Per capita. Florida did anomalously well given its seemingly poor handling of the situation. It's likely related to the fact that California has 3 of the 10 biggest cities in the US while Florida has 0, but that doesn't seem like enough to fully explain it.
I think there is an argument to be made that as stock growth has outpaced GDP growth for many years now that the connection between the markets and the real world has become tenuous. The fundamentals become less important over time as crazy speculation continues to win out.
What is broken about it? People were over leveraged and others acted on it. Seems to be working as intended. If GME is at this P/E a year from I'll agree with you
The complete disconnect from reality? How much of that money is going to be available to Gamestop to turn their business around? How is this different than gambling on horse races except that instead of horses you have corporations?
Difference is all about ownership. You don't own a portion of the horse, you own a stake of the outcome of one race. When you buy a share of a company, you own 0.00001% of said company. Gamestop does not have access to that money as they sold their stake in exchange for cash at a past date. As a shareholder, you can use your stake to vote in shareholder meetings and if large enough be on the board to help turn the business around
Given the past few months have seen conditions that led to abnormally low "E" that are not expected to be repeated, and at the same time the amount of cash available to inflate "P" increased dramatically... maybe?
Stocks can have cashflow. It is possible that GME will come up with a new business plan that makes money. Maybe unlikely, but it is something you can make a bet on. BTC is more like a lottery. You don't know what day will be the peak price. So you buy your BTC sell to someone else and hope you guess the top. BTC will never turn a profit, all you can do is hope that you sell before it crashes.
Similarly a lottery ticket will never produce dividends or cashflow. You pick a number and hope it is the lucky one.
Probably because the last time they opened outdoor dining restaurants made "outdoor" tents with no ventilation that were practically equivalent to indoor dining. Unfortunately, government regulation is a blunt tool by nature.
Right, if they can't afford to take sick time they probably can't afford to not work for four weeks. Any idea if the government is helping these people at all? I didn't see any mention of businesses or employees in the article
Ontario won't do anything. The continuing case count is the direct consequence of the Ford government not spending the money they've been given by the Federal government.
It takes a huge amount of time and money to go to the insane lengths of Apple-ism that the company is known for.
I would venture to say that 80% of that doesn't translate to an increase in revenue. How many people bought a 2019 Mac Pro because of the speaker inside of it?
They're slowly but steadily trimming this "waste". The products are becoming merely "great", but no longer insanely so. The age of Sane Apple, perhaps.
Apple seems to be significantly more focused on building revenue (especially from services) than on building the most insanely great things that can possibly exist (with revenue as a side effect).
Another example is the fact that they introduced an end-to-end encrypted messaging system that
rapidly became a widespread standard... then backdoored it for the FBI (via the non-end-to-end-encrypted iCloud Backup). That isn't so much an indicator of Apple's new values... except that the KB article about what is and isn't e2e encrypted in iCloud is designed to deliberately confuse and mislead people into thinking the situation is better than it is. That's very un-Apple, if you ask me.
Apple used to be "the computer for the rest of us", the pirate-flag-flyers. Now they primarily make Facebook/Candy Crush client hardware.
This comment is obviously a massive oversimplification, and I want to write properly on it in detail and at length soon.
woke developers are acting as moral crusaders just like Apple is. renaming "master branch" to "main branch" doesn't solve anything. posting the latest Twitter slacktivism hashtag doesn't solve anything. it's just for show, to appear virtuous while still collecting big tech paychecks.
> The study also found that adolescent males are more likely to engage in cyberbullying than females, aligning with past studies that show aggressive behaviors tend to be more male driven.
for a certain definition of aggression. but social media bullying is a Mean Girls phenomenon. it's reputation and character assassination, which is aggressive behavior. male aggression tends to be physical and they spend more time playing video games, while females spend more time on social media. as a result, girls are seeing higher rates of depression compared to boys.
here's the research on this topic that Jonathan Haidt and other academics are maintaining;
Men do reputation and character assassination pretty routinely. They are no strangers to smear campaigns or even subtle manipulating group against one. Males use words for aggression quite a lot, actually.
Sure but you are being disingenuous if you think that the outrage on Activision is even remotely comparable to the backlash against feminism in gaming.
There is also no actual objective problem that feminism has caused to gaming that gamers can point to and I would argue that the vehement backlash against it is as driven by the "invasion of political activists into the hobby" as Anita Sarkeesean and other feminist pundits.
Bobby Kotick has a PR department, strong incentives not to antagonise the community he sells to, and enough power within his company to fire anyone who does.
Activists have an incentive to be as incendiary as possible to gain media attention, smaller PR departments if any, and little to no control over what other activists say.
It's an unfortunate reality that if my local supermarket fires a bunch of workers for trying to unionise, but my neighbour gets in a screaming match with me because he thinks I scratched his car's paint, then I'll be mildly disappointed by the supermarket but frothing mad about my neighbour. It doesn't even matter what the confrontation is about: I'll be frothing mad about any topic that my neighbour brings up if he's screaming it at me, the medium is the message.
I mostly agree except for the fact that I don't really think the gaming community are that dangerous to antagonise for a company at all considering that Activision and EA together are some of the most hated companies in both the gaming community and the world in general yet sell the most games.
It's not about the medium or even the message here. It's all about the product. As long as you control the product, it doesn't matter how much grumbling gamers do under their breath, they will still fork over their cash.
Activists on the other hand do not have a product to offer. Instead they make you think uncomfortable thoughts and try to get you to reconsider or reflect on your viewpoints or biases. That's a lot harder than buy and consume product. That's a difference that even god-tier PR is not going to easily be able to overcome.
