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❝Transgender women in the study group suffered 8x times as many head injuries as the controls, 36x as many facial injuries, and 5x times as many chest injuries.❞

For all those wondering why the title doesn't say this, it's because the study doesn't say this either.

While the cause of the injuries may be obvious, it's not technically known, and science speaks for what is known.

"After they overheard that ICE was at the courthouse to arrest someone, they improperly accessed court databases to determine who was not born in the United States," a DOJ detention filing says. "They then snuck every suspected illegal alien who was at the courthouse out a back door, where ICE, who was waiting in the parking lot for their target to leave the building, could not see them."

I dont know for sure how many of those ~4,800 layoffs were specifically in game development,but I do know Sales/promotion of alot of game releases have been cut back alot.

This would likely signal that Microsoft wants to get rid of a number of "single team leads" and instead switch to a system where multiple teams report to a single person.

This aligns with similar "layoff strategies" at other tech companies which specifically try to eliminate middle management type positions.

These layoffs and restructurings are designed to consolidate teams into a more funneled reporting structure wherein a large number of people report to a single person.

What these restructurings often do is cause that "single lead" (who multiple teams now report to) to struggle as a lead. This is because hey may be an expert in *one* topic/leadership area but aren't an expert in *all* the areas they are now a lead for. Excessive middle management is far from ideal but trying to get rid of it almost entirely wont work either.

Lets just make a hypothetical here and say you are a tenured dev with extensive knowledge of melee combat battle systems. Suddenly you are "promoted" to also lead for teams which do shooter and magic based combat systems.

Could you learn those other systems to function as a somewhat competent lead for those other teams? Sure. Will that be easy or efficient? No. Will teams under your original area of expertise potentially suffer since you have to now also focus on different unrelated teams? Yes.

I won't pretend like the old system of "have a bunch of small teams with single leads" is perfect, efficient, or even financially reasonable in a broad sense. I also wont pretend that the new system one is 100% impossible to make work.

*But* these sorts of restructurings rarely work out well. Specially they are usually rushed and the people (who don't get laid off) have mere months, weeks, or even *days* to prepare for their new added responsibilities. This sort of restructuring would have to be slooowly rolled out by specifically training one person to handle multiple lead roles. This would take time, even years, to properly and specifically prepare for.

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