It was a “gift” because he demanded it and the FIFA head allowed it after the fact.

The players did not consent and was not aware he was going to steal it.

This is retconning/gaslighting the situation, something he’s known the world over for doing.

He’s fucking embarrassing. Stop simping for him. He doesn’t give two shits about you or anyone you care about.

Nah, it’s legit, from multiple sources. Also, there’s video evidence. Fuck off maga asshat.

You’re basically asking cultists to turn against their cult leader.

I can’t recall too many times in history where that’s ever happened. Sadly.

This isn’t a logic or reason thing with them, this is an identity thing.

If they do that, they will lose their sense of identity, and that’s something people who have few other things going for them are unlikely to do.

Yup, exactly. That’s why his stories are generally pretty weak. He doesn’t think about the outline or the ending at all.

He’s said on multiple occasions that he mostly just has an idea for a story, writes some characters, and in the process of developing the characters, he develops the story.

So the story is a tertiary device in his writing, the characters are the primary.

Which is why it works well when adapted for use with actors on the screen. You connect with them more easily, and the story isn’t generally as important in the beginning as a good cast and dialog.

See: The Stand.

The thing is you’re kinda right. He writes shitty stories, but great characters. He’s all about letting the characters evolve and explore the story to create the story.

The actual story? Not well thought out and riddled with inaccuracies.

This is why his books translate so well to the big and small screen.

What about a turkey egg?

I see what you did there

But not after having killed a lot of kids first.

So…you like Gladiator’s Timmy?

A guy who writes a book about it?

Oh, good to know. So his whole family are full of immigrants, as is his wife…

Grandfather.

This is a pretty great explanation/simplification.

I’ll add that because the calculations rely on floating point math in many cases, graphics chips do most of the heavy processing since they were already designed for this pipeline in mind with video games.

That means there’s a lot of power hungry graphics chips running in these data centers. It’s also why NVidia stock is so insane.

Keep trying, document everything. Get people to talk and align their stories. Consider getting several people with grievances to go to HR together. Showing up together is a show of force most HR take very seriously in my experience.

He’ll resist arrest while being in prison and will hang himself with two bullets to the back of the head.

Have you considered going to HR about this? I’ve never confronted a bully directly at work. You need to be indirect, not direct. Not every problem can be solved head on.

Not with ballots at least.

Seems to fit the official definition pretty neatly. Colloquially, I tend to agree with you, there’s a spectrum for fraud. But this still counts as fraud. It’s a fraudulent misrepresentation of the truth to convince others to part with something of value (a gift).

The fact that it’s a gift doesn’t change that this is fraud, only the severity of fraud in a legal sense.

Sure. After they’ve made their trillions off the working class 401ks

Well, that’s depressing as fuck. You’re right though.