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Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people

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Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people - Lemmy.World

What an utter dick.

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Eyck_of_denesle

A little irrelevant but I saw a reel saying Tim saves Amazon forests with his own money. Apparently he has bought a lot of land there only for the sole purpose of saving Amazon. Can anyone fact check this?

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MurrayL Mar 26

I don’t know about the Amazon, but he does own huge amounts of land in North Carolina which he has protected and/or donated to conservation schemes.

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ForeverComical Mar 26

Is it that thing where people get paid for not cutting the forest down?

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ParlimentOfDoom Mar 26

Yes. Greenwashing. You pay someone who wasn’t going to cut their trees to keep not cutting their trees, and you get carbon credits to offset your company’s pollution.

You change nothing but get to brag about saving the world.

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7101334 Mar 26

Piggybacking on this to say the vast majority of “a tree planted for every _______” schemes are also greenwashing bullshit, including Ecosia if I’m not mistaken.

Most plant monocrops with no regard for how a natural, healthy forest functions and generally take no care to make sure the trees actually reach maturity or even adolescence.

There are exceptions, some companies who actually do it right (though carbon credits are a bullshit poison concept regardless), but I imagine most big companies use the corner-cutting options.

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fakeman_pretendname Mar 26

Apparently he bought it so he can steal endangered animals and make them fight in a “death arena” in his back garden. Please don’t fact check this, just accept it is true.

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MBech Mar 26

Wouldn’t be the first time though.

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