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[Superstar]

I imagine a lot of the crybaby account suicides will end up returning, especially a grifter like Shaun King who seems to rely on twitter for attention.

He's already back. That lasted about 12 hours

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I haven't checked but is era back on team wu because of the musk thing?

[Pissy F Benny]

How are people making themselves out to be victims from some idiot richman agreeing to buy a shitty social media platform and literally nothing changing yet

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thats part of the horrendous culture that twitter (or its algo) and its users has fostered on its site

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[Pissy F Benny]

tbf to musk he will probably stop that thing twitter does where it further ruins the user experience with every update

[Snoopycat_]

That account had a history of posting questions on trans topics in a way that toes that JAQ line of feigned innocence and has always felt off. When I read that question I got the same vibe as the times before, and I'm glad it wasn't just me judging by the mod action.

  I'll note I didn't report the post at the time so the sense was obviously shared by others

Lol. It totes wasn’t me guys. I was busy playing Cyberpunk

[BisMarckie]

Arthur Chu also deleted his Twitter account.

I like people who owe their modest fame to twitter shooting themselves in the foot.

Almost as much as people who bemoan the death of the totally not privately owned public forum and death of democracy.

[BisMarckie]

Benji: When will our boy Stefan "Peter“ Molyneux be allowed back in?

[Pissy F Benny]

You can reactivate your account within a certain amount of time (30 days or something), most of the arseholes who've flounced off will reactivate within a week or two when the attention cravings become too strong.

I don't really give a shit about this (is Elon Musk going to be any worse than Jack Dorsey and it won't be hard to be better than that no mark who is in charge now), but seeing meltdowns from the people who are probably 50% responsible for what a shit hole twitter became is amusing to say the least

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Musk probably rooting for Putin to win the war right now.

That's why SpaceX deployed starlink terminals to help maintain connectivity for ukraine.

[joeboy101]

Musk probably rooting for Putin to win the war right now.

That's why SpaceX deployed starlink terminals to help maintain connectivity for ukraine.

Love how they have started throwing everything now.

“I saw that he loved reading Harry Potter and has played Cyberpunk. And not in an ironic fashion like users on ERA!”

Next on ERA, ELongated Muskrat funded Sandy Hook and created COVID.

[HaughtyFrank]

So can Musk be sued when his new Twitter leads to terrorist attacks and shit with no moderation?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/eu-warns-elon-musk-that-twitter-must-follow-its-digital-rules-if-wants-to-continue-to-operate-there.577087/post-85683538

This is like a new moral panic.

It makes sense though when you consider that they think a GI Jane joke is literally violence

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/james-gunn-stands-up-for-chris-pratt.577150/#post-85690252

B-Chuds:

Do we really need threads about random-ass twitter drama?

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/james-gunn-stands-up-for-chris-pratt.577150/#post-85690252

B-Chuds:

Do we really need threads about random-ass twitter drama?

Thread was just about to get good

sending Brie Larson death threats: i sleep

someone gently ribs Chris Pratt for very legit reasons: "For what? Because of your made-up, utterly-false beliefs about him?"

Also B-chud is such a fucking hypocrite. See you in the next twitter cancel thread

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Musk probably rooting for Putin to win the war right now.

That's why SpaceX deployed starlink terminals to help maintain connectivity for ukraine.

Love how they have started throwing everything now.

“I saw that he loved reading Harry Potter and has played Cyberpunk. And not in an ironic fashion like users on ERA!”

Next on ERA, ELongated Muskrat funded Sandy Hook and created COVID.

"Twitter is going to be filled with obviously racist things now, because like all south africans he is a white supremacist who endorses apartheid"

[Kurt Russell]

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://twitter.com/7Veritas4/status/1518718386943021056

 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I joined twitter so i could see softcore pics

[Cauliflower Of Love]

ironically musk takes no salary from his companies and can get free loans


nep take no salaries from their companies well..

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

The Shaun video is great on this, but there are no good/bad actions for her, just good/bad people.

