My proposal would be to have more tiers of capital gains that would incentivize long term investments. And raise the rate on short term gains. That would also reduce some insider trading if the pay off was lower short term. But I’m just an armchair economist so there’s probably some terrible consequence to this plan I can’t see.

I think we can all agree that both companies have terrible management in different ways.

But this dream that MS will just clean house with Act/Blizz management is just that. If MS replaces all of senior management over the next year or two, the studios will grind to a halt. Someone has to make decisions about resource allocations. I’m dubious about the competence of senior management in general but someone has to decide the dev budget, the marketing budget, feature set, etc. And someone has to make decisions midstream when it becomes clear your battle royale game will get lost in a sea of Fortnite clones.

If MS starts firing these guys, they’ll see the writing on the wall and go elsewhere on their terms, leaving the company unable to make those decisions. I just can’t see MS firing anyone but the top guys.

I kinda understand this point of view but I don’t see how it punishes anyone at Act/Blizz. Bobby Kotick walks away with a literal fortune and I doubt Microsoft fires the management to hire all new people. I’d like to see Act/Blizz shareholders sue the board and Kotick for corporate malfeasance instead and get that money back.

On point 2, the individual mandate was repealed in 2018. There’s no federal penalty for not having insurance.

Preds fan here. I thought the Preds were making a big mistake trading Weber. He was the backbone of the team and best player by far. If he hadn’t fallen apart in Montreal, I think we’d be talking about him in the same breath with MacInnis and Bourque.

But in the end, Weber declined fast and PK was never the difference maker the Preds were looking for. The one thing PK did bring to the Preds was a sense of putting all the chips on the table. The other players responded by mostly having their best career performances all in one year to get them to the cup.

If a few plays had gone differently in those finals, we might be saying how PK got them a cup. It really could have gone either way in that series.

I don’t get the difference between fried egg and over easy if they’re fried on both sides. I’m no eggspert (it’s father’s day so you’ll have to excuse the Dad joke) but over easy should have a runny yolk and this one looks pretty cooked.

P.S. Thanks for the picture OP. I’ve never seen all the ways to cook an egg in one picture.

Makes me wonder what morale is like for the employees at Reddit. Working for a CEO that admires Musk’s takeover of Twitter would have me running for the door.