Schleimer said the event’s “financial profile” resulted in a roughly $30 million loss, which the company “anticipated” beforehand.
I promise the company isn't throwing away money for the fun of it. There are lots of different ways to look at profit. I'd bet a lot of that money found its way into the President's pockets.
Just like Amazon "lost" $5M on the Smelania doc.
As a tangent, fuck articles that have videos pinned at the top about a completely different subject.
Thanks for that perspective. Mastodon really is terrible.
I've complained about this before but I find a lot of Fediverse projects seem intent on straight up cloning mainstream platforms for no logical reason and this seems to be yet another example.
Every Windows debloater script comes with the caveat of "until the next update". Instead of becoming a Windows Defucking Engineer I just left it entirely.
As much as I love Mastodon for what it has achieved, I have to also agree that it's bad . For many reasons, several of which are fundamental in nature. But I digress.
Cheap gas drives people to consume more of it, destroying the atmosphere, and killing people on our roads. How about instead we take the money from them and reinvest it in sovereign clean energy infrastructure? And then next time they want to have a war in the middle east, we'll have one less giant problem.
saying they should ‘give some of that back to the public
Then make them. I mean you're basically fucking omnipotent. You absolutely have the power to make them do that. So if you really believe that, make them. But you don't really believe that, this is simply a whataboutism to distract from the damage you personally are causing the economy.
This story is a nothingburger
I promise the company isn't throwing away money for the fun of it. There are lots of different ways to look at profit. I'd bet a lot of that money found its way into the President's pockets.
Just like Amazon "lost" $5M on the Smelania doc.
As a tangent, fuck articles that have videos pinned at the top about a completely different subject.