Her heroes in the book are often mean, bully, punch down etc... but that is fine because they are 'good' and working towards the 'good' goal. It's bad when the bad people do it because... they are bad and working towards bad things. No doubt she sees herself in the same light, her actions are not mean/bullying because she is on what she sees as the 'good' side - and honestly it is probably because she cannot comprehend herself not being on the side of 'good'. It seems like her planned and failing 5-film arc for Fantastic Beasts was literally to respond to the critique 'Why didn't wizards stop Hitler', so she is quite happy to completely go off the deep end in order to continue justifying to herself that she is on the side of 'good'.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/1518770470266490880

[Mostima]

Couldn't even resist getting off Twitter for a day
https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1518989237017882625?cxt=HHwWgsC9obiqxJQqAAAA

[Superstar]

Couldn't even resist getting off Twitter for a day
https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1518989237017882625?cxt=HHwWgsC9obiqxJQqAAAA

I like how he's pretending he didn't delete his Twitter. An actual case of gaslighting.

[Kurt Russell]

https://twitter.com/roddyrowddy/status/1518990079267639296

[benjipwns]

Musk probably rooting for Putin to win the war right now.

That's why SpaceX deployed starlink terminals to help maintain connectivity for ukraine.

Love how they have started throwing everything now.

“I saw that he loved reading Harry Potter and has played Cyberpunk. And not in an ironic fashion like users on ERA!”

Next on ERA, ELongated Muskrat funded Sandy Hook and created COVID.

The UN told Elon Musk he could stop COVID for just $19.99 a month and he said "I look down and whisper no" and gave $44 billion to the world's biggest anti-trans hate group instead while encouraging JOANNE OMG SHUT UP TERF to spread more hate under the lie of "free speech" which isn't actually a thing that can conceptually exist.

[benjipwns]

So can Musk be sued when his new Twitter leads to terrorist attacks and shit with no moderation?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/eu-warns-elon-musk-that-twitter-must-follow-its-digital-rules-if-wants-to-continue-to-operate-there.577087/post-85683538

Dude just spent $44 billion only to find out that the fucked up American type of free speech isn't enforceable

Eh, he will do the bare minimum and then stall this stuff in courts. They all will. He just wants to help the Republicans gain a stronger foothold in the USA.

Is musk dream is to turn twitter into 4chan or 8chan?

He's a racist, so that would track.

Good. Hopefully Elon does what he always does when he gets a little pushback and whines about it, then disappears to find a new way to screw people over elsewhere. Fuck Elon Musk.

please ban the service in Europe. i'd cheer for that.

who the fuck wants to be at the mercy of Elon goddamn Musk when it comes to anything important?

man im so tired of hearing about this fucker

I feel governments shouldn't let social media up to the market. It's become a service that virtually everyone relies and depends on, integrated in any facets of our daily lives. Something like that should be governed, not moderated.

Thanks, I hate it.

[Transhuman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/amazons-rings-of-power-series-cost-57-million-per-episode.576859/

Can't believe they're making this instead of ending world hunger

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://twitter.com/prestonwpsmith/status/1518990314123538433

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/scenario-you-and-your-significant-other-are-held-at-gunpoint.577213/

Lets say you and your significant other were suddenly held at gunpoint while walking outside. Literally as soon as it happens your s/o bolts off into the distance leaving you with the robber. You get roughed up and robbed of everything you're carrying (besides shirt, shoes and pants), you're let go and you later run into your s/o. Your s/o offers a weak and muddled excuse for running; you can't tell if they're being genuine or if they're lying.

What is your response?

Dafaq did i just read

[NekoFever]

/r/oddlyspecific

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/scenario-you-and-your-significant-other-are-held-at-gunpoint.577213/

Lets say you and your significant other were suddenly held at gunpoint while walking outside. Literally as soon as it happens your s/o bolts off into the distance leaving you with the robber. You get roughed up and robbed of everything you're carrying (besides shirt, shoes and pants), you're let go and you later run into your s/o. Your s/o offers a weak and muddled excuse for running; you can't tell if they're being genuine or if they're lying.

