#Corporate/industry news

[mysharona1987]

[fuzzytimes1]

Homebuyers stay one step ahead of supply chain issues by buying the home and everything in it

Last year, Gerardo and Rita Luna upgraded from their 2,700-square-foot home in Oxnard, Calif. to a much larger home in nearby Santa Paula, paying $2.4 million. The couple, who own four auto repair shops, said they were looking for a quieter spot where they “couldn’t shake hands with their neighbors through the window,” Mr Luna said. The Santa Paula estate, on 6 acres, fits the bill perfectly. The…

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Outdrawn

f/f contemporary romance

two cartoonist who’ve been rivals since uni, and now have competing webcomics online, have to work together on the relaunch of a cult classic at the comic press they both work at

they both struggle with art-related physical and mental health issues, and complicated families

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

All it took was real physical action for these people to cry out for reform, had Brian Thompson not been killed these media outlets wouldn't even dare utter a word of reform.

[itsybitsybatsyspider]

Deleted Adobe Photoshop (which bums me out because i felt like i was really getting the hang of it. Booo to their new terms of service) and downloaded Clip Studio Paint instead!

Probably gonna try out some sketches tomorrow to get comfortable using it!

back at it again with the new drawing platform learning curve. yyyyaayyyy

[aci25]

A Story about the Tourism Industry in Oaxaca, Mexico

This story was censored by a big and well-known media company. So I decided to tell it on my own.

I look into the following question: does the current tourism model in Oaxaca lead to deeper inequality?

[dailyplanet-loislane]

CNN on the Block: A Risky Gamble for Warner Bros. Discovery?

[soapdispensersalesman]

[wreckingball4good]

something something eaten by the monster they created

[hatecomeseasy]

L.O.T.I.O.N. - Every Last One

[yourpalnko]

In Response to Unity / IronSource

CEOs get paid to be untouchable rich dudes who occasionally set their company on fire for the sake of insider trading (while ignoring the outcry and warnings from hundreds of competent people below them).

The only necessary qualifications to become a CEO are to be tall and lack a soul.

[herawell]

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[potatosteinsillustrations]

Just so you get to know that there are alternatives to this:

Back in 2013-2014 Nintendo's President and CEO Satoru Iwata (rest in peace) cut his salary in half (along many of the other execs like Shigeru Miyamoto cutting 30& of his own salary) to avoid laying off employees at the company after the Wii U severily underperformed.

Here are some of Iwata's notable quotes from an investor Q and A: Source: Polygon

"If we reduce the number of employees for better short-term financial results, employee morale will decrease," he said. "I sincerely doubt employees who fear that they may be laid off will be able to develop software titles that could impress people around the world." "I know that some employers publicize their restructuring plan to improve their financial performance by letting a number of their employees go, but at Nintendo, employees make valuable contributions in their respective fields, so I believe that laying off a group of employees will not help to strengthen Nintendo's business in the long run."

In 2021 everyone was rightly scandalized and enraged when it was revealed that Bobby Kotick ( Activision-Blizzard's CEO and one of the biggest scumbags in the world) received a $200 million bonus after laying off around 240 employees at ABK ( Source: Yahoo News) Now your next question should be: How much money will the CEO and executives at Epic (or any other AAA studio or company doing massive lay offs this year like the Embracer Group, Electronics Arts) will receive and why are they receiving said bonuses if their mistakes have led to 830 employees being laid off.

And of course most people won't care, much like when it was revealed that there was a super toxic and chauvinistic environment in Activision Blizzard that led to many women being rampantly sexually harrased and even on of them taking her own life.

Or the severe crunch that employees at CD Project Red had to endure with Cyperpunk 2077 (even after they were promised there wasn't going to be cruel crunch like they had to endure with The Witcher 3)

As long as consumers can play their game sadly they won't care and that massively sucks! There won't be any effective change in how employees are treated at these big corporations if consumers don't vote with their wallets and advocate for the workforce's well being.

And this tweets ring true:

- The metaverse isn't worth 830 people being laid off even if it was the" next big thing", but let's be real it isn't and it won't. -This is another reminder that corporations aren't anyone's friends. -Also fuck corporations.

[music-matters20]

#TheWeeklyRoundUp - 02.09.23

A bulletin covering the latest news of the past week from the music industry

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

This isn't surprising not one bit, Texas has archaic abortion laws and will real what they've showed much to suffering and death of many women. This will obviously affect the health sector in Texas and strain health services for women who may need to leave the state to receive medical treatment or even a simple gynecology exam. Republicans never cared about women nor the fetus as it was always about control, this patriarchy 101 and anyone with a working brain and empathy can understand that. Men never have to fear having our bodily autonomy from being taken away, well until Republicans start mandating men and women breed resulting in the LGBTQIA+ community being seen as 'unproductive' but hey that's later on the Republican agenda. For now we can still fix this mess, we will not and must not settle for anything less than abortion being enshrined in our constitution.

[eurosmart]

Thị trường nhà ở các nước phát triển phục hồi

Đà giảm giá nhà trên toàn cầu, ảnh hưởng đến các nền kinh tế tiên tiến, phần lớn đã dịu lại, theo phân tích của Financial Times (FT) dựa trên dữ liệu của Tổ chức Hợp tác và phát triển kinh tế (OECD). Các nhà kinh tế dự đoán cơn suy thoái bất động sản nhà toàn cầu nghiêm trọng nhất trong một thập niên có thể sắp chạm đáy. Nhà cửa được xây dựng tại khu dân cư Valley Center, bang California, Mỹ.…