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@aiphoul
by mostly-ethical means. Get back on track & make the right decision at this very moment. risk something #btc
Beigetreten Kasım 2023
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Aubrey Plaza pregnant with her first baby 1 year after husband’s death: report trib.al/VZXpUjB

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@Kenzo__Tenma @Kahamsha They’re in the grand line competing to find the one piece, it makes sense
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@Kahamsha This scene didn't age well cause now everyone has it
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#ONEPIECE
This moment aged like WINE!!!!! 16 year old me didn’t see what the big deal was when I first seen this
But with what we know now, i understand why everyone was so shocked!! In that moment they all understood his potential and that he was going to be PROBLEM in the future
I'm Bisly 🏴☠️@imBISLY
I like how Aokiji and Kizaru were shocked by Luffy using Haki, but Akainu was the only one who didn’t give a f*k. 😭
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@Rickverse @MelonMan @DiscussingFilm Not so much money because everyone else’s ticket will still be full price
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@MelonMan @DiscussingFilm AMC A-List would save you a big headache and money.
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@MayngueneBanana dude references aside, i made the speed face FIVE FUCKING TIMES IN THE MOVIE because of the STUPID FUCKING FUCKER FUCK JOKES.
FUCK.
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The Mario Galaxy Movie was made to ellicit this specific reaction out of you and nothing more
ewan@combattrock
Guess the meme brainrot quiz oh that’s tung tung tung sahur his mom pays me to be his friend loser video bomdigimedia
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@MasterC2222 @DiscussingFilm Well because America considers corporations citizens unfortunately
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@DiscussingFilm It's funny how every country except America actually defends its citizens from abuses by major corporations. Must be nice.
GIF
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@BillAckman @X This just sounds like you are being a sore loser in our great game of capitalism
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I am reaching out to the @X community for advice with the likely risk of sharing TMI. I have been sufficiently upset about the whole matter that I have lost sleep thinking about it and I am hoping that this post will enable me to get this matter off my chest.
By way of background, I started a family office called TABLE about 15 years ago and hired a friend who had previously managed a family office, and years earlier, had been my personal accountant. She is someone that I trusted implicitly and consider to be a good person.
The office started small, but over the last decade, the number of personnel and the cost of the office grew massively. The growth was entirely on the operational side as the investment team has remained tiny. While my investment portfolio grew substantially, the investments I had made were almost entirely passive and TABLE simply needed to account for them and meet capital calls as they came in. While TABLE purchased additional software and other systems that were supposed to improve productivity, the team kept increasing in size at a rapid rate, and the expenses continued to grow even faster.
While I would periodically question the growing expenses and high staff turnover, I stayed uninvolved with the office other than a once-a-year meeting when I briefly reviewed the operations and the financials and determined bonus compensation for the President and the CFO. I spent no time with any of the other employees or the operations. The whole idea behind TABLE was that it would handle everything other than my day job so that I would have more time for my job and my family.
Over the last six years, expenses ballooned even further, employee turnover accelerated, and I became concerned that all was not well at TABLE. It was time for me to take a look at what was going on.
Nearly four years ago, I recruited my nephew who had recently graduated from Harvard and put him to work at Bremont, a British watchmaker, one of my only active personal investments to figure out the issues at the company and ultimately assist in executing a turnaround. He did a superb job.
When he returned from the UK late last year after a few years at Bremont, I asked him to help me figure out what was going on with TABLE. When I explained to TABLE’s president what he would be doing, she became incredibly defensive, which naturally made me more concerned.
My nephew went to work by first meeting with each employee to understand their roles at the company and to learn from them what ideas they had on how things could be improved. He got an earful.
Our first step in helping to turn around TABLE was a reduction in force including the president and about a third of the team, retaining excellent talent that had been desperate for new leadership.
Now here is where I need your advice.
All but one of the employees who were terminated acted professionally and were gracious on the way out (excluding the president who had a notice period in her contract, is currently still being paid, and with whom I have not yet had a discussion).
The highest compensated terminated employee other than the president, an in-house lawyer (let’s call her Ronda), told us that three months of severance was not enough and demanded two years’ severance despite having worked at the company for only two and one half years.