What is your response?

Dafaq did i just read

And then the robbers demand you comply with terrorist law.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/scenario-you-and-your-significant-other-are-held-at-gunpoint.577213/

Lets say you and your significant other were suddenly held at gunpoint while walking outside. Literally as soon as it happens your s/o bolts off into the distance leaving you with the robber. You get roughed up and robbed of everything you're carrying (besides shirt, shoes and pants), you're let go and you later run into your s/o. Your s/o offers a weak and muddled excuse for running; you can't tell if they're being genuine or if they're lying.

What is your response?

Dafaq did i just read

How do they know about my fetish? 

[benjipwns]

The thing is...

If I were to answer this prompt seriously, one of the worst things you can do in the event that you're robbed at gunpoint is anything sudden. That includes running. So, if I didn't break up with my boyfriend (and I still would, I'm real about mine), I'd also be enraged at them for doing something that in reality only increased the chance that harm came to them OR me (because now the robber is pissed, and the partner running is likely WHY I got fucked up and not just my shit taken).

EDIT: I mean, this is hood/self-defense 101. You don't run from someone pointing a gun at you unless you KNOW they're planning to shoot, in which case you take your chance.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/scenario-you-and-your-significant-other-are-held-at-gunpoint.577213/

Lets say you and your significant other were suddenly held at gunpoint while walking outside. Literally as soon as it happens your s/o bolts off into the distance leaving you with the robber. You get roughed up and robbed of everything you're carrying (besides shirt, shoes and pants), you're let go and you later run into your s/o. Your s/o offers a weak and muddled excuse for running; you can't tell if they're being genuine or if they're lying.

What is your response?

Dafaq did i just read

one of my fantasies?

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correct answer is you rob them

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[Potato]

The thing is...

If I were to answer this prompt seriously, one of the worst things you can do in the event that you're robbed at gunpoint is anything sudden. That includes running. So, if I didn't break up with my boyfriend (and I still would, I'm real about mine), I'd also be enraged at them for doing something that in reality only increased the chance that harm came to them OR me (because now the robber is pissed, and the partner running is likely WHY I got fucked up and not just my shit taken).

EDIT: I mean, this is hood/self-defense 101. You don't run from someone pointing a gun at you unless you KNOW they're planning to shoot, in which case you take your chance.

You ain't running anywhere you cheeseburger eating cunt

[Snoopycat_]

I'm a firearms instructor on the side who trains all the time. Her running should distract him enough for me to draw and end him. I'd tell my wife thanks!

Sure Jan

[Lonewulfeus]

The thing is...

If I were to answer this prompt seriously, one of the worst things you can do in the event that you're robbed at gunpoint is anything sudden. That includes running. So, if I didn't break up with my boyfriend (and I still would, I'm real about mine), I'd also be enraged at them for doing something that in reality only increased the chance that harm came to them OR me (because now the robber is pissed, and the partner running is likely WHY I got fucked up and not just my shit taken).

EDIT: I mean, this is hood/self-defense 101. You don't run from someone pointing a gun at you unless you KNOW they're planning to shoot, in which case you take your chance.

You ain't running anywhere you cheeseburger eating cunt

I want this to have been word filtered so badly.

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/BriannaWu/status/1519049591701884929

By Kat Tenbarge, David Ingram and Ben Goggin

Brianna Wu knows firsthand how bad the harassment on Twitter can get. A software engineer and game developer, Wu was targeted with death and rape threats during GamerGate, an online harassment campaign against women in the gaming industry that started in 2014.

Wu, who has more than 100,000 Twitter followers and has used the platform throughout her career, said she consulted with the company’s trust and safety team in an unofficial, unpaid capacity from 2014 to late 2021.

Now, after years of working with the company on reducing hate speech and harassment, she said tech titan Elon Musk could undo the platform’s progress.

