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Even if layoffs are the correct decision now, the company playing fast and loose with over expansion and thus their employees is absolutely worth criticizing and protesting over.

The company with billions of dollars in the bank will have teams of people assessing risk management. But apparently those assessments didn’t address the human risk of over hiring tens of thousands of people to such a degree that they ‘need’ to dispose of them at the first sign of trouble.

Other sectors of the economy didn’t see such drastic layoffs so they can’t claim it’s a widespread and unforeseeable problem. They made a risky bet that had a real human cost, and people are right to wonder what’s the point of mega corps if they’re not any better at this than a small or medium business.

According to the NYT article linked above, the final suit will be white for thermal reasons. This color scheme is just for the prototype.

> Although reading the Repilka rants a lot of it was quite male-driven pornographic stuff too.

I think it’s important to note here that by far the largest consumers of pornographic erotica are women.

So it’s difficult to say what is and isn’t men oriented given that the vast majority of training data is written by and for women.