The toilet paper "over or under" debate has a 134-year-old answer hiding in a Victorian patent — do you actually hang it the "correct" way, or does it just not matter?
In 1891, inventor Seth Wheeler patented the modern perforated toilet paper roll — and his own patent diagram clearly shows the paper hanging over the front of the roll, not under. That's been cited for decades as the definitive answer to one of the dumbest fights every household has. Team Under has its own defenses though: it's supposedly better for keeping curious cats and toddlers from unrolling the whole thing, and quieter in wall-mounted holders that rattle. Meanwhile a growing share of people just want everyone to relax about a roll of paper. Where do you land?
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Why do people argue about what direction the roll of toilet paper faces? I have a cat, and if my cat were to reach up and pull down on the toilet paper all the time like so many do, I’d turn the roll the other way. Originally Answered: Why does it matter which way the toilet p...
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Satya Nadella's $96.5M Pay Raise After 15,000+ Microsoft Layoffs: AI Success Story or Broken Trust With Workers?
In a July 2025 internal memo, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees that the year's layoffs, which ultimately cut more than 15,000 jobs across gaming, security, and management, were "weighing heavily on me," calling the contradiction between record profits and mass cuts the "enigma of success." Months later, proxy filings showed Nadella's fiscal 2025 compensation climbed 22% to a record $96.5 million ($2.5M salary, roughly $9.5M cash bonus, about $84M in stock awards), tied to metrics including Azure and cloud revenue growth as Microsoft's cloud business hit roughly $169 billion (up 23%) and Azure topped $75 billion (up 34%). Former Microsoft HR vice president Chris Williams called it an "accountability issue," saying the optics of a massive CEO pay raise while thousands of employees lose their jobs undermines trust, while Microsoft noted that 10,000 laid-off employees cost roughly $1 billion annually, far more than trimming Nadella's pay could offset. As of today, financial outlets are still revisiting the pay-versus-layoffs math even as Nadella pushes an AI-driven "smarter, leaner" workforce vision, with Microsoft's CEO-to-median-worker pay ratio now near 480-to-1.
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