When I learned of Ronda's request for severance, I offered to speak with her to understand what she was thinking, but she refused to do so. A few days ago, we received a threatening letter from a Silicon Valley law firm.
In the letter, Ronda’s counsel suggests that her termination is part of longstanding issues of ‘harassment and gender discrimination’ – an interesting claim in light of the fact that Ronda was in charge of workplace compliance – and that her termination was due to:
“unlawful, retaliatory, and harmful conduct directed towards her. Both [Ronda] and I [Ronda’s lawyer] have spoken with you about [Ronda’s] view of what a reasonable resolution would include given the circumstances. Thus far, TABLE has refused to provide any substantive response. This letter provides the last opportunity to reach a satisfactory agreement. If we cannot do so, [Ronda] will seek all appropriate relief in a court of competent jurisdiction.”
The letter goes on to explain the basis for the “unsafe work environment” claim at TABLE:
“In early 2026, Pershing Square’s founder Bill Ackman installed his nephew in an unidentified role at TABLE, Ackman’s family office. [His nephew]—whose only work experience had been for TABLE where he was seconded abroad for the last four years to a UK watch company held by Ackman—began appearing at TABLE’s offices and conducting interviews of employees without a clear explanation of his role or the purposes of these interviews. During this period, he made a series of inappropriate and genderbased [sic] comments to multiple employees that created an unsafe work environment. Among other things, [his nephew] made remarks about female employees’ ages (“Tell me you are nowhere near 40”), physical appearance (“Your body does not look like you have kids”), as well as intrusive questions about family planning and sexual orientation (“Who carried your son? Who will carry your next child?”). These incidents were reported to senior leadership at TABLE and Pershing Square. Rather than being addressed appropriately, the response from senior management reflected, at best, willful blindness to the inappropriateness of [his nephew]’s remarks and, at worst, tacit endorsement.”
The above allegations about my nephew had previously been brought to my attention by TABLE’s president when they occurred. When I learned of them, I told the president that I would speak to him directly and encouraged her to arrange for him to get workplace sensitivity training. The president assured me that she would do so.
When I spoke to my nephew, he explained what he actually had said and how his actual remarks had been received, not at all as alleged in the legal letter from Ronda’s counsel. I have also spoken to others at the lunch table who confirmed his description of the facts. In any case, he meant no harm, was simply trying to build rapport with other employees, and no one, as far as I understand, was offended.
Ironically, Ronda claims in her legal letter that TABLE didn’t take HR compliance seriously, yet Ronda was in charge of HR compliance at TABLE and the person who gave my nephew his workplace sensitivity training after the alleged incidents. In any case, Ronda, as head of compliance, should have kept a record or raised an alarm if indeed there was pervasive harassment or other such problems at the company, and there is no evidence whatsoever that this is true.
So why does Ronda believe she can get me to pay her nearly $2 million, i.e., two years of severance, nearly one year of severance for each of her years at the company? Well, here is where some more background would be helpful.
Over the last two months, I have been consumed with a major family medical issue – one of my older daughters had a massive brain hemorrhage on February 5th and has since been making progress on her recovery – and I am in the midst of a major transaction for my company which I am executing from a hospital room office next to her . While the latter business matter is publicly known, the details of my daughter’s situation are only known to Ronda because of her role at our family office.
Now, let’s get back to the subject at hand.
Unfortunately, while New York and many other states have employment-at-will, there has emerged an industry of lawyers who make a living from bringing fake gender, race, LGBTQ and other discrimination employment claims in order to extract larger severance payments for terminated employees, and it needs to stop.
The fake claim system succeeds because it costs little to have a lawyer send a threatening letter and nearly all of the lawyers in this field work on contingency so there is no or minimal cash cost to bring a claim. And inevitably, nearly 100% of these claims are settled because the public relations and legal costs of defending them exceed the dollar cost of the settlement. The claims are nearly always settled with a confidentiality agreement where the employee who asserts the fake claims remains anonymous and as a result, there is no reputational cost to bringing false claims.
