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@gothburz If you’re explaining, you’re losing. Swapping out domestic employees for cheaper foreign, while relying heavily on “America First” government contracts is definitely a choice. Oracle is over-leveraged & Ellison is over extended. Good luck!

I am the VP of Workforce Economics at Oracle. We are worth $420 billion. On Tuesday, we sent 30,000 employees a termination email at 6 AM. Not 9. Not business hours. Six in the morning. They woke up to the word "eliminated." The email came from "Oracle Leadership." Not a manager. Not a name. Oracle Leadership. It said: "We are grateful for your dedication, hard work, and the impact you have made." By the time they read the word "grateful," their access to email, files, and Slack had already been revoked. The gratitude was the last Oracle communication they received. We did not eliminate the roles. We eliminated the salaries. In the same fiscal year, we filed 3,126 H-1B petitions to hire foreign workers. 436 this year alone. The roles are identical. The pay is not. An H-1B software engineer earns $87,000. The domestic median for the same work is $106,000. Eighty-three percent of H-1B workers are classified at entry-level wages for senior positions. The industry calls this a skills gap. It is a pay cut that requires a passport. The visa is tied to the employer. If the worker leaves, they lose their legal right to remain in the country. If they negotiate, they risk the same. If they organize, the sponsor declines to renew. That is retention. Our revenue this quarter is $17.2 billion. Up 22%. Net income up 95%. We have $553 billion in committed future contracts. Up 325%. These are not the numbers of a company that needs to lay anyone off. We took a $2.1 billion restructuring charge. That is the cost of the gratitude. It frees up $8 to $10 billion in annual cash flow. That cash services $156 billion in AI data centers we are building. Starting 2028, OpenAI pays us $82 million per day. Larry Ellison is worth $189 billion. He pledged $51 billion in Oracle shares as collateral for the Stargate AI venture. Announced at the White House. The stock rose 4% on Tuesday. The day of the 6 AM emails. Wall Street did not see 30,000 people. They saw the margin. Amazon laid off 30,000 since October. Filed thousands of H-1B petitions in the same window. This is not one company. This is the operating model. Fire the salary. Keep the role. Fill it with someone whose legal right to remain in the country depends on your continued sponsorship. Pay them less. They will not complain. They cannot. One employee's father worked at Oracle for 20 years. No phone call. No meeting. An email at 6 AM and a locked laptop. The role is still open. The people we fired are free. The people we hired are not.

@CasualFighting @HaterReport This is where you’re missing the point though. Once SGA has the defender beat, they keep reaching & he makes them pay. OKC is better about not reaching in these situations. The contact is allowed both ways, but SGA is better at putting defenders in bad positions than most.

@OneFlyMule @HaterReport they’re* god damn it still wont give elon my money to edit tho

This is why people get so annoyed with SGA. He doesn’t even NEED to foul bait. Bro can get buckets playing ethical basketball.

@CasualFighting @HaterReport It’s also important to note where the pressure is applied by defense. OKC uses a lot of pressure to keep you in front of them. Once you’re by, they have two 7’ bigs ready help clean up. Refs allow hand fighting, but blow whistle when they perceive advantage.

@OneFlyMule @HaterReport that would make sense if they were getting called and another guy was coming in to pester, but they’re bottom 10 in the league in fouls called against, they don’t get called nearly how they should

@CasualFighting @HaterReport OKC is stacked w/defenders. Dort gets in foul trouble? You’ve got 3 more ppl behind him that will play the same way. Every teams tries to play the way OKC does, not every team has the depth to sustain the intensity.

@OneFlyMule @HaterReport i think a lot of peoples main issue is that OKC is nothing but aggressive defenders and Shai still shoots more than entire other teams Caruso and Dort mug people and because of their reputation as hard nose defenders its seen as good defense instead of hacking

@Coopz___ Paycom Center holds 18,202 other ppl. Kindly go Harris same energy towards ppl wishing Dort broke his neck last night or STFU.

ladies and gentlemen, this is what it looks like when you are from the state that is ranked 50th in education in the country

@MatejSportinfo Or it doesn’t matter what he does bc he can never raise his team’s ceiling above 3rd place in the Western Conference.

This straw poll was done before the last Lakers-OKC game, with Luka just winning another POM after a historic month. And nothing's he's done affected the vote at all. This clearly proves that it doesn't matter what he does on the court. He'll never win an MVP with these voters.

@apey59 @thekidrayyan They also forgot Siakam was the EC MVP. Haliburton could get hit, but he wasn’t their engine.

