You read the message, and it starts bleeding before your eyes. Suddenly, the blood forms a crevice in the cake through which a hand pushes its way upwards, as if a corpse crawled from its grave...
Kitathalla
joined 6 months ago
Always tourniquet the neck, I say. Fastest way to stop the screaming. Bleeding stops pretty quick afterwards, but it's a shoehorn for the screaming.
Sure, why wouldn't they? You can't really convince me that 'taking away' ownership from the founder is a big deal... by the time a company's net worth is high enough to give him a billion dollars worth of stock, that company has far more than just him alone making the company worth that much. You also can't really say that the janitor is less of a deal than any other random employee and thus deserves no stock... It takes everyone to make things work.
As to the actual 'value' of the company, and therefore the owner's worth? Ask him how much he wants for his shares, and he is forced to sell at that amount for say, the next 6 months if people want the stock. This prevents him from giving a ridiculously low value and gaming the system so he doesn't have the net worth he truly does, because it would trigger a rush of people buying the stock for such a good deal, and it also prevents him from giving a ridiculously high number to manipulate people into buying stock, as it would push the net worth too high.
Would that idea work for every company? I know there would be issues with implementation. Is it the owner that gets asked the stock price? The board? A shareholder meeting? The employees of the company? Each would have its downsides, and manipulation possibilities.
I don't know, mate, these are just things off the top of my head. I'm sure with some serious thought from people much more in tune with these concepts than I am, we'd have a good framework to go off of.
Yup. It's why the scams by phone are so irritating to most of us, as another example. It's just obvious and a time waster, but by making the scam easily visible to people who have the characteristics to not be vulnerable to them, it weeds out all the false positives the scammers would then have to deal with. They don't want you, mr. bright eyed and bushy tailed, who is ready to catch them out only after hours of trying to get you to give them the code to your gift cards. That's a lot of wasted time. They just want granny who will follow every direction.
Hmmm, for something that very few other people on lemmy have?
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Made a post on lemmy and remembered to answer my own question in a reply rather than the post.
:::Asked out my crush. :P :::
For the general world?
I tried to talk someone out of suicide and failed. Can't think of something less cool or envy-inducing.
Is that an 'interesting' area? I drove by once and thought the namesake was neat.
Well, yeah. The only way to get it is from contact with an infected monkey, or something that has recently contacted them, like a needle.
As a matter of fact, yes. I was talking to a vet at a friend's wedding, and he casually mentioned that working with simians is a dangerous field for many reasons that you wouldn't think of, like their herpesvirus strains killing us.
You... really don't get it, do you? The person being tormented is the one who isn't doing anything. That's the joke. Look around him. You've got bubbles being blown, which creates the sound of a person blowing right near your ear and the sound of the bubbles popping. Then you've got the hand organ down the bench, and across from him you have the paddle ball on string, and someone knitting. All are repetitive, eventually-going-to-drive-you-crazy sounds, much like the slow dripping of water is not terrible in anyway, but comprises the chinese water torture.
They might all be little demons in disguise, or merely figments created by the devil, but who cares? We know they're not persons being punished, because they could stop at any time if the action was a torment.
Does it? The whole joke is about annoying, repetitive sounds being created near the fella who is being tormented. It seems like a coincidence far more than a reference. I would have expected a tell to draw attention to the reference, like maybe a castle, a butterfly, or a dawn to link back to the lyrics... you know, something besides just four words that happen to be in a song somewhere.
... and why I have all these strange growths, I'm sure.
I've got a pringle!