“I want Twitter to do well. I just have no faith that under Elon Musk that Twitter would continue to be a place where women, people of color or LGBT people could use it at all,” she said.

...

Musk’s anti-censorship ideals could reverse years of policy progress at Twitter and allow harassment to flourish, according to Wu and other experts.

“Around 2014, it was really obvious that the way we were handling harassment and moderation policies wasn’t working across the tech industry,” Wu said. “The sense that I had at Twitter was that the trust and safety team was constantly running up against the business interests at Twitter.”

According to Wu, who is currently executive director of the progressive political fund Rebellion PAC, Twitter’s trust and safety team was more successful under founder Jack Dorsey’s leadership as CEO. Dorsey stepped down in November 2021. Del Harvey, who was Twitter’s vice president of trust and safety for 13 years, left her position a month earlier. Since they left, Wu said the company stopped reaching out to her.

“It became harder and harder for the trust and safety team to do their jobs and keep updating these policies through the Trump era,” Wu said. “We’ve seen a lot of progress made from about 2014 to 2018, and then it really dropped very precipitously to where these policies are hanging on by a thread today.”

...

Like Warren, Wu believes that loosening moderation on Twitter could be bad for democracy.

“I would posit to you that rape threats, death threats, doxxing — this is just not part of a healthy American conversation about where we need to go,” Wu said. “So I really worry that rather than heal these vast rifts in the American discourse, I think it’s going to make them even worse.”

[Snoopycat_]

It’s incredible how these people are experts on everything under the sun. From Microsoft’s business plans to hood 101, whatever the fuck that is

[Lonewulfeus]

I hate that I can’t nuke my Twitter cause I’m a soon to be traditionally published author and I need it. But I will be only posting updates from now on. Fuck Elon.

Thank you for caring up until it might have a minuscule effect on you personally

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/talk-shit-get-hit-by-mike-tyson.575443/page-9#post-85523824

User Banned (2 Weeks): Pedantry and Tone Policing Minority Members over Multiple Posts

The person constantly using the label 'murica while displaying a significant and demonstrated ignorance of the very culture they original pitched themselves to be somewhat versed in... Should probably stop.

why not quote me instead of subtweeting me?. is this request that i stop using the word "'murican" said in your capacity as a moderator? i will take a lack of an answer to this question as a no

i use that word to distinguish usa from the rest of america, which isn't rotten to the core to the same degree. i think it's bullshit that one country has made itself synonymous with two continents. using america in place of usa erases everyone else in the americas

if this is a mod request for me to change my language, i guess i could use USA in place of 'murica/america, but which word should i use in place of American? USAian is not a word. i find that the words 'murican and 'muricans fill an unfilled semantic niche

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nba-playoffs-2022-ot-out-with-leold-in-with-trae-young.573667/page-128#post-85569043

User Banned: (1 Month): Inappropriate joke concerning a highly maligned medical condition

Magic knows.

Anyone with half a brain can clearly see it that that is the AIDS talking.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/emmanuel-macron-to-win-the-french-presidency-beating-far-right-candidate-marine-lepen-and-ensuring-a-second-term-in-office.576454/

User Banned (1 Month): Sexism

Thank fuck the Russian prostitute lost.

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376

No one fears free speech you colossal jackass, people do not want to be berated with hateful and harmful speech, including your advertisers.

"I believe that people should be exactly as racist and transphobic as prescribed by law." - Elon Musk

Spamming the N-Word isn't against the law, so I look forward to Twitter cratering once advertisers pull out because that's all a lot of users will do. Good work Elon. Brilliant job.

Man, why do white people want to say the n word so badly?

This is like... comically ignorant. It would be funny if it weren't so sad.

Is that free speech as defined in US law? Because you see the US isn't the entire world and what might be free speech in the US is actually hate speech and not lawful in other countries...

So how's that going to work exactly?

Elon REALLY hasn't thought this out.

