decisions for the company. They may make business decisions in the beginning of the company history but by a certain size they are detached from most operations and hand down proactive choices about what the company should be doing with its resources.
The primary vehicle for their money is the control of the company they own, the actual stocks that they borrow against for spending money.
Since they have access to any amount of money they want, there is no need to do any actual work. Any interaction with the company is just personal preference and the owner is more useful as a mouthpiece and investment magnet for the company. With few obligations each week, days start to not matter and sleep schedules are fucked. Sobriety becomes a burden since there is nothing to live for - it has all been accomplished. The only thing left to do is get drunk/high and spend money.
Owning a successful company, even a successful local business, is usually enough to detach a person from the average experience of daily work and set schedules. Millionaire business owners are just as warped as a billionaire so it becomes a question of where the shit happened. Billionaires go overseas to do fucked shit.
Anecdotally, most millionaires don't work. Some have hobbies that make a few thousand here and there but they don't worry about schedules. They are on rich time.
Edit: the ones who are in business leadership and making millions each pay period are literally sociopaths. They run shit to exercise power. They don't actually need to be there either except for some decision making meetings and coordinating with other organizations.
Why wouldn't he wait then? If he's waited 12 years so far, why not wait the extra year or two to avoid any charges? He's instead agreed to plead guilty. Sounds instead like he realized he would never win the stalemate and was tired of house arrest.
The company says in the documents that the front windshield wiper motor controller can stop working because it’s getting too much electrical current. A wiper that fails can cut visibility, increasing the risk of a crash. The Austin, Texas, company says it knows of no crashes or injuries caused by the problem....
The truck was first shown in 2016, nearly 8 years ago, and only came out last year so there was about half a decade of hype building around this thing that was busy sucking in all the gullible rich people.
That the obvious part. At this point Netflix is looking at drastic transmission costs in the coming decade. Video is obviously taxing and require huge amounts of data but Atmos is no slouch either.The gamble, is in how customers receive the news and how it impacts playback.
Audio sync issues, subtitle playback, artifacting on anything over 1080p will all cause customers dissatisfaction. Using a new way to save data is a great idea, almost literally a no brainer, but does a technical solution always work out of the gate?
A side effect of so many streaming channels is that they are all feeling the pressure to keep up with the catalog depth of Netflix and Disney/Hulu. This results in lots of mediocre content being produced to create the illusion of lots of stuff to watch. But no one wants to watch it or hasn't heard of it to build mind hype for it. All that content is wasted money to prop up a failing service that is bleeding every contender dry. There will be more like Paramount. Consolidation is coming.
My cat did this too and after a good minute of sneezing that progressively got slower, the final big sneeze ejected a snot blob the size of a ping pong ball. I think the video cut just before the snot cannon is fired.
Heyo, national economies need to run at a deficit. The amount of debt needs to be maintained but running a negative is a good thing because the interest payments become stable capital injection. These regular, anticipated payments build the confidence of very conservative money managers to spend their own money. It's trickle down but in a way that helps increase the likelihood of money being spent, which is basically the GDP. And the speed of people spending money in the system is a metric that central banks use to set interest rates.
It's all connected and that's why running a deficit, a (relatively) small one, is a good thing. Nations don't use checkbook accounting.
Some Firefox users noticed playback issues on YouTube for several months. These affected high resolution videos only, from 1080p and up. To make matters worse, no clear pattern could be identified....
F-16s will also use the same hard point connections as the munitions Ukraine is receiving from the west. Most weapons like Storm Shadow have to have an adaptor or temp setup to use them on Soviet aircraft.
The gains for ground work will be huge. Also, parts are much easier to receive than make, which will reduce downtime for each plane. Another benefit is to use modern western radar and ECM instead of whatever was native to Russian systems. It's a lot of small gains that add up to a very real change in the air war over Ukraine. Whether the Vipers can reduce Russia air superiority or not will remain to be seen, but anything is better than what's happening right now.
He gets away with it, which is why he's doing it. Once other countries close their borders to Russia, the blood fued to retake Crimea will become very real to Russians.
No, the system that maintains these unsustainable standards isn't the problem. It's the people who don't fit into the mold. We need to change people to preserve the system!
Korean food usually looks amazing and constantly smells delicious but eating it isn't as satisfying. I've had the elote and potato corndogs. Potato was super awkward to eat since it's the width of an upper arm but as short as a hand. Felt like I was trying to pelican a corn cob.
Elote was tasty but just the batter. The dog itself was bland and the batter had pulled away from the dog and fried for too long to get that gold color. The inside was super heated hot dog water and salt.
And the sticks they use are like closet rods. The result is a poorly built fantasy that looks good enough to buy and try but it's not good enough to be a repeat customer.
I dunno. Math asks me to just accept it's normal to have 60 watermelons and is trying move bulk orders of melons on a regular car. The goal is to figure out the problem and not accept that the person who is a wholesale watermelon dealer in denial is commiting tax evasion.
