basalisk_respecter
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basalisk_respecter
7mo ago
That youtube link is an hour long video on a different topic. Did you mean this? https://youtube.com/watch?v=WUOwsRv6MLc
basalisk_respecter
7mo ago
Disney+ was a big mistake.
Disney had to make an app. The nightmare scenario was Netflix eating the world, and using their audience control as leverage to take all the profits on any given production after it left theaters. Every studio needed an app as a backup play, so they all made them.
The big mistake was the streaming wars. For a decade, every media exec lost their minds and decided the only way to win was to bury their enemies in piles of content. But, as it turns out, there's just not that many competent people in Hollywood. No amount of money will call forth a writer into existence. If in a given year there's 10 good movies and 10 mediocre ones, then an executive mandate to produce 100 movies will... produce 10 good movies and 90 mediocre ones. Disney+ was full to the top with shitty exclusives and interminable Marvel miniseries that went nowhere and meant nothing.
That's fine, they said. We'll just keep going. Eventually our enemies will run out of money and give up. The stock market will always give us infinite amounts of money and interest rates will always be zero. (The Uber/Lyft playbook, or the explosion in scooter rental apps)
But what if the winner of the streaming wars is... nobody? Disney and Netflix are in trouble. Paramount physically cannot stop making Star Trek junk. Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video are side plays run by notoriously ruthless CEOs who will cut anchor the minute they stop being profitable. The studios have picked a moronic fight with both the unions and started a strike that has dragged on for more than a hundred days. What if they all go bankrupt, and Hollywood has to reboot from nothing?
basalisk_respecter
7mo ago
they'll lose a senior-ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, Intelligence Committee, Appropriations Committee, etc. They'll be forfeiting whatever favors other senators owe her, losing the web of relationships she's spent decades building, etc.
That's the stated reason, yes. The actual reason is that replacing the senator means replacing the staff. Hundreds of people that the permanent bureaucracy likes and knows how to manage. Firing all those people kicks over the table, which they don't want. And if the permanent bureaucracy doesn't like something, it doesn't happen.
basalisk_respecter
7mo ago
basalisk_respecter
8mo ago
that I decided to see it again with fresh eyes
You paid to watch a three hour long movie twice?
basalisk_respecter
9mo ago
Women value economic success in men much more than the reverse, while men value a woman's appearance. The upshot for men is that if you spend 10 years developing your economic value you're now richer.
And the downshot for women is if they spend 10 years on their career they are now 10 years older.
The tragedy of female doctors: they go through med school, finish residency, and say okay, time to find Mr. Right. But they're 30 years old. They want to marry another doctor, but male doctors are busy marrying 22 year old nurses.
basalisk_respecter
9mo ago
Observationally, nation building failed completely in Afghanistan and Iraq. Afghanistan alone received something like 10x more money than Europe did on a per capita basis. All that money was set on fire and accomplished nothing.
basalisk_respecter
10mo ago
Cop lore holds that tasers are ineffective on men in drug psychosis, like in the following video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=oTQr_lKg_wg (I would bet he simply missed)
At close quarters, the biggest problem with tasers is either missing and then not having enough time to switch to your pistol, or suspects simply knocking it out of your hands: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GPcrIyMFvDo
basalisk_respecter
11mo ago
which looks the same as an F-35 but with two engines
So, a F-22?
Median age in France is 42, median age in Ireland is 38.
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