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Post by bombcar »

giraffe_lady wrote: post #166
dbrgn wrote: post #66

Some nice espresso machines and grinders listed there. I assume those won't sell for 25$.

I expect all the kitchen equipment will go for market value and no less. There's literally an entire little industry in every mid-size city or larger of people who keep an eye on restaurant closures and snatch up the equipment. That includes any business big enough to have an institutional kitchen so they'll definitely be on this one. Most new restaurants open with mostly used equipment and it comes from things like…

Yep. The only way to get a deal on an auction like this is to bid on something nobody wants (maybe the Twitter thing?) or be willing to travel to an auction so far from the city nobody has bothered. And that’s damn far, as the used resellers will have a truck.

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Post by marcinzm »

nonethewiser wrote: post #185
ipqk wrote: post #141

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You can't believe half the stuff that comes out of his mouth. He probably said that so he can justify removing the perk.

But if its true? I mean is it really doubtful that Twitter, a remote company, had very low office utilization?

The important question in light of a return to office mandate would be what percentage of those in the office utilized the service rather than absolute utilization.

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Post by ncr100 »

mberning wrote: post #180
ransom1538 wrote: post #179

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Can they let the homeless stay in the unused floors? Surely they can find a spot in their heart to help out people down on their luck during Christmas.

Sounds nice until they piss, shit, and do drugs everywhere and get your entire company evicted by the building owner.

This is the sad truth.

I used to live nearby Twitter HQ and that description is unfortunately accurate to my experience, of the majority of the homeless who spent time at Van Ness and Market Street SF.

HOUSING is what is needed, for sure though. Just be serious about it, and not "diamond-mine trust-fund hyper vigilant ego-abusive maniac" about it.

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Post by ncr100 »

MontyCarloHall wrote: post #76

Out of curiosity, why announce this auction so early? Bidding doesn’t start for over a month.

I think:

Wanting an honest group of bidders, likely other businesses .. should not rush them .. give them time to organize.

There is no warranty with these products so it's a headache to acquire, and a business may need time to plan that out.

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Post by marcinzm »

influx wrote: post #124
maxerickson wrote: post #110

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Twitter didn't sell out of desperation, the offer was way above what the company was worth. A court was on the cusp of forcing the deal through when it finally moved forward. So think of it as a $15,000 couch being liquidated.

Tell that to all my colleagues who don’t have a job anymore.

The point of a normal for-profit company is to make money for investors (ie: owners). Period. The employees are merely a means to an end and irrelevant beyond that end.

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Post by ncr100 »

gonzo41 wrote: post #19
pavlov wrote: post #11

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Apparently he’s looking to replace some of the expensive debt with new margin loans backed by his TSLA shares: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-08/musk-bank... IMO this Twitter deal has been nothing but bad news for Tesla shareholders. The CEO is completely distracted and forced to sell his shares, and the company has been dragged into stupid culture wars. Tesla brand perception has crashed among Democ…

I work with scientists. Everyone who got a tesla feels a bit off about owning it now. Many jokes are had about being a musketeer, and the rise of twitler etc. It's all jokes, but then at the end of the day, everyone else drives home in some other car and they don't know what the CEO said about "tweet of the day" etc. Yet Musk is all in everyones face all the time. It doesn't seem to be a winning strategy at the momen…

It was predictable that this day would come, given the overt, public, and controversial personality type of Musk.

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Post by speedgoose »

Jensson wrote: post #198
speedgoose wrote: post #188

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I haven’t searched for all Europe but here are two sources about Norway and France: https://www.fhi.no/en/op/hin/health-disease/overweight-and-o... https://liguecontrelobesite.org/actualite/taille-poids-et-to...

You said Europe is catching up, that requires Europe to increase obesity faster than USA. But to me it looks like USA is still growing fatter faster than Europe, so according to these graphs Europe will never catch up to American obesity levels. And it will take about 20 years for current Europe to catch up to todays US obesity levels, that isn't very quick either, 20 years is half a career, and at that point USA wil…

You are right, I was told that we were catching up fast but looking at the data it’s not the case.

Maybe Europe isn’t going to see office furnitures for morbidly obese people soon after all.

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