@thekidrayyan I love how they gas him bc of that hot start but forget he was genuinely playing bad in the finals

nigga he did this in game 5 of the nba finals. please stfu

@theblockspot @Rageoverrun Cason Wallace would disagree

@Rageoverrun He’s a good player

Bronny got minutes at the Pacers. Bronny got minutes vs the Nets. Bronny got minutes vs the Wizards. Bronny got minutes vs the Cavs. Bronny got minutes at the Thunder. Laugh all you want. He’s a legitimate NBA player.

@Jsmithhhh55 @Jhickness9 I looked at the wrong Boston game 🤦🏼‍♂️

@OneFlyMule @Jhickness9 Not sure where you got Jdub coming off the bench and aj starting. Dub started the game.

15-0 with OKC’s healthy starting lineup and now Lu Dort heading to the locker room whhyyyyyyy

@BboyLooseFit @Kanesburner @thundercudi OKC had 64 points in the paint. This game was over in the 1st quarter. The discrepancy is more due to the fact OKC didn’t need to drive into contact bc of the lead. LA needed contact bc they couldn’t make anything. OKC out scored LA in the paint as well.

@Kanesburner @thundercudi I already told you why is there a big gap between the FTAs. And maybe I exaggerated a bit with the 40. That one might be right. I still think they foul a lot, but anyways the FTA disparity comes from difference in 3pt shots and drives.

Lakers FTA tonight - 27 Thunder FTA tonight - 13 Final score 139-96

@MatejSportinfo OKC blitzed and pressured Reeves too. OKC forced turnovers & pushed the pace bc Lakers could get back on D. Then Lakers collapsed D on SGA & he made them pay by making the right reads.

Luka getting blitzed at halfcourt by all-defense players, while SGA gets to cook LaRavia and Bronny one on one. But the context doesn't matter at all, does it.

@Jsmithhhh55 @Jhickness9 I looked back at the Boston game, AJ & Cason started. JDub came off bench & IHart was out. 15-0 makes more sense now 😂

@OneFlyMule @Jhickness9 No. Just min restriction

@Jhickness9 @Jsmithhhh55 Didn’t JDub come off the bench in Boston?

@Jsmithhhh55 They were healthy for that game. End of five game road trip they fell apart in second half of that game. They looked gassed. But credit to Celtics 3-point shooting that night.

@aharden2 @SloHoopsFan That’s bc when the Lakers doubled or collapsed the defense on his drives, SGA made good passes to find find open shooters. Luka turned the ball over or took bad shots baiting for fouls.

@SloHoopsFan Luka has 7 points. SGA has 8 points. The Thunder are up by 31 points.

Luka is getting doubled all game, and picked up full court. This is where role players need to step up and make some shots, but nothing goes in. Meanwhile OKC role players are making almost every 3. This is why Luka should be MVP for dragging this roster to the 3rd seed.

@ThunderFilmRoom I think they call that real-time player development. Either learn to beat him or learn to pas.

Why are the Lakers forcing Bronny to bring the ball up while Cason Wallace is hounding him lmao.

@Sp3ctr77 @PranavSriraman Lakers defensive plan was to pack paint & force supporting cast beat them. SGA found the open man or made the right pass & oKC knocked down open shots. 90% of NBA players can make those open shots when it feels like practice bc no pressure from defense.

@PranavSriraman Niqqa started padding after going up big lol. Carried by his team as usual.

Everyone’s better than Shai till it’s time to be better than Shai.

@RealNickJenson @Carsobi He was carried by PJ, Derek, & Kyrie.

@Carsobi What did he do to them two years ago in playoffs? Two games is a tiny sample size boss

That genuinely might be the ass-beating of the season. Lakers are just completely physically and athletically overwhelmed on both ends by OKC. They eat Luka alive. He’s averaged 15.5 PPG with 5.0 TOVs on 43.4% TS with a -56 +- in two games vs. OKC this year. Real numbers. Yeesh.

@TotalThunderGuy @JBone9641 @Carsobi Luka got a 1st hand experience watch PJ Washington & Derek Lively go off. Apparently he didn’t take notes.

@JBone9641 @Carsobi You know who has done well against OKC? A lot of guys. Ant. Wemby. Jaylen. Fuckin Brandon Miller. It’s not impossible at all…

@SamPrestiGM @PurpGoldLakers Plus they had to break their franchise record for 3’s made in a game (twice).

@PurpGoldLakers Second night of a back to back after we locked up the 1 seed for over 45 days at that point btw

We blew out OKC by 27 points around this time a year ago, and OKC still became champions in June Blowouts don’t mean much I’m not even worried