[stadium]

Worked at one softbank backed company for a short time and the amount of money and heads they dumped at any problem was incredible. Literally they tried to grow and scale at all costs.

That doesn't work for mental health though. Money can't buy more therapists to meet patient demand.

Edit: more importantly I would never trust my mental health with a company that takes money from Khashoggi's murderers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Investment_Fund

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khash...

[shp0ngle]

I worked at one SB company and yeah, they had basically unlimited money to throw at problem, but their main competitors had too, from what I heard.

The funding world is _weird_ and I really wonder when the music will stop. I thought (hoped? against my short-time self-interest) that COVID will be such a crisis that will make people reconsider all these crazy spendings, but, apparently not!

YOLO I guess

[unmole]

> I would never trust my mental health with a company that takes money from Khashoggi's murderers.

It's interesting that Khashoggi's assassination is what seems to bother people most about the Saudis. Not the invasion of Yemen that has killed over a hundred thousand civilians or the littany of other crimes.

[hef19898]

Because Khashoggi's murder is so well covered and so just blatantly bold. The war in Yemen doesn't bother people that much because a) who knows where Yemen actually is b) Yemen is a poor and mostly muslim country c) Saudi is buying western weapons and selling us oil d) Saudi is hosting the Formula 1.

Considering what Saudi Arabia is doing in Yemen, with implicit support from NATO countries, and what Russia is doing in Ukraine we (as in Europe and the "West") should have stopped all business relationships with Saudi quite a while ago.

Saudi's actions bother me so, up to the point I refuse to work as much as possible with them, for them or with money from them. Luckily, for now at least, that is made easy since (to my knowledge) my employer isn't funded by Saudi blood money. It is funded by Chinese money so, which poses an interesting dilemma.

[stadium]

It's the mental image of a sedative plunge, plea to breathe by an asthmatic, and rapid dismemberment in a plastic wrapped room by a hit squad of private jet flown high level Saudis. He was going to get marriage paperwork completed. The callus calculation left an impression.

It doesn't diminish the deaths of 100k civilians. No whataboutism debate necessary, both are barbaric. One was top of mind, neither is mutually exclusive.

The common denominator between Saudis and Russia is oil and lack of conscience or moral compass. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[aaaaaaaaata]

He was related to CIA, so media told everyone it was outrage time.