The consequences of this sleazy system (let’s call it ‘the System’) are the increased costs of doing business which is a tax on the economy and society. There are other more serious problems due to the System. Unfortunately, the existence of an industry of plaintiff firms and terminated employees willing to make these claims makes it riskier for companies to hire employees from a protected class, i.e., LGBTQ, seniors, women, people of color etc. because it is that much more reputationally damaging and expensive to be accused of racism, sexism, and/or intolerance for sexual diversity than for firing a white male as juries generally have less sympathy for white males.
The System therefore increases the risk of discrimination rather than reducing it, and the people bringing these fake claims are thereby causing enormous harm to the other members of these protected classes.
So what happened here?
Ronda was vastly overpaid and overqualified for the job that she did at TABLE. She was paid $1.05 million plus benefits last year for her work which was largely comprised of filling out subscription agreements and overseeing an outside law firm on closing passive investments in funds and in private and venture stage companies, some compliance work, and managing the office move from one office to another. She had a very good gig as she was highly paid, only had to go into the office three days a week, and could work from anywhere during the summer.
Once my nephew showed up and started to investigate what was going on, she likely concluded that there was a reasonable possibility she would be terminated, as her job was in the too-easy-and-to-good-to-be-true category. The problem was that she was not in a protected class due to her race, age or sexual identity so she had to construct the basis for a claim. While she is female and could in theory bring a gender-based discrimination claim, she reported to the president who is female and to whom she is very close, which makes it difficult for her to bring a harassment claim against her former boss.
When my nephew complimented a TABLE employee at lunch about how young she looked – in response to saying she was going to her 40-year-old sister’s birthday party, he said ‘she must be your older sister’ – Ronda immediately reported it to our external HR lawyer. She thereby began building her case.
The other problem for Ronda bringing a claim is that she was terminated alongside 30% of other TABLE employees as part of a restructuring so it is very difficult for her to say that she was targeted in her termination or was retaliated against. TABLE is now hiring an external fractional general counsel as that is all the company needs to process the relatively limited amount of legal work we do internally. In short, Ronda was eminently qualified and capable and did her job. She was just too much horsepower for what is largely an administrative legal role so she had to come up with something else to bring a claim.
Now Ronda knew I was a good target and it was a good time to bring a claim against me. She also knew that I was under a lot of pressure because on March 4th when Ronda was terminated, my daughter had not yet emerged from consciousness, she was not yet breathing on her own, and my daughter and we were fighting for her life. I was and remain deeply engaged in her recovery while at the same time I was working on finishing the closing for the private placement round for my upcoming IPO.
Ronda also knew that publicity about supposed gender discrimination and a “hostile and unsafe work environment” are not things that a CEO of a company about to go public wants to have released into the media. And she may have thought that the nearly $2 million she was asking for would be considered small in the context of the reputational damage a lawsuit could cause, regardless of the fact that two years of severance was an absurd amount for an employee who had only worked at TABLE for 30 months.
She also likely considered that I wouldn’t want to embarrass my nephew by dragging him into the klieg lights when her claims emerged publicly.
So, in summary, game theory would say that I would certainly settle this case, for why would I risk negative publicity at a time when I was preparing our company to go public and also risk embarrassing my nephew.
Notably, she hired a Silicon Valley law firm, rather than a typical NY employment firm. This struck me as interesting as her husband works for one of the most prominent Silicon Valley venture firms whose CEO, I am sure, has no tolerance for these kinds of fake claims that sadly many venture-backed companies also have to deal with. I mention this as I suspect her husband likely has been working with her on the strategy for squeezing me as, in addition to being a computer scientist, he is a game theorist. My only advice for him is to understand more about your opponent before you launch your first move.
All of the above said, gender, race, LGBTQ and other such discrimination is a real thing. Many people have been harmed and deserve compensation for this discrimination, and these companies and individuals should be punished for engaging in such behavior.
Which brings me to the advice I am seeking from the X community.
I am not planning to follow the typical path and settle this ‘claim.’ Rather, I am going to fight this nonsense to the end of the earth in the hope that it inspires other CEOs to do the same so we shut down this despicable behavior that is a large tax on society, employment, and the economy and contributes to workplace discrimination rather than reducing it.
