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Bringing an external investigator in for the Madison allegations.

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Dicehunter said:
In that apology video Linus' wife looked beyond peed off and tired of Linus' shenanigans.... I wouldn't be surprised if there was divorce in their future.
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If that's the case then Linus is in for a rude awakening with thousands upon thousands of dollars in alimony and child maintenance per month. Potentially half the house and half of LMG too.
 
Flibster said:
New CEO doing something right.

Bringing an external investigator in for the Madison allegations.

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These external investigators may get to the bottom of the issue, but bullies protect bullies, abusers protect abusers. If even half a dozen people responsible for the majority close ranks with each other then without substantial evidence much of what happened won't be actionable and those responsible won't face any consequences.
 
Dicehunter said:
In that apology video Linus' wife looked beyond peed off and tired of Linus' shenanigans.... I wouldn't be surprised if there was divorce in their future.
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Hardly surprising, he is the human equivalent of chewing cotton wool. Eventually even the money can’t help you to put up with that.

I haven’t watched the full GN video but have watched their response in their latest video. Seems like folk are focusing maybe a little too much on the Billet debacle and not enough on their inaccurate testing and reporting. I would watch the original video but I’m concerned there will be images and/or video clips of Linus in it.
 
MissChief said:
If that's the case then Linus is in for a rude awakening with thousands upon thousands of dollars in alimony and child maintenance per month. Potentially half the house and half of LMG too.
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If Canada's legal system is like the EU, UK and US then she'll likely get all of the house, Half of his money and full custody of their kids. Based on my experience with friends and family divorces, a divorce tends to be a massive pay day for the woman.

PitterPatter said:
Hardly surprising, he is the human equivalent of chewing cotton wool. Eventually even the money can’t help you to put up with that.

I haven’t watched the full GN video but have watched their response in their latest video. Seems like folk are focusing maybe a little too much on the Billet debacle and not enough on their inaccurate testing and reporting. I would watch the original video but I’m concerned there will be images and/or video clips of Linus in it.
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Oooof that made me wince :D
 
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Dicehunter said:
In that apology video Linus' wife looked beyond peed off and tired of Linus' shenanigans.... I wouldn't be surprised if there was divorce in their future.
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She might not be happy. But I would be amazed if they divorced. On the surface at least, they are a very strong team and will work through this. She's not new to what Linus is like..
 
Twinz said:
He made a claim and parenthetically attached two "facts" to that claim. Is it's your position that those "facts" were totally unrelated to the claim to which he attached them?

"To Steve, I expressed my disappointment that he didn't go through proper journalistic practices in creating this piece. He has my email and number (along with numerous other members of our team) and could have asked me for context that may have proven to be valuable (like the fact that we didn't 'sell' the monoblock, but rather auctioned it for charity due to a miscommunication... AND the fact that while we haven't sent payment yet, we have already agreed to compensate Billet Labs for the cost of
their prototype)."

Before I put words in your mouth, is this your position, or are the "facts" he attached to the sentence related to said sentence? If they are related, in what way, if not to bolster his claim that GN could have asked him for valuable context in creating the piece?
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Like I said, the statement is ambiguous, it doesn't say who they agreed or when it was agreed other than prior to posting. For all you know, he could have meant an internal agreement between the team and that may not have been communicated yet.

Their video response states Colton emailed (or didn't because of his own incompetence) Billet on the 10th agreeing to pay for the block which is well before GN dropped their expose and before Linus made his initial statement. After Linus posted his statement GN contacted Billet to ask if they had agreed to be refunded, they said no because Colton didn't actually email them. GN calls out Linus' statement as a lie in their follow up.

It's not unreasonable that Linus could have asked Colton what was going on with the block before making the statement. Colton told Linus what he thought he had done but didn't because of the said incompetence. Linus went ahead and made the statement in good faith. Its also not unreasonable that Colton could have told Linus that he had done it a few days before the GN video dropped and after the GN video dropped he checked with his wife who is in charge of the $$$ if the payment had gone out or not before making the statement.

After GN dropped their response video, its not unreasonable for Linus to say "WTF Colton you told me it was sorted" and for Colton to then check his emails and at that point the penny drops.

Your argument is that it was a lie and effectively by saying it was a lie it also means the emails they shared were fabricated to try and save face.
 
Flibster said:
New CEO doing something right.

Bringing an external investigator in for the Madison allegations.

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That's the sort of response you'd expect to see to those kind of allegations and actually a sensible solution to use an external investigator in these circumstances where the person making the allegations has low levels of trust in the management of the company.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
Like I said, the statement is ambiguous, it doesn't say who they agreed or when it was agreed other than prior to posting. For all you know, he could have meant an internal agreement between the team and that may not have been communicated yet.

Their video response states Colton emailed (or didn't because of his own incompetence) Billet on the 10th agreeing to pay for the block which is well before GN dropped their expose and before Linus made his initial statement. After Linus posted his statement GN contacted Billet to ask if they had agreed to be refunded, they said no because Colton didn't actually email them. GN calls out Linus' statement as a lie in their follow up.

It's not unreasonable that Linus could have asked Colton what was going on with the block before making the statement. Colton told Linus what he thought he had done but didn't because of the said incompetence. Linus went ahead and made the statement in good faith. Its also not unreasonable that Colton could have told Linus that he had done it a few days before the GN video dropped and after the GN video dropped he checked with his wife who is in charge of the $$$ if the payment had gone out or not before making the statement.

After GN dropped their response video, its not unreasonable for Linus to say "WTF Colton you told me it was sorted" and for Colton to then check his emails and at that point the penny drops.

Your argument is that it was a lie and effectively by saying it was a lie it also means the emails they shared were fabricated to try and save face.
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Is your argument that the statement is ambiguous or that it is simply incorrect?

If you are going to hold on to the claim of ambiguity, I want to know if it's your position that those "facts" were totally unrelated to the claim to which he attached them?
 
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LTT had 41k sun on floatplane now they are 37k

That’s 10% reduction. It’s meaningful but not sufficient to change their ways tbh. If the sun gone to 50/60% then probably would force Linus to come out with a proper video apologising for all the mistakes done over the last 24hrs
 
Also let’s get a grip. This isn’t Linus taking a BJ off Anthony and paid him hush money and got rid off him. He and his wife ain’t gonna divorce because of his personality. She s lived with him for this long and has two kids brought up etc etc.

It’s just going to stupid degree by talking about this.

All the stuff just shows poor governance and leadership and really immature and unprofessional people working at LMG.

A lot of people need to be let go and get their attitude and compass adjusted in all fairness and Linus/new CEO need to get the right kind of people in the right place at this company.
 
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pc-guy said:
Also let’s get a grip. This isn’t Linus taking a BJ off Anthony and paid him hush money and got rid off him. He and his wife ain’t gonna divorce because of his personality. She s lived with him for this long and has two kids brought up etc etc.

It’s just going to stupid degree by talking about this.

All the stuff just shows poor governance and leadership and really immature and unprofessional people working at LMG.

A lot of people need to be let go and get their attitude and compass adjusted in all fairness and Linus/new CEO need to get the right kind of people in the right place at this company.
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But we need the drama !!!!! :D
 
pc-guy said:
LTT had 41k sun on floatplane now they are 37k

That’s 10% reduction. It’s meaningful but not sufficient to change their ways tbh. If the sun gone to 50/60% then probably would force Linus to come out with a proper video apologising for all the mistakes done over the last 24hrs
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Losing 4k subscribers is anything between 12k a month (for the grandfathered in $3 per month people) to 40K per month for the top tier.

Over a year, that's $144k to $480k - I think they'll certainly notice that.
 
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