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Such a thing should not impact sentencing, either. The judge allowed it, the judge was swayed by it, it impacted sentencing. This is wrong.

You can say that all you want, but when your brain is presented with a video of a person, using that person’s voice, you’re going to take what’s being said as being from that person in the video.

Not at all, because it would have been her making claims about what she believes her brother would have said, and not a simulacrum of her brother speaking her words with his voice.

Because a judge allowing anyone to represent their views in court as though those views belong to someone else is a textbook “bad idea.” It is a misrepresentation of the truth.

Oh yeah, yeah - from a financial/reporting perspective, such a fund wouldn’t be considered “profit” in the strictest capitalist sense.

If you consider that kind of fund to be for the benefit of customers and employees, it might be considered “socialist profit.” Capitalist profit serves the ownership class. Socialist profit serves labor and consumers.

Profit would be appropriate if it were earmarked to offset difficult future fiscal periods, so that the business could continue to operate in lean times without having to punish employees through layoffs or failure to keep up with cost of living or cutting back on other benefits.

But we all know that’s not what happens. Owners never have to experience consequences; customers and employees always do, for things that they have no control over.

Oh right, I forgot about that. Then it’s just wrong.

Preface: This does not belong in a courtroom. These were not his words. These were words that someone else wrote, and then put into the mouth of a very realistic puppet of him.

This was a victim impact statement, which I think comes after sentencing. In that case, it wouldn’t have had an impact on sentencing, but I still feel quite strongly that this kind of misrepresentation has no place in a court.

It’s not needless pedantry. Revenue is the income acquired before costs, and those costs include employee compensation. Reducing the number of employees has zero immediate effect on revenue. A company with US$10B in revenue can still be losing money if their expenses are higher than revenue.

This is important to point out, because reporting very often uses the wrong metric to describe a company in comparison to its behavior. Revenue is rarely the correct metric, and mentioning it as a comparator in this article makes the issue less clear.

Note that I am not defending CrowdStrike here. Hell, they’re the ones saying that layoffs are going to magically increase revenue:

According to CrowdStrike, the layoff plan is part of a bigger plan to improve different operations and processes and achieve the final goal of $10 billion in revenue by the end of the year.

‍ “[Layoffs represent] a strategic plan (the ‘Plan’) to evolve its operations to yield greater efficiencies as the Company continues to scale its business with focus and discipline to meet its goal of $10 billion in ending [Annual Recurring Revenue].”, the CrowdStrike company mentioned in their 8-K filing.

I’m no paragon of business, but I fail to comprehend how having fewer employees is going to make your sales go up. Maybe they’re laying off salespeople, which puts the fear of god in those who are left as a “motivator”? Laying off people who perform the services they sell seems counterproductive in relation to revenue.

They’re being intentionally misleading about this, and pointing that out is not pedantry.

I hear what you’re saying, but revenue isn’t profit.

So we agree on one point, weirdness.

It’s still got no business in a courtroom.

Those were not his words. They were someone else’s words spoken by a very realistic puppet they made of him after he died.

That’s weird at best, and does not belong in a court.

If only they were cardinals, huh?

We are all poop drones on this glorious day.

He literally said he was not trolling.

All manner of slavers have had their hooks in from the jump.

Capital city: Soviet District of Fascigrad.

When the aggressor is on his back foot, and looking to secure his gains by offering “peace,” you keep fighting.

This really doesn’t seem like something the administration has a hand in.

The administration has set the tone of “Fuck with people as much as you want. Lie if you want to. There will be no consequences.”

… and I’m not saying it definitely is …

In case you missed that part.