"Free speech is what the law says it is" is an absolutely wild take from a free speech absolutist.

What censorship? With the exception of Trump being permanently banned and a few US Congress members only getting a suspension. Everyone else with out the checkmark, has been banned for racist, transphobic views as well as displaying explicit content.


This is for anyone who still don't understand why this is a bad idea. He just want more of these posts

Elon drank the Kool-Aid and legit thinks that Twitter is a left-wing haven that bans good Conservatives for believing in lower taxes, when in actuality, it's because they spam the n-word, spread holocaust denial, create dangerous conspiracy theories that have real world consequences etc etc.

I have to wonder if Musk will legit prop up Twitter at a loss to keep his "free speech haven" running.

Christ, I'd be embarassed posting that on here never mind after a $44bn purchase.

Could you imagine if laws were actually just based on the majority of what people actually wanted?

Musk is a fucking idiot.

God I hate this stupid fucker and his transparent bullshit. Dude is basically just saying he will do the bare minimum, and he probably won't even manage that. US hate speech laws are also notably lacking, so this "letter of the law" stuff rings especially hollow. I hope he at least loses a bunch of money on this.

His "extreme antibody reaction" is him trying to dance around what he really means. Twitter is yours bro, just say NPCs or whatever the fuck the Right Wing tells you like a good little chud.

...So by this logic, does he think that black South Africans like, wanted apartheid and that's how it came to be imposed on them? Because they were never anything but the majority of the population

What even is this, there is no censorship that is happening that goes against the law.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/steam-deck-ot-your-games-are-going-places.556834/page-166#post-85622362

User Banned (1 Month): Xenophobic Lazy-Devs Rhetoric; Account in Junior Phase

Some games 16:9 is hardcoded into the engine, Dragons Dogma is the same way, it "supports" 1280x800 but only displays 16:9 and adds black bars.

Final Fantasy X does this, or at least I haven't figured a way to get rid of them.

Naming Japanese games is basically cheating.
My bad, I forgot how many incompetent devs there are that haven't managed to do what western devs have done for 20 years.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-a-dedicated-nintendo-console-focused-on-power-with-the-trade-off-that-it-isnt-handheld-something-that-people-want.576304/page-4#post-85577869

User Banned (permanently): Trolling, console wars. Repeated history of infractions for similar behaviour.

How the hell isn’t the ‘Yes’ option winning? I never played my Switch in handheld mode and I‘d happily pay for a powerful Nintendo hardware that focused on their exclusive games.

I think Nintendo fans or large majority have been conditioned throughout the years to expect and put up with Nintendo’s low end approach. It’s depressing frankly.

[Boredfrom]

I wish I could play my Switch in handheld mode... but those fucking joycons...

So yeah, Nintendo fans have lower expectations of hardware in general, including quality.

[Boredfrom]

Guess who:

This is what happens when narcissists with hero complexes think they're valuable

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cnn-expected-a-billion-dollars-in-revenue-in-4-years-more-than-double-what-cnn-makes-now.577099/page-3#post-85709332

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incel triple posting

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[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nba-playoffs-2022-ot-out-with-leold-in-with-trae-young.573667/page-128#post-85569043

User Banned: (1 Month): Inappropriate joke concerning a highly maligned medical condition

Magic knows.

Anyone with half a brain can clearly see it that that is the AIDS talking.

User Threadbanned: Drive-by, inflammatory generalization.

Wow people going to bat for a rapist in this thread Era is weird.

Nah. More like some of us are tired of seeing Black people getting treated like dogshit all the time and think someone who is free and paid their debt to society should be able to catch a flight without having shit thrown at them. And when they rightfully standup for themselves not get a bunch of finger wagging about violence.

But keep fucking that chicken, I guess.

This is among the most willfully pedantic and ignorant dogshit I’ve read on this site.

In a thread about a Black man defending himself you come across as an ignorant asshole talking about “Merica”. Black people don’t talk like that so don’t throw that bullshit when it comes to us. Thanks.

