IMALlama

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IMALlama,

Related: independent.co.uk/…/japanese-adoption-rates-major…

98% of all Japanese adoptions are employers adopting the adult men on their staff, not children

Some of Japan’s most famous companies have remained a “family-run” businesses because of “mukoyoshi,” such as carmaker Toyota, which was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda in 1937.

Suzuki is also famously run by adopted sons — in fact, the current chairman and CEO Osamu Suzuki is the fourth consecutively adopted son to run the group.

New FPS Built Using Doom Tech Is Better Than Most AAA Shooters (kotaku.com)

Things aren’t looking good for me. I’m a few levels into Selaco, a new FPS out now on Steam, and I’m stuck behind a bar as a group of sci-fi soldiers unload their rifles and shotguns into my hiding spot. I’m also low on health. So yeah, a bad spot to be in. I take a deep breath and try something....

IMALlama,

Let us know what you think of it! It certainly looks like it could be entertaining.

IMALlama,

Thanks for following up! I played the OG halflife when it came out, so I will be sure to check this out.

IMALlama,

Red dead redemption 2 didn’t stop at being pretty. If it did I don’t think we would all talk about it so fondly. Totally agree that it’s a great looking game though.

IMALlama,

Thanks for the follow up!

Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)

I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they’re on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can’t be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

IMALlama,

A lot of these system apps, while updated via the play store, won’t show up if you search the play store for them. They also won’t have reviews. An easy example, on my phone at least, is something called “Android System Intelligence”.

IMALlama,

It’s probably significantly more than 10-25 million a year in additional wages given the quality of employees, but it’s still likely pocket change next to things like the marketing budget. I work in a more capital intensive industry (tooling, hard parts, etc), but we still spend a few billion on engineering. Know what else we spend a few billion on? Marketing, amoung many other things. Job cuts always make me chuckle because they’re a, “we’re doing something” but we spend orders of magnitude more on material, facilities, etc.

IMALlama,

Amazon is also a store, but they have sponsored listings that get preferential placement. Not technically ads, but very similar idea…

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