Or to discover that the melon seller has a regular job in ag and gets a bunch of melons on the side from the field and sells the harvest at cost to make up the part of their paycheck that was paid in perishable food.
Should we shame the seller for breaking the law or sympathize for being forced into that situation? People don't have the energy to care; they just came for a maths question.
The idea is neat but the infrastructure needed is the real revolution waiting to happen. They make bricks that stay industrial levels of hot for long periods of time.
How do the bricks get heated? Does that scale easily?
Do heated bricks get transported or heated onsite?
Can existing industrial hardware like kilns, forges, and steam generators use these bricks with little retrofitting?
This is a tech to watch but don't anticipate an overnight (or even during the decade) switch to hot bricks.
The big companies, known as consolidators, have bought hundreds of clinics from 2012 onwards, according to records and reports, across the country, because pets and vets are big money....
My friend was desperate for work and found a job with a veterinarian. The job was a vet tech but the work was euthanizing dogs and puppies for the county. He quit after a few months and has never been the same.
Now imagine it's a big, faceless Corp that wants the government contracts for humane services. A worker will be forced to agree with how the company does business while the corporate bean counters look for ways to save money on euthanasia. Gas chambers will be manned by broken wage slaves who are only employed because they are detached from their emotions.
Most households have a TV with TV speakers, only capable of L/R. Why pay money and have people sit through a corporate short film for a feature most won't use?
Russia has launched an offensive into the Kharkiv region, and it has created a lot of alarmist news reports. In reality it is difficult to see what Russia's plan is, and it is not self-evident that it is a smart use of resources. In this video I discuss whether we might be seeing a return to the fragmented command structures...
The tactical wins are probably not intended to be built on for additional gains. The real point was having video footage of Russia ground wins to recycle for another year. It's propaganda harvesting.
Almost a week after some of his officers violently cleared out a peaceful Palestine solidarity protest on the University of Alberta campus, Edmonton Police Chief Dale McPhee finally showed up Thursday to make his case at a police commission meeting....
the type of earwax you have comes down in part to your skin type, Dr. Shapiro explains. People with oilier skin may have wet earwax, while those with drier skin tend to have dry earwax, she says....
More like "Microsoft is fucking up. Quick, do something that is shitty but isn't as bad as closing studios. Account registration requirements? Perfect! Fuck those poors in unsupported countries."
Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials about possibly deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine....
Russia has lost half a dozen ships to a nation with no navy. And they want to throw down with one as experienced as the UK? "Attacking the home of Storm Shadow missiles is a good thing" is the thought of an idiot.
I would usually be sad to see another original RPG go 5e compatible but Neuroshima was infamously poorly designed ruleset, possibly worse than Shadowrun. I probably won't be running it, but may steal statblocks for my 5e game if I need weird stuff again.
As a kid I imagined the future as being able to hold a TV in your pocket, and flying skateboards. For the latter I guess electric scooters will have to do
SYAC: "Potting, which uses a hardening resin poured between cells to isolate them from each other and the environment, can mitigate the two biggest factors resulting in fires: corrosion and physical damage."
Someone wants to enthusiastically join in, expanding on your post by adding context to an ad from 1954 and you take the piss? Instead you end up being a jerk.
Do billionaires work monday to friday like all 9-5s?
Abbotsford student's speech about accessibility challenges at her school censored by administrators ( bc.ctvnews.ca )
Redbox's owner files for bankruptcy after repeatedly missing payments and payroll: The company hasn’t paid employees in over a week and owes money to almost everyone in Hollywood ($970M in debt) ( www.theverge.com )
Assange plea came after warning that U.S. would lose extradition fight ( www.washingtonpost.com )
Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks ( apnews.com )
The company says in the documents that the front windshield wiper motor controller can stop working because it’s getting too much electrical current. A wiper that fails can cut visibility, increasing the risk of a crash. The Austin, Texas, company says it knows of no crashes or injuries caused by the problem....
Medieval owl scale ( lemmy.world )
Inside Netflix’s bet on advanced video encoding ( www.theverge.com )
What Went Wrong: Inside Paramount’s Failed Merger Talks and the Battle to Salvage the Company ( variety.com )
The Paramount Skydance merger talks have been halted by the Paramount side.
Teenagers still doing cinnamon challenge ( i.imgur.com )
This shit is getting ridiculous
Google disrupted YouTube video playback on Firefox, again - gHacks Tech News ( www.ghacks.net )
Some Firefox users noticed playback issues on YouTube for several months. These affected high resolution videos only, from 1080p and up. To make matters worse, no clear pattern could be identified....
Ukraine’s new fighters: ‘They say F-16s are manna from heaven. Far from it’ ( www.aljazeera.com )
Kyiv’s forces are due to receive the aircraft within weeks, but analysts say they are unlikely to be a game-changer.