Now in a thread where discussions about how Black people in general are constantly mistreated you want to make this about how terrible America can be? Regarding national nomenclature? Word?

(An aside: I also can’t help but notice how motherfuckers LOVE to get hyper aggressive with minority mods on this site. Well, I’m not a mod and y’all ain’t slick. Fuck outta here with that horseshit.)

Have you ever just shut the entire fuck up and listen to someone that might not look like you?

If we HAD to do it since preschool, maybe you should at least TRY it. Really hear what’s being said. Take it in.

He served his time for it and changed his ways. Given that, what possible reason is there for anyone to bring that up?

Edited: wrong quote lol

[ShutUp]

I wish I could play my Switch in handheld mode... but those fucking joycons...

So yeah, Nintendo fans have lower expectations of hardware in general, including quality.

Do we need to post the amount of GOTY contenders just since the Switch released? 

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fox-news-sees-year-over-year-audience-growth-in-april-other-networks-see-viewerships-drop.577264/#post-85706212

The boomers thought that violent video games and movies would warp the young generation, whereas Fox News and AM Radio warped them.

Yet they have a why women criticize sexualized designs thread.

[Uncle]

these are the same people who fought the jack thompson wars, with mountains of evidence that video games don't cause violence

now saying the equivalent of fox news causes violence

either people are able to be influenced by media they consume or they're not

[clothedmacuser]

these are the same people who fought the jack thompson wars, with mountains of evidence that video games don't cause violence

now saying the equivalent of fox news causes violence

either people are able to be influenced by media they consume or they're not

When you are always right about socioeconomics then being influenced by media is a good thing because you are learning more about how right you are.

[Polident Hive]

Joker 1 might’ve been a fluke, but Joker 2 is going to be dangerous. Stay safe.

[Uncle]

in joker 2 the joker buys twitter and bans batman 

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/its-official-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter.576718/page-26#post-85709800

Probably being paranoid, but I think I've been soft-banned from Twitter for liking a few anti-Elon tweets, I can't like anything in my timeline currently, though I can RT.

Noticing this as well.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/radiohead%E2%80%99s-jonny-greenwood-likes-transphobic-tweet.577318/#post-85715041

I can only hope this was a mistake because that’d be such a disappointment as a huge Radiohead fan.

The tweet in question:

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/radiohead%E2%80%99s-jonny-greenwood-likes-transphobic-tweet.577318/#post-85715041

I can only hope this was a mistake because that’d be such a disappointment as a huge Radiohead fan.

The tweet in question:

Time to lock another twitter drama thread b-dubs

...right?

[Snoopycat_]

Oh no. The TERF bitch has infected Radiohead. Is there no end to her evil?

Sadly not the first time. He liked tweets defending JK Rowling too

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/game-freak-to-implement-an-optional-4-day-work-week-including-a-20-pay-reduction-for-taking-the-day-off.577000/page-2#post-85674022

User banned (3 days): accusations of shilling   

https://www.resetera.com/threads/game-freak-to-implement-an-optional-4-day-work-week-including-a-20-pay-reduction-for-taking-the-day-off.577000/page-3#post-85678384

User Banned (3 days): accusations of shilling   

https://www.resetera.com/threads/game-freak-to-implement-an-optional-4-day-work-week-including-a-20-pay-reduction-for-taking-the-day-off.577000/page-4#post-85679092

User banned (3 days): inflammatory accusations 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/game-freak-to-implement-an-optional-4-day-work-week-including-a-20-pay-reduction-for-taking-the-day-off.577000/page-4#post-85679707

User banned (3 days): accusations of astroturfing   

Is the accusation of being a shill actually worse than being a shill?

[HaughtyFrank]

Is the accusation of being a shill actually worse than being a shill?

This is in addition to their work-from-home options which have been implemented for years, their hourly paid leave system and their staggered work system so that employees can work in ways comfortable to them to maximise their potential

This reads like a press release