This is all MSFT spin.

The studios mentioned don’t all have enough funding to continue to be operational at their current burn rates. Those studios will be doing their own layoffs or may not survive at all.

Those studios account for under 30% of the 1600 jobs that MSFT is removing from their payroll today. As the day goes on there will be news that breaks of other studios under their banner that have layoffs which contribute to the total mentioned. It’s likely that their individual stories will be lost under this initial announcement.

As someone unfamiliar with Air Force ranks, I tried to look up how big a deal the rank of major is. Is this something that is after a year or two in the service? A decade? Are there hundreds of majors in the Air Force? Thousands? Tens of thousands?

Please educate yourself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

So the Yiddish word means someone who isn’t Jewish. How is it used in those spaces?

As a Californian, fuck Newsom.

We do have common sense laws that lead the nation in a lot of areas, but especially automobile safety and pollution. Manufacturers don’t want to make a California specific version of their product, so it becomes the de facto standard for cars in the US.