It's not just convicts. Russia is forcing its African migrants and students to fight for them in Ukraine. ( www.businessinsider.com )
Russia is replenishing its troops with an unlikely source — African migrants and students....
It'll end up as "Vote stupid parties, win stupid prices" ( lemmy.world )
South Korea thinktank suggests girls start school earlier to raise birthrate ( www.theguardian.com )
Critics label as ‘absurd’ idea from government-backed thinktank as country seeks to address population decline...
Korean corn dogs (potato and spicy) and an elote ( infosec.pub )
stone age meme ( lemmy.world )
How moving freight by rail rather than road could help Australia reduce carbon emissions - ABC News ( www.abc.net.au )
Why People Don’t Catch The Politics In Their Favorite Games ( aftermath.site )
These bricks conduct electricity and combine to create a powerful thermal battery | Backed by federal funding, MIT spin-off Electrified Thermal Solutions says its bricks can replace fossil fuels. ( www.fastcompany.com )
Yippee ki-yay ( lemmy.world )
Corporations are buying local vet clinics — raising questions about price, choice and quality of care ( www.cbc.ca )
The big companies, known as consolidators, have bought hundreds of clinics from 2012 onwards, according to records and reports, across the country, because pets and vets are big money....
Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo ( www.videogameschronicle.com )
Russia's Kharkiv offensive – what is the plan? ( www.youtube.com )
Russia has launched an offensive into the Kharkiv region, and it has created a lot of alarmist news reports. In reality it is difficult to see what Russia's plan is, and it is not self-evident that it is a smart use of resources. In this video I discuss whether we might be seeing a return to the fragmented command structures...
Why the U of A Protest Camp Raid Was a Disaster ( thetyee.ca )
Almost a week after some of his officers violently cleared out a peaceful Palestine solidarity protest on the University of Alberta campus, Edmonton Police Chief Dale McPhee finally showed up Thursday to make his case at a police commission meeting....
TIL that there are two types of earwax: wet and dry ( www.self.com )
the type of earwax you have comes down in part to your skin type, Dr. Shapiro explains. People with oilier skin may have wet earwax, while those with drier skin tend to have dry earwax, she says....
Gunman Who Shot Slovak PM Linked to Pro-Russian Extremist Group ( www.kyivpost.com )
Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' ( www.pcgamer.com )
We may never know ( lemmy.world )
Sony Confirmed To Be Behind HD2 Delisting Of 180 Countries, Not Valve ( lemm.ee )
Russia threatens Britain with retaliation if involvement in Ukraine war deepens ( www.pbs.org )
Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials about possibly deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine....
We need an exodus from Zionism | Naomi Klein ( www.theguardian.com )
Bushmills: Man nailed to fence in 'sinister attack' ( www.bbc.com )
The man in his 20s was found nailed to a fence, with a nail through each hand, shortly after midnight....
Innovation or Overreach? UH Research Casts blame on OceanGate's Submersible Design says: Low quality carbon fibre lead to the accident ( www.arktrek.shop )
5e has an advantage of not requiring doctorate in quantum physics to run ( ttrpg.network )
I would usually be sad to see another original RPG go 5e compatible but Neuroshima was infamously poorly designed ruleset, possibly worse than Shadowrun. I probably won't be running it, but may steal statblocks for my 5e game if I need weird stuff again.
Multi-million dollar Cheyenne supercomputer auction ends with $480,085 bid — buyer walked away with 8,064 Intel Xeon Broadwell CPUs, 313TB DDR4-2400 ECC RAM, and some water leaks ( www.tomshardware.com )
Flash Rule ( lemmy.ohaa.xyz )
Video of sun’s surface shows solar rain, eruptions and coronal moss ( www.theguardian.com )
Smoko rule ( i.imgur.com )
Roman snail dye found in UK for the first time ( www.bbc.com )
A rare dye made from snails for the robes of the Roman elite almost 2,000 years ago has been unearthed at a cricket club. ...
Because of smartphones, pocket TVs were never a thing.
As a kid I imagined the future as being able to hold a TV in your pocket, and flying skateboards. For the latter I guess electric scooters will have to do
Why are many men growing beards again ? ( lemmy.ml )
Yesterday I passed a barbershop and saw ads on their wall outside of men with beards and short hair. It is a revival or saving electricity ?
There's a new trend making electric bike batteries safer ( electrek.co )
A new type of electric bicycle battery is gaining traction in the industry, potentially ushering in unprecedented levels of safety...
Stretchable e-skin could give robots human-level touch sensitivity ( techxplore.com )
Careful when writing your dragons ( www.smbc-comics.com )
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/dragons
Zionist lynch mob throws fireworks into UCLA student encampment ( streamable.com )
Cops stand by and watch of course.
When you do it yourself and it looks like you did it yourself lol ( lemmy.world )
Okay, my first ever drywall and I know what I did wrong. I just didn't think that small indifference would make it look obviously bad....
actual rule ( lemmy.ml )