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tokenanalyst

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You probably already heard the news but yeah this is pretty brutal. But lets be honest we all saw this coming a mile away.

Activision, Bethesda/ZeniMax, Blizzard, King, and Mojang all will be downsized. ID software also added to the list.

The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, DOOM, Quake, Wolfenstein, Minecraft, Candy Crush, Call of Duty, World of Warcraft etc. Lots gonna be affected.
Well Nadella said that he is AI first and to his credit he is living to his words. He is replacing a US worker with AI... An Indian.
 

supersnoop

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No matter how much mainstream media tries to suppress this, people in these countries will look around and SEE their communities changing in composition more and more and there will be an inflection point at which Indian diaspora will suffer backlash. Especially since their government was so brazen in announcing their stated goals of control of other nations by exporting their population. Look how quickly the online discourse perpetuating Indian hate has spread only over the last 5 years or so.

The WW2 Jewish holocaust was an atrocity, of course, and almost certainly the Protocols for the Elders of Zion was some kind of antisemitic hoax meant to be spread as racist propaganda, but it doesn't change the fact that populations around the world can get nativist sentiment, very quickly and easily. When conspiracy theories start spreading even with the smallest inkling of evidence, whether unfounded or not, people living in an age of economic uncertainty can start directing their anxieties in the form of hatred in the blink of an eye.
It's interesting, basically for the period early 90's to early 2010's there was a big influx into western countries (primarily Canada, US, AUS, UK) of Chinese immigrants, first from HK, then mainland.
There was a lot of early backlash of "Chinese immigrants aren't assimilating, they have stores without English signs"
Then as the immigrants better acclimatized and economic conditions shifted both domestically and in mainland China, the backlash changed... "These Chinese are throwing money around, Foreign buyers (codeword for Chinese) are inflating property prices..."
Now as the economy has slowed (not only in China), (white) people are wondering where all the Chinese went
 

Thecore

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I might catch some hate for this here but if these snakes were being bred for TCM (most likely since they are poisonous and probably not being bred to sell to pet stores), hopefully this starts some kind initiative to push the government to educate people on how certain types of Chinese medicine, mainly the aspects that use fauna instead of flora, is mostly hokum and possibly harmful due to increased possibility of zoonotic transmissions in unhygenic environments and practices. This is one aspect of Chinese culture that should have been done away with as one of the "olds" during the cultural revolution. Again, I'm specifying animals and not plants or herbs. There very well be medical advancements that can by made by the unfortunate exploitation of animals and extracting things from them, but leave that to the (hopefully) contained, sterile and regulated practices that large pharmaceutical company labs can experiment with.

(Also wanted to add, since I'm already on my soapbox, I hope the government reforms the way smoking generates so much revenue for the state which dis-incentivizes the government from pushing people to stop smoking)
 
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plawolf

Lieutenant General
Yup. When prostitution culture is becoming more mainstream it compromises men's willingness to settle down. Why would anyone want to work hard and gain success on their own only to add a liability? I'm sorry I don't want to give you half my assets simply for showing up, if you want free money go ask your dad.

Why do you think they call you ‘daddy’?
 

PandaAI

Junior Member
Registered Member


You probably already heard the news but yeah this is pretty brutal. But lets be honest we all saw this coming a mile away.

Activision, Bethesda/ZeniMax, Blizzard, King, and Mojang all will be downsized. ID software also added to the list.

The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, DOOM, Quake, Wolfenstein, Minecraft, Candy Crush, Call of Duty, World of Warcraft etc. Lots gonna be affected.

Has any company improved after installing an Indian CEO? All they seem to do is fire the innovative and productive workforce and hire their fellow Indians so they can practice their caste system. They don’t care about innovation, just cost cutting to the bare bone and please the shareholders.
 

PiSigma

"the engineer"
Has any company improved after installing an Indian CEO? All they seem to do is fire the innovative and productive workforce and hire their fellow Indians so they can practice their caste system. They don’t care about innovation, just cost cutting to the bare bone and please the shareholders.
Of course there are.... Chinese companies since they get to operate on hard mode instead of insane mode.
 

Chevalier

Major
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I might catch some hate for this here but if these snakes were being bred for TCM (most likely since they are poisonous and probably not being bred to sell to pet stores), hopefully this starts some kind initiative to push the government to educate people on how certain types of Chinese medicine, mainly the aspects that use fauna instead of flora, is mostly hokum and possibly harmful due to increased possibility of zoonotic transmissions in unhygenic environments and practices. This is one aspect of Chinese culture that should have been done away with as one of the "olds" during the cultural revolution. Again, I'm specifying animals and not plants or herbs. There very well be medical advancements that can by made by the unfortunate exploitation of animals and extracting things from them, but leave that to the (hopefully) contained, sterile and regulated practices that large pharmaceutical company labs can experiment with.

(Also wanted to add, since I'm already on my soapbox, I hope the government reforms the way smoking generates so much revenue for the state which dis-incentivizes the government from pushing people to stop smoking)
Ridiculous and ignorant post, TCM is regulated and a WHO accepted modality, your talking points reflect more of the western inspired prejudice and covid19 racism than actual science. In fact TCM is so effective, westerners often try to “Louis Vuitton”aspects of TCM.
What’s your response to western pharmaceuticals and doctors stealing aspects of TCM like artemisinin for malaria, or trying to remarket acupuncture as “dry needling” or stealing Qigong as whatever hokum feel good white woman magick? Please, do tell me which Chinese animal product of the pharmacopeia is still in use and endorsed by the government in violation of CITES? Pangolin scales? Illegal and subject to criminal indictment,rhino horn? Also illegal and replaced by buffalo horn, buffalos I remind you are not endangered, tiger bone?Obsolete and not used, along with opium poppy.

In fact, your attitude reminds me of those Chinese liberals you see in the apac to the anglosphere who will crap on their own heritage to score points to be accepted amongst white western ppl. The corollary is selling out Chinese culture to appease white American virtue signaling which would rather Chinese ppl die in heatwaves and live in paddy fields than master the hard sciences.

Has any company improved after installing an Indian CEO? All they seem to do is fire the innovative and productive workforce and hire their fellow Indians so they can practice their caste system. They don’t care about innovation, just cost cutting to the bare bone and please the shareholders.
Indian infiltration really became a thing in fortune 500 companies due in no small part to the vulture capitalism of the 1980s, where private equity stripped productive companies down to enrich shareholders. Enter the nepotistic Indians into middle management like a deadly strain of tuberculosis when the patient has gone into full blown AIDS.
 
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