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[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago (12 children)

/r/SneerClub discusses MIRI financials and how Yud ended up getting paid $600K per year from their cache.

Malo Bourgon, MIRI CEO, makes a cameo in the comments to discuss Ziz's claims about SA payoffs and how he thinks Yud's salary (the equivalent of like 150.000 malaria vaccines) is defensible for reasons that definitely exist, but they live in Canada, you can't see them.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

Guy does a terrible job explaining literally anything. Why, when trying to explain all the SA based drama, does he choose to create an analogy where the former employee is heavily implied to have murdered his wife?

S/o to cinnaverses for mixing it up in there.

[–] GorillasAreForEating@awful.systems 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Damn, I missed this and now the comment is deleted. Do you happen to remember what he said?

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I believe he was trying to explain why it looked like MIRI had paid money out to an alleged sexual abuser. The analogy was constructed something like this:

  1. A and B work at a company C
  2. A has conflict with B.
  3. C decides to fire B.
  4. unrelated to 1, 2, or 3, B has a wife D, who dies in mysterious circumstances, leading A to strongly believe that B killed D.
  5. The police, E, perform an investigation and decide not to pursue a case against B
  6. C pays out B's severance, unrelated to 2, 4, or 5.

Don't blame me or how I remembered this if this doesn't make sense.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Additionally he said something to the effect of I don't blame you for not knowing this, it wasn't effectively communicated to the media like it's no big deal, which isn't really helping to beat the allegations of don't ask don't tell policies about SA in rat related orgs.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 2 points 15 hours ago

Can confirm. This was like if the pope walked into an r/atheism meetup and showed his texts saying "dw bro, I'll just move you to a different diocese, btw this totally isn't about the allegations wink wink"

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