Do you agree or disagree that this is the right approach?
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@MattyDTrash It would be very funny if Oda somehow fumbled the ending by just adding a random alien character without any build up that 1 shots Imu and BB, and becomes the final villain, good thing my goat inst a bum to do shit like this.
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Its funny cause whether Blackbeard or Imu is the final villain it's still applicable 💀
𝕂𝕒𝕙𝕞𝕚🐬🇭🇹@Kahamsha
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@lordgoonman @headoverdiors @Raindropsmedia1 wasnt defending the mom
iwas being unbiased in pointing out that the police are not helping the situation by being assholes and flexing their authority
common reasons y ppl dislike the police
she 2 busy tryna make ends meet, she assumed her kids did what your siblings would do
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@aiphoul @headoverdiors @Raindropsmedia1 the mom got a wake up call, me and my siblings would never my mom made SURE we wouldn't get out of the car you have to pee hold it. i seriously dont know why you are defending her.
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@lordgoonman @headoverdiors @Raindropsmedia1 Obvious racism ragebait aside
The police were being overly aggressive and making assumptions, threatening her. They then went over and the daughter corroborated her story,
are YOU retarded?
A badge doesn’t give anyone the right to think less of someone
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@headoverdiors @Raindropsmedia1 first off shut the fuck up you sound retarded, the right thing shut the fuck up when someone in charge is speaking and reply when spoken too. the police did a great job. Stop being racist
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@fuckthegov8 @LiveEasy005 @1GucciPuccii @FearedBuck And what would your goofy ass have done if the person you assaulted reported you?
it’s not worth it
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Pooh Shiesty and Big30 reportedly robbed and kidnapped Gucci Mane in Dallas, according to the DOJ
Pooh Shiesty allegedly held an AK-47 toward Gucci Mane and forced him to sign a contract release, while BIG3O blocked the door to prevent him from leaving. 9 people from Memphis have been charged, and the stolen jewelry appeared on social media within hours.
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@Variety Another diversity hire actress gets written out of her show while they promote the next token to keep the woke checklist alive. Hollywood cant even pretend the stories matter anymore.
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EXCLUSIVE: #ThePitt star Supriya Ganesh, who plays Dr. Samira Mohan, will exit the series for Season 3.
According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, the decision is story-driven. As a teaching hospital, Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center regularly sees residents come and go.
Ayesha Harris, who plays senior night shift resident Dr. Parker Ellis, has been promoted to series regular for Season 3.
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@Thefakejoetuna @sh4rd1um @NobodyIn4K no, what you said is the weird argument
the character is being depicted so therefore it exists through a medium
if it really did not exist, we wouldn’t even be talking about it
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@sh4rd1um @NobodyIn4K Its still a character who doesnt exist, weird argument
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so many fine ass women in this show and yall gooning to the teenager
Strayzinho_art@Strayzinhoart
So Tech Jacket is finally here
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@FearedBuck mfs really can’t read, it said everyone was in on the joke
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The Wizards have released an official apology for their April Fools’ skit in which the mascot and team pretended a fan made a blindfolded half-court shot to win $10,000.
“We apologize for last night’s April Fools’ joke that left many wondering if we had misled a fan… All participants were in on the joke, but we missed the mark”


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@CoreyACrowley @EamoArt begging strangers for help but not being able to be courteous to strangers about spoilers is crazy
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@EamoArt Humanizing him just sets it up so his upcoming death by Thragg is much more heartbreaking. If he stayed the little shit he was last season I wouldn't bat an eyelash. But he's learned from his mistakes and clearly loves his brother, so dying would destroy Mark more than he is now.
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With how much they've humanised Oliver in the show, it's gonna be interesting to see how the writers rationalise his actions in the next season, because comic Oliver is lowkey a sociopath.
LANCE 🌩️— C0MMS OPEN!!@Lanxerz
What if I start crying omg
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@industrybob @zendayahqz Allegedly that happened after Tom and her separated but before they committed to each other
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