The words and meanings of songs have never been important so long as the tune was good. Yankee Doodle was essentially a dis track, but Americans liked the tune, so it was adopted as a patriotic song anyway. Stadiums of homophobes will happily stomp and clap to We Will Rock You.
So many shows are unavailable or different because of ridiculous licensing rules around music. Scrubs has several different versions of music, The Drew Carey Show is basically impossible to find because of music. If Congress wanted to ever do something pro-consumer, passing a law that ends all this nonsense around licensing and require all licensing to be delivery method agnostic. whether a show is premiering, a rerun, syndicated, streamed, or on DVD it should be the same show.
Wild Bison aren't eating seaweed in the great plains. Cows in the plains spend their majority of their life eating the same grasses that the bison ate, then they spend a few months on a corn diet.
If the officers were shot and killed then others would just hunt down and murder the innocent bystander that did the shooting, and probably hurt a few more for good measure. Any threat real or imagined against police is not tolerated in the US and the police will retaliate when necessary to enforce that.
Edits provide reputation when accepted and on SO specifically are about the only reliable way for new users to get reputation. Answering new questions that don't get closed is difficult, anything "easy" is mobbed by people and a single answer gets reputation and the other largely ignored or even deleted. Asking is also difficult for the reasons commonly cited elsewhere in comments. Edits are also further gamified to be accepted through review queues that give badges for stamping enough things.
Technically, trivial edits are discouraged, but there's nothing enforcing that publicly.
The edit thing is a self imposed problem because the site gamification for established Stack* sites mandates that people edit questions to get enough reputation for basic site functionality. Actually asking or answering a question is far too difficult for a new user, especially on SO.
This is something I hope actually gets added, more formal potentially deprecated flags that can be added to questions. Given the attitudes of meta when I actually cared, I doubt it ever will happen.
Shorter trains would also mean less severe derailments. Shorter trains also mean that trains are in risky areas for less time, less time decelerating and accelerating, so derailment could be far less than double.
Shorter trains would also make coordination easier, because the current trains are too long for bypass tracks so currently none of these trains can pass each other and it tacks a very long time for a multi-mile train to clear the tracks. Allowing trains to actually overtake each other again would help with congestion, but that mostly helps Amtrack so companies don't care.
The top-level pay looks nice until you factor in 60+ hour weeks and no regular weekends. There is also a chance you get a day off in another city away from your family in a city with little to nothing to do besides stay at a hotel. Even days you aren't scheduled are still often on call and you may still end up going in.
The leave isn't really usable between needing 30 days notice, possibly still being on call anyway, more senior people having precedence, and point systems that effectively fire you if you take a few consecutive days off.
It's not just Microsoft vs Sony. It's also that game publishers are already highly concentrated. Activision-Blizzard is one of the bigger independent companies out there and losing them to Microsoft would be bad for industry wide competition, similar to Sysco/US foods.
AoE4 is a refinement of AoE2. Frostgiant is planning to release a beta of the Starcraft spiritual successor next summer. Immortal: Gates of Pyre is in alpha
Mortgage rates are essentially set nationally, and lenders are competing based on pricing for the list of allowed rates. Servicing companies also get a slice of the interest rate so that isn't the actual return a buyer would see.
In a hot market that's how you get your offer rejected. It's also how you are stuck in limbo for 6 months because you unknowingly got into a massive, stacked transaction.
The kiss scene in Rise of Skywalker felt particularly pandering and purely a marketing thing. The scene was two unnamed characters that were easily edited out for more restrictive markets. Though I suppose that's the opposite of general woke based criticisms.
giving big exclusive contracts was a huge mistake by Disney for video games. It's easy to just sell everything to EA, but it doesn't actually result in good publicity for them, which they learned the hard way with Battlefront 2. When you have a massive IP that has tons of different periods and openings for various games, you really need to license out smaller chunks all over the place. Games Workshop is a really good model that Disney should have followed.
There is no such thing as superhero fatigue or Star Wars fatigue or X fatigue. It's all just excusing bad content. The drive to fill out the Disney+ catalog with a bunch of series where constant release was the main focus and not quality or coherent stories made people stop watching. It was also a mistake to make the series contain relevant events for the movies to build from as well, since once a series was missed you could be out of the loop on key details for the next movie, but if there actually was widespread positive reception of all these shows it wouldn't be a major issue.
Previous company had some decent one-off gifts for life events. A couple nice coffee mugs with company colors and hearts for a wedding and bamboo cutting boards with company logo for a housewarming gift were quite nice and actually were appreciated. felt like these were good things to offer. The employee appreciation day "water bottle" was an awful piece of garbage though that honestly felt insulting, a $5 cafeteria voucher would have been better.
I would say the quality of a gift matters. A big part is managing expectations though, if employees aren't expecting a gift, you have a lot more freedom than if something is expected. A free Paczki on Fat Tuesday is more appreciated than a Christmas cookie (especially if referred to as a bonus).
So far I have learned that Scrum can work, but only if the CEO personally wants it to and they have someone spending time with them explaining what every level has to do differently and expect differently for it to work. Partial successes can be won from the bottom up approach, but they are far less impactful.
It's not supposed to be a slippery slope. This is where a functioning "Scrum Master" is supposed to tell that person to stop talking and move on to the next person. That never actually happens though, so the next best scenario is light shaming of the guy who talks too long. If you have bad managers or too many people with management anxiety then it can be good to kick them out of the meeting.
I swear someone created SAFe as a joke by just taking the strawman waterfall diagram and adding scrum words, and sprinkle in a few more useless people for good measure. It also ensures that anyone that needs to actually talk or work together is far to busy to achieve progress.
Alternately. 50% of CEO were over reliant on cheap debt and need to reduce headcount to stay afloat as interest rates rise.
Another more conspiratorial take. Since wage growth finally started again for the average worker, talks of recession are an attempt to crush that growth.